SettleYourDebts.com, Inc. (Alliance) has
designed its Privacy Policy to inform you - the
Affiliate - about our current data collection
and how we use your personal information.
SettleYourDebts.com, Inc., may, at its
discretion and without notice, modify or
eliminate all or a portion of this Privacy
Policy.
Our Privacy Policy is available on the site
map page of the SettleYourDebts.com, Inc.
web site. From time to time, you may click to
other Alliance web sites, sections, or pages
that have different privacy policies. When this
happens, you may review the privacy policies
that relate to those pages or sites.
We obtain personal
information that is needed to provide you with
our goods and services.
When Alliance collects information directly
from the you forms you submit, we obtain this
personal information in order to provide you
with our goods or services, to provide qualilty
customer service and to fulfill any legal or
regulatory requirements. We also obtain personal
information as a result of consumers' financial
transactions with Alliance or with Alliance
affiliates and merchants. When we obtain
information about consumers and merchants from
third parties, we use sources that we believe
are reputable, including public repositories.
The only personal
information we collect is information that you
provide to us.
The only information we collect about you is
information that you provide us. This
information may include, for example, your name,
mailing address, e-mail address and telephone
number. If you supply us with personal data and
later request information from us, we will
contact you to provide you with the information
you requested. We may also contact you to follow
up on inquiries, or we may send you other
information about Alliance and its products or
services that we believe you would find
interesting or helpful.
We are committed to
protecting the confidentiality of your personal
information.
Alliance's policies limit access to the
personal information we collect to those
Alliance employees and Alliance business
relationships who need the information to
fulfill their business responsibilities. We
require our employees to adhere to Alliance's
Privacy Policy. Employees who violate the
Alliance Privacy Policy are subject to
disciplinary action that may including
dismissal.
When Alliance collects personal information
about you, we handle this information in
accordance with the terms and conditions in our
applicable consumer, affiliate/, or merchant
agreement. When Alliance engages vendors and
other outside contractors, they are subject to
our contractual requirements. For purposes of
credit reporting, verification and risk
management, we may share information about you
with third parties. We also will disclose
information in response to a request issued by a
court, government agency or regulatory
authority.
We will inform you
about the general uses of the information we
collect about you.
When we have a direct customer or affiliate
relationship with you, we will strive to make
information available to you about the general
uses of the information we collect. This
information is made available at the point of
sale, through privacy notices on our Web sites,
in other formats that are publicly available, or
through other means specified by applicable
state and federal laws. In addition, when
Alliance obtains personal information about
consumers indirectly through our merchants, we
require our affiliates, partners, or merchants
to provide these consumers with their own timely
and complete privacy notice.
We strive to give
you choices about how your information will be
used.
When we obtain personal information as part
of our direct relationship with you, we will not
share this information with non-affiliated third
parties, except in the following
circumstances:
· In accordance with the Alliance Privacy
Policy
· To facilitate and complete
merchant-initiated or authorized
transactions
· To comply with federal, state
and local laws, including credit reporting laws
and card association rules
· To combat
fraud
· To offer products and services that
Alliance believes may be of interest to you.
Since your needs may change, and Alliance
continuously develops new products and services,
we may contact you to determine if we can
provide you with additional services. Most of
our customers appreciate hearing about our new
products and services and prefer that we
continue to contact them. If you would prefer
not to be contacted we will make information
available to you about how you may request to
have your name removed from any Alliance-owned
marketing lists. You may also opt-out of
information sharing by providing Alliance
written correspondence requesting your removal
from our lists.
We maintain procedures
to assure the quality of information we collect
and, in some instances, we inform you how you
can access your information and make
corrections, if necessary.
Alliance employs appropriate measures to
assure the quality of information that we
collect directly from you. In some instances,
where Alliance collects information directly
from you, Alliance informs you how to correct
any erroneous or out-of-date information stored
in our database. These requirements and
procedures may vary by each Alliance business
activity. As you visit our various web pages ,
please be sure to review the privacy policies
applicable to those sections and sites. We abide
by applicable laws related to such information.
We use appropriate
security safeguards.
At Alliance, security isimportant. Alliance
employs appropriate measures, including advanced
technology, to protect personal information
collected against unauthorized access,
disclosure, alteration or destruction. These
measures may include, among others, encryption,
physical access security and other appropriate
technologies. Alliance continually reviews and
enhances its security systems, as necessary.
Alliance's Web
sites may be linked to other Web sites.
Alliance may create links to third-party Web
sites. Alliance is not responsible for the
content or privacy practices employed by
third-party Web sites that are linked to our Web
site. Neither does Alliance control or warrant
the utility, merchantability or workmanship of
the products or services offered at third-party
Web sites.
We strive to
maintain our privacy standards.
Alliance strives to meet our privacy program
standards. In doing so, we do the following:
· Employee
privacy training and employee compliance related
to the Privacy Policy
· Periodic assessments
of Alliance's compliance with this Privacy
Policy
· Periodic management review to
ensure that Alliance actively participates in
appropriate privacy activities, including
self-regulatory initiatives.
How the Alliance
Privacy Policy applies to you.
The examples contained in this Privacy Policy
are illustrations only, and they are not
intended to be all-inclusive. If you decide to
close your affiliate or merchant account or
become an inactive customer, or if we close or
suspend your account, our Privacy Policy, as it
may exist from time to time, will continue to
apply. We may amend this Privacy Policy at any
time, and we will inform you of changes as
required by law. You may have other privacy
protections under state laws, and we will comply
with applicable state laws when we disclose
information about you. This Privacy Policy
applies to all accounts you may have with us,
and it replaces all our previous disclosures to
you about our information practices.
If you have any questions or comments about
the Alliance Privacy Policy, please contact:
SettleYourDebts.com
Legal Department
P.O. Box
2698
Monument, CO 80132
This Alliance Privacy Policy is specifically
applicable to Alliance's United States customers
and visitors to our Web site. Cross-border
transactions may have their own rules and
practices.