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PRIVACY POLICY

 

Your privacy is important to Lawrence Financial Group LLC (The terms, “we”,  “us” and “our” throughout this document mean Lawrence Financial Group LLC). Please read our Privacy Policy carefully to understand how we collect,  use, disclose, transfer, and store your information. By visiting our website or  agreeing to content that includes a link to this document (“Online Ads”), you  agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.  (Specific state privacy protections are listed in Section 13 of this Privacy  Policy). 

1. Our Collection and Use of Personal Information 

Personal Information includes information you provide us that can be used to  uniquely identify or contact a single person, such as your name, address, email  address, phone numbers and Social Security Number. 

You may be asked to provide Personal Information when you interact with us,  Online Ads, or one of our related companies, such as in connection with a  completed or abandoned transaction or a request for information from us.  LawrenceFinancialGroup.com and its related companies and service providers  may share your Personal Information with each other and use it consistent with  this Privacy Policy. 

We may supplement the Personal Information you provide with Personal  Information available from other sources, such as credit bureaus, public  databases, data aggregators, and other commercially-available sources. 

2. Examples of Personal Information We Collect and How We Use  It 

You may provide us a variety of Personal Information, including your name,  mailing address, email address, phone number, payment information, and  Social Security Number. 

The Personal Information we collect allows us to verify your identity, deliver  requested products, services and information to you, to stay in contact with  you, and to manage our relationship with you. By providing us with Personal  Information, you consent to our transfer and storage of that information. 

We also may use your Personal Information for research, development, and  analysis, and for advertising, marketing, product and service offerings,  security, fraud prevention, and other business activities. 

For example, we may use your email address to:

• Confirm your identity; 

• Send you information on the status of your account or transaction; • Contact you if we need your assistance to complete a transaction; and • Send you newsletters, and other customer related material as permitted  by law. 

We have a zero tolerance policy for email abuse. If you receive unsolicited  emails from us please report it to us. We are not responsible for  communications you may receive from non-affiliated third parties.

We will never ask you to provide Personal Information in an email. DO NOT  RESPOND to an email that appears to be from us requesting Personal  information. Contact us immediately at 877-218-1928. 

3. Our Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information 

Non-Personal Information is information in a form that does not allow for direct  association with a specific person. This information is compiled and analyzed  on both a personal and an aggregated basis. We may collect, use, monitor,  analyze, transfer, and disclose Non-Personal Information for any purpose. 

4. Examples of Non-Personal Information We Collect and How We  Use It 

We may collect and aggregate information regarding user access, activity and  behavior on our website, such as when you visit the website and what content  is of interest or seems to be most useful to you. If we combine Non-Personal  Information with Personal Information, the combined information is treated as  Personal Information for purposes of this Privacy Policy. 

Non-Personal Information includes: 

Device Information – We may collect specific information for the device you use  to access our website. For example, we may collect device model, operating  system version, application software, and fonts. 

Cookies and Other Technologies – We use a variety of technologies to collect  and store information when you visit our website. This technology may involve  sending web beacons and cookies or anonymous identifiers to your device. We  use Cookies and Other Technologies to analyze your behavior when accessing  our website and to deliver ads to you that we believe relate to your interests.

Log Information – When you visit our website, we collect certain information  automatically and store it in log files. This information includes IP address,  browser version, ISP data, referring and exit pages, operating system version,  date / time stamps, cookie data, and clickstream data. We use Log Information  to administer the website, analyze trends, maintain site security, learn about  user behavior, and improve the overall quality and availability of the site. 

Click-Through URLs – In some email messages, we use a Click-Through URL to  link to content on our website. When you click one of these URLs, you pass  through a separate web server before reaching our site. We use Click-Through  URLs to help us determine interest in a particular topic and to measure the  effectiveness of our email communications. 

Anonymized Information – If we separate Non-Personal Information from  Personal Information, the resulting Anonymized Information is treated as Non Personal Information for purposes of this Privacy Policy.

5. Our Sharing of Information with Others 

Personal Information 

We do not share Personal Information with businesses or individuals outside of  CreditRepair.com, except under the follow circumstances: 

Consent – We will share your Personal Information with others when we have  your consent to do so. 

Service Providers – We provide Personal Information to related companies and  other trusted businesses or persons who use, analyze, or process it on our  behalf, based on our instructions and in compliance with appropriate  confidentiality and security measures. For example, we may use others to: 

• deliver, evaluate the effectiveness of, and assist in improving our  products and services; 

• conduct consumer research and satisfaction surveys; 

• assist us in analyzing and understanding consumers and how to reach  them more effectively; 

• assist us in fraud prevention, with our security measures, and to provide  us technical support; 

• provide member support; 

• manage member data, and to ensure data integrity and accuracy; • process financial transactions and perform accounting functions; and • advertise, market, or make product or service offerings.

Legal Reasons – We will share Personal Information with others if we have a  good-faith belief that disclosure is necessary or appropriate to: 

• comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable  governmental request; 

• protect our operations or members: 

• detect, investigate, or address fraud, security, or technical problems; or • investigate potential violations of and enforce applicable terms of  service. 

 

In the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale we may transfer any and all  personal information we collect to the relevant third party. 

Non-Personal Information 

We may share Non-Personal Information publicly and with our strategic  partners. For example, we may share Non-Personal Information to describe the  size and success of our company.

6. Transparency and Choice 

We may use third-party display advertising companies, including web  platforms, to serve our ads on its behalf on sites across the Internet. Our  display advertisers and we use cookies to inform, optimize, and serve ads  based on your past visits to our website. 

You may find additional information, opt-out of, or otherwise customize display  advertising from web platforms by visiting the web platform’s ads preference  manager. 

You may find additional information and opt-out of other participating third party display advertising by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out  page. 

We may use third-party analytics companies, such as Google Analytics, Adobe,  and Omniture to analyze and understand user behavior when visiting our  website. 

You may find additional information and opt-out of Adobe Analytics by visiting  the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. 

You may find additional information and opt-out of Omniture Analytics by  visiting the Adobe opt-out page.

You also may disable cookies within your browser. Please note, however, that  certain features of the CreditRepair.com website will not function properly or  be available once cookies are disabled. 

7. Social Media Plug-ins 

Plug-ins for social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo,  Windows and Google plus (among others), are integrated on  LawrenceFinancialGroup.com website. 

By interacting with us through a social media plug-in, certain information will  be transmitted to the related social network, and you permit us to have on going access to information from your social network profile. 

If you do not want the social network to collect information about you, or to  share it with LawrenceFinancialGroup.com and other third parties, please  review the privacy policy of the relevant social network and/or log out of the  relevant social network before you visit our site.
 

8. Information Security and Retention 

We take precautions to safeguard your Personal Information from loss, theft,  and misuse, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and  destruction. These precautions include technical, physical, and administrative  procedure. 

Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure  communications, we request that you not send private information to us by  email or instant messaging services. 

We regularly review our compliance with our Privacy Policy and enforce  internal safeguards. 

We are committed to working with appropriate regulatory authorities to  resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of Personal Information that we  cannot resolve with you directly. 

We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on all pages where Personal  Information is collected. This protects the confidentiality of your Personal  Information while it is transmitted over the Internet. 

For your own protection, you should exercise care with the information you  share over the Internet. You should always use a secure browser and exercise 

good judgment in using passwords, such as using a combination of upper and  lower case letters, numbers, special characters, and you should avoid using the  same or similar passwords across multiple sites. We recommend using a  password between 12 and 16 characters long. 

You may access your Personal Information by logging into your account. We  make good-faith efforts to give you ways to update or to delete your Personal  Information quickly, unless we need to keep that information for a legitimate  business or legal purpose. Some changes require personal contact with an  assigned LawrenceFinancialGroup.com representative. 

We retain Personal Information and Non-Personal Information for the time  necessary and reasonable to fulfill the purposes outlined in the Privacy Policy,  unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law or ethical  duties, including our duty to preserve case files for a reasonable time and  relevant information necessary to preserve a legal claim or defense. Our data  retention for such information is seven (7) years. 

We may reject requests to change or delete information that are unreasonably  repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort (for example, requiring  the development of new systems or fundamental changes to existing systems),  risk the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (such as  information stored on backups). 
 

We work to protect data from accidental or malicious destruction. Accordingly,  we may not immediately delete or change residual copies and we may not  delete or change information from our backup systems. Unless a  disproportionate effort is required, we will provide information access and  correction without charge. 

9. Third Party Privacy Policies 

This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we  collect from you. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that  we do not own or control or to people that we do not employ or manage. We  do not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the  privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. We encourage you to  ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others. For more  information about each such third party, please refer to the third party’s  privacy policy. 

If you provided your information on the website of an entity not related to  LawrenceFinancialGroup.com, and that entity shared your information with us, 

the privacy policy of that website governs the non-related entity’s use of your  information, which may be different from this policy. 

10. Children 

We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13. If we  learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under 13, we  will take steps to delete the Personal Information as soon as possible. 

11. Privacy Policy Changes and Questions 

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes to this Privacy  Policy will be posted on our website, with a corresponding revision date. Please  check the website and Online Ads each time you use them for the most current  information and to ensure that you are aware of any updates. 

12. Request for Information 

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact  us: hello@lawrencefinancialgroup.com 

Should you no longer wish to receive our emails, you may click on the  unsubscribe link located in the footer of each email received or at email preferences. 

13. State Privacy Protections

Maryland Residents 

You have the right to know we will be collecting and maintaining personal  information including credit report data to assist you with credit repair and  maintenance services. We collect this information from you, credit bureaus,  public databases, data aggregators, and other commercially available sources.  The categories of this personal information include: 

• Personal identifiers to authenticate your identity and obtain credit  reports you have requested; 

• Credit report data to assist with identifying and challenging unfair,  unsubstantiated, and inaccurate items; 

• Internet/Network activity to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on  your past visits to our website (see, infra section 6. Transparency and  Choice for additional information); and 

• Audio and electronic information (to record your agreements and  authorizations given over the phone or through our web pages).

 

We do not sell, and will not sell, any of your personal information without  obtaining your specific consent, including personal information of minors under  age 16. Because we do not sell PI without your express consent, we are not  obligated to include the “Do not sell my personal information” link on our site’s  homepage. 

We will share your personal information with our service providers when it is  necessary to process your requests, maintain your case, or report to credit  bureaus or your creditors. You have the right to request the following up to two  times in a 12-month period: 

• The categories of personal information we have collected about you in  the past 12 months; 

• The categories of sources from which we collect personal information; • The business purpose for collecting or selling personal information; • The categories of third parties with whom we share personal  information; 

• The specific personal information we have collected about you in the  past 12 months; 

• The categories of personal information that we sold about you and the  categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold in  the past 12 months, or verification that no personal information was  sold; 

• The categories of personal information we disclosed about you for a  business purpose in the past 12 months, or verification that no personal  information was disclosed. 

In addition, Maryland residents have the following rights: (1) the right to  request that Personal Information be deleted, subject to various exceptions  including matters governed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or to comply  with a legal obligation whether of general or specific applicability; (2) the right  to request that Personal Information not be sold to third parties, if applicable;  and (3) the right not to be discriminated against in light of choosing to exercise  any of these rights. 

To exercise any of these rights, contact us: 

• by submitting the California Data Requests form 

• by calling 800-270-9679 

When you make any of the above requests, we will verify your identity and  right to request the information by asking you for information we can match  with our records such as your name, phone number, Social Security Number, or date of birth. We may also verify you using your system login or other  reasonable authentication service such as knowledge based authentication. 

We will provide the requested information within 45 days of the request in  most cases. If we need additional time to complete your request, we will notify  you within the first 45 days and may take an additional 45 days to complete  your request. 

You may authorize an agent to make a request under these rights on your  behalf by completing a notarized Agent Authorization Form and submitting it  with your Maryland Data Request web form or mailing it to us at  LawrenceFinancialGroup.com, Data Requests, 14502 Greenview Drive Suite 300  Laurel, MD 20708 

By exercising your rights, you will not be denied services, provided a lesser  level or quality of service, or charged a different price for services, including  through discounts, benefits, or penalties unless the price difference is  reasonably related to the value provided to you by your data. However, if you  exercise your right to have your personal information deleted, we will not be  able to continue to provide service, as our services are dependent on that  personal information. 

 

Please note that whereas we provide credit-counseling services, it is subject to  obligations pursuant to the GLBA. The GLBA includes several definitions that  will govern relevant privacy matters. Consequently, the terms “nonpublic  personal information” or “personally identifiable financial information”, for  example, will pre-empt the CCPA’s definitions of “personal information”,  “sale”, or other important terms defined by the GLBA for matters involving  services provided by us, our service providers, or agents.

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