Your privacy is critically important to Onward Financing. (“Onward Financing” or “we” or “us”). We recognize and respect your privacy expectations and the requirements of applicable federal and state privacy laws. This Privacy Statement provides an explanation of how we collect, use and disclose personal information we receive from users of the OnwardFinancing.com website (“Site”) and services offered through the Site.
What Information Onward Financing Collects, and How It Is Used
When visiting our website, you are given the option of contacting us for further information. To respond to a request for further information, our website asks you to provide personally identifying information about yourself, including your name, physical and email addresses, and phone number. We will use this information to provide you with the information and services that you request.
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information from unauthorized access or intrusion. We limit access to your personal information to only those employees, contractors and agents who require access to such information to provide the information or services that you request. We will always comply with all laws and regulations that we are subject to regarding the collection, use and disclosure of individually identifiable information.
Onward Financing may collect non-personally-identifying information that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type; the name of the domain through which you access the internet; the date and time you access the Site; the internet address from which you linked to the Site; and the individual address of the computer you used to access the Site. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use out website. We use this information in the aggregate to administer our website, to help diagnose and troubleshoot potential technical issues, and to gather broad demographic information about usage of our website.
Onward Financing cooperates with government and law enforcement officials or private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe is necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of Onward Financing or a third-party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity.
In addition, we will disclose your personally identifiable information when you direct or give us permission, when we are required by law to do so, or when we suspect the occurrence of fraudulent or criminal activity. We also may disclose your personally identifiable information when otherwise permitted by applicable privacy laws such as, for example, when disclosure is needed to enforce our rights arising out of any agreement, transaction or relationship with you.
Changes to the Onward Financing Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Statement from time to time consistent with applicable privacy laws. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Statement, the home page of the Site, and other places that we deem appropriate, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
WIRE FRAUD AND E-MAIL ADVISORY Wire fraud, email hacking, and phishing attacks are on the rise. If you have a transaction with Onward Financing LLC and receive an email containing contradictory ‘Wire Transfer Instructions’ or ‘Sensitive Documents to be E-Mailed’, DO NOT RESPOND TO THE EMAIL. Instead, please call your loan officer immediately (using previously provided contact information) to verify wiring information prior to sending funds.
