Privacy Statement
First Funding Investments , Inc. dba First Funding Group has created this Privacy Statement (the "Statement") in order to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. In serving your needs, First Funding Investments, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "First Funding Group ") may need to gather personal information (including various forms of personally identifiable information) about you. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the First Funding Group web site. This Statement may be revised from time to time, so please check back periodically.
Online Application Submission
For your convenience, First Funding Group provides its web site visitors the ability to submit an application online. First Funding Group Online Application Submission program requires web site users to provide various kinds of personal information, which may include but is not limited to: Contact information - including name, address, telephone numbers, and email address; Employment History - including companies worked for, job titles, job descriptions, names of supervisors, etc. This information will be reviewed and used by First Funding Group for the purpose of evaluating you for lending purposes. It may also be released to potential lenders (or their agents). In addition, First Funding Group may distribute information about its users in aggregate form as it sees fit. Such information will not identify any user in particular, but rather is based on an information summary of all of First Funding Group users.
Third Party Requests
First Funding Group may, on occasion, disclose your personal information to third parties when legally compelled to do so or when we believe the disclosure is necessary to identify, contact, or take action against anyone causing injury or threatening to cause injury to you, First Funding Group, or the general public. First Funding Group will use reasonable efforts to limit such disclosures to only what is required. By preserving our right to make disclosures in such instances First Funding Group is not undertaking an obligation to defend you or others from injury or to seek relief for those injuries.
Online Information Requests
The First Funding Group web site provides a request form for visitors to request additional information relating to First Funding Group. This request form may ask visitors for contact information, such as the visitor's name, address, telephone number, and/or email address. First Funding Group uses information submitted via the information request form to contact web site visitors regarding the types of services First Funding Group offers. First Funding Group may also use the contact information to contact web site visitors when necessary. Visitors may opt out of receiving promotional information from First Funding Group by not submitting an information request form. First Funding Group will not sell or otherwise provide a visitor's personal contact information to other companies, except prospective lenders, without the visitor's permission.
Hidden Information
Unlike user-entered data (such as form submissions) some types of personally identifiable information transmitted across the Internet are not readily perceptible to web site users. Such information may include your internet protocol address ("IP address"), which identifies your specific computer on the Internet, and personally identifiable information stored in session variables, or "cookies," on your computer's hard drive. First Funding Group may collect and use these types of hidden information on its web site in any manner it deems appropriate.
Linked Web sites
The First Funding Group web site may include links to and/or advertisements by other companies or web sites. These other entities may collect personal information, including identification information from you. Please be advised that First Funding Group is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites and the information practices of such sites are not covered by this privacy statement. First Funding Group does not receive any personal information about visitors to the First Funding Group web site from any third party, including any information collected by or through links to third party web sites and/or advertisements on the First Funding Group web site.
Disclaimer
First Funding Group makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, with respect to the content or functionality of its web site or any linked web site. First Funding Group specifically disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to all merchandise, services, and products purchased by the user while visiting a linked web site.
Opt Out
First Funding Group is committed to protecting the personal, private information of persons who use our web site services. Therefore, First Funding Group provides web site visitors the ability to opt out of using First Funding Group's services, and/or receiving information from First Funding Group. First Funding Group's web site users may opt out of participating in the Online Applications and Resume submission program by not sending an online resume to First Funding Group. Otherwise, any information First Funding Group receives from a user regarding personal information contained in an application and resume submitted online may be shared with prospective employers or third parties as set forth above. Web site users who have submitted applications and resumes to First Funding Group online, who no longer wish to use First Funding Group's services, may have their information removed from First Funding Group's database by sending an email to
requesting that such information be removed from First Funding Group's database. Visitors to First Funding Group's web site may opt out of receiving informational communications about First Funding Group's services by not submitting a request for information.
Online Security
While First Funding Group strives to protect its user's personal information and privacy, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while First Funding Group stores your personal information in data networks that are password protected, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or receive from us through our web site and online services.
