Online Privacy Policy

Last Updated: December 22, 2023

Credit Defender, LLC and its subsidiaries, (hereinafter referred to as ‘Credit Defender’ “we” or “us”) is owner and operator of http://www.Credit-Defender.com Website (“Site”) and is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Please read the following Online Privacy Policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many products and offerings. By using this Site, you consent to this Online Privacy Policy, including your consent to our use and disclosure of information about you in the manner described herein.

Please note that we may update this policy from time to time as our information practices are modified or changed. If we make changes to the Privacy Notice, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Policy. Any changes to this Notice will become effective when we post the revised Policy on the Site. Your use of the Site following these changes means that you accept the revised Policy.

This policy will let you know:

  1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you;

  2. What cookies are and how does Credit Defender use them;

  3. How your information is used;

  4. How your information is being collected;

  5. What information you are consenting to be shared, disclosed or sold;

  6. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information;

  7. How to access, update or delete your information;

  8. How Credit Defender treats your personal and financial related information;

  9. The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information;

  10. How Credit Defender protects children’s privacy;

  11. How California Consumer’s Access An Important Privacy Notice; and

  12. What else you should know about your online privacy?

 

1. What personally identifiable information does the Credit Defender Website collect from me?

Credit Defender Website collects information in several ways. Some personal information is gathered when you register on the website. During the registration process, the Credit Defender Website requires that you create a username and password. At that time you may also be asked for demographic information about yourself, such as your birth date, gender, and mailing address. Other than your mailing address and birth date as any other information required to provide the specific service you requested, you are not required to provide any other information, but the more information you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the better we are able to customize your experience.

We may ask you for personal information at other times also, including (but not limited to) when you utilize a promotion sponsored by Credit Defender and/or one of our affiliates; when you make a purchase from the Credit Defender Website; and if you report a problem with our products and/or services. Such information may include your e-mail and home address as well as Social Security number and other personal identifiers.

If you make contact with Credit Defender, we may keep a record of that correspondence. Credit Defender may occasionally ask users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes.

We may also collect information about you through and or from third parties or service providers. This information is used to create a specific profile and help us determine how we can best assist you or determine what products best suit your needs.

2. What cookies are and how does Credit Defender use them

As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, Credit Defender Website uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A ‘cookie’ is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. All pages comprising the Credit Defender Website where you are prompted to log in or that are customizable require that you accept cookies.

Generally, we use cookies to:

  • Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service. This cookie is set when you register or ‘Sign In’ and is modified when you ‘Sign Out’ of our services.

  • Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing the Credit Defender Website is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.

  • To process the items in your shopping basket. This information collected by cookies is sometimes called ‘clickstream’ or ‘click trail’ and may also describe which pages you have seen in each merchant’s store. Credit Defender Website also collects IP addresses and Internet Browser Information for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers.

 

3. How does the Credit Defender use my information?

Credit Defender Website’s primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience. This includes personalization services, interactive communications as well as display of advertisements for valuable products and services. By knowing a little about you, Credit Defender is able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content, and better service to you.

We may use your information to:

  • Send you requested product or service information

  • Provide you with a requested service

  • Respond to customer service requests

  • Send you marketing communications or advertisements

  • Determine what products or serves may best suit your needs

  • Respond to your questions and concerns

  • Personalize your web or service experience

  • Compliance. We may use Information we collect to detect, investigate, and prevent activities on our Sites that may violate our terms of use, could be fraudulent, violate copyright, or other rules or that may be otherwise illegal, to comply with legal requirements, and to protect our rights and the rights and safety of our users and others.

  • Research: We may do research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration and from our server log files. We do this to better understand and serve our users. This research is compiled and analyzed on an anonymous, aggregated basis.

 

4. How your information is being collected?

We collect information directly from you when you use this Site or sign up for our products or services. We also collect information indirectly from you based on insights gathered from your use of our Site and services.

We may also collect information made available through third-party platforms and apps (such as online social media platforms), through online databases or directories, or that is otherwise legitimately obtained. This information may be governed by the privacy notice(s) provided by the third party at the time of collection. We purchase marketing data about our customers from third parties and combine it with the personally identifiable information customers provide us, to offer advertising and products from our company or one of our subsidiary companies, in which we think our customers will be interested.

When you are using this Site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with Credit Defender, LLC and its subsidiaries.

5. No consent to information being shared, disclosed or sold.

We will not sell your information to any third parties. By providing your personal information on this Site under this Privacy Policy, you are not granting us a right to buy, sell or lease your personal information that has been supplied to us on this Website. Saint Services may share your personal information with its subsidiaries. Credit Defender may also share personally identifiable information with companies who are service providers of Credit Defender but these companies are under a strict confidentiality agreement not to disclose any of your personally identifiable information to outside parties unless it is necessary to provide the services you requested or they are they are given permission to do so by you. The following describes some of the other ways that your information may be disclosed.

  • Service Provider: A Service Provider is a Company utilized by Credit Defender to assist Credit Defender in providing you the service you have specifically requested Credit Defender provide you. A Direct Business Affiliate is under a strict confidentiality agreement not to disclose any of your personally identifiable information to outside parties unless it is necessary to provide the services you requested or they are given permission to do so by you.

  • Subsidiaries: Saint Services may disclose your personal information to its subsidiaries, as specifically described to you when the data is collected. Unless you direct the company otherwise, Credit defender may share your personal information with SW, LLC and Credit Defender, LLC.

  • Business Partners & Sponsors: Credit Defender may disclose or share your personal information to business partners or sponsors, as specifically described to you when the data is collected or prior to transferring the data. Some or all data collected during a Credit Defender promotion may be shared with a sponsor. Unless you direct the company otherwise, Credit Defender may share your personal information with National Debt Relief, Bills.com, or any other business (including lenders). This sharing of information with our business partners will allow them to market products to you that they believe you will be interested in.

  • Third Party Data and Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality agreements, Credit Defender may match user information with third party data. Also, Credit Defender may disclose aggregated user statistics (for example, ‘15% of our users are located in New York’) in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

  • Other: Credit Defender may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the Credit Defender Website’s Terms and Conditions of Use or may be violating the Credit Defender Agreement or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Credit Defender rights or property, other Credit Defender Website users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Credit Defender may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.

 

6. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information?

By providing personal information on or through the Site, or in connection with services provided by the Company thereon or in connection therewith, you agree that:

  • All the information you have provided is true and correct to the best of your knowledge;

  • You are allowing Saint Services and any subsidiaries of Saint Services specifically including Credit Defender to contact you about products or services.

 

DISCLAIMER REGARDING SHARING:

Credit Defender, LLC and its subsidiaries are committed to providing you outstanding services and ensuring the your needs are met. As indicated above, we will not share your personal information and non-personal information with third parties for the purpose of allowing them to provide information about products and services that may be of interest to you or for any other reason.

We are not attorneys and we don’t provide legal advice. As always, we encourage you to do your homework and check out individuals and companies that have contacted you based on the consent you have provided to Credit Defender. We are not responsible and do not guarantee any outcomes from these providers.

7. How to update, correct, or delete my personally identifiable information?

You may edit your Credit Defender Website Account Information at any time by using your Credit Defender Website User ID and password. If you have forgotten your password, please click here to request a new password. For all other problems signing in to the Site, please click here to email customer service.

If you are participating in a Credit Defender promotion and you wish to update your email address on the promotions mailing list or to quit a promotion and cease receiving promotion related email, please contact info@credit-defender.com.

8. How does the Credit Defender Website protect my personal and financial-related information?

Keeping your personal and financial information private is vitally important to us.

Knowing that you use certain services or features may help us to offer you better and more relevant content and advertisements. But as with all personally identifiable information, we do not make this available to any third parties. Any user statistics that we may provide to non-direct affiliates regarding financial product or service usage on the Credit Defender Website are provided in the aggregate only and do not include any personally identifiable information about any individual user.

Please note that there are several places on the Site where you can transmit credit card information in order to complete a purchase transaction or for verification purposes. Any time we ask for a credit card number we transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format. We use industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.

9. What security precautions are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?

Your Credit Defender Website Account Information is password protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. You may edit your Credit Defender Website Account Information by using your Credit Defender Website User ID and password.

We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. The Credit Defender Website and Credit Defender will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your Credit Defender Website account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.

When you give the Credit Defender Website personal information, that information may be sent electronically to servers outside of the country where you originally entered the information, such as to the United States or other countries. In addition, that information may be used, stored and processed outside of the country where you entered that information. Whenever the Credit Defender Website handles personal information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, the Credit Defender Website takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the relevant Terms and Conditions of Use and this Privacy Policy.

Unfortunately, no communication — by internet, phone, mail or any other means — can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, the Credit Defender Website and Credit Defender cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

10. What about children’s privacy?

Naturally, the safety of children is very important to us. Credit Defender does not offer products and services for purchase to children under the age of 18, and does not share personal information about users or their children under the age of 18 with third parties. In addition, Credit Defender Website and Credit Defender will not send any direct email or mail offers to users who indicate they are under the age of 18.
 

11. How California Consumer’s Access an Important Privacy Notice?

This is notice to California Residents. If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights concerning Credit Defender’s collection and use of your personal information. After reading this Online Privacy Policy, please click here to visit Credit Defender’s California Privacy Notice to learn more about your California Privacy Rights.

12. What else should I know about my privacy?

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online, for example on message boards, through email, or in chat areas that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you’re online.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. The provisions contained in this privacy statement supersede all previous notices or policies regarding our privacy practices with respect to this Website. Any and all changes will be made here, to this Privacy Policy.

We encourage you to check our Website frequently to see the current privacy policy to be informed of how we are committed to protecting your information and providing you with improved content on our Website in order to enhance your online experience. Upon any material changes to the policy statement, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

 

Privacy Questions

If you have any questions or concerns about Credit Defender, LLC and its subsidiaries Privacy Policy or data processing, please contact us.

Credit Defender, LLC
1315 37th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11103

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 718-210-5577 or via email at info@credit-defender.com

 

PLEASE PRINT AND RETAIN A COPY OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOR YOUR RECORDS.