Our Privacy Pledges, Policies and Disclaimers
Your Privacy is Safe with Us!
Member Profile or Registration information is Private and NOT shared!
Only what you chose to include in your posting contents, included file, along with your first name and last initial is available for members to see. Investors and Funding Providers will show first name, last name, company, investment range and opportunities, optional bio and image (logo) their profile on the Funding Providers page..
Payment Processor and SSL Security
We contract third parties and credit card processing to run regular independent security scans on our website, server and database with the most updated security screens and firewall protections. Furthermore, through the security certificate ("the lock") in your browser on any of our pages ensures top encrypted security and validation for your personal credit card information, secure pages and use password encryption standards. We maintain PCI compliance and review updates of PCI third-party requirement standards.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not make a practice to share any personal information, business plans, proformas or profile information about you with other people, members or any affiliated or nonaffiliated companies unless you include them with your posting or except to provide products or services you have requested. You may print this privacy agreement in lui of non-disclosure agreement. It is your option to require any third party affiliate on our network to sign an independent agreement. We do not sell our information to third-party vendors with out your permission.
Funding Products, Service Requests and Other Products
If you create a profile for entrepreneurial services through Funded.com's website, we will not share the personal information contained in your profile form, such as your name, address, phone number and any self-assessment or value with any member in our network unless permitted. If information for Funding Providers is public or has been published, we may share limited basic information of the company or staff members and investment types or ranges. The Funding providers or Funded.com staff may contact you by telephone, email or mail based on the information you provided to us in order to help you fulfill your request, even if you have opted into the National Do Not Call List administered by the Federal Trade Commission, any state equivalent Do Not Call List, or the Do Not Call List of an internal company. If one of the members contacts you by telephone and/or email and you do not want to be contacted again by that member with respect to your inquiry, then you should specifically make a request that the member not to contact you again. If the member disregards your request and contacts you again, you may contact us and make us aware of the problem by sending an email to Funded.com customer service. Member's telephone numbers and email addresses are not visible to other members on the network, unless they include them in a posting.
Other Partners of Funded.com
We may from time to time need disclose some of the information, usually names and email addresses, we collect to companies that host certain services for us such as marketing distribution services on our behalf. These vendors only have access to personal information need to perform their functions, such as email address and may not share it with others or use it for any other purpose. These companies are subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit them from using the information except to market the specified Funded.com products or services.
At Funded.com your security is our top priority and we want to stay committed to protecting your privacy online. This pledge outlines the steps we've taken to ensure that you have a great experience at Funded.com and also provides details on how we treat any personal information you may submit to us.
Information Collection and Use
We will collect and use personal information about you to respond to your request for products and services offered through this website. We will also collect information in order to notify you about products, services and other opportunities that we think might interest you. Although personal information we collect from you may be considered publicly available throughout government records or available thought widely distributed media, we will treat all personal information submitted by you as nonpublic personal information. Basic information we may collect: Your name, Email address, Password (Encrypted), Telephone number, Address, IP address, Types of funding products you are interested in, basic lending screening and posting submissions you make and support documents. Our business plan team will collect from you all documentation and support to create your business plan or review. We process your credit card information directly on our SSL protected and secure payment page and do not save or store full credit card numbers. We collect Information provided by you in connection with obtaining financial products or services with information you provide to use when you register to receive communications from us. Information you provide to use from surveys, email feedback, testimonials, correspondence, or other forms hosted on our website or the pages of a Funded.com partner. Information you provide to use when you apply for a job at Funded.com.
Registration Privacy Criteria-
Members: Your additional privacy on what you disclose to interested investors and funding providers is your discretion in addition to what you post on our network. Your registration information profile is private and not shared with others without your consent. New Investors and funding providers registering on our site have to agree to self-disclosure acknowledgments in our Investor-Registration and a confirmation email prior to allowing on our network is required. We do not do additional due diligence, such as background checks or financial requests, primarily to keep open enrollment and less restrictive to individuals and company's presenting potential viable funding to start ups, projects and existing companies. It is highly recommended you do your own due diligence on any interested party for your funding request.
Investors and Funding Providers: You will not be able to access the network after your registration until our compliance department reviews your registration. You will receive an email notification and may have a confirmation call to verify your registration terms. Your additional privacy on what you disclose to members is your discretion other than any information in your registration. Your registration and posting or public information (if by invitation) will be posted on the Funding Provider Directory page and visible to members once allowed on the network. It is recommended by us for members to perform their own due diligence on you as you would on our member's funding request.
As Permitted by Law - We may be required to share your personal information with law enforcement, government agencies or banks in response to subpoenas, court orders, federal or state audits or similar circumstances. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person violations of Funded.com's Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
Business Transfer - As with any other business, it is possible that Funded.com LLC in the future could merge with or be acquired by another company. If such an acquisition occurs, the successor company would have access to the information maintained by Funded.com, including customer account information, but would continue to be bound by the privacy pledge unless you consent otherwise .
Operating Disclaimer - Funded.com LLC is licensed to operate this website, fully and wholly by JRLE, LLC. In accordance with your privacy and quality assurance, Funded.com routinely monitors postings and inbox communications and practices full efforts by occasionally using its own internal postings and communications to monitor the quality of the network infrastructure. JRLE, LLC d/b/a Capital Synergy Group a/k/a CSG operates regularly and independently apart from Funded.com LLC on the website network to find suitable investment prospects for its own purposes. Funded.com LLC does not broker, invest or receive any dividend, percentage or commission from any investment funding event. Funded.com LLC serves as portal or conduit website for businesses to advertise their business, idea or project and funding request on our network and receives revenue from paid subscriptions, services, advertising and lending referral fees.
Third-Party Advertisements- On occasion, you may receive advertisements for Funded.com from third parties. For instance, when visiting a third party website, you may receive a "pop-up" window advertising Funded.com. Please note that such advertisements are served by the third party website that you have visited and may not be controlled by Funded.com. In addition, such advertisement may be placed by third party ad servers or ad networks. We maintain relationships with a number of the third party ad networks currently operating. You may find more information at the website of either the individual ad network or the Network Initiative.
Anti-Spam Policy - You will not receive Funded.com email communications unless you submit your email address to us and register or create a profile to receive them. Additionally, you may also receive emails that advertise Funded.com services from third party publishers. We have established firm ground rules for dealing with any third party email services to ensure that advertisements for Funded.com are not sent out thought a "Spam" mailing - ensuring that our offers are sent only to those individuals who have given their permission to the third party email service to receive email communications. If any third part email publisher refuses to abide by Funded.com's anti-spam policy, we will not use that publisher's services. If you want to stop receiving emails from a third party, you should follow the opt-out instructions included in the third party email so that you will not be included in any future mailings. An "unsubscribe" link should appear within or at the top or bottom of the email you received. However if for any reason it does not work, please bring that to our attention by emailing us at Funded.com's Customer Care.
Cookies and Marketing Data- To serve you faster and with better quality, we use "cookies' technology. Cookies are small bits of code, usually stored on a user's computer hard drive, which enable a website to "personalize" itself for each user. We generally use cookies to reduce the time it takes for pages to load on your computer and to assist with customer tracking. Customer tracking or click -stream-data collected by us is used to optimize your experience by learning whether or not you successfully used Funded.com. Cookies are not tied to your personal information. Additionally, we may capture click-stream data used for marketing purposes and recording page visits for for third-party marketing resource primarily used by us and may be limited to the activity involved with the completion of offers listed on our website. This information may also be used to monitor the performance of our partners. We also keep track of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP Address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identity your computer every time you log on to the Internet. Some of our business partners (e.g. advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have limited access or control over these cookies. Cookies are commonly shared with companies like Google, Microsoft or other third-party and under compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations and EU consent to track for the benefit of a positive experience on our site.
Clear Gifs-
We employ a software technology called clear gifs that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movement of web users. Clear gifs are not tied to users' personally identifiable information. We also use clear gifs in our HTML-based email to let us know which emails the recipients have opened. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If users would like to opt-out of these emails. Please see the Opt-out section within any email you receive from us or reply back to unsubscribe.
Your Information is Confidential and Secure-
The security of your information is very important at funded.com and we take a number of steps to keep it safe. E.g.
We limit access to personal information to those employees or agents who assist us in providing requested product and services to you. Employees are required to comply with our strict policies and procedures regarding the handling of your personal information.
We use industry standard data encryption when transferring and receiving consumer data on the funded.com's site.
If your personal information changes, or if you have no desire for our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate your subscription to our mailing by clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of the newsletter or contacting us on Contact Us page with any deletion requests and we will respond with further instructions and you may possibly receive one more email until you are unsubscribed out our database.
Opting Out -
You may register to receive communications from us directly on our website or through a third party. Upon registering, we will periodically send you newsletters and other emails featuring special and exclusive offers, promotions and other member only benefits. If you no longer wish to receive these communications, please let us know by sending a message to us at Contact Us or Mail to Funded.com LLC 1405 Silver Lake Road #8 New Brighton, MN 55112. You also may opt out using the unsubscribe link in our emails as well. Our email database is updated continually. However, you may continue to receive email communications from us for following month thereafter from the time we receive your unsubscribe request. Please note that funded.com can only control its own mailing list and policies. Third party advertisers that maintain their own mailing lists may send communications that advertise our services and you may need to contact these parties directly in order to stop receiving their email communications. Also, note that if you enter into a transaction through our website, we may send you one more notice, ask for a satisfaction rating , request a testimonial and give you periodic product reminders as part of your service as a preferred funded.com customer.
Privacy Pledge Regarding Third Party Links-
This applies to all information that you provide to funded.com. However, when you visit websites to which funded.com provides a link, keep in mind you will be interacting with a third party that operates under its own security and privacy policy. If you should chose to obtain certain services through a third party site, the data collected by the third party is governed by that third party's privacy policy. A third party site will also have its own policy regarding the use of cookies and other gifs. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any other service provider from whom you request services. If Funded.com receives personal information from a third party that is not in conjunction with the services offered by our site, the use and disclosure of such information is governed by the agreement, if any, between funded.com and the third party. Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies.
Outside Third Parties-
There are cases we may use third party vendors links and pages and redirection to third-party sites and some of the particular section of the website may have a similar appearance as funded.com's site, information submitted through these outside third parties sites. You understand if you go to a third party site from our site you are subject to their privacy policy and terms.
18 or older-
You must be at least 18 years old to use this website. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information about visitors under 18 years of age, If you are under 18 years of age, you can use their services offered on our website only in conjunction with your parents or guardians. Please see our Terms of Use for more information.
Changes to the Policy-
Funded.com may update or modify this Privacy Pledge from time to time. If there are material changes to this Privacy Pledge or in how funded.com will use your personal information, we will post such changes here. Please note that using this site you signify your consent to our privacy pledge and policies. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our site . When you request funding requests or go through the process you are authorizing us to share information with a funding provider or one of our business partners, who will contact you by phone, email, or mail. If you do not want further communication from them, you must notify the partner directly. We reserve the right to make changes in this policy at any time. Please check the policy each time you use our website to ensure you are aware of any changes in our privacy practices. Our Privacy Pledge will indicate the date it was last updated. Currently our last update is noted at the bottom of this page and your continued use of our site will signify your acceptance of our policy, privacy pledges and disclaimers.
Advertiser Disclosure-
This site is part of an affiliate sales network and receives compensation for sending traffic to partner sites, such as CreditCards.com. This compensation may impact how and where links appear on this site. This site does not include all financial companies or all available financial offers.
In our blog or emails-
Opinions expressed are author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, hotel, airline, or other entity. This content has not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of the entities included within the post or email content.
We do not sell your personal information
We do not sell your data. If you elect to have any lender contact you. You will be notified on the web page by clicking the link that your approved information you provided will be submitted automatically to the elected lender or funding provider of your choice. We do not share your information with other third party sources for third party benefit.
GDPR General Data Protection Rules- European Union Rules
California Privacy Protection Act
Data Subject Rights –
1. The right to be informed; This means anyone processing your personal data must make clear what they are processing, why, and who else the data may be passed to.
2. The right of access; this is your right to see what data is held about you by a us.
3. The right to rectification; the right to have your data corrected or amended if what is held is incorrect in some way.
4. The right to erasure; under certain circumstances you can ask for your personal data to be deleted. This is also called 'the Right to be Forgotten'. This would apply if the personal data is no longer required for the purposes it was collected for, or your consent for the processing of that data has been withdrawn, or the personal data has been unlawfully processed.
5. The right to restrict processing; this gives you the right to ask for a temporary halt to processing of personal data, such as in the case where a dispute or legal case has to be concluded, or the data is being corrected.
6. The right to data portability; you have the right to ask for any data supplied by you to us, to be provided in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format such as word or csv format.
7. The right to object; you have the right to object to further processing of your data which is inconsistent with the primary purpose for which it was collected, including profiling, automation, and direct marketing.
8. Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling; you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.
Updated 01/01/24 IMPORTANT TO PRINT FOR YOUR OWN RECORDS
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