HelpPath.org Privacy Policy
HelpPath.org is owned by Retail Generation Group LLC (hereinafter “Company” or “us” or “we”) and is dedicated to protecting your privacy and providing you with the highest level of service. This Policy explains what Company does to keep information about you private and secure. This Policy covers only information that you provide to Company or that it obtains about you from companies that you have chosen to do business with. Please read this Policy carefully and contact us if you have any questions.
Personal Information We Collect
We may collect the following personal information, as appropriate:
- name;
- email address;
- Social Security number;
- mailing address;
- phone number;
- Usernames and passwords to data sources
- information about your loan transactions, such as your account balances with your creditors, payment histories, account activity, and all other information that may be contained in your credit card statements or other reports relating to your debt; and
- Although we do not make credit inquiries (i.e. pull your credit), we may request information from data sources, such as credit bureau and data aggregators relating to your payment histories, creditworthiness, annual income, or ability to satisfy your obligations.
We will take no action that will negatively impact your credit score without a separate authorization.
How We Collect Personal Information
We collect information in the following ways:
- When you provide to us over the phone or in documents or applications;
- When we access your accounts or request your credit card statements or other reports relating to your debt;
- From our partners and affiliates;
- From consumer reporting agencies and other sources.
How Do We Share Your Information
With limited exception discussed below, we may sell or transfer your personal information to third parties for any purpose in our sole discretion unless you opt-out. Specifically, we may share your information with:
- Our partners, including providers;
- Financial institutions, consistent with laws regulating loan securitization;
- Credit reporting agencies;
- Direct marketing service providers;
- Auditors and examiners;
- Law enforcement, regulators and other government bodies; and
- Our investors, lenders, affiliates, parents, and subsidiaries.
We may also disclose such information in order to effect or carry out any transaction that you have requested of us or as necessary to complete our contractual obligations with you. We may also share your information with service providers that perform business operations for us, companies that act on our behalf to market our services, or others only as permitted or required by law, such as to protect against fraud or in response to a subpoena. We may also share or transfer our information in the event we transfer or sell your account or our business assets to another provider.
By carrying out those services, we may disclose your information, as we see fit and as permitted by law, to your creditors, credit card companies, collection agencies, banks, and other entities and individuals specifically necessary to effect, administer and perform our services.
Consumer Reports
We both receive and transmit data to consumer reporting agencies. We partner with these agencies to assess your creditworthiness and to prevent fraud and identity theft. This is done as part of our regular underwriting, fraud prevention and process of providing services to you.
Information we collect in these reports includes, but is not limited to:
- Information about open and closed credit accounts, including the date opened, the date closed (if applicable), the latest reported monthly balance and monthly payment;
- Information about credit inquiries;
- Information about late payments and collection actions occurring on open and closed credit accounts;
- Information regarding public records of bankruptcy, judgements, tax liens, and other payment statuses;
- The credit score produced by the credit bureau providing the report;
- Information about your transaction history, assets, and account balances; and
- Correcting information maintained by the credit bureaus
We will take no action that will negatively impact your credit score without a separate authorization.
Information related to your creditworthiness is maintained by the credit bureaus. If you find that there is an error or you want to dispute the information found in your credit report, please contact the credit reporting bureaus.
Experian: http://www.experian.com/
Transunion: https://dispute.transunion.com
Equifax: https://www.ai.equifax.com/
Notice to California Residents
In response to a California law, we will automatically treat individuals with California addresses or telephone numbers (when disclosed to us) as if you requested us to not share your information with nonaffiliated third parties except as permitted by the applicable California law. We will also limit the sharing of information about you with our affiliates to comply with California privacy laws that apply to us.
Your Choices / Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes. By providing information to Company you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of such personal information in the manner described in this privacy policy. We provide you the opportunity to withdraw your consent when such information is collected.
Such consent may be withdrawn by calling the telephone number provided below or may be done in writing sent to our customer service department at the Company’s physical address, mailing address or email address provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.
How We Protect Your Information
We train our employees to protect all customer information. We maintain appropriate physical, electronic and procedural controls that comply with government standards. We authorize our employees, agents and contractors to get information about you only when they need it to do their work with us. You can help to maintain the security of your online transactions by not sharing your personal information or password with anyone. Remember, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.
Updates to this Policy
The HelpPath.org Web Site may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “Communication Services”), you agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:
Company reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on our website so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it.
If you have any questions about your privacy or our security practices, please contact us using the following information:
Mailing and Physical Address: 811 W. Agatite Avenue, Suite 2610 Chicago, IL 60640
If by email: Help@HelpPath.org
If by phone: 888-693-1338
This document was last updated on April 26, 2021.
The information provided on this site is not legal advice. The attorney listings on the site are paid attorney advertising. Each of the attorneys promoted through this website are promoted based upon their willingness to pay for the advertising. This website is not an endorsement of the attorneys’ services. The site is not a lawyer referral service or prepaid legal services plan. In some states the information on this website may be considered a lawyer referral service. No attorney-client or confidential relationship is or will be formed by use of the site. Photos are models and are not actual clients. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. By an Act of Congress and the President of the United States, the attorneys who advertise through this website are Federally designated Debt Relief Agents. They help people file for relief under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Disclosures Required Under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. In the State of Florida, HelpPath.org LLC is registered as a Qualifying Provider under the Rules of Professional Conduct regulating attorney ethics, promulgated by the Florida Supreme Court. Such registration is not intended to convey an endorsement or approval by the Florida Bar. Jeffrey Tromberg of Florida Debt Relief Center located in Boca Raton, Florida is a lawyer-participant in the HelpPath.org group advertising program, which offers to refer prospective legal clients to participating law firms, using a common telephone number or website address.
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