Privacy Policy
CashAdvance.com participates in the TRUSTe Privacy Seal Program. TRUSTe is the premier online internet privacy services provider. TRUSTe helps thousands of businesses and consumers promote online safety and trust, by guiding consumers to sites that protect their online privacy. TRUSTe helps consumers click with confidence. Thousands of Web sites rely on TRUSTe’s privacy, including top-fifty sites like Yahoo, Facebook, MSN, eBay, AOL, Disney, New York Times, Comcast and Apple.
TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to advance privacy and trust on the World Wide Web. As a TRUSTe member this site demonstrates its commitment to your privacy, CashAdvance.com has agreed to disclose our information practices and have them monitored for compliance by TRUSTe’s I team of internet privacy specialists.
If you have questions or concerns about our privacy policies you should first contact support@cashadvance.com. If for any reason you do not receive a response that meets your concerns you should then contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with CashAdvance.com to resolve your concerns.
About Us
Hawk, Inc. (“Company” or “we” or “our”), owns and operates the website located at www.CashAdvance.com, (the “Site”). Through the Site, Company operates a prospective customer data base (the “Service”), by which it compiles, sorts and sells contact information to businesses on behalf of individual consumers who have shown an interest in obtaining a business’ products or services and has affirmatively asked to be contacted by a representative of a product or service business. Company utilizes third party vendors, third party affiliates, and a variety of media advertisements to promote the Site to consumers interested in completing an online request at our Site or to supplement our database by purchasing their database of consumers who have completed requests on websites other than Company’s and have affirmatively requested receipt of information about product or service offerings similar to those offered on Company’s Site.
Company also promotes its product and service offerings via e-mail or telephone to consumers who requested that they be contacted either through our online request opt-in process via our Site or through an Opt-In process on one of our many vendor or affiliate sites (“List Members”). List Members will then receive email or telephone contacts only for so long as they wish to continue to receive such contacts.
List Members can be removed from our telephone and e-mail contact lists at any time with no questions asked. List Members may remove themselves from further contact from Company by clicking on the OPT-Out link contained in each e-mail, or by sending in an OPT-Out request via e-mail to support@cashadvance.com.
If List Member chooses to remove themselves from our contact list, if applicable, we will also forward this request to the specific vendor or affiliate marketer who provided List Member’s informational request to us so that they can include List Member on their do-not-contact list as well. Please bear in mind that if List Member’s information was purchased commercially from a third party vendor, Company may not be the only data company List Member’s information was sold to. Additionally, our third party vendor or affiliate may have purchased List Member contact information from an additional third party and thus List Member may continue to receive contacts from those third party companies. Company is not responsible for stopping all unwanted contact from sources beyond our immediate control.
Your Privacy Is Our Concern
CashAdvance.com recognizes the importance of protecting your personal information. We collect and retain information about you to communicate with you, to process your requests for products and services, and to inform you about other financial services that may be of interest to you through our newsletter. Except as explained here in our Privacy Policy, we do not sell non-public personal information about current or former customers, nor do we share this type of information with anyone other than our affiliates. The examples in this Privacy Policy are illustrative only and are not intended to be exclusive.
CashAdvance.com wants consumers to feel comfortable using the Site and participating in the Service, so we have created this Privacy Policy to let you know what information we may collect from you on the Site and through the Service and how we may use that information. Please take a moment to review the terms of our Privacy Policy. By using the Site and participating in the Service, you agree to accept the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site or participate in the Service.
Minors
CashAdvance.com does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age.
General Information Collection and Use
CashAdvance.com collects information through the Site from our prospective and existing customers at several different points on our Site. We use contact information to send information about our company and to service existing accounts. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the Choice/Opt-Out section below. Contact and Financial information that is collected is used for verifying your name, address and other information. Not all information asked for on our site is required when you fill out our forms. However the following data is required to use our Site: Name, City, State, Address, Zip Code, Work Phone, Home Phone, Email Address, House Type, Current Value, Loan Amount Desired, 1st Mortgage Balance, Current Interest Rate, Current Payment, Are you Behind on Payments, Credit Rating, Place of Employment, Years Employed, Yearly Income, Loan Desired, and Best Time to Call.
Information about your computer hardware and software is automatically collected by CashAdvance.com and may be shared in aggregate with third parties whose services are used for traffic analysis purposes. This information includes: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by CashAdvance.com to maintain and improve the quality of the service and to generate statistics regarding use of the CashAdvance.com site. CashAdvance.com does not use third party databases to correct or update the information you submit to us for any reason.
To maximize the friendliness our Site usage you do not need to complete any registration forms. Also we will not send you any information such newsletters or updates without your personal request.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners as previously described above.
This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.
You can send e-mail to support@cashadvance.com
You can send mail to the following postal address:
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site however without cookies the user may not have access to certain features on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. To do this we use a tracking utility service offered by Web Trends, Inc. All cookies served on the domain, both session and persistent are tied to the Personally Identifiable Information you provide.
Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies once set on our site.
Links
CashAdvance.com contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by Company even in cases where we may frame another site with our own. From time to time we may co-brand certain services with third parties. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting such information and whose privacy statement governs. For example, without limiting the foregoing, we co-brand with insurance brokers, credit reporting agencies and, automotive companies.
Security
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Disclosure
We cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Agreement. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances as required by law, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications.
In addition, as noted above, if you opt-out of future contact from Company by using the opt-out mechanism provided in each e-mail we send to you on behalf of a third party service provider other than Company, we will provide your email address to the third party service provider so that the third party service provider can add your name and contact information to its own do-not-contact list.
As Company develops, we may buy other businesses or their assets or sell our business assets. Customer information is generally one of the business assets involved in such transactions. Thus, in the event that Company or all of its assets are acquired, customer information, including any visitor information collected through the Site, would be one of the transferred assets. For more information see our “Notification of Changes” section below.
Finally, Company reserves the right to disclose member information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Company’s rights or property, other visitors, members, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Company also reserves the right to disclose visitor or member information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
Sharing information with affiliates
When you submit your request for information or quote, you are granting permission to be contacted by CashAdvance.com or affiliated third parties. We share the contact and loan request data you submit on the Quote Request form and CashAdvance.com account number information with affiliated companies such as banks, commercial lenders and licensed loan brokers to fulfill information requests we receive from you, to provide you with superior service, inform you of product and service opportunities that may be of interest to you, and for other business purposes, we may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, to the following types of affiliated companies: financial service providers, such as mortgage and life insurance agencies, title service companies, debt & credit services companies and auto finance companies. An “affiliate company” is a company under legal contract with CashAdvance.com to fulfill services or is a company owned in whole or in part by CashAdvance.com or CashNow, Inc.
Sharing information with co-branded partners
Some of the services offered on our website are co-branded with contracted partners. Co-Branded offerings will be identified directly on the Quote Request form for the product or service you choose prior to you having to submit the Quote Request. Where a co-branded product or service provider is identified your Personally Identifiable information will be provided directly to that provider’s website, not CashAdvance.com. The Product or Service provider shall control your data once submitted to them. For purposes of identification and tracking, your contact information (name, Address, Phone, e-mail address, etc.) is shared with CashAdvance.com.
We may use personal information to provide the services you’ve requested, including services that display customized content and advertising. In addition to any fee of which you are notified, your provider’s standard messaging rates apply to our confirmation and all subsequent SMS correspondence. You may opt-out and remove your SMS information by sending “STOP”, “END”, “QUIT” to the SMS text message you have received. If you remove your SMS information from our database it will no longer be used by us for secondary purposes, disclosed to third parties, or used by us or third parties to send promotional correspondence to you.
Do Not Call Registry Compliance
By submitting personal contact and/or financial information, the user hereby grants written permission to CashAdvance.com, its affiliated sites, and its business partners for contact via telephone, mail, and/or e-mail. Further, by registering at CashAdvance.com you are consenting to receive phone calls from CashAdvance.com, its affiliated sites, and its business partners for contact via telephone, including but not limited to lenders that may contact you regarding a loan and thereby registrants waive their right to file a claim with the FTC or any other agency in reference to these calls or contacts.
Former Customers
We treat information about our former customers in the same manner as we treat information about our current customers.
Confidentiality and Security
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your nonpublic personal information against unauthorized access or use.
Maintaining the accuracy of your information is a shared responsibility. We maintain the integrity of the information you provide us and will update your records when you notify us of a change. Please contact us at the address or phone number listed below when information concerning you changes.
Site and service updates
We will send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We also communicate with user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to the account via e-mail or telephone when requested.
Notification of Changes
If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will prominently post a notice on the website for 30 days. We may also make a reasonable effort to notify users by way of an e-mail. Users have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this materially different manner.
Correct / Update Information
If you would like to verify any data that we have received from you, make any corrections or disable the use of your personal information, please contact us at support@cashadvance.com or log into your account here on cashadvance.com
CashAdvance.com Contact Information
support@cashadvance.com
(800) 276-0070
