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PRIVACY POLICY & NOTICE
At AMERICAN FINANCE HOUSE LARIBA (AFHL), we
strive to be your RIBA-FREE financial service provider of choice.
We realize that you had a choice and that we have to earn your
trust and confidence. We encourage you to read our Privacy Policy
and Notice to learn more about what type of information we collect
and retain related to your accounts and transactions with us and
how we use that information.
1.
Recognition of Customer’s Expectation of Privacy:
We recognize that our customers expect us to
protect the confidentiality of their accounts, transaction, and
related personal information. We respect each individual’s right
to personal privacy. It is the policy of American Finance House
LARIBAto guard the privacy and integrity of information provided
by customers and consumers in accordance with the requirements of
the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Privacy Act.
2. Collection and Use of Customer Information:
We collect information regarding our customers when we believe it
would be useful (and permitted by law) in handling their accounts
and transactions with us. Much of this information constitutes
nonpublic personal information. This information may be collected
from a variety of sources, such as the following:
·
Information customers provide directly to us, such
as a Social Security number and personal income;
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Information about a customer's transactions or
experience with us or our affiliates, such as account balances and
payment history;
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Web-based tools when customers visit our web site,
such as “cookies”; and
·
Information we receive from third parties, such as
consumer reporting agencies
We use information regarding our customers
for a variety of reasons including facilitation of transactions in
servicing a customer's account, identification purposes in
protecting a customer's account and safeguarding against
unauthorized access to customer accounts and information,
identification of additional products and services that may be
beneficial to a customer and identifying and mitigating potential
risks or losses to us.
3. Sharing of Customer Information With
Third Parties
American Finance House LARIBA restricts
access to non-public personal information to the following:
a)
Our employees involved in the processing,
underwriting and maintenance of the credit transaction;
b)
Consumer reporting agencies;
c)
Companies which provide support services to us (such
as file auditing and quality control) and which agree to maintain
standards of confidentiality similar to our standards and to use
the information only for the purposes for which it was disclosed.
d)
Potential investors and their employees, to the
extent required to secure funding for the transaction;
e)
Other parties, only as necessary to complete the
loan applications, or as required by law.
4. Sharing of Customer Information With Our Affiliates:
We may share customer information with affiliated companies,
including (a) information the customer provided directly to us
such as personal income or other information disclosed on a loan
application form; and, (b) information we receive from third
parties such as a consumer credit report. This information may be
shared with our affiliates that provide financial products and
services.
Please note that customers
may exercise their right to restrict the use of nonpublic,
personal information which was collected as part of a consumer
credit transaction subject to the provisions of the Fair Credit
Reporting Act (“FCRA”.)
A customer may make a “Fair Credit Opt Out” election
at-- (a) the time the consumer credit account was opened by
indicating in the proper place on account documents, or (b) any
time within one month of the delivery of this privacy notice.
Election may be made by informing us in person, by
telephone or by mailing a written notice o to us addressed to
the attention of the American Finance House LARIBA., Privacy
Officer. To facilitate prompt processing of the election, the
written notice should contain your name, address, identification
information such as Social Security Number, account number/s to
which the election applies, signature and date.
5. Limitation on Access to and Protection
of Information:
American Finance House LARIBA maintains the following
safeguards to protect the confidentiality of nonpublic personal
information.
a)
Customer files are secured in a central location
with access limited to those involved.
b)
Information about our relationship with the
customers are not discussed with other unrelated parties.
c)
Copies or extra materials which are not needed for
the file are to be destroyed in a secure manner such as shredding.
d)
Third parties who need to review the information
must also have similar safe guards to insure privacy and
integrity.
e)
Our operations & date processing systems are in
a secure environment.
6. Providing Privacy Information to
Customers & Responding to Inquiries:
Annually during the duration of the financing relationship,
American Finance House LARIBA shall provide a copy of our Privacy
Notice. This notice is
to be attached with or incorporated in the monthly billings; or
prominently displayed on our web site www.lariba.com.
Customers who have questions regarding our policy or the
privacy of their customer information should contact us during
normal business hours.
7. Web Site Safety Procedures:
Customer financial data which is submitted
through the “Pre-qualification Page” on the web site, is
encrypted using SSL (Secured Seal Layer) to the mail server. An
assigned officer from AFHL down loads the client information daily
and forwards it to the assigned Finance Processing Officers who
are in charge of assembling the transaction files.
The downloaded information is maintained securely in the
customer files along with other information used in the loan
processing and underwriting. Handling of customer files is done in
accordance with the Privacy Policy of the company.
LARIBA.com is an Equal Housing Opportunity
Finance Company
Privacy
Notice DISCLAIMER: PLEASE
NOTE THAT IT IS NOT THE INTENTION OF AMERICAN FINANCE HOUSE LARIBA, A CALIFORNIA
CORPORATION OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES OR EMPLOYEES TO SOLICIT BUSINESS IN STATES
WHERE IT IS NOT LICENSED OR QUALIFIED. THIS
IS NOT A SOLICITATION TO BUY, SELL, &/OR SOLICIT BUSINESS AND
FINANCING IT IS
A PROGRESS REPORT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPANY.
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All Rights Reserved
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