
Privacy
Statement
Your privacy is important to us
At Smart Software Solutions, LLC we are committed to providing you with mortgage serv
ices. And while information about you is fundamental to
our ability to do this, we fully recognize the importance of keeping
personal and account information secure.
To offer you the widest range of products and services, Smart Software
Solutions, LLC may share information about you both within Smart
Software Solutions, LLC and outside of
Smart Software Solutions, LLC with other companies.
This allows us to offer you products and services that may interest you
and best meet your needs, whether they are available directly from Smart
Software Solutions, LLC or through our relationships with other lenders. We
want you to understand our information safeguards, what information we
collect, what information we share, and the benefits you receive when we
share information about you.
This notice describes the privacy practices of Smart Software Solutions,
LLC
and all Smart Software Solutions, LLC affiliates. This notice explains
Smart Software Solutions, LLC information collection and sharing practices
and lets you choose whether or not Smart Software Solutions, LLC may share
certain information about you, either within Smart Software Solutions,
LLC or
outside of Smart Software Solutions, LLC with other companies.
Our Security Procedures
Smart Software Solutions, LLC understands the importance of protecting and
securing information and using it appropriately. Access to information
about you is restricted to the people of Smart Software Solutions, LLC who
require it to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical,
electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards
for the security of information.
When Smart Software Solutions, LLC shares information about you with
companies outside of Smart Software Solutions, LLC, we require them to impose
safeguards, use it only for a permitted purpose, and to return it to us
or destroy it once that purpose is served. We limit the amount of
information shared to what is appropriate to offer a product or service
efficiently. Smart Software Solutions, LLC requires any company receiving
information from Smart Software Solutions, LLC to sign a Confidentiality
Agreement containing these requirements and obligating that company to
protect the information as we would.
Information We Collect
Smart Software Solutions, LLC collects and uses nonpublic personal
information about you to conduct our business and to consistently
deliver the top-quality Customer service you expect from us. Sources of
this information include the following:
- Information we receive from you on applications and other forms or
through your correspondence or communication with us including through
the mail, by telephone, or over the Internet;
- Information about your transactions with Smart Software Solutions, LLC and with
other companies outside of Smart Software Solutions, LLC.
Information We Share Within Smart Software Solutions, LLC
We may share all of the information we collect about you with departments
within Smart Software Solutions, LLC to offer additional products or services
that may interest you and best meet your needs. We believe this is
convenient for you and may save you both time and money. To do so, we share
identification information (such as name and address), transaction and
experience information (such as purchases and payments), credit eligibility
information (such as credit reports and applications), and other
information. The decision to purchase any such products or services is yours
alone. You may tell us not to share credit eligibility information about you
within Smart Software Solutions, LLC, but please understand this does not
prohibit us from offering you additional products and services or from
sharing transaction and experience, identification, and other information
within Smart Software Solutions, LLC.
Information We Share With Others
From time to time, we may allow companies outside of Smart Software
Solutions, LLC to offer you their products and services that may interest you.
Subject to applicable law, we may share all the information we collect with
these companies outside of Smart Software Solutions, LLC, unless you tell us not
to.
Additionally, we may share all the information we collect with companies
that perform marketing or other services on our behalf. We are also
permitted by law to share information about you with other companies in
certain circumstances. For instance, we may share all of the information we
collect with companies that endorse our products and services through
affinity agreements, with government entities in response to subpoenas or
regulatory requirements, and with consumer reporting agencies. If you tell
us not to share information with companies outside of Smart Software
Solutions, LLC that wish to offer you their products and services, as described
above, please understand that we will continue to share information in these
additional circumstances.
Important Information About Your Choice
We’re dedicated to serving your needs - and to respecting your choices
related to privacy. You may tell us not to share personal information within
Smart Software Solutions, LLC, and you may tell us not to share information with
companies outside of Smart Software Solutions, LLC that wish to offer you their
products and services as described above. If you wish to opt out of such
information sharing, please call 1(503) 816-4606.
Smart Software Solutions, LLC applies opt outs at the account level, not by
individual Customer.
An opt out from information sharing as described above, either within Smart
Software Solutions, LLC and/or with companies outside of Smart Software
Solutions, LLC, remains effective unless revoked in writing. Federal regulations
require us to provide this notice on an annual basis, whether or not an
account has previously opted out from either type of information sharing.
Please remember when you receive our subsequent notices that an account
previously opted out from either or both types of information sharing (and
not revoked in writing) does not need to be opted out again.
Important Information for Vermont Customers
The information sharing practices described above are in accordance with
Federal law. Vermont law places additional limits on disclosing information
about Vermont residents so long as they remain residents of Vermont. In
accordance with Vermont law, Smart Software Solutions, LLC will not disclose
information we collect about Vermont residents to companies outside of Smart
Software Solutions, LLC.
This notice updates and replaces any previous notices from Smart Software
Solutions, LLC about the privacy, security, and protection of information. For
additional information regarding Smart Software Solutions, LLC privacy practices
concerning the Internet, and to view the most recent version of this privacy
notice, please go to http://www.catchaloan.com and click on “Privacy
Notice.” You may have other privacy protections under state laws. We may
amend this privacy notice at any time, and we will inform you of changes as
required by law.
This Privacy Notice was last updated June 30th, 2006. Please check back
periodically for updates and changes.
Internet Privacy Practices
Web Site Privacy
The Smart Software Solutions, LLC Web servers automatically recognize and record
the domain name from which you access the Internet and the names of the
pages you visit while at an Smart Software Solutions, LLC Web site. The
Smart Software Solutions, LLC Web servers do not automatically extract or store your
electronic mail address (See E-Mail Addresses below). The information
automatically recognized and recorded is not personally identifiable and is
used to improve the content of Smart Software Solutions, LLC Web sites and make
them more useful.
E-mail Addresses
If you supply us with your e-mail address, we may let you know by e-mail
about special marketing offers for products and services that may be of
interest to you. When we collect your e-mail address, and with each special
marketing offer e-mail message we send, we will provide you with the
opportunity to tell us that you do not wish to receive special marketing
offer messages from us in the future.
Internet Security
Smart Software Solutions, LLC uses encryption technology to protect certain
information sent over the Internet. SSL is an encryption technology known as
“Secure Sockets Layer”. SSL encrypts transmissions between two parties and
verifies the Web site server you are communicating with. An “s” after the
“http” in a Web site’s address indicates that you are attached to a secure
server using SSL technology. Additionally, if your browser is Microsoft
Internet Explorer 3.0, Netscape Navigator 4.0, or a higher version of
either, a picture of a lock or a key should appear in the lower right hand
corner of the browser’s window.
Use of Cookies
Some Smart Software Solutions, LLC Web pages use a feature of your Internet
browser called a cookie. Cookies are files placed within your browser on
your computer’s hard drive by a Web site server. Smart Software Solutions,
LLC
Web sites may use cookies to facilitate your Internet sessions, to maintain
security and to improve our Web sites. For example, Smart Software
Solutions, LLC
uses cookies to verify your identity, remember your personal settings such
as your offer preferences, and to monitor your use of Smart Software
Solutions, LLC Web sites to improve our services. If you choose not to enable
cookies on your browser, you will not be able to use some of the services
offered on Smart Software Solutions, LLC Web sites.
Advertising Services
Smart Software Solutions, LLC uses third party companies to serve ads on our Web
site and other Web sites. These companies help Smart Software Solutions, LLC
execute, optimize, and measure the effectiveness of our online banner
advertising programs. These companies use cookies and non-personally
identifiable information (for example, information that does not include
name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visit to this
and other Web sites to measure advertising effectiveness and to provide ads
about goods and services that may interest you. If you would like to learn
more about these practices, view the privacy notices of these third party
companies, or opt out of their use of non-personally identifiable
information, click here.
Smart Software Solutions, LLC banner advertisements and online applications may
contain small graphics with tags in them. These tags are not personally
identifiable and work in conjunction with these cookies. These tags allow us
to measure the effectiveness and response rates of our advertising.
Children
Smart Software Solutions, LLC Web sites do not knowingly collect or use personal
information from children under age 13 without obtaining verifiable parental
consent. If a child whom we know to be under age 13 sends personal
information to an Smart Software Solutions, LLC Web site, we will use that
information only in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection
Act (COPPA).
To Further Protect Your Privacy
While exploring the services offered through Smart Software Solutions, LLC Web
sites, please be aware that other online retailers, partners, third party
Internet sites, and third party services accessible through Smart Software
Solutions, LLC Web sites, have separate privacy and data collection policies and
practices, which are independent of and may be different from Smart Software
Solutions, LLC policies and practices. Smart Software Solutions, LLC is not
responsible or liable for these independent policies and practices and it is
your responsibility to review them and decide whether or not they
satisfactorily protect your rights.
These Internet Privacy Practices were last updated November 2, 2001 and
update and replace any previous Internet Privacy Practices from Smart
Software Solutions, LLC. We may amend these Internet Privacy Practices at any
time, and when such a change is made we will post a revised version on this
Smart Software Solutions, LLC Web site. Changes will be effective when they are
posted. It is your responsibility to review these Internet Privacy Practices
from time to time to be aware of any such changes. Your continued use of
this Smart Software Solutions, LLC Web site indicates your agreement to any such
changes
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