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This Privacy Policy covers Check Fund Manager's web site and Check Fund Manager's business practices for handling personal identifying information provided to Check Fund Manager by its clients who have demonstrated a legitimate business purpose for requesting research on the companies and individuals they are investing with. Check Fund Manager is the vendor of choice for many leading financial institutions who invest in alternative investments and wish to avoid undue risk through proper due diligence.
Use of Information
All Check Fund Manager clients must agree to comply with the terms and conditions outlined in our business agreement. An important term of the agreement is the client's stipulation that our report is to be used for fraud prevention and not as a factor in determining an individual's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, or for any other purpose that would cause the report to be considered a Consumer Report under the FCRA. We operate as a research company and not as a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA). As such, we have unrestricted access to information not available to agencies that operate as a CRA conducting employment related research. Our clients also agree not to share our research outside of their organization.
Legal Compliance
The collection, compilation and distribution of information by Check Fund Manager is done in compliance with all applicable international, federal and state laws and regulations, including the FCRA in the United States and the GDPR in Europe.
Vendor Approval
Our facility, operating procedures, security, business practices and licenses have been inspected and/or approved by agents of the credit bureaus and other non-public information providers we utilize. We have been approved by our vendors to retrieve both credit reports and driving records.
Information Collection
When you browse Check Fund Manager's publicly accesible web pages, you do so anonymously. Check Fund Manager collects personally identifiable information from you only when you choose to provide this information to us. In some instances, Check Fund Manager may collect non-personal (e.g. aggregate or demographic) data through cookies. This information is used to better understand and improve the usability, performance and effectiveness of the Check Fund Manager web site, as is further described below under " Cookies and Tracking Technology."
The types of personal information we may collect about you include the following (should you decide to provide such information to Check Fund Manager or its clients): (a) contact and identifying information (e.g. name, address, email address, phone and fax numbers, employer(s), job title) in connection with your expression of interest in receiving information about, or your registration for, Check Fund Manager products, services or newsletters; and (b) any other personal information that you may voluntarily provide to us in an online form or via an email.
Access to certain Check Fund Manager web pages and online services is not available to the general public and requires a login code and password provided by Check Fund Manager. Those web pages, and the information downloadable to and from those pages, are made available only to clients of Check Fund Manager. On these web pages, Check Fund Manager collects only information that the client voluntarily shares with Check Fund Manager.
If you are using this web site to initiate a research account with Check Fund Manager, we collect the information requested on our business agreement, including contact information and financial information (such as credit card number or billing information). This information is used for internal purposes, such as account establishment, fulfillment of orders and customer service.
How We Use Your Personal Information
Check Fund Manager will use your personal information only in the way we specify when it is collected, unless you consent to a different use.
For example, Check Fund Manager may use personal information submitted in an account application to set up and maintain your account. Check Fund Manager also may use the personal information you provide to answer your questions and inquiries and to provide newsletters and other information (if any) that you have requested.
If Check Fund Manager's client has provided your personal information in connection with a research request, Check Fund Manager may use your personal information to perform the research. Check Fund Manager will not use your information to conduct research unless Check Fund Manager's client has signed a business agreement which requires compliance with the FCRA any other applicable law. In this agreement, Check Fund Manager's client certifies to Check Fund Manager that it has a legally permissible purpose for ordering the research, and, if required by applicable law or by Check Fund Manager's own policies, it has obtained your consent to conduct the research.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Check Fund Manager does not sell or rent personal information to third parties. Check Fund Manager will not disclose your personal information to a third party without your permission, except in connection with performing the research for Check Fund Manager's clients or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
Check Fund Manager also may in good faith disclose personal information and any other additional information available to Check Fund Manager for any of the following purposes: (a) investigate, prevent or take action regarding actual or suspected illegal activities or fraud; (b) situations involving personal threats to the physical safety of any person or violations of Check Fund Manager's terms of use; (c) respond to or defend agains subpoenas, court orders or other legal process; (d) establish or exercise Check Fund Manager's legal rights; or (e) otherwise comply with applicable law.
Check Fund Manager may acquire other businesses, and other businesses may acquire Check Fund Manager. If that occurs, the information Check Fund Manager collects may be one of the assets examined or transferred as part of that transaction. Check Fund Manager will not permit another business to examine the information Check Fund Manager has collected without a confidentiality agreement and only to the extent permitted by law. Check Fund Manager will not transfer the information it has collected unless the recipient agrees to provide privacy protections equal to or exceeding those established by this Privacy Policy.
Personal Information Disclosure - United States or Overseas
Personal information submitted to Check Fund Manager for research purposes may at times be transferred out of the United States in order to perform the research. All personal information will be transmitted and handled in a secure manner in accord with the terms of this Privacy Policy and in compliance with all applicable International, Federal and State laws and regulations, including FCRA in the United States and GDPR in Europe.
Security
Check Fund Manager is committed to protecting the personal information that Check Fund Manager receives about consumers. We utilize a combination of online and offline security technologies, procedures and organizational measures to help safeguard consumer information against loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.
We have installed security technologies to help preven unauthorized access to our systems. Strong password protection protocols are used on our computers, and employees are kept up to date on our security and privacy policies. The servers used to store consumer information are maintained in a secure environment with appropriate security measures. Clients of Check Fund Manager may request more detailed information on our security policies.
Cookies and Tracking Technology
Check Fund Manager's web site may use the standard technology called a "cookie" to collect information about how you use the web site.
A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your hard drive and used for record-keeping purposes. A cookie file can contain information such as the URL you came from, your computer's IP address (i.e. the Internet address of your computer), your browser type, the country, state and telephone area code where your server is located, the pages of our web site that you viewed during a visit, and any search terms that you entered on our web site. This information is used for internal purposes only, and we do not link your URL or IP address to any personal information unless you have logged into our web site with a Check Fund Manager account login and password. In addition, Check Fund Manager's web site does not allow other parties to collect personally identifiable information about an individual consumer's online activities over time and across different web sites when a consumer uses the Check Fund Manager web site.
If you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies, although it is possible that some areas of our web site will not function properly if you do so. In particular, you may be required to accept cookies in order to complete certain actions on Check Fund Managers' web site. Check Fund Manager's web site does not currently recognize "do not track" signals transmitted by web browsers.
Cookies are utilized by Check Fund Manager's web site to request on a monthly basis that our customers are in agreement with the terms of our business agreement and our privacy policies. Specifically the language presented to our clients includes the following: I agree that the reports I am about to read are the work product of Check Fund Manager and are strictly private, confidential and personal and should not be sold, shared, copied, emailed, distributed or reproduced in whole or in part, nor passed to the subject of this research nor to any third party except as permissible in accordance with the expressed terms and conditions specified in the "Business Agreement" that my company has executed.
Links
Check Fund Manager's web site may provide links to third-party web sites. Please be aware that those third-party web sites are outside of our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you have questions about how another web site uses your information, please consult that web site's privacy statement.
Your Ability to Review or Modify Personal Information, or Unsubscribe
Check Fund Manager strives to protect the quality and integrity of your personal information. If you have provided your personal information (such as zip code, phone, email or postal address) to Check Fund Manager while browsing Check Fund Manager's publicly accessibly web site, and wish to update such personal information (if any) that you have provided to us, please contact us.
If you wish to unsubscribe from any of our newsletters or other communications for which you have registered, please contact us.
If you are a Check Fund Manager client with a registered account, you may review and update your account information by directly contacting your Check Fund Manager Customer Service Representative or utilizing this contact form.
In the Event of a Data Breach
In the event of a data breach, Check Fund Manager will investigate the incident with the assistance of outside experts. We may contact and cooperate with federal law enforcement authorities. A NOTICE OF DATA BREACH will be issued to all affected parties. Such notice will not be delayed due to law enforcement activities. We may elect to enroll you in free credit monitoring so that you can take steps to protect against identity theft and fraud by monitoring your accounts for signs of suspicious activity.
Monitoring Your Accounts
You have rights under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) which governs the collection and use of
information about you by consumer reporting agencies. We recommend that you regularly review statements from your accounts and request copies of your credit report
from one or more of the national credit reporting companies. You may obtain a free copy of your credit report online
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Children Under Age 13
Check Fund Manager does not offer services to children under the age of 13 and this web site is not directed to children under the age of 13. Check Fund Manager does not knowingly collect information about children under the age of 13.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Check Fund Manager may revise this policy from time to time without notice. When there is a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised policy at this location. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how Check Fund Manager is protecting your information.