Last updated 01/03/2023

Our Privacy Policy

Independence Capital Recovery, LLC (the “Company”), headquartered in Williamsville, NY, U.S.A., provides receivables collection services, delivering unique and reliable solutions for creditors, lenders, financial institutions, and partners.

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or our practices, please contact us as follows:

MAIL:
Independence Capital Recovery, LLC
6225 Sheridan Drive, #203
Williamsville, NY 14221

PHONE (TOLL FREE):
(833) 637-0166

EMAIL:
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Who and What Is Covered by This Privacy Policy?

This Privacy Policy describes the Company’s policies and practices regarding its collection and use of your personal data, and sets forth your privacy rights. This Privacy Policy applies both to the Company’s online information gathering and dissemination practices for this website (the “Site”), and information collected or received offline, whether directly from you or from other sources. If you have arrived at this Privacy Policy by clicking through a link on our Site, or by searching for or clicking on a link directing you to any page of our Site, then this Privacy Policy applies to you. When you use the Site, you consent to the use of your information in the manner specified in this Privacy Policy. This policy may change periodically, as we undertake new personal data practices or adopt new privacy policies, so please check back from time to time. By your continued use of the Site, you consent to the terms of the revised policy. Use of our Site is strictly limited to persons who are of legal age in the jurisdictions in which they reside. You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to use our Site. If you are not at least 18 years of age, please do not use or provide any information through this Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any website owned and/or operated by or on behalf of any other entity, even if our Site posts a link to those other websites and you click through from our Site. To the extent that you visit and/or disclose information through other sites, you are subject to the privacy policies and practices of those sites.

What Personal Information Does The Company Collect, From Where, And Why?

The following is a description of: (i) the categories of personal information the Company may have collected in the preceding 12 months; (ii) the sources from which we may have collected it; and (iii) the business purposes for which we may have collected it. Information We Do NOT Knowingly Collect. We do not knowingly solicit, collect, or receive information from or about minors under the age of 16. Information

You Provide Directly.

You may choose to voluntarily submit or disclose Personal Information to us (e.g., name, address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, information through the Site’s “feedback” form, online login and password, etc.). That information – whether submitted or disclosed to us through the Site, by mail, e-mail, telephone, or fax, and whether the purpose for your submission is to inquire about or discuss your account or our services – is governed by this Privacy Policy. If you initiate contact or correspond with us orally or in writing, we may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence and we reserve the right to use your contact information, and any other information that you provide to us in your message, to respond thereto, optimize customer service, or attempt to resolve your request or inquiry. Thus, we may use the information you provide to further correspond with you or to manage your account. If you wish to change or correct any information voluntarily submitted to us, please do so by contacting us in the manner described above.

Information From Third Parties Acting On Your Behalf.

The Company may receive and maintain Personal Information (e.g., name, address, telephone number, email address, date of birth, social security number, account numbers, financial information, court records, etc.) contained in communications with someone other than you, such as your spouse, power of attorney, attorney, or other authorized representative, in connection with the collection of any debt.

Information We Receive From Sellers.

We receive and maintain Personal Information contained in the accounts receivable within the portfolios that we purchase from sellers, including credit issuers, creditors, and accounts receivable portfolio owners. This information may include a name, contact information, date of birth, social security number, information contained on credit applications, the original creditor’s account number, employment information, court records, the balance of the account at the time of sale, and the last date a payment was received on an account, etc. We use this information in connection with the management and recovery of accounts receivable, and to analyze potential portfolio purchases. Personal Information that we receive from sellers, as part of due diligence prior to a sale, is shared with us confidentially for the purpose of analyzing a potential purchase and is subject to a nondisclosure agreement or other confidentiality obligation that prohibits us or our representatives from further disclosing or using the information for any other purpose. Information We Receive From Our Service Providers. The Company may receive and maintain

Personal Information from our Service Providers.

Service Providers are persons or entities that we contract with to provide a material service in connection with the management and recovery of accounts. This may include, for example, location service providers, attorneys, collections agencies, letter vendors, and data service providers that scrub information. Information that we typically may receive includes updated contact information (address, phone number, email), bankruptcy activity, military status, death or probate status, credit information, court records, payment records, financial information, and correspondence or call recordings with consumers.

Information Automatically Collected By Use Of This Site.

You may use this Site without disclosing to us any personally identifiable information. We do not automatically collect any personally identifiable information from you (e.g., name, address, telephone number, email address) when you use the Site. Like most websites, however, the Site automatically collects certain non-personally identifiable information during a user’s visit. That information may include the internet protocol (IP) address of your device, the location where the device is accessing the internet, browser type, operating system and other information about the usage of the Site, including a history of pages viewed. We use this information to improve the Site’s design, estimate user volume and usage patterns, speed up searches, and improve the user experience by customizing options and recognizing return users. We may also use this information to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website, analyze trends, track visitor movements, and gather broad demographic information that assists us in identifying visitor preferences. More specifically: (i) IP Address Each time a user visits the Site, we may automatically collect an internet protocol (IP) address and the web page from which the user was directed to the Site. In order to administer and optimize the Site and to diagnose and resolve potential issues or security threats to our Site or to the Company, we may use an IP address to help identify users and to gather broad demographic information about them. (ii) Cookies, Pixel Tags, And Web Beacons Cookies (browser or flash) are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to a user’s device through the web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize the browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to optimize Site functionality and improve a user’s experience while navigating through the Site. Most or all browsers permit you to disable or reject cookies. You can do this by adjusting your preferences in the browser. You can also click on the “Cookies Settings” banner at the bottom of the Site and adjust Cookie Settings to accept or reject certain cookies used by our Site. Our Site may incorporate “pixel tags,” “web beacons,” or similar tracking technologies (collectively, “pixel tags”) that track the actions of Site users. Pixel tags are used to collect information, such as the internet service provider, IP address, the type of browser software and operating system being used, the date and time the Site is accessed, the website address, if any, from which a user linked directly to the Site and/or the website address, if any, to which the user travels from the Site and other similar traffic-related information. We may aggregate information collected from Site visits by various users to help us improve the Site and the services that we provide through the Site. (iii) Do Not Track Our Site tracks when visitors enter through a marketing landing page. The Site also keeps a record of third-party websites accessed when a user is on our Site and clicks on a hyperlink. But we do not track users to subsequent sites and do not serve targeted advertising to them. (iv) Analytics Information Web servers for the Site may gather anonymous navigational information about where visitors go on our Site and information about the technical efficiencies of our Site and services. Anonymous information does not directly or indirectly identify, and cannot reasonably be used to identify, a particular individual. Examples of anonymous information may include certain information about the internet browser, domain type, service provider and IP address information collected through tracking technologies and aggregated or de-identified data. We use anonymous analytics information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Site.

What Personal Information Do We Share With Others?
We Do Not Sell Personal Information to Third Parties for their Own Use.

The Company does not sell to third-parties for their own use any of your Personal Information. Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we also do not disclose to third-parties information about your visits to our Site. Accordingly, there have been no sales of non-public Personal Information to Third-Parties for their own use or further disclosure in the past twelve (12) months. The Company does not knowingly collect and does not, and will not, sell non-public Personal Information of minors under 16 years of age without first obtaining affirmative authorization. Sharing Information With Our Service Providers. We may share your Personal Information with other persons or entities that we contract with to provide a material service, referred to as Service Providers. Our Service Providers include collection service providers, collection agencies, law firms, bankruptcy and probate providers, location service providers, data service or security providers, and technological support companies. In connection with providing these business services to the Company, one or more of our Service Providers may have access to identifying information, such as your name, contact information, date of birth, social security number, and account information. We restrict our Service Providers from accessing or using your Personal Information for any purpose other than as reasonably necessary to perform a business purpose that we authorize by contract, and your Personal Information will not be further used by our Service Providers or further disclosed by them to any Third Party. Sharing Personal Information At Your Direction. We may share your Personal Information with third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us in advance to intentionally disclose to or allow to use your Personal Information in connection with the services that we provide. Sale Of Our Company Or Company Assets. In the event of a sale, assignment, liquidation, or transfer of our assets or of any portion of our business, we reserve the right to transfer any and all information that we collect to unaffiliated third-parties in connection with that event. Monitoring, Law Enforcement And Legal Requests. The Company has no obligation to monitor the Site or the use of the Site or to retain the content of any user session. However, we reserve the right, at all times, to monitor, review, retain and/or disclose any information, as necessary, to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request or to cooperate with law enforcement and other authorities in investigating a claim of illegal activity. We may use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to protect the Site, our service, clients, potential clients or others. Our Internal Use And Research We reserve the full and unrestricted right to use and disclose de-identified information; anonymized information; aggregated information or publicly available information that has not been combined with nonpublic Personal Information for purposes including, but not limited to, our own internal use, data mining, analytics, and research.

How Do We Protect Your Personal Information?

The Company takes reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect against the unauthorized disclosure of Personal Information, and Personal Information is disposed of properly and securely utilizing industry standards. Our data security policies and practices are periodically reviewed and modified as necessary, and subject to third party assessments annually. ** THE INFORMATION BELOW APPLIES TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ** Your Rights Under The California Consumer Privacy Act. The CCPA And Personal Information. The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), effective January 1, 2020, grants privacy rights to California consumers in connection with their Personal Information. Personal Information or “PI” is “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.” PI, as defined in the CCPA, does not include personal information that is already subject to sector-specific privacy laws, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, a federal law that imposes requirements on financial institutions to protect consumer data. A consumer has rights regarding his/her PI, including: A right to know what PI is collected, used, shared or sold by the business; A right to access PI collected and retained by the business; A right to require businesses and, by extension, their service providers, to delete PI, subject to certain exceptions; A right to opt-out of the business’ sale of PI; and A right to non-discrimination in terms of pricing or service for choosing to exercise a privacy right under the CCPA. Consumer Right To A Notice of Collection. A business subject to the CCPA must, at or before the point of collection of PI, inform a consumer as to the categories to be collected and the purposes for which it shall be used. A service provider that receives or collects PI on behalf of, or at the direction of, a covered business may not be required to provide a notice of collection to the consumer. Consumer Right To Know. A covered business must disclose in its privacy policy the PI it has collected, sold, or disclosed for a business purpose in the past 12 months. Collection: A business must disclose the following in response to a verifiable request: The categories of PI the business has collected about the consumer; The categories of sources from which that PI was collected; The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling PI; The categories of third parties with which the business shares PI; and The specific pieces of PI the business has collected about the consumer making the request; Sale: A business that sells PI or discloses it for a business purpose must disclose, in response to a verifiable request, the following: The categories of PI collected about the individual consumer The categories of PI the business sold about the individual consumer, and the categories of third parties to which it was sold. Or, if the business has not sold any of the consumer’s PI, it must state that fact. The categories of PI the business has disclosed about the individual consumer for a business purpose. Or, if the business has not disclosed the consumer’s PI for a business purpose, it must state that fact.

Consumer Right To Delete.

A California consumer has the right to request that a covered business delete his/her PI, subject to certain exceptions. Once a request is reasonably verified by the covered business, the PI requested to be deleted must be removed from the records held by that business. The business must also direct its Service Providers with whom the information was shared to also delete the information, unless it is subject to an exception. A request to delete may be denied if retaining the information is necessary to: Complete the transaction for which it collected the PI, provide a good or service requested by the consumer, take action reasonably anticipated within the context of the ongoing business relationship with the consumer, or otherwise perform a contract with the consumer. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.). Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on the consumer’s relationship with the business. Comply with a legal obligation. Make other internal and lawful uses of the information that are compatible with the context in which the consumer provided it. Consumer Right To Non-Discrimination. A business must not discriminate against a consumer who exercises CCPA rights. A business may charge different prices or provide a different quality of goods or services, but only if the difference is reasonably related to the value provided to the consumer by the consumer’s data. A business may offer financial incentives to a consumer for the collection, sale, or deletion of personal information on a prior, opt-in consent basis.

Consumer Right To Opt-Out.

A business that sells PI to third parties must provide notice to consumers, clearly inform them of the right to opt out of the sale, and provide a “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link on its website that enables the consumer to opt out of future sales. A business is prohibited from selling the PI of a consumer the business knows is less than 16 years of age, unless (for a child between 13 and 16 years of age) the child has affirmatively authorized the sale or (for a child less than 13 years of age) the child’s parent or guardian has affirmatively authorized the sale. Privacy Policy Requirements. A business must include the following in its privacy policy, to be updated every 12 months: A description of consumer CCPA rights, including the right to opt out of the sale of PI and a separate link to a “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” internet webpage if the business sells PI; The method(s) by which a CCPA request can be submitted; and A list of the categories of PI the business has collected, sold, or disclosed for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months. VII.

How Do I Exercise My CCPA Rights?

Instructions For Submitting A CCPA Consumer Rights Request To Us If you are a California resident and wish to submit a CCPA Request to the Company, you may use one of the following methods: Fill out a Form on our Website: https://independencecapitalrecovery.com/privacy Call us, Toll-Free, at: (833) 637-0166 Please be advised that we are only required to respond to your request to know or access twice in any 12-month period.

Last Updated: 01/03/2023