Last updated: November 16th, 2022.
UpSmith respects your privacy and is committed to protecting as set forth in our privacy policy below.
UpSmith Inc. (“Company,” “we” or “our”) respects your privacy and we are committed to protecting it through this policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website UpSmith.com (together with any associated websites, desktop or mobile applications, the “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This policy applies to information we collect on this Website or through any other means for the purpose of providing our services to users (the “Services”). By accessing or using the Website or Services, you agree to this privacy policy. This privacy policy is governed by our terms of use and you agree to those terms of use, including those involving dispute resolution.
It does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website or used as part of the Services. If you click on a link and leave our Website, your privacy rights are governed by policies on that website and you agree that we are not otherwise responsible for the actions of that third party.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, or our terms of use, do not use our Website or our Services.
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. We will attempt to give a reasonable notice period upon making any changes; however, unless otherwise stated the revised version will be effective at the time we post it. Your continued use of this Website and our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
If you use the Services, or start an application to use the Services (whether directly through the Company, through a partner, or through a third-party platform) we may collect the following types of information:
Personal information. Your name, date of birth, Social Security number, address, phone, email, third party application identification, employment history, and other similar information as necessary to provide the Services you are using, to verify your identity or, with your consent, to obtain a credit or background check. Personal information may also include videos you upload for purposes of the Services and information related to any drug testing.
Financial information. Bank account numbers and/or credit card payment account numbers that you link to your Company account or give us when you use the Services. We do not store your financial information, it is sent to a third-party processor.
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include but are not limited to:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Your Options About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.
Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
When you apply to the Company for Services, we will request information from credit bureaus and other third parties to facilitate determinations for your eligibility, perform analyses, provide you with offers and assess risks related to the Services to be provided. If you receive financial services from the Company, we will also collect information throughout the life of your transaction to assess risks associated with that transaction and to support ancillary services related to the transaction. If another company refers you to the Company or assists you in any way in the application process for the services, we may also collect your information from that company in order to process your application.
We may also obtain information about you from third parties such as identity verification services. If you apply for Services from the Company, we will obtain consumer reports from consumer reporting agencies related to you, as well as in connection with the use of any other services that we offer or that you may obtain from us.
We have implemented commercially reasonable measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on access-controlled cloud-based servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will act reasonably to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
You agree that the safety and security of your information also depend on you and your actions and behavior. The Company sends important communications regarding your account or application via email and text messaging. You should therefore take steps to secure and risk at restrict access to your email account and mobile phone, use passwords that are difficult to guess or hack, and change your passwords frequently. If we have given you (or if you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
You should also be on guard for fraudulent emails and texts known as “phishing” from companies claiming to be the Company and requesting your login information or other information. The Company will never ask you for your login information in an email or text message.
When are you when you are finished using the Website you should log out completely, if applicable, close the browser window and clear any browser cached files and saved passwords. This is particularly important if you use a computer that is accessed by other people, such as in a library or Internet café.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information, to facilitate the Services. This may include:
The Company may also use your personal information to select you for certain marketing communications, newsletters, surveys or requests for feedback regarding your experience. The Company may use your personal information about the select you for offers and communicate offers to you. For more information, see Your Options About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.
We share your personal information with employees, vendors, partners, training partners, marketing providers, and third parties as required to offer the Services. This includes, but is not limited to, processing transactions, maintaining your account, offering or servicing financial products, offering other financial services, responding to court orders and legal investigations, litigation purposes, complying with audits or other investigations, and reporting to credit bureaus. We also engage the following types of service providers to perform functions on our behalf: marketing providers, billing and collection providers, auditing and accounting firms, professional services consultants, providers of analytics services, security vendors, and IT vendors. Occasionally, these service providers may also collect data directly from you and their privacy policies may also apply.
The Company shares your information with third parties as permitted by law, including in the following specific ways:
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. If you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Additionally, we may disclose your personal information to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are typically, but not always, bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. Lastly, we may share your personal information to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
We strive to provide you with options regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
The Company and its authorized agents, service providers and partners may monitor and or record all telephone communications in accordance with applicable law.
“Do Not Track” is a proposed standard that is currently under development. Because it is not yet finalized, we adhere to the standards set out in this Privacy Notice and we do not currently respond to “Do Not Track” signals on the Website or on third-party websites or online services where we may collect information. Any dispute under this Privacy Notice shall be governed by the dispute resolution procedures set forth in the terms of use.
Nevada Residents. Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A may submit a request via the Support portal on our website. However, please note that we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, if any, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at privacy@UpSmith.com.
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at support@UpSmith.com.
