Privacy Policy
Website Privacy Policy
Last modified: March 28, 2022
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Introduction
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Zale Mortgage, LLC (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
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This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.zalemortgage.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
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This policy applies to information we collect:
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· On this Website.
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· In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
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· Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
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· When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
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It does not apply to information collected by:
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· Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
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· Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
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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, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
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Children Under the Age of 16
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Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at: support@zalemortgage.com.
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California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.
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Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
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We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
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· By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”).
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· That does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identified individual, such as demographic information, statistics, or aggregated data. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal information. For example, we may aggregate personal information to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature.
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· Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, or operating system and platform.
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· Non-personal details about your Website interactions, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), clickstream to, through, and from our Website (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, or any phone number used to call our customer service number.
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We collect this information:
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· Directly from you when you provide it to us.
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· Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
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· From third parties, for example, our business partners.
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Information You Provide to Us.
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The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
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· Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website or by corresponding with us by phone, email, or otherwise. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.
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· Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
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· Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
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· Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
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· Your search queries on the Website.
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You also may provide information to be published or displayed (“posted”) on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
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Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.
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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:
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· Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
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· Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
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The information we collect automatically may include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
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· Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
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· Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
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· Speed up your searches.
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· Recognize you when you return to our Website.
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The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
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· 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.
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· 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 Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
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· Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails 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).
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How We Use Your Information
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We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
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· To present our Website and its contents to you.
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· To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
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· To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
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· To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
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· To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
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· To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
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· To ensure that we present our Website content in the most effective manner for you and your computer.
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· To administer our Website and conduct internal operations, including for troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes.
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· To improve our Website, products or services, marketing, or customer relationships and experiences.
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· To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
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· To protect our Website, employees, or operations.
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· To provide customer care and support.
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· In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
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· For any other purpose with your consent.
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We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
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Disclosure of Your Information
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We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
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We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
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· To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
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· To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
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· 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 Zale Mortgage, LLC’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Zale Mortgage, LLC about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
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· To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
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· For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
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· With your consent.
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We may also disclose your personal information:
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· To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
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· To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
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· If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Zale Mortgage, LLC, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of cybersecurity, fraud protection, and credit risk reduction.
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International Transfers
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We operate our Website from servers located in the United States and the information we collect through clients is processed solely in the United States. Laws governing the collection and use of data in the United States may not be equivalent to those in the country where you reside, but we will at all times protect your information under this policy.
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We may share your information with our affiliates and other third parties described above who are based in countries outside of your country of residence. While some countries may not have data protection laws that are equivalent to those of the country in which you reside, we will take all reasonable measures to protect your information under this policy and all applicable legal requirements.
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If any of the recipients is located in a country without the adequate legal protection or safeguards for personal information, we will make reasonable efforts so the recipient adopts the principles described in this policy.
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By submitting your personal information or engaging with our Website, you consent to this transfer, storing, or processing of your personal information in the United States.
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Visitors from Outside the United States
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This policy is intended to cover collection of information on our Website from residents of the United States of America. At the present time, our consulting services are not intended for use outside of the United States. However, if you are visiting our Website from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our services are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States might not be as comprehensive as those in your country or those of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In these circumstances, the governments, courts, law enforcement, or regulatory agencies of that country may be able to obtain access to your personal information through the laws of the foreign country. Please be assured that we seek to take reasonable steps consistent with United States law to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using our Website, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this policy.
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Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
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· Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
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· Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our own products or services, you can opt out by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to support@zalemortgage.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience, or other transactions.
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We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
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California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.
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Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A may submit a request to this designated address: support@zalemortgage.com. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.
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Accessing and Correcting Your Information
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You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
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You may also send us an email at support@zalemortgage.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
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If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use.
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California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.
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Your California Privacy Rights
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If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit https://www.zalemortgage.com/california-privacy-policy.
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California’s “shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to support@zalemortgage.com.
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Data Security
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We have implemented 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 our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted.
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The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where 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. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
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Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best 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.
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Data Retention
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Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use that anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent.
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Withdrawing Your Consent
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Where you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, contact us at support@zalemortgage.com. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with a particular product or service. We will explain the impact to you at the time to help you with your decision.
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Changes to Our Privacy Policy
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It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
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Contact Information
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To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: support@zalemortgage.com.