Mobile Devices

If you use a mobile device to access pages of this site optimized for mobile-viewing, opt in to receive SMS (text messages) from the Company (as/when available), or use a mobile application, the following additional terms and conditions ("Mobile Terms") also apply to you. Your access to this site via your mobile device or use of a mobile application confirms your agreement to these Mobile Terms, as well as the rest of the Terms of Use.

By providing your cell phone number or confirming or updating your contact information using this site, you agree to receive SMS text messages on your mobile device. By agreeing to receive SMS messages from the Company, you certify that you are over 18 years of age and (a) you are the mobile account holder or (b) you have the account holder's permission to enroll the designated mobile phone number and can incur any mobile message or data charges. You agree that you are solely responsible for all message and data charges that apply to use of your mobile device to access this site or use of a mobile application. Number of messages will vary by account. All such charges are billed by and payable to your mobile service provider. Please contact your participating mobile service provider for pricing plans, participation status and details. You understand that wireless through Wi-Fi or a participating mobile service provider may not be available in all areas at all times and may be affected by product, software, coverage or other service changes made by your mobile service provider or otherwise. You also understand that your agreement to these terms is not a condition of the Company’s willingness to provide services to you. To the extent permitted by applicable law, and without limiting any other rights the Company may have, you expressly consent and authorize the Company to communicate with you for any reason, including collection of amounts owed by you, using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice at the telephone number or numbers you have provided to the Company or the Company’s client or any person acting on behalf of or representing the Company’s client and also any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which you are charged for the call. In addition, you further expressly consent and authorize the Company to communicate with you at any phone number or email address or other unique electronic identifier or mode that you provided to the Company or the Company’s client or any person acting on behalf of or representing the Company’s client at any time, or using any phone number or email address or other unique electronic identifier or mode that the Company finds or obtains on its own which is not provided by you. The Company may communicate with you using any current or future means of communication, including, but not limited to, automated telephone dialing systems, artificial or pre-recorded voices, SMS text messages, other forms of electronic messages, electronic mail directed to my internet domain address, electronic mail directed at a mobile telephone service, cellular telephone services, internet or world wide web addresses including social and business networking internet sites, or electronic messages or mail otherwise directed to me through any medium. You authorize any and all of the communication methods described in this paragraph even if you will incur a fee or a cost to receive such communications. You further promise to immediately notify the Company if any telephone number or email address or other unique electronic identifier or mode that you provided to the Company or the Company’s client or any person acting on behalf of or representing the Company’s client changes or is no longer used by me. You agree that the consent and authorizations provided herein may be revoked only in writing addressed to the Company. Finally, You understand that the Company has relied upon your statements contained herein and on your promise to fulfill the obligations contained herein.

Regarding emails

You may also instruct the Company to stop sending you emails or other information by contacting the Company at 800-888-7243. The Company may, however, continue to use your Personal Information to contact you to service your account or as otherwise authorized by law. Please note that if you use more than one name or e-mail address when communicating with the Company or using this site, you may continue to receive communications from the Company to any name and/or email address not specified in your opt-out request. If you initiate contact or correspond with us, we may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, whether oral or written, 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 accept payment on or otherwise 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 below.

Please note that your communications with us are with a debt collector, in an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Calls may be monitored or recorded.

C. 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.

D. Information We Receive From Clients And Sellers.

We receive and maintain Personal Information contained in the accounts receivable within the portfolios that we service, including credit issuers, creditors, and accounts receivable portfolio owners. This information may include a name, 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 to seek the collection and recovery of accounts receivable, to fulfill responsibilities to our clients.

E. 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 recovery of accounts. This may include, for example, location service providers, attorneys, letter vendors, and data service providers that scrub information. Information that we typically may receive includes residential address, phone numbers, bankruptcy activity, military status, death or probate status, credit information, court records, payment records, and correspondence or call recordings with consumers.

F. Information Automatically Collected By Use Of This Site

Our Site automatically collects certain information during a user's visit to the Site. The information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses 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 and Pixel Tags

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.

Our Site may incorporate "pixel tags" 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.

III. What Personal Information Do We Share With Others?

A. 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.

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.

B. Sharing Personal Information With Clients Pursuant To Contracts Through Which We Act As A Service Provider.

We may provide your Personal Information to our clients, typically credit issuers or accounts receivable portfolio owners, that engage us as a Service Provider, through a written contract, for the purpose of managing accounts receivable portfolios or otherwise fulfilling our contractual responsibilities. The types of Personal Information we may share with our clients include updated contact information, financial, bank account or payment information, and performance metrics.

C. Sharing Information With Our Affiliates And Service Providers.

We may share your Personal Information with our affiliates and 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 such as law firms, location service providers, data service or security providers, and technical 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, address, or social security number. 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 in the contract, and your Personal Information will not be further used by our Service Providers or disclosed to any Third Party.

D. 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.

E. 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.

F. 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.

IV. 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.

V. California Residents - Your Rights Under The California Consumer Privacy Act.

A. 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."

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.

B. 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.

C. 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.

D. 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:

1. 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.
2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
4. Exercise free speech ensures the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.).
6. 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.
7. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on the consumer's relationship with the business.
8. Comply with a legal obligation.
9. Make other internal and lawful uses of the information that are compatible with the context in which the consumer provided it.

E. 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.

F. 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.

VI. How Do I Exercise My CCPA Rights?

A. Instructions For Submitting A CCPA Consumer Rights Request To Us

If you are a California resident and wish to submit a CCPA Request to Berlin-Wheeler, Inc, you may use one of the following methods: