Privacy Policy

We offer innovative financing solutions that help contractors build a better business

Posted Date: February 23, 2022
Effective Date: March 1, 2022

This Privacy Policy describes how Renew Financial Group LLC and its subsidiaries (collectively “Renew Financial,” “we” or “us”) collect, use, disclose, transfer, store, retain or otherwise process your information when you apply or sign up for our products and services or apply for employment through our websites (https://renewfinancial.com/, “Website”), including through our consumer and contractor application portals (“Systems”).

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using our Systems, and continuing to use our products or services, you agree to this policy. If you do not agree with this policy, you should choose not to use Renew Financial’s Systems.

Be advised that we never intend to collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If we learn or are notified that we have collected this information from a child under the age of 13, we will promptly remove the information from our system.

CALIFORNIA: If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit https://renewfinancial.com/privacy-policy/california.

COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may collect and store various information about you, including information that you provide to us, information that we automatically collect through your use of our products and services or application for employment and information from publicly-available sources or third parties, as follows:

Information you provide us directly

We collect information directly from you in connection with our products and services. For example, we collect information about you when you check your eligibility for our products and services, apply for our products or services, discuss our products or services with us, register with our Systems, provide feedback to us or participate in our surveys, promotions and support and advocacy activities.

Examples of information we collect include, as applicable:

Your name
Your addresses
Your telephone numbers
Your email addresses
Your birthdate
Your social security number
Your employment information
Your employment history
Your income information
Your insurance information
Your payment information
Other details related to your financial situation
Information related to your home improvement project
Other U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission demographic information (in case of employment seekers only)

We may supplement this information with information we collect from publicly available sources, such as information from government records, public records, or the Internet.

Information we collect about you

Aggregate information
We collect aggregate information, which is data we collect about your use of our or third-party websites or services, from which personal information has been removed. We collect aggregate information to help us understand consumer trends, needs, interests, and preferences so we can improve our products and services.

Renew Financial also collects demographic information, which is anonymous, and may include:

Age
Date of Birth
Income
Geographic Area

Consumer reports
We collect information from your consumer reports in order to assess your eligibility for our products and services, make underwriting decisions, and prevent fraud. Examples of information we collect from your consumer reports include:

Information about your open and closed credit accounts
Information about credit inquiries
Information about your payment histories
Information regarding public records of bankruptcy, liens and judgments
Information about your credit score
Information about your employment
Information about your addresses and telephone numbers

Information related to your consumer reports is maintained by the consumer reporting agencies. If you find that there is an error or you want to dispute the information found in your consumer report, please contact the consumer reporting bureaus.

Experian http://www.experian.com/

Transunion https://dispute.transunion.com/

Equifax https://www.ai.equifax.com/

Website use

We collect information about your computer or mobile device to improve and evaluate your use of our Website, our products and services and hiring or other employment opportunities. Examples of information we collect include:

Your Internet protocol address
The kind of browser or computer you use
Your browser data and bookmarks
Number of links you click within the site
State or country from which you accessed the site
Date and time of your visit
Name of your Internet service provider
Web page you linked to our site from
Pages you viewed on the site

Cookies and automated technologies

When you interact with our Website, Systems, or open emails we send you, we obtain certain information using automated technologies, such as cookies, web server logs, web beacons and other technologies. A “cookie” is a text file that websites send to a visitor’s computer or other internet-connected device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. A “web beacon,” also known as an internet tag, pixel tag, or clear GIF, is a tiny graphic image that may be used in our websites or emails.

We use these automated technologies to collect information such as the types of service used, and number of users we receive daily. Our web servers automatically log information about your computer, but we do not use this information to identify you personally.

We set some of these automated technologies ourselves, but others are set by third parties who deliver services on our behalf. For example, we may use other companies’ web analytics services (described below), which use automated technologies to help us evaluate how you use our websites.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on the Website.

Third-party analytics services

We may use third-party analytics service providers to help us with our online services. The analytics providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and web server logs to help us analyze how you use our online services. We may disclose your site-use information (including IP address) to these analytics providers, and other service providers who use the information to help us figure out how you and others use our online services.

Contacting us by telephone

If you communicate with Renew Financial by telephone about our products or services, we may monitor or record the telephone call. We monitor and record telephone conversations for security, quality assurance and compliance purposes. By calling Renew Financial telephone numbers, you consent to having the telephone call monitored and recorded.

Information we get from others link that the user clicked on to visit the site.

We contract with third parties to place advertisements for our products and services and employment opportunities on websites that are not our own. We place these ads where we think they are likely to be most relevant. These advertisements on third-party websites allow us to track responses to our ads. We and our affiliates use this information to track the performance of our advertising and marketing campaigns by using tools like cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. We use these tools to collect and store information about your visits, page visits and duration, and the specific ad or

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We collect, use and share your information for our business purposes. For example, we use your information:

To determine your eligibility for the with products and services or employment you request;
To provide you with products or services or employment opportunities you request;
To make payments to you or receive payments from you;
To improve our products and services;
To facilitate your use of and operation of our products and services, Systems, and Website;
To communicate with you about Renew Financial sweepstakes, contests, promotions, surveys and advocacy opportunities;
To collect feedback about your experiences using our products or services;
To market our products and services and employment opportunities to you;
To implement collection activities;
To protect against fraud and other unlawful conduct;
To conduct comply with or enforce with applicable law;
To resolve your disputes; and
Any other reason we may tell you about from time to time.

SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION

We do not sell or rent your personal information to anyone. Renew Financial only shares your personal information with unaffiliated third parties as permitted or required by law. When we share your personal information with service providers who perform functions on our behalf, we require the security and confidentiality of your information, as well as limiting their use of the information to reasonably and necessarily to carry out their work with us and comply with applicable laws and regulations. Third parties we share your information with may include, but are not limited to:

- Parties involved in the financing process (e.g. your county tax collector, program sponsor, or your registered home improvement contractor)
- Parties involved in our career recruitment process (e.g. companies that provide recruiting and applicant management software)
- Parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., consumer reporting agencies, companies that provide property valuation services, distribute emails, process payments)
- Parties who deliver services on our behalf (e.g., companies that provide third-party analytics, online tracking and interest-based advertising)
- Marketing and advertising partners (e.g., companies that we partner with the advertise and market our products and services)
- In connection with a sweepstakes, contest, or promotion, home improvement contractors registered with us and authorized to introduce our products and services with you
- In connection with a survey or act of support or advocacy, governmental authorities with whom we partner with to make our products and services available
- With other governmental entities as authorized by law (e.g., counties, municipalities, joint power authorities, and state agencies involved in our products and services)
- As required by law (e.g., in response to federal or state subpoenas, inquiries from regulatory bodies or law enforcement, or other processes of law)
- Our auditors
- In connection corporate transactions or changes (e.g., as part of, or during negotiations of, a merger, consolidation, sale of our assets, as well as equity financing, acquisition, strategic alliance or in any other situation where personal information may be transferred as one of the business assets of Renew Financial)
- Parties you have specifically authorized (e.g., your attorneys, agents, and designated representatives)

PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION

We take the privacy and security of your personal information seriously. We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to reasonably protect your information’s security, confidentiality and integrity.

Whenever we save your personal information, it is stored on servers and in facilities that only selected Renew Financial personnel and our contractors with a business “need to know” may access. We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology supporting up to 128-bit encryption to prevent unauthorizedd parties from viewing personal information transmitted to or from our Systems. Information you submit to us by email is not secure, so please do not send sensitive information in any email to Renew Financial.

RETENTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

We keep your information as long as reasonably necessary to provide you the products or services you have requested or as long as reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law.

YOUR CHOICES REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION

We will provide you with the means to access, change, or correct your personal information. If you need to change information in your profile, please contact us at privacy@renewfinanical.com.

You may opt out of receiving promotional messages from Renew Financial by following the instructions in those messages or by informing the call that you would not like to receive future promotional calls. You may also submit your request to the contact information provided below. If you decide to opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as messages about the maintenance of your product or service.

You may opt out of cookies and automated technologies and third-party web analytics services as described above.

If you are a Renew Financial PACE customer, please also refer to the privacy notice provided with your financing documents for additional information and options.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a revised version and updating the “Effective Date” above. The revised version will be effective on the “Effective Date” listed. We will provide you with reasonable prior notice of material changes in how we use your information. If you continue to use our Website, products and services or apply for employment with Renew Financial, you consent to any amendment of this policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect.

CONTACTING US

You can contact our privacy team with any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy at:

Renew Financial Group LLC

555 12th St, Suite 1650, Oakland, CA 94607

privacy@renewfinancial.com

(844) 736-3934

If you believe our Privacy Policy or applicable laws relating to the protection of your personal information have not been respected, you may file a complaint with our privacy team listed above. Please provide as many details as possible, without disclosing any private or sensitive information. We will respond to let you know when you can expect a further response.