Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 28th, 2024

Overview

In this Privacy Policy, the words “we,” “us,” “our,” and “Apprenta” mean Bellbird Rise,Inc., dba Apprenta, and their respective successors, assigns, representatives, and service providers. The words “you” and “your” mean any visitor or user of a website (each, a “Site” or the “Sites”) we administer and make available for your online interactions with us. The Sites covered by this Privacy Policy include apprenta.com and other websites we administer and expressly provide for your use in interacting with Apprenta.

We maintain this Site and provide services through it for your information and communication purposes, as well as for purposes associated with automobile loans and insurance (the “Service” or “Services”). Our Site and Services are intended for use only by United States residents, while located in the United States. If you are not a United States resident, or are located in a country other than the United States, you may not use our Site and Services.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through compliance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from and about you when you visit our Site. This Privacy Policy also describes our practices for collecting, using, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This Privacy Policy applies to:

Information we collect when you visit or use this Site;
Information we collect when you submit and exchange electronic messages with us through the Site;
Information we collect when you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications and advertising include links to this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by any third party.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to not use our Site. By accessing or using this Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see the section below called Changes to this Privacy Policy), so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates. If we change the Privacy Policy on this Site and you continue to use it, you agree that your continued use of the Site will mean that you have accepted all changes in the updated Privacy Policy.

If you breach or violate the rules, restrictions, limitations, terms and/or conditions that apply to the Site and the Services, whether listed in the Privacy Policy, posted at any point on the Site or in connection with the Services, or otherwise communicated to you, Apprenta may terminate, discontinue, suspend and/or restrict your ability to access, visit, and/or use the Site and its Services, with or without notice. Apprenta may further restrict or refuse to provide you with any future access and/or use of the Service. Finally, Apprenta reserves the right to take any technical, legal and/or other actions that it deems necessary and/or appropriate, with or without notice.

SECTION 1

Age of Site Users and Visitors

By using this Site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state of residence (or in the District of Columbia, if you reside there). Our Site and Services are not intended for use by children, especially those under age 18. No one under the age of 18 is allowed to use the Site and its Services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18. If we obtain knowledge that we have personally identifiable information about a child under 18 in retrievable form in our files, we will delete that information from our existing files. If you believe we might have information from or about a child under 18, please notify us as soon as possible by using any of the options in the section below called Contact Information To Ask Questions Or Exercise Rights.

SECTION 2

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about visitors and users of our Site, including:

Information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, Social Security number, and driver’s license number (“personal information”); and
Information about your internet connection, the equipment and devices you use to access our Site, the dates and times you use the Site, and other Site usage details.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us through the Site;
Automatically as you navigate through the Site, including Site usage details, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies; and
From third parties, for example, our business partners and service providers.

SECTION 3

Information You Provide To Us

The information we collect on or through our Site includes:

Personal information you choose to provide to us when filling in forms on the Site to request or obtain our Services or otherwise interact with us, which may include your name, postal address, email address, date of birth, phone number, and income information;
Information we may request from you if you enter a contest or promotion we sponsor or when you report a problem with our Site;
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us; and
Details of transactions and search queries you may carry out through the Site.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (“posted”) on public areas of the Site or to be transmitted to other users of the Site or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we may limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Site with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. We cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

SECTION 4

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you use and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, such as details of your Site visits (including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources you access and use on the Site), and information about your device and Internet connection (including your IP address, operating system, and browser type).

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). See the sections below called Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies and Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.The information we collect automatically may include personal information or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties.

We use commonly used information-gathering tools, such as cookies (discussed in the Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies section), to collect information as users navigate our Site and request or obtain our Services.

Usage Information: We collect certain information automatically through your use of the Site, such as which of our web pages you access, the frequency of access, and what you click on while on our Site.
Location Information: We may collect information about your actual location which may be determined from: IP address, GPS, and other sensors that may reveal information on nearby devices, Wi-Fi access points, and cell towers.
Device Information: We may collect information about the device you are using such as: hardware model, operating system, application version number, browser, and IP addresses.
Mobile Device Information: In addition to the Device Information listed above, when you access our Site or Services via a browser on your mobile device, we may also collect mobile network information including phone number, the unique device identifier assigned to that device, mobile carrier, operating system, and other device attributes.

SECTION 5

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Session Cookies: A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our Site.
Persistent Cookies: We use persistent cookies that remain on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Site. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s instructions.
Tracking Pixels (Web Beacons): We may use a software technology called tracking pixels (also known as web beacons or clear gifs) that help us better manage content on our Site by informing us what content is most effective. Tracking pixels are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, tracking pixels are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
Other Tracking Technologies: We may also use other website or mobile tracking technologies, such as device fingerprinting, to identify you and keep track of your preferences, prevent fraudulent activity or improve Site security, assess the performance of the Site, and deliver content to you based on your interests on our Site and third-party sites.

Some content or applications on the Site may be provided by third parties, including analytics companies and application providers. These third parties may use cookies or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Site. The information they collect may be associated with your personally identifiable information or they may collect information, including personally identifiable information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services.

We may, from time to time, contract with third-party service providers. These third parties may collect information about visitors to our Site by using JavaScript software code and “cookies.” Our service providers may then connect the information they collect from our Site using “cookies” to other sources of information, which may include your name and mailing address, for the purpose of sending you direct mail promotions.

By using this Site, you consent to these activities, including information collection by our service providers.

If you do not wish for cookies to be placed on your computer, most web browsers permit you to prevent that from taking place. However, please keep in mind that cookies and similar technologies are an important part of how the Site works. Removing, rejecting, or limiting the use of cookies or other similar technologies may affect the availability and functionality of the Site.

We do not currently process or comply with any browser’s “do not track” signal at this time, due to the limits of current technologies, standards and solutions.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. Some of these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used for targeted advertising.

SECTION 6

Third-Party Services

In general, the third-party service providers we use will collect, use and disclose your information only to the extent necessary to allow them to perform services for us and on our behalf. However, certain third-party service providers have their own privacy policies related to the information we are required to provide to them for your credit-related purposes. For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies, so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers. Additionally, the use of third-party cookies is subject to the privacy policies of these third parties and Apprenta has no liability relating to the use of the third-party cookies.

In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. If you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

Once you leave our website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our Terms and Conditions.

When you click on links on our website, they may direct you away from our Site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

SECTION 7

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Site, its contents and the Services to you;
To provide you with information, products, or Services that you request from us or to contact you about our Services that may be of interest to you;
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide any personal information;
To provide you with notices and information about your accounts with us or to carry out our duties and enforce our rights arising from any contracts between you and us;
To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses
To personalize your Site experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Site and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law);
For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Site, products, and services;
To notify you about changes to our Site and any products or services we offer or provide through it;
To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Site, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business;
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and
For any other purpose with your consent.

SECTION 8

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

To our affiliates in order to provide services you that you have elected;
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business;
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Site users and consumers are among the assets transferred;
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide any personal information;
For any other purpose we disclose when you provide the information; and
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
To enforce or apply the terms of this Privacy Policy, or our Terms and Conditions
and other agreements between you and us, including for billing and collection purposes; and
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Apprenta, our service providers, our customers, other visitors and users of the Site, and others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and risk reduction.

We do not sell personal information about you to third parties for their own benefit and use.

SECTION 9

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of the Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

SECTION 10

Security

We take reasonable precautions to secure your personal information and protect it from being inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. If you provide us with your personal information, the information is encrypted in transit using secure socket layer / transport layer technology (SSL/TLS) and encrypted with AES-256 encryption when stored in our databases.

Your information may be transferred to, and maintained on, servers and databases located outside of your state or outside of the United States, where the privacy laws may not be as protective as your jurisdiction. We may transfer your information to and from any governmental jurisdiction and process it in the United States or elsewhere.

No system of electronic security is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of the information that you send to us or the security of our servers, networks, or databases. By using the Site and our Services, you agree to assume all risk in connection with the information sent to us or collected by us when you access, visit, and/or use the Site and our Services. This includes, without limitation, any personally identifiable information that you provide to us. We are not responsible for any loss of such information or the consequences resulting from any loss of such information.

In the event you choose to store information, such as your personally identifiable information, we are not responsible for any loss of such information or the consequences resulting from any loss of such information. If you lose a computer, mobile or other device or have it stolen, that contains your personally identifiable information or other information, it is up to you to take all the steps necessary to protect yourself.

In the unlikely event that we believe the security of your information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you if notification is required under the law of your state. If notification is appropriate, we may notify you via your computer, mobile or other device.

SECTION 11

Assistance to Victims of Identity Theft

If you suspect that someone has had unauthorized access to the information you provided to Apprenta, or any accounts with Apprenta, or access to your personally identifiable information, you should report this crime to your local law enforcement agency and to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). To speak with a trained FTC telephone counselor, call toll-free: 1-877-IDTheft (1-877-438-4338). Or, to enter information about your complaint into a secure FTC online database, visit www.consumer.gov/idtheft. The site also provides links to consumer education materials.

SECTION 12

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes, additions, updates, and modifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the Site. You are responsible for periodically visiting the Site and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes. The date of the most recent revision will appear at the beginning of the Privacy Policy.

SECTION 13

Contact Information To Ask Questions Or Exercise Rights

If you have questions or want more information about this Privacy Policy, you may contact our Senior Regulatory Counsel at help@apprenta.co or by mail at:

Bellbird Rise, Inc. d/b/a Apprenta

1701 Rhode Island Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20036

If there are specific rights you want to invoke or exercise under any applicable law, please include these details in your request. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or your authority to make the request and confirm that the personal information relates to you. Please do not include sensitive personal information, such as your date of birth or Social Security number, when you initially ask questions or make requests of us, and review our Security section above for more details. We will use personal information provided in the request only to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make it.