Privacy Policy
GENERAL
cashmycredits.com (“CashMyCredits” or “we” or “us” or “our”) respects the privacy of its users (“user” or
“you”) whether they use our website, including other media forms and media channels, including
mobile websites and mobile applications, related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Website”) to
participate in the Website’s services that are designed to market certain products and services and
attempt to connect you with appropriate providers of such products and services (the “Website
Services”) or to simply view the Website. The following CashMyCredits privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”)
is designed to inform you, as a user of the Website, about the types of information that CashMyCredits
may gather about or collect from you in connection with your use of the Website. It also is intended
to explain the conditions under which CashMyCredits uses and discloses that information, and your
rights in relation to that information. Changes to this Privacy Policy are discussed at the end of this
document. Each time you use the Website, however, the current version of this Privacy Policy will
apply. Accordingly, each time you use the Website you should check the date of this Privacy Policy
(which appears at the beginning of this document) and review any changes since the last time you
used the Website.
Our Website is hosted in the United States of America and is subject to U.S. state and federal law. If
you are accessing our Website from other jurisdictions, please be advised that you are transferring
your personal information to us in the United States, and by using our Website, you consent to that
transfer and use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You also agree
to abide by the applicable laws of applicable states and U.S. federal law concerning your use of the
Website and your agreements with us. Any persons accessing our Website from any jurisdiction with
laws or regulations governing the use of the Internet, including personal data collection, use and
disclosure different from those of the jurisdictions mentioned above may only use the Website in a
manner lawful in their jurisdiction. If your use of our Website would be unlawful in your jurisdiction,
please do not use the Website.
BY USING OR ACCESSING THE WEBSITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED IN
THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
CHILDREN
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) protects the online privacy of children under
13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from anyone under
the age of 13, unless or except as permitted by law. Any person who provides personal information
through the Website represents to us that he or she is 13 years of age or older. If we learn that
personal information has been collected from a user under 13 years of age on or through the
Website, then we will take the appropriate steps to cause this information to be deleted. If you are
the parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 who has become a member of the Website or has
otherwise transferred personal information to the Website, please contact CashMyCredits using our
contact information below to have that child’s account terminated and information deleted.
COLLECTION, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
“Personally-Identifying Information” is information that can be directly associated with a specific
person. CashMyCredits collects a range of Personally-Identifying Information from and about Website
users.
Website Services
It is important that you are aware that we are not a seller of any products or services to users of this
Website and CashMyCredits is not a lender or provider of any financial, insurance or other services. Our
Website serves merely as a marketing and connecting platform between users and our network of
partners (the “Partners”) that offer or market products and services, which may include, depending
upon which of our websites you visit, payday loans, auto loans, educational loans or other products
and services (the “Offerings”). In order to receive information about the Offerings or to request for
the Offerings, you will be requested to submit Personally-Identifying Information via our online
request forms (“Your request information”). Depending upon the type of Offering you are requesting
for, Your request information may include any of the following, in addition to other information: your
name, address, telephone number (work, home, mobile or other), email address, date of birth, driver’s
license number, citizenship status, income, social security number, bank account information,
employment information, home ownership information and active military information.
By submitting Your request information via the Website, (i) you acknowledge and expressly authorize
us to transfer Your request information directly to our Partners and (ii) you expressly request us and
each of the Partners with which Your request information is shared to contact you (directly or
through third party marketing agents) by any means (including, without limitation, email, telephone
(via home and mobile numbers, whether utilizing an autodialer or pre-recorded messaging or other
automated features), facsimile, SMS (from CashMyCredits.com), direct mail, and website redirect). Your
agreement to be contacted by the means stated is not a condition for your purchase of any product
or service. If your browser is redirected to a Partner’s website, or you are otherwise contacted in any
manner by a Partner, then all subsequent interactions with the Partners, are subject to each such
Partner’s privacy policy, terms of use, and other policies and/or terms provided by that Partner. You
acknowledge and agree that we and the Partners may verify Your request information against
national databases that track similar consumer transactions, perform credit checks with credit
reporting bureaus/consumer credit bureaus, and verify your social security number and other
information contained in Your request information. Any and all information that is collected from
third-parties may be used to determine if you are eligible for an Offering. By submitting Your request
information, you agree to allow us and Partners to review, verify, and research Your request
information in such manner. You understand that Partners may retain Your request information,
whether or not you are qualified for an Offering with them, in accordance with such Partners’ privacy
policies. Your use of this Website is an agreement that you may be contacted in any manner outlined
in this Agreement, even if your number is found on a do-not-call registry or similar registry.
Users of the Website are under no obligation to provide CashMyCredits with Personally-Identifying
Information of any kind, with the caveat that a user’s refusal to do so may prevent the user from
using certain Website features.
In certain circumstances, CashMyCredits acts as a limited agent for the actual third party lender or
seller of the products and/or services available at or through the Website. In these circumstances:
(a) you will be redirected to the applicable third party lender’s or seller’s website after you have
completed entering your information; (b) we will collect and send your Personally-Identifying
Information to the respective third party lender or seller in connection with completing your request
or purchase from the third party lenders or seller, as applicable; and (c) your request or purchase will
subject you to the third party lenders or seller’s privacy policy, as applicable.
CashMyCredits Communications
CashMyCredits Disclosures
CashMyCredits will disclose Personally-Identifying Information under the following circumstances:
Website Services. When users participate in our Website Services offered through the Website, they
expressly authorize CashMyCredits to use and disclose their Personally-Identifying Information in
accordance with this Privacy Policy and the terms of our Terms of Use for the purpose of providing
the Website Services, including disclosures to Partners described above in this Privacy Policy.
By Law or to Protect Rights. When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to
investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other
wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our CashMyCredits, our users, our
employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to
enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements or policies, in response to a subpoena or similar
investigative demand, a court order, or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other
government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as
otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available
to us.
Direct Mail Partners. From time to time we may share our postal mailing list with selected providers
of goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive mailings from these
providers, you may opt-out (email: opt-out@CashMyCredits.com) at the time you register for ourWebsite (if applicable), or at any time thereafter by going to your account settings (if available) or
contacting us using the contact information below.
Marketing Communications. Unless users opt-out from receiving CashMyCredits marketing materials
upon registration, CashMyCredits will email users about products and services that CashMyCredits
believes may be of interest to them and CashMyCredits also will provide users’ email information to
third parties, so that those third parties may directly contact users about additional products and
services. If a user wishes to opt-out of receiving marketing materials from CashMyCredits, user may do
so by following the unsubscribe link in email communications, by going to your account settings (if
available) or contacting us using the contact information below. Similarly, to cease having your email
information provided to third parties, you may do so by contacting us using the contact information
below. Even after opting-out, a user may continue to receive marketing emails from third parties to
whom CashMyCredits already has provided the user’s email information. Users will be responsible for
directly contacting such third parties to request cessation of further marketing emails
Affiliates. We may share some or all of your personal information with our affiliates, in which case we
will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates would include a parent CashMyCredits
or any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under
common control with us.
Business Transfers; Bankruptcy. CashMyCredits reserves the right to transfer all Personally-Identifying
Information in its possession to a successor organization in the event of a merger, acquisition, or
bankruptcy or other sale of all or a portion of CashMyCredits’ assets. Other than to the extent ordered
by a bankruptcy or other court, the use and disclosure of all transferred Personally-IdentifyingInformation will be subject to this Privacy Policy, or to a new privacy policy if you are given notice of
that new privacy policy and are given an opportunity to affirmatively opt-out of it.
Personally-Identifying Information submitted or collected after a transfer, however, may be subject to
a new privacy policy adopted by the successor organization
Changing Personally-Identifying Information; Account Termination
General Use
Users of the Website Generally
“Non-Personally-Identifying Information” is information that, without the aid of additional
information, cannot be directly associated with a specific person. Like most website operators,
CashMyCredits gathers from users of the Website Non-Personally-Identifying Information of the sort
that Web browsers, depending on their settings, may make available. That information includes the
user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, operating system and browser type, and the locations of the
Web pages the user views right before arriving at, while navigating and immediately after leaving the
Website. CashMyCredits analyzes Non-Personally-Identifying Information gathered from users of theWebsite to help CashMyCredits better understand how the Website is being used. By identifying
patterns and trends in usage, CashMyCredits is able to better design the Website to improve users’
experiences, both in terms of content and ease of use. From time to time, CashMyCredits may also
release the Non-Personally-Identifying Information gathered from Website users in the aggregate,
such as by publishing a report on trends in the usage of the Website.
We may also periodically obtain both Personally-Identifying Information and
Non-Personally-Identifying Information about you from other CashMyCredits-affiliated businesses,
business partners, contractors and other third parties and add it to our account information or other
information we have collected. Examples of information that we may receive include: updated
address information, purchase history, and additional demographic information.
Web Cookies
A “Web Cookie” is a string of information that a website stores on a user’s computer, and that the
user’s browser provides to the website each time the user submits a query to the site. CashMyCredits
uses Web Cookies to track the pages that users visit during each Website session, both to help
CashMyCredits improve users’ experiences and to help CashMyCredits understand how the Website is
being used. As with other Non-Personally-Identifying Information gathered from users of the
Website, CashMyCredits analyzes and discloses in aggregated form information gathered using Web
Cookies, so as to help CashMyCredits, its partners and others better understand how the Website is
being used. CashMyCredits does not attempt to link information gathered using Web Cookies to
Personally-Identifying Information. CashMyCredits USERS WHO DO NOT WISH TO HAVE WEB COOKIES
PLACED ON THEIR COMPUTERS SHOULD SET THEIR BROWSERS TO REFUSE WEB COOKIES
BEFORE ACCESSING THE WEBSITE, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT CERTAIN FEATURES OF
THE WEBSITE MAY NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY WITHOUT THE AID OF WEB COOKIES. WEBSITE
USERS WHO REFUSE WEB COOKIES ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY RESULTING LOSS OF
FUNCTIONALITY.
Third Party Providers
Web technology information:
Web Beacons
A “Web Beacon” is an object that is embedded in a web page that is usually invisible to the user and
allows website operators to check whether a user has viewed a particular web page or an email.
CashMyCredits may use Web Beacons on the Website and in emails to count users who have visited
particular pages, viewed emails, and to deliver co-branded services. Web Beacons are not used to
access users’ Personally-Identifying Information; they are a technique CashMyCredits may use to
compile aggregated statistics about Website usage. Web Beacons collect only a limited set of
information including a Web Cookie number, time and date of a page or email view, and a description
of the page or email on which the Web Beacon resides. You may not decline Web Beacons, however,
they can be rendered ineffective by declining all Web Cookies or modifying your browser setting to
notify you each time a Web Cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline Web Cookies on
an individual basis.
Aggregated and Non-Personally-Identifying Information
CONTESTS, GIVEAWAYS AND SURVEYS
From time to time, CashMyCredits may offer Website users the opportunity to participate in contests,
giveaways and other promotions. Any information submitted in connection with such activities will
be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. From time to time, CashMyCredits may also ask
Website users to participate in surveys designed to help CashMyCredits improve the Website. Any
Personally-Identifying Information provided to CashMyCredits in connection with any survey will beused only in relation to that survey, and will be disclosed to third parties not bound by this Privacy
Policy only in non-personally-identifying, aggregated form
COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION BY THIRD PARTIES GENERALLY
CashMyCredits contractually prohibits its contractors, affiliates, vendors and suppliers from disclosing
Personally-Identifying Information received from CashMyCredits, other than in accordance with this
Privacy Policy. Third parties are under no obligation to comply with this Privacy Policy, however, with
respect to Personally-Identifying Information that users provide directly to those third parties or that
those third parties collect for themselves. CashMyCredits neither owns or controls the third-party
websites and applications accessible through the Website. Thus, this Privacy Policy does not apply
to information provided to or gathered by the third parties that operate them. Before visiting a
third-party, or using a third party application, whether by means of a link on the Website, directly
through the Website, or otherwise, and before providing any Personally-Identifying Information to any
such third party, users should inform themselves of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the
third party responsible for that website or application, and should take those steps necessary to, in
those users’ discretion, protect their privacy.
SECURITY
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
CashMyCredits may, in its sole discretion, change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any and all
changes to CashMyCredits Privacy Policy will be reflected on this page and the date new versions are
posted will be stated at the top of this Privacy Policy. Users should regularly check this page for any
changes to its Privacy Policy. CashMyCredits will always post new versions of the Privacy Policy on the
Website. However, CashMyCredits may, as determined in its discretion, decide to notify users of
changes made to this Privacy Policy via email or otherwise. Accordingly, it is important that users
always maintain and update their contact information
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users
who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information
about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in
the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of
personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which
we shared information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident
and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to our privacy officer as
listed below.
CONSENT TO ELECTRONIC DISCLOSURE
All notifications, disclosures and/or documents that we or any third party provide to you in electronic
format will be provided either (i) via e-mail; (ii) by access to a secure customer service website which
will be provided to you in an email notice sent to you when the documents are available; (iii) by
posting on this Website or the third party’s site; (iv) by SMS text messaging (from CashMyCredits.com)
to your mobile device; or (v) by posting on a website designated for that purpose. All notifications,
disclosures and/or documents provided in electronic or paper format from us or any third party to
you will be considered “in writing,” and you should print a copy for your records. You may obtain any
notifications, disclosures and/or documents in paper form without charge from us by printing them
yourself from our Website or the appropriate third party’s Website, when available. To access, view
and retain the notifications, disclosures, and/or documents available to you in electronic form, you
must have Internet access, sufficient electronic storage capacity, an email account with an Internet
service provider email software.