Privacy Policy for Startup Loans USA
At startuploansusa.com, accessible from https://startuploansusa.com/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by startuploansusa.com and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in startuploansusa.com. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Information obtained from third parties
Information obtained from third parties Information from Other Sources. We may obtain information about you from other sources, including through third party services and organizations to supplement information provided by you. For example, if you access our Services through a third-party application, such as an app store, a third-party login service, or a social networking site, we may collect information about you from that third-party application that you have made public via your privacy settings. Information we collect through these services may include your name, your user identification number, your user name, location, gender, birth date, email, profile picture, and your contacts stored in that service. This supplemental information allows us to verify information that you have provided to us and to enhance our ability to provide you with information about our business, products, and Services.
Information from third parties to process your business loan. In addition to collecting personal information supplied by you or your designated agent, we use unaffiliated third parties to gather data on borrowers and prospective borrowers, from financial institutions, consumer reporting agencies, and other information service providers for purposes described under the heading “Why do we collect this information” below. This information includes the categories of information described above, and also includes:
Government IDs
Criminal records
Household records
Employment information, such as visa permit number
By using Startup Loans USA Services and applying for a loan for your business, you acknowledge that our unaffiliated, third-party providers will have the right, power, and authority to act on your behalf to access and transmit your personal and financial information from the relevant financial institution or consumer reporting agency, according to the terms of such third-party provider’s privacy policy.
Why do we collect this information?
Startup Loans USA may use information we collect about you to:
- determine your business’ eligibility for a loan;
- obtain, upon your authorization, a credit report, references, and other information from credit bureaus or other third parties in connection with your loan application;
- verify your identity;
- detect and guard against potential fraud and identity theft;
- manage and monitor your Startup Loans USA loan or application and update your records;
- create a marketplace loan listing on the Startup Loans USA website, which includes a Startup Loans USA credit grade that is based on your credit history and financial circumstances;
- process your payments and other transactions;
- develop, maintain and improve our website, products, and services;
- detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity;
- improve customer acquisition through the use of advertising campaigns and other means, such as targeted marketing;
- enforce our agreements;
- carry out statistical analysis and market research and testing;
- comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, and carry out regulatory checks;
- make our website available to you and identify products and services you may be interested in; and/or
- send or facilitate communications with you.
Important Information About Procedures for Applying a for New Loan
To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies the business and each person who owns the business.
What this means for you:
When you apply for a business loan with us, we will ask for information about the owners of your business including their name, address, date of birth and other information that will allow us to identify them. We may also ask to see your driver’s license or other identifying documents.
How and when is your information disclosed to other parties?
Your information, as collected by or provided to us, may be disclosed by us to the following categories of third parties:
Investors, including Credit Unions. We disclose information about your business and financial situation (as described in more detail in Section 4 below) in order to operate our marketplace lending platform, including: To make available certain information about the loan, the borrower, and the guarantors to investors who purchase the loan. To make information available to prospective investors who are contractually required to implement safeguards to protect and maintain the confidentiality of the information we provide.
Our investors may also include credit unions. If your loan is considered for allocation to a credit union, Startup Loans USA may provide the credit union with information about your business and financial situation, as well as any personal information and personal information regarding the individuals involved with the business that you provide to us, to be disclosed to the credit union for purposes of the credit union assessing whether you qualify for membership.
If you do not wish to become a member of a credit union, you will have the opportunity to opt out and thereby decline membership in a credit union.
Service Providers. In order to provide, operate, and improve Startup Loans USA Services, we may disclose your information to service providers who assist us in operating our website, providing market research and marketing our products and services, or servicing our loans, so long as the service provider contractually agrees to only use the data on our behalf. Service providers may also include your representative(s), to the extent such a representative assists or assisted with the loan application process. Information disclosed to your representative may include, among others, information about your loan performance.
Loan Partners. In order to enable Startup Loans USA to carry out our services and conduct our businesses, such as marketing, lending, loan servicing, and collections activities, including, but not limited to: with credit bureaus, consumer reporting agencies, financial institutions, collections agencies, and fraud prevention agencies in order to, among other things, perform various checks, locate borrowers, or recover debts. With business credit bureaus to report loan performance. With third-party lenders and loan marketplaces to assist you in obtaining alternate funding options.
Advertising Partners. We may allow third-party advertising partners to set cookies and other tracking tools described in “Cookies and tracking technologies” above to collect information regarding your activities and your device (e.g., your IP address, mobile identifiers, page(s) visited, location, time of day). These advertising partners may use this information (and similar information collected from other websites) for purposes of delivering targeted advertisements to you when you visit third-party websites within their networks. This practice is commonly referred to as “interest-based advertising” or “online behavioral advertising.” We may allow access to other data collected by the Services to provide information that may be useful, relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest to you.
We won’t share SMS consent and phone numbers won’t be shared with shared parties or affiliates for marketing purposes.
Log Files
startuploansusa.com follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, startuploansusa.com uses “cookies”. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of startuploansusa.com.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on startuploansusa.com, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that startuploansusa.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
startuploansusa.com’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
startuploansusa.com does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
