Privacy Policy

We understand the importance of privacy to our customers and visitors to our Website. For many years, our policy has been to treat what we learn about our customers as confidential. For example, we will not give or sell confidential or personal information about our customer to any third party not affiliated with their transaction, except as required by law or as necessary to provide Fintech services to the customer.

As we collect and use information about visitors to our websites, we may contract with vendors to assist us in processing that information. These vendors are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are restricted from using the information for any purpose other than helping to provide Fintech services to our customers.

Some of the information collected by Fintech is personal data or data which relates to an identifiable person. Examples of personal data are names, addresses, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers. We never sell to third parties information that could be used to specifically identify an individual customer or group of customers. Anonymized data, with all names, addresses and other personally identifiable information removed, is sometimes shared with third parties. Finally, we do provide personal data to government agencies as required by law or regulation.

In addition to the uses of the information described in the paragraphs above, we collect telephone numbers and e-mail addresses in the event that we have to contact designated parties to resolve a question or provide information.

Links to Other Sites
Fintech’s websites provides links to external sites as a convenience to the user. The inclusion of any link does not imply Fintech’s endorsement of the external site company, its website, or the products and services it promotes and sells. Fintech is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Security and Integrity of Information
We treat visitor data as data that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ information security techniques to appropriately protect confidential information from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. Access to customer information is limited to those employees who have a legitimate business need for that information.

Fintech Internet sites are currently located in the United States. Fintech Internet sites, and their supporting systems, employ generally accepted information security techniques such as firewalls, access control procedures and cryptography to protect confidential information from unauthorized access.

Retention of Customer Information
We retain information about customers as necessary for business purposes and as required by government regulation.

• Fintech’s Websites at www.fintech.net
  The following indented paragraphs describe our commitment to the protection of personal information as it applies to Fintech’s websites.
  
  What Information We Collect and How We Will Use It
  Users can visit most areas of the Fintech’s websites without revealing who they are or providing any information about themselves. However, some of our interactive services require that users identify themselves in order to enable the interactive function. We may ask users to provide some personal information in these situations. 

• Web Surveys
  From time to time, we include survey forms on our Website asking users for contact and demographic information (such as postal code, age or size of company). We use the responses from the surveys to better understand our customer's needs and to create websites that respond to their interests. Customers may opt-out of participating in follow-up surveys. Fintech will not disclose survey response information to companies or individuals outside Fintech.

• Consent to Receive Promotional Material
  Fintech allows users to opt out of receiving promotional material from us. The 'opt-out' feature applies to promotional material sent to our customers as a result of their participation in Fintech’s programs and services. Opting-out can be accomplished by editing the E-Mail Settings in Fintech web-based services and removing the check-mark in the box labeled, "Fintech can inform me about new services/opportunities".

• IP Addresses
  Fintech’s websites collect IP addresses for system administration, security, and statistical analysis purposes. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to a computer whenever it is connected to the Internet. We log these addresses and analyze them to understand where requests originate so that we can provide the most efficient service, enhance security, ensure appropriate usage and produce traffic volume statistics.

• Cookies
  Cookies are small text files that a website can send to a user's browser for storage on the hard drive. Cookies can make use of the web easier by saving status and preferences about a website. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies but users can change the setting to refuse cookies or to be alerted when cookies are being sent. 
   
  We use cookies to keep track of customer status as a logged-on user of Fintech’s web-based services. Although acceptance of cookies will not interfere with the ability to interact with most of our website, users will need to accept cookies in order to remember their user name for use with Fintech’s web-based services. The cookies are renewed every time a user logs into Fintech’s web-based services.

• Review and Modification of Personal Information
  Users of Fintech’s web-based services can review or modify the information previously provided at the registration site by editing their User Profile in Fintech’s web-based services. Users should note that Fintech will use reasonable efforts to delete user information when requested but that some residual information may remain because of backup files and deletion logs.

Assent
Your continued use of Fintech’s websites signify your assent to the Fintech Privacy Policy. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes.

Contacting Fintech
If you have questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your experience on any of Fintech’s websites, you can contact:

Fintech
Financial Information Technologies, Inc.
7702 Woodland Center Blvd. Suite 50
Tampa, FL 33614
Phone: 1-800-572-0854
[email protected]

Comments, suggestions or materials sent or transmitted to Fintech shall be deemed to be non-confidential. Fintech shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such comments, suggestions or materials and shall be free to use and distribute them to others without limitation, including, but not limited to developing and marketing products incorporating them.

Revised: June 15th, 2013