This privacy policy applies only to the
privacy of users of the Home Lending
Providers.com
Privacy Policy Updates:
Our business changes constantly. This
Privacy Policy will change also, and use of
information that we gather now is subject to
the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of
use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of
material changes to our Privacy Policy,
unless you have instructed us not to, but
you should check our web site frequently to
see recent changes. Notice of any changes to
this Privacy Policy shall be given by
posting the version of the Privacy Policy
containing such changes on this web site.
What information does the Web site
gather?
When you visit this site you may provide
information on two different levels about
your visit:
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Anonymous
statistics collected as you browse the
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Personal
information you knowingly give us |
Please be assured that we do not collect
personal information about you from the
website unless you provide it to us. This
means that you can visit our Web sites
without telling us who you are or revealing
any personally identifiable information
about yourself (such as your e-mail
address).
As you browse the site, our web servers
collect information about your visit, not
about you personally. Via web server logs,
we monitor statistics such as:
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How many people visit our site |
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Which pages people visit on our site |
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From which domains our visitors come
(e.g., aol.com) |
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Which browsers people use to visit our
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None of this information is associated with
you as an individual (see information about
cookies below). We use these statistics to
improve our Web site, to monitor its
performance, and to make the Web site easier
for you and other visitors to use.
What about pages that ask for personal
information?
When visitors supply information about
themselves for a specific purpose, we use
the information for that purpose (such as to
provide the service or information the
visitor has requested). For example, you may
be asked to give us individual information
to purchase a product or service, receive
information, manage online account
registration, or apply for a job. The
information may range from your zip code, to
your phone number, account number, a credit
card number, age, gender, mother's maiden
name, social security number, e-mail
address, organization URL, resume, or
mailing address.
When visitors use our Web site to order
services, we may use this personally
identifiable information as we would use the
same information obtained in a traditional
non-electronic manner. For example, to
publish your name, address, and phone number
in our directories (unless you have
requested a non-published number), or to
evaluate your service needs and contact you
regarding additional services you may find
useful. If you do not want us to contact
you, you can remove your name from our
telephone or mail solicitation lists by
clicking on unsubscribe or you may feel free
to
Contact Us. Please note that clicking on
unsubscribe or delete account removes your
name from Home Lending Providers.com.
Home Lending Providers.com does not
knowingly collect information from children
through this web site. This web site, and
any web site to which users may link from
this web site, may contain content provided
by advertisers or other third parties that
may not be suitable for children. Home
Lending Providers.com asks parents or legal
guardians to assist Home Lending
Providers.com by supervising the activities
of children at this web site.
What happens to information when I fill
out registration forms?
The registration forms request accurate
contact information (like name and e-mail
address) and preferences that help us better
serve you. Your name and e-mail address are
used to send you information about our
company, product updates, special offers,
and newsletters. You may change your email,
user ID or password online; or you can
choose to remove your name from our user
list by going to Contact Us and emailing us
a request to remove your name.
To improve the services we can offer you, we
may decide to expand the site's capabilities
for obtaining information about users in the
future. We will update this privacy
statement as policies change to ensure that
you are aware of developments in this area.
Do you sell or give my information to
companies outside of the "Home Lending
Providers.com & Affiliated Insurance Yellow
Pages Directory Websites"
We do not sell or disclose personally
identifiable information obtained online
about our visitors, to anyone outside of the
"Home Lending Providers.com & Affiliate
Insurance Yellow Pages Directory Websites"
unless you specifically authorize it, to
complete a transaction that you initiated,
it is required by law, or disclosure is
necessary to protect the safety of
customers, employees or property. If you
provide personally identifiable information
to us in the context of an event Home
Lending Providers.com sponsors with another
company, such as a contest, or if you
register on a co-sponsored site or feature,
you may also be providing the personally
identifiable information to the co-sponsor.
This will be made clear to you before you
submit the information and you can decide
whether or not to participate.
Home Lending Providers.com may share
non-personally identifiable information with
non-"Home Lending Providers.com Family"
companies in order to assess the results of
a promotion, event or third party
relationship, to provide information to
current or prospective customers, to
complete a search or to otherwise enhance
your online experience. For example, we may
provide statistical information that is not
identified with you:
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The number of people who visit the
website, which pages were visited and
for how long, the referral URL, the
user's IP address, and the User Agent. |
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When we host co-branded versions of the
Home Lending Providers.com site (or
portions of the Home Lending
Providers.com site). Our co-branded
sites may also contain clear GIFs
(electronic images that allow this site
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Non-personally identifiable information
may also be disclosed to non-Home
Lending Providers.com-Family companies
if it is required by law, or disclosure
is necessary to protect the safety of
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This does not contain any information
that would personally identify you. In
addition, Home Lending Providers.com may
support features and content that appear on
other companies' web sites that you may
visit. These companies may collect
information about you, but Home Lending
Providers.com does not have control over the
collection practices of these companies. If
you are visiting a web site that indicates
that it is "powered by Home Lending
Providers.com," you are advised to read the
privacy policy of that web site for its
policies regarding information collection
and usage.
Does this site send e-mail to site
visitors?
At times, online surveys are conducted in
which you can choose to participate. In
addition, we may use e-mail to communicate
with our customers, to respond to visitors'
e-mail, to confirm orders placed online, and
to send information that a visitor has
requested. Occasionally, we may use opt-in
e-mail lists from third parties to promote
our latest specials. If you receive an
unwanted e-mail from us, you can click
Contact Us and simply ask us to remove you
from our list.
Do you accommodate links to other sites?
This website contains links to other web
sites. These other web sites may, among
other things, allow you to bid on and/or
purchase products that you initially viewed
on this web site. These other web sites may
(or may not) be co-branded with Home Lending
Providers.com branding. You can tell if
you have linked from one web site to another
web site by looking at the URL in the
browser window. If the second level domain
of the URL for the page containing the link
is different than the second level domain of
the URL for the page to which you have
linked, you have linked to a different web
site. For example, if you link from a page
located at the URL
www.thirdleveldomain.Home Lending
Providers.com to a page located at the
URL www.Home Lending
Providers.com.secondleveldomain.com, you
have linked to another site. Please note
that any of Home Lending Providers.com's
trademarks or service marks (e.g., IPB Home
Lending Providers.com, etc) may be included
in the URL of a co-branded or private label
web site that is owned and operated by a
third party, in a location other than that
occupied by the second level domain (e.g.,
as the third level domain). The
companies that own or operate these web
sites may track and/or collect information
about you, but Home Lending Providers.com
does not have control over the privacy
practices (including, without limitation,
those relating to tracking user activity,
collection of user data, use of user data,
and security) of these companies (although,
when a user activates a link from this web
site one of these other web sites, Home
Lending Providers.com may pass the user's
referral URL and IP address to the server
hosting such other site). We are not
responsible for the privacy policies or
practices (including, without limitation,
those related to tracking, collection, use
and security) employed by (or in connection
with) other sites, and we are not
responsible for the content on, or operation
of, other sites (including, without
limitation, any transactions conducted
through such other sites). We are committed
to safeguarding customer privacy on our
website. If you are visiting a web site
via a link on this web site, you are advised
to read the privacy policy of that other web
site for its policies regarding information
tracking, collection, usage and security.
Home Lending Providers.com may, however,
host (or contract with third parties to
host) web site advertising linked to the
Home Lending Providers.com sites (the "Home
Lending Providers.com-Hosted Web Site Ad(s)").
If you provide personally identifiable
information while visiting any Home Lending
Providers.com-Hosted Web Site Ad, you will
also be providing the
personally-identifiable information to the
advertiser. In addition, Home Lending
Providers.com may share non-personally
identifiable information collected from any
Home Lending Providers.com-Hosted Web Site
Ad with non-"Home Lending Providers.com &
Affiliate Insurance Yellow Pages Directory
Websites" companies in order to complete a
transaction that you initiated or to assess
and report the results of the ad. Home
Lending Providers.com is not responsible for
the privacy practices employed by the
advertiser.
What is Home Lending Providers.com's
position regarding online advertising and
third party ad servers?
Home Lending Providers.com accepts
advertisements from third parties that serve
advertising into the Home Lending
Providers.com and/or Affiliate Insurance
Yellow Pages Directory Websites. Home
Lending Providers.com may use "clear gifs"
provided by such third parties in the pages
containing the ad(s) that Home Lending
Providers.com sends to your browser. These
"clear gifs" provide usage pattern
information about the ads to third parties.
The data does not contain personally
identifiable information.
As part of the online advertising process,
we may use information supplied from third
party ad serving companies as well as other
third party companies in several ways such
as to:
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gain a better understanding of the type
of individuals viewing or visiting
different web sites |
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evaluate and prioritize site selection
when developing online media plan |
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geographically target advertising |
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deliver product and pricing
advertising/information applicable to
the customers' state |
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gauge the effectiveness of our online
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Cookies:
Non Personally Identifiable Information
Collected Automatically
A cookie is a small, encrypted data string
our server writes to your hard drive that
contains your unique User ID for our Web
site. Cookies help us to identify returning
visitor's to our websites, which allows us
to give you a more personalized, useful
experience on our website.
Cookies help Home Lending Providers.com to
enhance the user's online experience and are
used to:
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deliver the appropriate geographic
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manage frequency of ad exposure; avoid
over delivery of the same message |
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tailor an advertisement to better match
your interests and preferences |
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ensure that you see the correct products
and pricing applicable to the state in
which you live |
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understand advertising effectiveness |
However, customers are free to delete
website cookies. Most internet browsers
enable you to erase cookies from your
computer hard drive, block all cookies, or
receive a warning before a cookie is stored.
To disable cookies, see "Setting Cookie
Preferences" at the end of this policy.
However, you need to understand that some
websites/ad serving companies have the
ability to reestablish your history even
after cookie deletion, if you reenter the
same site on another occasion, or some other
site tracked by the ad serving
company/network, and specifically provide
personal data.
Deletion of cookies alone does not prevent
ad serving companies from reestablishing
history on a visitor. The visitor must
either continue to decline cookies each time
it reenters the site to keep the tracking
severed, if desired, or opt-out. When you
opt-out, your unique user ID cookie is
erased and you are reassigned an anonymous,
non-id cookie. This new cookie tells
websites that you have opted out and they
will then know not to attempt to assign
other cookies to you in the future. Opt-out
cookies do not contain a unique user ID
number therefore websites are not able to
identify your computer uniquely.
Customers who choose to continually delete
cookies and not opt out can have their
browser advise them each time a web site
attempts to send a cookie to your system. At
that time, you can choose to either Accept
or Cancel a cookie.
Customers who choose to "opt out" after
deleting cookies will receive an
anonymous/non personally identifiable
cookie.
Who do I contact if I am concerned about
online advertising and privacy?
All concerns or questions about your privacy
related to online advertising should be
addressed through our Customer Support
Center which can be reached by clicking on
Contact Us.
Does Home Lending Providers.com use the
information provided online to profile its
customers?
The combination of offline and online
information provided by the customer has the
ability to enhance the customer experience,
and make the consumer's interaction with
Home Lending Providers.com more meaningful
and relevant. Home Lending Providers.com
requires notification of any consumer
profiling or purchasing behavior being
captured by Home Lending Providers.com
online and combined with offline information
be clearly stated to the consumer at the
time of online data collection. The consumer
will have the ability to choose not to have
that information aggregated and be part of
subsequent marketing campaigns by so
indicating at the point of the application,
or by choosing to Opt-Out of future
marketing campaigns from Home Lending
Providers.com by clicking on
Contact Us.
Please note:
We may disclose personal information when
required by law or in the good faith belief
that such action is necessary in order to
conform to the edicts of the law or to
comply with a legal process served relating
to our web site.
Security Issues:
How do I know I am on a secured site?
Every secure page on this web site has been
secured with a digital certificate. You know
you are on a secure page of this web site
when you see a lock in the status bar at the
bottom of your browser. In Internet
Explorer, you can view your status bar by
clicking on View, Status Bar. When you see
the lock, double click it and a popup window
opens and displays who issued the digital
certificate securing that page and the dates
it is valid.
How does Home Lending Providers.com
prevent unauthorized access to my account
information?
Your password is set at a minimum of six
characters, which provides added protection
for your personal information. On secured
pages, this site uses SSL encryption up to
128-bits.
What security measures are in place to
restrict access to personal data?
There are a variety of security measures in
place that limits internal access to data
stored by the Home Lending Providers.com
site. Access is restricted to authorized
personnel only and requires an employee to
have a secure ID and password to access the
information. In addition, logs are reviewed
regularly to spot any inconsistencies. The
site is continually updated with the latest
known security patches that are periodically
published by the system vendor. Any
information that you give is password
protected.
What information is stored by the site or
in cookies?
Registration information, bill and online
shopping, data and contact e-mail addresses
are stored in Home Lending Providers.com
databases which are physically secure
environments that are not accessible via the
Internet. This information is only available
to you through the use of a secure ID and
password, and the information is transferred
from our databases for your viewing.
A cookie is a small, encrypted data string
our server writes to your hard drive that
contains your unique User ID for our web
site. Cookies help us to identify returning
visitor's to our web sites, which allow us
to give you a more personalized, useful
experience on our web site. We use cookies
for purposes such as delivering web content
specific to your interests, and to keep
track of your order as you order services. A
cookie cannot be used to access or otherwise
compromise the data on your hard drive. You
can choose to change your browser settings
to disable cookies if you do not want us to
establish and maintain a unique Home Lending
Providers.com.com User ID. Please be aware
that cookies may be required to complete
certain functions on this web site, such as
My Directory. To disable cookies, see next
section.
Here is How to Set Your Cookie
Preferences:
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Netscape Navigator 3.x: In the Options
menu, select Network Preferences. In
Network Preferences, click on the
Protocols tab and there you may choose
to be warned before accepting cookies. |
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Netscape Navigator 4.x: In the Edit
menu, select Preferences. In the
Preferences dialog box, in the left hand
side menu, click on 'Advanced' and 4
options concerning cookies appear on the
lower right. Choose Help for further
details. You can find more information
about cookies and Netscape on the
Netscape web site. |
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.x: In the
view menu, select Options. Click on
Advanced tab. You may choose to be
warned before accepting cookies. |
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x: In the
view menu, select Options. Click on
Advanced tab and scroll down to a yellow
triangle icon with an exclamation
labeled "Cookies" where you have 3
options. |
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Other Browsers: Contact the manufacturer
of the browser for information. |
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