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| This Privacy Policy is offered by remithome Corporation, and covers your remithome Membership Account and your use of any services hosted at www.remithome.com. |
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2. Information We Collect
3. Information Use and Disclosure
4. Communications to Customers
5. Information Security
6. Accessing, Changing and Deleting Your Information
7. Contacting Us
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact our customer service representatives, at customerservice@remithome.com, or 1 (800) 919-0787.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on: 3/23/2011.
We are disclosing our information practices to you as a way of demonstrating our commitment to your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect about you, and how we use that information. We will only use your information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, and in no event shall we sell or rent your personally-identifiable information, or a list of our customers, to a third party. Please note that there are carefully-restricted conditions in which we will share some of your information with third parties. Therefore, it is important for you to review this Privacy Policy.
remithome has been awarded TRUSTe’s Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy policy and practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe’s program requirements including transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information. TRUSTe’s mission, as an independent third party, is to accelerate online trust among consumers and organizations globally through its leading privacy trustmark and innovative trust solutions. This privacy statement covers the site www.remithome.com. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact remithome via post at 2201 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, by email at customerservice@remithome.com or by calling 1-800-919-0787. If you are not satisfied with our response you can contact TRUSTe here.
Some pages on the remithome website may contain links to third-party sites, which are governed by their own privacy practices. remithome is not responsible for the operations, including information usage, of third-party sites. You should review the privacy statements of any third-party website before providing any personally-identifying information to them. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.
We may revise this policy from time to time. If we make any material changes to any provisions regarding the use or disclosure of your personally-identifiable information, we will offer you the chance to decide whether or not we will use or disclose your information in that new manner. Such material changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective only after we provide you, by email, with at least 30 days’ prior notice of the amended Privacy Policy. However, if you have closed your remithome membership account, you will not be notified of, and your information will not be affected by, changes to the Privacy Policy.
Please note that minors (those under the age of 18 years old) are not eligible to use our service. We ask that minors refrain from using our service or submitting any personal information to us.
The most current version of this Privacy Policy shall be available on the remithome web site, at www.remithome.com.
Required Account Information
In order to open a remithome account, you must provide your name, address, phone number, email address, and driver’s license information or other government-issued form of identification. To use the remittance service, you are required to provide bank account, credit card or debit card information (which may include account numbers, as well as voided checks and/or copies of account statements). We may ask you to send some of this information to us via postal mail or fax. As a security measure, we may ask you to provide other information, such as your mother’s maiden name. The information we require is necessary for us to process transactions, protect your financial accounts from fraud, facilitate secure account access, comply with applicable laws and regulations, and to communicate with you whenever necessary to administer your account.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services, contact us at customerservice@remithome.com. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Information About Recipients and Transaction Information
We ask you to provide additional information in order to send money using our service. That information includes your recipients’ name and contact information, and, if you choose a direct deposit into a recipient’s bank account, the name of the recipient’s bank and the recipient’s account number. For each transaction, you must specify an amount of money to send. We retain transaction information, including information about your recipients, for each transaction you send through the remithome service. However, we will not use transaction information for marketing purposes. We will not contact your recipients except as instructed by you or as required to complete a transaction.
Information About You from Third Parties
We ensure the security and integrity of our service by verifying with third parties the information our customers provide, and we receive personally-identifiable information about you from those third parties. Information from third parties may include reports provided by credit and debit card authorization and fraud detection services, which can be used to verify the home address you provided to us, or to verify that the card has not been reported as lost or stolen.
Correspondence
If you send correspondence to us, including faxes and emails, we keep that information in our records of your account. We will also keep copies of correspondence that we have sent to you. We retain these records in order to provide effective customer service, and also to investigate potential errors or instances of fraud pertaining to your account. We may delete these records periodically as permitted by law.
Website Usage Information
We use non-personally-identifiable information (e.g., browser type, operating system, time of day, and web address of a referring site) obtained from third-party sources such as Google Analytics to better understand sources of visitors and website usage patterns, which can help us improve our service. We also collect the Internet address (IP address) of the computer or device from which you access your account. The IP address can help us detect potential unauthorized transactions.
“Cookies”
“Cookies” are data files that reside on your computer. Whenever you log into your account using your user id and password, we use a session ID cookie to recognize you as you move from one page to another on our website. Use of the session ID cookie ensures that you do not need to enter your password multiple times as you view different pages on the site. Session ID cookies expire and become ineffective after you logoff from the website.
We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally-identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use persistent cookies, which remain on your computer’s hard drive for an extended period of time, in order to recognize you as a remithome member when you return to our site from the same computer and browser. Persistent cookies allow us to display your email address automatically on our login form, which we do as a convenience to you.
Note that third-party websites such as paid search engine services may also set cookies on the remithome site for the purpose of tracking conversion of ads delivered by their search pages. These cookies do not collect or track personally-identifiable information and are only used for conversion tracking purposes.
We employ a software technology called clear gifs (also known as web beacons or web bugs), which helps us better manage content on our site by informing us which content is most effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally-identifiable information.
We also use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see the “Communications to Customers” section below.
We partner with a third-party ad network to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and web beacons to collect non-personally-identifiable information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.
Surveys and Contests
From time to time our site may request information from users via surveys or contests, participation in which is completely voluntary. You will have a choice whether or not to disclose information, which typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code), which will be used according to the process explained to you at the time of the contest or survey. Contact information may be shared with third-party sponsors in order to notify contest winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of our site. Users' personally-identifiable information is not shared with third parties unless we give prior notice and choice. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests, such intermediaries may not use your personally-identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
3. Information Use and Disclosure
Internal Uses
We use the information we collect about you in order to provide you with superior service, generally, and specifically to approve you for a membership account; to process your transactions; to provide customer service; to determine your eligibility for receiving offers for other products and services that may be of interest to you; and to improve our products and services. Only those employees who require it to fulfill such tasks will be given access to any customer's personally-identifiable information.
Disclosure to Your Recipients
Whenever you send money to a recipient using the remithome service, we will disclose to that recipient your name, your email address, and the amount of the transaction.
Disclosure to Third Parties Other Than Your Recipients
remithome will not rent or sell your personally-identifiable information to any third party without your express permission. We will not share your personally-identifiable information with any third party, except to your recipients as described above, and except as described within this privacy policy or with your express permission.
The third parties listed below, with whom we share information about you, are forbidden by law or by contract from using the information in any way that does not serve the purpose for which the information was shared. We share information with banks and other financial institutions in order to fulfill your requests to send money to your recipients or otherwise process your transactions. We also share information with companies that assist us to protect against fraud; for example, we share credit card numbers with services that can detect lost and stolen card numbers.
If you owe us money and we are unable to collect it directly from you in a prompt fashion, we may share information with credit bureaus, collection agencies or similar processing companies. We disclose some of the contact information we collect to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf. For example, we will sometimes disclose information to marketing firms in order to help us distribute and process questionnaires to our customers. These companies are bound by legal restrictions, as well as confidentiality agreements with us, that prohibit the use of the information except to market the specified remithome-related products or services, unless you have expressly agreed or given your prior permission otherwise.
When we in good faith believe it is appropriate, we disclose information in order to cooperate in investigations of illegal activity or violations of the Terms and Conditions of the remithome service. Furthermore, we disclose information in response to any legal process that we believe (correctly or not) to be valid, including any writ of attachment, adverse claim, garnishment, levy, tax, execution, restraining order, warrant, subpoena, government request or other legal process, as well as when it is necessary to protect our rights, or to protect your safety or the safety of others.
In the event that remithome is ever merged with or acquired by another company, the successor company would have access to the information retained by remithome, including customer account information. However, that successor company would continue to be bound by this Privacy Policy unless and until such time that the policy is amended according to Section 1, above. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
4. Communications to Customers
Communications to remithome Customers
We communicate with users regularly in the course of providing requested services. We use your email address to confirm the opening of your remithome membership account; to send you notice of payments that you send through the service; to distribute important information about changes to our products and services; and to send notices and other disclosures as required by law or the terms of our agreement with you. We use your telephone number in the event that there is a complaint or problem that we are resolving, or to investigate suspicious account activity. These types of communications are primarily for informational (and not promotional) purposes, and users generally cannot choose to be excluded from receiving them. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option of closing your account.
We also use your email address to send other information, including customer newsletters, promotional materials and customer surveys, related to our service. You have the option to receive promotional materials from third parties and you may state your preferences during the sign up process or anytime thereafter by logging into the website or contacting customer service. You may change your choice at any time once you have enrolled in the service. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at customerservice@remithome.com.
remithome participates in periodic corporate audits of our business operations and finances. As part of this procedure, and in order to confirm the accuracy of our records, our auditors may contact a sample group of our customers. The auditors shall be prohibited from using customer information in any way that is not needed for the completion of their auditing tasks.
Communications Based on Referrals
When you enroll in the remithome service, we will provide you with the opportunity to gain referral bonuses when your friends sign up for the service and complete the bonus requirements. You may provide us with the name and email address of your friends, and we will send to them a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. remithome stores this information for the sole purposes of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. Anyone referred by you may contact remithome to request the removal of this information from our database. Your name will be included in the email we send to your referred friends. You are responsible for using the referral program reasonably, and in accordance with the conditions we provide to you upon enrollment. Specifically, we strongly discourage any behavior leading to the dissemination of bulk emailing campaigns, known as “spam”.
remithome will employ high standards of security to store and use your information. Sensitive information, such as details about your bank, credit card and debit card accounts, is encrypted and stored on computers that are protected by physical, procedural and technological security measures, in accordance with United States federal regulations regarding your non-public personal information. Furthermore, whenever we collect sensitive personal information from you, we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to ensure that your information is protected while it is being transmitted to us. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We store and process your personal information on computers located in the United States.
You are responsible for protecting your account password, an important element of your account’s security. Whenever your user identification and password are entered into the login area of our website, remithome must assume that it is you, the Member, who is using the account. You are responsible for all transactions that take place using your Membership Account. Therefore, you should not provide your user identification and password to anybody. If you believe your password has been compromised, please contact us immediately (see the service Terms and Conditions for more information).
6. Accessing, Changing and Deleting Your Information
You can review or edit any personal information you provided us by logging in to the site and selecting the “My Profile” link on the “My remithome” page. You will also have the option to change your account preferences using the links provided on the “My remithome” page.
To request removal of your personal information from our site/database, contact us at customerservice@remithome.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us via email, by calling 1 (800) 919-0787, or by mail, using the contact information shown below.
remithome Corporation
2201 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
customerservice@remithome.com
