CCPA Privacy Policy Notice and Consumer Rights

IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS

LAST REVISED: APRIL 2023

This Privacy Notice for California Consumers (“Notice”), provided by National Debt Relief, LLC (“NDR,” “Company,” “we,” or “our”), supplements, and is expressly made part of, the information contained in NDR’s Online Privacy Policy and applies solely to those who are consumers (“you” or “your”) as defined in Section 1798.140(g) of the California Consumer Privacy Act as well as the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, the “CCPA”) . We adopt this Notice in compliance with the CCPA and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice.

NDR collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device (“personal information”). As a consumer, you have certain rights regarding your personal information as defined in the CCPA. This Notice provides you with information on how NDR collects, uses, and shares personal information. It also outlines the rights you have regarding personal information that we collect from you and describes how you can exercise those rights.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

As a company that conducts activities that are financial in nature, NDR is a “financial institution” as that term is defined in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”). While the CCPA does not exempt financial institutions, and thus, NDR, from its requirements, Section 1798.145(e) of the CCPA does exempt personal information collected by a financial institution subject to the GLBA. Accordingly, information that is collected by NDR that is not “subject to” the GLBA will still be subject to the requirements under the CCPA.

NDR recognizes the eleven (11) broad categories of personal information referenced in the CCPA that a business may collect about a consumer. In particular, NDR has collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months (though most, if not all, such personal information is collected pursuant to the GLBA and is thus exempt from the CCPA):

Category	Examples	Collected
A. Identifiers.	A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.	YES
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).	A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.	YES
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.	Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).	YES
D. Commercial information.	Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.	YES
E. Biometric information.	Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.	NO
F. Internet or other similar network activity.	Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.	YES
G. Geolocation data.	Physical location or movements.	YES
H. Sensory data.	Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.	NO
I. Professional or employment-related information.	Current or past job history or performance evaluations.	YES
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).	Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.	NO
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information.	Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.	NO

Personal information does not include publicly available information from government records, de-identified or aggregated consumer information, or information otherwise excluded from the CCPA’s scope, such as information collected pursuant to the GLBA. Any personal information or category of personal information collected subject to the GLBA would not be considered “personal information” under the CCPA.

Notwithstanding the GLBA exemption, we have obtained the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase.
Indirectly from you. For example, from information we obtain in the course of providing our services to you, or from observing your actions on our website.
From your use of our websites or advertisements
From third-party business partners such as social media sites, ad networks, and analytics providers.

NDR may use this information to:

Provide you with the information, products, or services you request from us.
Fulfill the reason you provided the information, such as to respond to customer service requests or other inquiries.
Create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
Personalize your website experience and deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent where required by law).
Help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
Process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments
Provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our website, products, and services.
Prevent transactional fraud.
Respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.

We may share information with third parties who help us develop and promote products and services, including joint marketing, or to help us customize advertisements, offers, or other communications to you. We may also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Services. These companies may use information about your visits to our websites and other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

NDR will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing notice to you. Such notice may be delivered, for example, by posting an updated California Privacy Notice.

Sharing Personal Information

NDR may disclose your personal information to a third party for business purposes. When we do so, NDR enters into a contractual arrangement that describes the business purpose and requires the recipient to both: (A) keep that personal information confidential; and (B) not use it for any purpose except performing the obligations under the contract.

We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties for a business purpose:

Affiliates.
Service providers.
Marketing Services
Data aggregators.
Social media companies
Internet cookie data recipients (e.g., Google analytics)

Disclosure of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

The CCPA requires NDR to provide you with a statement on its personal information disclosures for a business purpose that reference the eleven (11) categories of information reflected in the chart above. In the preceding twelve (12) months, NDR has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

Category A: Identifiers.
Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Category D: Commercial information
Category F. Internet or other similar network activity.
Category G. Geolocation data.

Sale of Personal Information.

The CCPA similarly requires NDR to provide you with a statement on its personal information sales. In the preceding twelve (12) months, NDR had not sold your personal information. NDR does not and will not sell personal information of California consumers. In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for business or marketing purposes.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, NDR has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

Category A: Identifiers.
Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Category D: Commercial information
Category F. Internet or other similar network activity.
Category G. Geolocation data.

Notice Regarding Your Rights

Access & Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that NDR disclose what personal information we collect, use, and disclose. If we receive and confirm your consumer request as verifiable and no exception applies, we will provide you with:

The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two lists disclosing:
- Sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
- disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

As previously indicated, NDR does not sell the personal information of California consumers.

Deletion and Correction Request Rights

Subject to certain exceptions, you have the right to request that we delete and or correct any of your personal information that we collected and retained. If we receive and confirm your consumer request as verifiable, unless an exception applies we will delete and or correct (and direct our service providers to do the same) your personal information from our records.

There are a number of reasons why a deletion request may be denied. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion and or correction rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to NDR by:

Calling us toll-free during business hours at 1-800-300-9550.
Filling out the California Consumer request form available at https://www.nationaldebtrelief.com/deletion-request/ or by clicking here.
Submitting a request through your online account.

Only you or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information.

The verifiable consumer request must:

Provide sufficient information that allows NDR to verify, to a reasonable degree of certainty, that you are the person about whom NDR collected personal information (or your authorized representative), which may include multi-factor authentication of identifying information provided by you. Such authentication may be conducted and verified independently or in combination with a comparison of personal information already maintained by NDR, if any; and
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows NDR to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm that the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us, but we must also be able to confirm the personal information relates to you. However, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to personal information associated with that specific account.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

NDR endeavors to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of receiving it, but may extend as permitted by the law.

If you have an online account with us, we will deliver our written response to your online account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request or have denied a request, if applicable.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Exercising Do Not Sell or Share Rights

To exercise your Do Not Sell/Share rights, please submit a consumer request to NDR by:

Calling us toll-free during business hours at 1-800-300-9550.
Filling out the California Consumer request form available at https://www.nationaldebtrelief.com/do-not-sell-request/ or by clicking here.
Submitting a request through your online account.

Non-Discrimination

NDR will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights as described above. Unless permitted by the CCPA, NDR will not:

•Deny you goods or services.

•Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.

•Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.

•Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Do Not Track Disclosures

How do we respond to Web browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services?

We currently do not respond to DNT signals in browsers because we do not track individual users across the web.

May other parties collect personally identifiable information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across different websites when they visit ww8.nationaldebtrelief.com?

Yes. Some of our third party affiliates may have collected personal information from you obtained through visiting our website and may use such information for marketing purposes.

Other California Privacy Rights

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits certain individuals that are California residents to request information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please email us at success@nationaldebtrelief.com or write to us at National Debt Relief, LLC, 180 Maiden Lane, 28th Floor

New York, NY 10038.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to amend this Notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this Notice, we will post the updated Notice on our website and update the Notice’s effective date. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact Information

NDR is committed to responding promptly to any questions or concerns you may have about this Notice. If you have questions concerning the methods by which NDR collects or uses your personal information as explained in this Notice and our Online Privacy Policy, the rights granted to you under the CCPA, or how to exercise your rights, or if you are a consumer with a disability and you wish to receive a copy of this Notice, you can contact us by calling, writing, or emailing us:

National Debt Relief, LLC

180 Maiden Lane, 28th Floor

New York, NY 10038

success@nationaldebtrelief.com

800-300-9550

Please print and retain a copy of this California Privacy Notice for your records.

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