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Overview
You take your privacy seriously and so does
gotmortgage.com We are a company committed to protecting the personal
information and privacy of our customers. This statement is one way of
sustaining your trust in our company, our products and our services.
Privacy (Website Visitors)
Our Online Privacy Statement describes how we
collect, protect and use information about you either during your visit
to our web site or when you are a gotmortgage.com customer.
Information We Collect About You during Your Online
Visit
Website Visitors / Registered Users
When you browse our site as a visitor or are a
registered user of this website, we may collect and store information
about your online visit (see cookies). This information may include the
time and length of your visit, the pages you view on our site, the last
site you visited before coming to ours, and the name of your internet
service provider.
We use this data on an aggregate basis to measure
site activity, and on an individual basis to make the site more useful
and provide information that may be of interest to you.
Registered Users Only
Information collected about registered users is
used and shared in accordance with our customer privacy notice and
practices. If you are an existing customer, please see the Information
Collection and Sharing Practices for Existing Customer section for more
information.
As a registered user, you may use the website to:
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Provide information to us about you when you complete an online
application or other form
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Provide information to us about you during web page registration
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Provide information to us about you during personal profile updates
Security Statement
About our Website(s)
Cookies
We may use Web cookies for security purposes to
recognize your computer when you log into your account. We may also make
use of Web cookies or similar data on certain parts of our Web site for
fraud prevention and other purposes. If you disable your Web browser's
ability to accept our Web cookies, it may not be possible for you to
access your online account.
Passwords
Your access to certain portions of our Web site may
be protected with an individualized username and password. Your username
and password are confidential and personal to you, and should never be
disclosed or shared with anyone else.
Timed logout
Certain portions of our Web site may be protected
with a timed-logout feature. This can help protect your account from
being viewed or used by others if your computer becomes unattended.
Encryption
We may use encryption to protect your information
as it travels across the Internet. This can help prevent others from
eavesdropping on your browser sessions with our Web servers.
Firewalls
Our Web site may be protected with firewall
technology, which can help prevent your account information and our Web
site from being improperly accessed.
Surveillance
Certain portions of our Web site are monitored by
advanced surveillance and logging technologies. These technologies can
help to ensure that both your information and our Web servers are
protected from compromise.
Information Collection and Sharing Practices for
Existing Customers
Existing Customer/Registered Users
If you are a gotmortgage.com customer details about the
information we collect and how it may be disclosed is contained in our
Privacy Notice, which includes additional information regarding your
privacy choices. Briefly, we collect information about you for example,
when you:
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Apply for a loan
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Make your monthly payment
We also collect personal information from you or
others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, employers, or others
Information We Share About Our Existing Customers
The information contained in this section applies
to gotmortgage.com customers
We may collect and subsequently share personal
information about you to:
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Run our everyday business
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Respond quickly to customer needs
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Help us communicate with you
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Evaluate eligibility for additional products and services that may be of
interest to you
What We Share
We may share personal information that includes,
but is not limited to your:
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Name, address, and other account application information
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Account balances, transactions, and payment history
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Creditworthiness including credit history and credit score
With Whom We Share
We disclose some of the information we collect
about you to third parties such as credit reporting agencies, regulators
and loan investors. These types of third parties are called
non-affiliated third parties.
We may also share some of this information with
companies performing services on our behalf such as the vendor who
prepares and mails our monthly statements. These types of vendors are
called service providers.
We may share information we collect about you with
companies with whom we have formal agreements to offer you financial
products and services. These types of relationships are called joint
marketing partnerships.
Finally, we may share information we collect about
you with companies related by common control to offer you products
and services that may be of interest to you. These types of companies
are called affiliates.
Benefits of sharing
We need to collect and share information about our
customers to help us communicate with you.
We also may share customer and former customer
information within our gotmortgage.com family and with valued partners (our
employees) to evaluate eligibility, offer and recommend valuable
products and services that may be right for you.
Customer Information Sharing Choices/Opt Out
Federal Law
Federal law requires us to tell you how we collect,
share, and protect personal information about our customers. While
Federal law allows us to share information about you to run our
business, to perform services and offer our products, Federal law also
gives you the right to limit some, but not all, sharing of your personal
information.
Specifically, Federal law allows you to opt
out/restrict us from sharing information as follows:
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About your credit worthiness with our affiliates
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To non-affiliates to offer you their products and services
State Laws
State laws may give you additional rights regarding
our information sharing limitations.
We share personal information about you as
permitted by the law of the state in which you reside and in accordance
with federal law. As a customer of gotmortgage.com you received our Privacy
Notice when you became our customer and you will receive our updated
annual Privacy Notice each year you continue to be our customer.
You can limit us from sharing your information as
permitted by law and as described in our Privacy Policy at any time by
advising us of your Opt Out choices and how you do not want your
information shared by calling 1-877-562-6976. You may notify us of your
choices at any time.
If your past choices have not changed, you only
need to tell us one time, as long as you have your account with us.
Customer Data Protection
We are a company committed to securing personal
information and protecting the privacy of our customers. We use security
measures that comply with federal law including assessing risk and using
reasonable controls to protect customer information
Our company culture is to treat customer
information the way we would want our own information treated. We train
employees on handling and securing customer data to maintain a culture
of protection and security. It is the responsibility of every associate,
affiliate, and nonaffiliate to care for personal information about our
customers.
Correcting Information
We are committed to maintaining accurate and
up-to-date information on all of our customers. We may provide customers
with access to account information in different ways, for example, over
the telephone, online or on paper.
If you are a registered user of this website, you
may be able to update some information online. You will need to log-into
your account in order to utilize this feature.
How to contact us regarding your account:
U.S. Mail:
GotMortgage Customer Care
17220 Newhope St. Suite 213
Fountain Valley, CA 92708
Telephone: 1-877-562-6976
Email: info@gotmortgage.com
Policy Effective Date
This Online Privacy Statement is effective May
25th, 2008 and remains in effect until amended. Gotmortgage.com reserves the
right to amend this Privacy Statement or alter its privacy principles at
its sole discretion without notice to you. We will post any alterations
to this Privacy Statement on our web site in a timely manner so please
check periodically.
Identity Theft / Fraudulent Activities
Identity Theft/Fraud
Identity Theft occurs when someone uses sensitive
information, called Personally Identifiable Information (or PII) of
another person without their permission to commit fraud or other crimes,
such as Account Takeover or Application Fraud. [Account Takeover has
occurred when an individual acquires another person's existing credit
account information and purchases products and services at the victim's
expense. Application Fraud has occurred when an individual uses
another's Social Security Number or other Personally Identifiable
Information to open new credit accounts in the victim's name.]
If you believe you are a victim of Identity Theft,
contact the three major credit bureaus to place a fraud alert message on
your credit file. When you place a fraud alert on your file, the credit
reporting agencies will send you a copy of your credit report at no
charge.
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Experian (1-888-397-3742)
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Equifax (1-800-525-6285)
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TransUnion (1-800-680-7289)
Carefully review your credit reports for: accounts
you did not open, inquiries from creditors you did not initiate, and for
personal information (such as home address and social security number)
that is not accurate. If you see anything you do not understand or any
accounts you did not open, call the credit reporting agency at the
telephone number on the report.
If you decide not to place a fraud alert on your
credit file, you can still obtain free copies of your credit report by
going to the following Annual Credit Report website
(www.annualcreditreport.com) or by calling them toll-free at
1-877-322-8228. (Hearing impaired consumers can access their TDD service
at 1-877-730-4204.
To learn more about identity theft, visit the
Federal Trade Commission's web site to receive further information and
insights about how to protect your identity from identity thieves.
Identity Theft Hotline: 877-438-4338
Web: www.consumer.gov/idtheft
Mail: Identity Theft Clearinghouse,
Federal Trade Commission
600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20580
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