Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy supersedes any privacy policy previously delivered to you or appearing on any Dogstar Digital Limited (DDL) website including WalletStride.com, any transaction agreement, or any other document delivered to you previously. Should there be any conflicts between this Privacy Policy and another policy delivered to you by DDL., the terms of this Privacy Policy shall apply. This Privacy Policy is effective as of [12th May 2022].

WalletStride.com. is a website owned and operated by DDL., which is a limited company registered in the state of United Kingdom(UK).

  1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AGREEMENT

WalletStride.com. is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18 or those who are not legal residents of the United States. Please take a moment to review the terms of our Privacy Policy. By using the WalletStride.com. website and participating in any of the DDL Services, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, or if you are not over the age of 18 years and a valid resident of the United States, please do not use the WalletStride.com website or participate in the DDL Services.

  1. NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES

DDL. may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes to our information practices, we will revise this Policy. You are advised to read and review this Policy every time you access our website and/or use any service referred to you by DDL.

Your use of the website constitutes your agreement to the terms of the effective Privacy Policy.

  1. PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

We collect and combine personally identifiable information (“PII”) and non-personally identifiable information (“Non-PII”) through various sources, including those discussed below.

For your reference, PII is data collected with an intention to specifically identify, contact or locate a person, including but not limited to social security number, first name, last name, address, Zip Code, city, state, length of stay at address, whether you rent or own, your e-mail address, driver’s license or state ID number, telephone number, work telephone number, time at which you may be contacted, birth date, birth year, whether you are related to someone in the armed forces, whether you make income from job or from benefits, your employer name, duration of employment, employer’s phone number, job title, frequency of compensation, your pay dates, your IP address and computer specifications, your ABA/routing number, your bank account number, nature of bank account, name of bank, bank phone number, duration with bank, whether you get paid by direct deposit, monthly net income, and loan amount desired. We may obtain Information about you from third parties such as: credit reports, information about your home and demographic information.

We do not pull a credit bureau report on customers without their permission. Conversely, Non-PII is data that is not used to specifically identify, contact or locate an individual, including but not limited to Zip Code, gender, age, or IP address.

  1. ABOUT US

This Privacy Policy is provided to you on behalf of Dogstar Digital Limited. (“DDL.” or “We” or “Our”).

We operate and control this website.

Through the Site, we operate a prospective customer database (the “Service”), which compiles, sorts and sells contact information to businesses and networks on behalf of consumers who have shown an interest in applying for a business’ products or services and have affirmatively asked to be contacted by a representative of a product or service business partner.

We utilize third-party vendors, third-party affiliates, and a variety of media advertisements to promote our Site to consumers interested in using our Site.

Additionally, we advertise third-party services through referrals and/or through paid advertisements to which you may be redirected through our website. By using the WalletStride.com. website, you agree to our use of your PII and Non-PII for these purposes.

We collect and retain information about you to communicate with you, to process your requests for products and services, and to inform you about other financial services that may be of interest to you. The examples in this Privacy Policy are illustrative only and are not intended to be exclusive.

  1. PATRIOT ACT

Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT ACT requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account or changes an existing account. This federal requirement applies to all new customers and current customers. This information is used to assist the United States government in the fight against the funding of terrorism and money-laundering activities. While DDL. is not a financial institution, lenders we work with are financial institutions.

What this means to you: when you submit information to DDL., we will ask for your name, physical address, mailing address, date of birth, and other information that will allow us to identify you. This information will be passed on to the lender that you are connected with through DDL.

  1. GLB Act

For purposes of compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, 15 U.S.C. 6802 (the “GLB Act”), this Privacy Policy shall serve as both Your initial customer relationship and annual “Privacy Notice” as defined under the GLB Act. If You would like to opt-out from the disclosure of Your personal information to any third-party for marketing purposes, please let us know through our contact page.

  1. TELEPHONE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT

By submitting your loan request, you are providing express written consent under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to be contacted by each lender to whom we transmit your information, and their affiliates and service providers, by telephone at the numbers you have provided, even if your phone number is on any Do-Not-Call registry, and you agree to receive telemarketing calls or SMS text messages made with an automatic telephone dialling system or that use a pre-recorded voice.

Consent is not required in order to purchase goods and services from us or the lenders that reach out to you.

  1. OPT-OUT / OPT-IN

We, our affiliate(s) and/or third parties may also promote product and service offerings via e-mail, sms-text message, or telephone to consumers who requested to be contacted either through our Site’s online forms Opt-in process or through an Opt-In process on our third-party vendor or affiliate sites (“List Members”). List Members will receive emails, sms-text messages, or telephone contacts for as long as they wish to continue to receive such contacts.

List Members can be removed from our contact lists at any time with no questions asked. To remove your information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service, please contact us through this form.

Please note that participation in certain activities on our Site may be limited if personally identifiable information is not submitted for the user. E-mail addresses and phone numbers received in an opt-out request will be added to our internal Do-Not-Contact registry within ten (10) days following receipt. Unless we hear from you, we will assume you consent to receiving communications from us and our third-party vendors and affiliates.

If a List Member chooses to be removed from our contact list, if applicable, we will also forward this request to the specific third-party vendor or affiliate who provided List Member’s informational request to us so that the List Member may be included on the third-party’s Do-Not-Contact registry as well. Please bear in mind that if your information was purchased commercially from a third-party vendor or affiliate, DDL. may not be the only purchaser of your information. Additionally, any third-party vendor or affiliate may have purchased your contact information from an additional third-party and thus you may continue to receive contacts from those third-party companies. Dogstar Digital Limited  is not responsible for stopping all unwanted contact from sources beyond our immediate control. We are a CAN-SPAM compliant company.

  1. MINORS

DDL does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 18. No information is knowingly collected from children or used for any purpose whatsoever, including marketing and promotional purposes. If a parent or guardian is made aware that a child under the age of 18 has provided us with personally identifying information through any point of contact, please contact us here, and we will delete the information about the child referenced from our files.

  1. COOKIES

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site; however, without cookies the user may not have access to certain features on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. All cookies served on the domain, both session and persistent are tied to the Personally Identifiable Information you provide.

Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies once set on our site.

  1. GENERAL INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

DDL collects information through the Site from our prospective and existing customers at several different points on our Site. We use contact information to send information about our company and to service existing accounts. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the Opt-Out/Opt-In section of this Privacy Policy. Contact and financial information that is collected is used for verifying your name, address and other information. Not all information asked for on our site is required when you fill out our forms. However, the following data is required to use our Site: Social Security number; first name; last name; address; Zip Code; city; state; length of stay at address; whether you rent or own; your e-mail address; driver’s license or state ID number; telephone number; work telephone number; time at which you may be contacted; birth date; birth year; IP address or computer hardware specifications; whether you are related to someone in the armed forces; whether you make income from job or from benefits; your employer name; duration of employment; employer’s phone number; job title; frequency of compensation; your pay dates; your ABA/routing number; your bank account number; nature of bank account; name of bank; bank phone number; duration with bank; whether you get paid by direct deposit; monthly net income; and loan amount desired. We may obtain Information from third parties about you such as: credit reports, information about your home and demographic information. We do not pull a credit bureau report on customers without their permission.

Information about your computer hardware and software is automatically collected by DDL and may be shared in aggregate with third parties whose services are used for traffic-analysis purposes. This information includes: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by DDL. to maintain and improve the quality of the service and to generate statistics regarding use of the WalletStride.com site. DDL does not use third party databases to correct or update the information you submit to us for any reason.

  1. LINKS

WalletStride.com contains links to other sites belonging to third parties. Please be aware that DDL is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by DDL. even in cases where we may frame another site with our own. From time to time, we may co-brand certain services with third-party vendors and affiliates. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting such information and whose privacy statement governs. For example, without limiting the foregoing, we co-brand with insurance brokers, credit reporting agencies and, automotive companies.

  1. SECURITY

We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

  1. DISCLOSURE

We cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Agreement. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances as required by law, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. In addition, as noted above, if you opt-out of future contact from DDL by using the opt-out mechanism provided in each e-mail we send to you on behalf of a third- party service provider other than DDL., we will provide your email address to the third-party service provider so that the third-party service provider can add your name and contact information to its own Do-Not-Contact list.

As DDL. develops, we may buy other businesses or their assets or sell our business assets. Customer information is generally one of the business assets involved in such transactions. Thus, in the event that DDL. or all of its assets are acquired, customer information, including any visitor information collected through the Site, would be one of the transferred assets. For more information see the “Notification of Changes” section of this Privacy Policy.

Finally, DDL. reserves the right to disclose member 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 causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) DDL’s rights or property, other visitors, members, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. DDL. also reserves the right to disclose visitor or member information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it. We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Site.

  1. SHARING INFORMATION WITH AFFILIATES

When you submit your request for information or quote, you are granting permission to be contacted by DDL or affiliated third parties. We share the contact and loan request data you submit on the quote request form and DDL account number information with affiliated companies such as, but not limited to, banks, commercial lenders and licensed loan brokers to fulfil information requests we receive from you; to provide you with superior service; inform you of product and service opportunities that may be of interest to you; and for other business purposes.

We may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, to the following types of affiliated companies: financial service providers, such as mortgage and life insurance agencies; title service companies; debt & credit services companies; and auto-finance companies. An “affiliate company” is a company under legal contract with DDL to fulfil services or is a company owned in whole or in part by DDL

  1. SHARING INFORMATION WITH CO-BRANDED PARTNERS

Some of the services offered on our website are co-branded with contracted partners. Co-branded offerings will be identified directly on the quote request form for the product or service you choose prior to you having to submit the quote request. Where a co-branded product or service provider is identified your Personally Identifiable information will be provided directly to that provider’s website. The Product or Service provider shall control your data once submitted to them. For purposes of identification and tracking, your contact information (name, address, phone, e-mail address, etc.) is shared with DDL We may use personal information to provide the services you’ve requested, including services that display customized content and advertising. In addition to any fee of which you are notified, your provider’s standard messaging rates apply to our confirmation and all subsequent SMS correspondence. You may opt-out and remove your SMS information by sending “STOP,” “END,” or “QUIT” to the SMS text message you have received. If you remove your SMS information from our database it will no longer be used by us for secondary purposes, disclosed to third parties, or used by us or third parties to send promotional correspondence to you.