Effective 5/8/06
DebtSettlementUSA, regards the safety of our clients' privacy
most seriously. This notice applies to all information collected and/or submitted
on the DebtSettlementUSA.com web site. The types of data compiled on these
pages include Name, Address, E-mail address, Phone numbers, etc. This also
includes automatically gathered data such as e-mail addresses, browser cookies
and IP addresses.
We receive and maintain customer information as part of servicing
your account and your customer relationship. In the courser of serving you,
we receive information about you and/or your accounts form a variety of sources,
such as:
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Information you provide to us, i.e.: details of hardship; information
on application forms, such as income, etc.
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Information you provide from an third party, such as a credit bureau,
or pay stubs for the purpose of negotiating on your behalf.
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Information from your creditors about your transactions
The customer information we receive is used in servicing your account
and negotiating on your behalf. Information may be used by DebtSettlementUSA,
as well as authorized third parties for various purposes. We may disclose
the information we collect, with nonaffiliated third parties that are acting
on our behalf or with whom we are negotiating for the settlement of your debt,
including:
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Companies that work with us such as lawyers, mortgage brokers,
data processors, marketing firms that work with us.
We may disclose customer information we collect as permitted or
required by law. In these cases, third parties could include creditors, credit
bureaus, government entities, collection agencies, courts or other entities
in response to subpoenas and other legal processes, and those with whom you
have requested us to share information and those with whom you have requested
that we perform your debt negotiation.
In our relationship with both applicants and clients, we take the
most stringent precautions to protect the privacy of all information that
is provided. Our representatives continue to be constrained by the highest
professional standards of confidentiality.
DebtSettlementUSA may use the information you submitted in the
online application in its relationships with third parties for marketing and
promotional purposes. This information will be made available to reputable
organizations whose products or services we think you might find valuable.