CountryPlace Mortgage Privacy Policy
I.
Our Commitment to Your Privacy
CountryPlace Mortgage, Ltd and its affiliates, including CountryPlace
Acceptance Corporation, CountryPlace Acceptance GP, LLC, CountryPlace
Acceptance LP, LLC, Inc., (�CountryPlace�, �Company� or �we�, �our� or �us�)
respects the privacy of every individual visiting our website(s) (the "Website"),
and recognizes that protecting the privacy and security of the personal
information we collect about you in the course of using our services (�Services�)
is an important responsibility. This Privacy Policy governs the Company
and its affiliates� websites, their subdomains, and all portals, applications,
products, services, events, and any interactive features, applications, or
other services. This Policy does not apply to other websites or platforms
that have a different privacy policy.
By accessing or using the Website,
you agree to be bound by all of the terms and
conditions of this Privacy Policy and all of the terms incorporated herein by
reference as posted at the time of your access or use. By
using the Website or Services and/or submitting or collecting any personal data
via the Website or Services, you accept and expressly consent and agree to our
practices surrounding the collection, use, and sharing of your personal
information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT CONSENT AND
AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU CANNOT, AND WE DO NOT
AUTHORIZE YOU TO, ACCESS, BROWSE, OR USE THE WEBSITE OR SERVICES.
Our
processing of personal information, such as your name, address, e-mail address,
or telephone number, will be undertaken consistent with the requirements of
applicable privacy laws, including, but not limited to, the California Consumer
Privacy Act (�CCPA�), the California Privacy Rights Act (�CPRA�), the
Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act of 2021, the Colorado Privacy Act of
2021, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act of 2022, and the Connecticut Personal Data
Privacy and Online Monitoring Act.
II.
Kinds of Information Collected by Us and How We Collect Information
We
collect two basic types of information from you in conjunction with your use of
the Website and � Personal Information and Automatically Collected Information
(collectively, �Information�).
�Personal
information� is any information that can individually identify you and
includes, as an illustrative example and without limitation, your name, postal
address, email address, telephone number, username and account password, account
balance, credit information, payment history, Social Security Number, etc. We collect no Personal Information about you unless you
specifically and knowingly provide it. We may also collect additional
information, which may be Personal Information, as otherwise described to you
at the point of collection or pursuant to your consent.�
�Automatically
Collected Information� includes information that does not personally
identify you, but may include, as an illustrative example and without
limitation, tracking and usage information about your location, use of the
Website and the Internet, etc.
Personal Information
There are a number of circumstances in which you voluntarily supply us
with your Personal Information. The following lists the most common ways in
which we collect your Personal Information:
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When you send us a request for more
information about the products, services, and information listed on a CountryPlace
Mortgage Website;
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When you send us financial and
identification information in the course of using any of the tools on our Website or when you actively use our products or services;
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When you send an email to our
webmaster, so that we may respond to your message;
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When you register for an account on
the Website;
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When you submit employment-related
information provided on job applications submitted through the Website or
electronically, including for example, job preferences, work history, and other
Personal Information;
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When you participate on social media
accounts involving CountryPlace Mortgage;
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When you submit questions, comments,
or feedback through the Website, or otherwise; or
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When you submit or knowingly
volunteer Personal Information on any other place on the Website.
We may also collect Personal
Information from the following entities:
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From our affiliates, in particular, other CountryPlace and
Cavco entities, including CountryPlace Acceptance Corporation, CountryPlace
Acceptance GP, LLC, CountryPlace Acceptance LP, LLC, Cavco Durango,
Cavco Homes, Cavco Homes Center, Cavco Texas, Cavco West, Chariot Eagle,
Destiny Homes, Fairmont Homes, Fleetwood Homes, Friendship Homes, Lexington
Homes, Nationwide Homes, Palm Harbor Homes, Palm Harbor Texas, Park Model RV�s,
PHN Commercial and Standard Casualty.
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From consumer reporting agencies regarding your credit
history and/or creditworthiness.
� From third
parties, such as our network of external manufactured home retailers, dealers, contractors,
builders and community owners, court records, county records, insurance
agencies, Social Security Administration and the
Internal Service Revenue.
Automatically Collected Information
Some information is
automatically received and sometimes collected from you when you visit or use
the Website or Services. The following lists the most common information that
is automatically received or collected:
- The name of the
domain and host from which you access the Internet, including the Internet
Protocol (IP) address of the device you are using and/or the IP address of
your Internet Service Provider (ISP);
- The type and
version of Internet browser software you use and your operating
system;
- The date and time
you access the Website, the length of your stay, and the specific pages
that you access while visiting the Website; and
- Cookies and other
tracking technologies (such as pixel and beacons)
We use this information
to monitor the usage of our Website, assess
performance, ensure technological compatibility with your device, and
understand the relative importance of the information provided on the Website.
We may also use this data to conduct statistical analyses on visitors� usage
patterns and other aggregated data.� We
may collect this information in an anonymous and aggregated format.
Please note that under
the California Consumer Privacy Act, Automatically Collected Information is a
category of personal information, as defined therein.
Social Media Sites
When
you interact with CountryPlace Mortgage on or through a social media platform,
such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, or LinkedIn, we collect the Personal
Information that you make available to us on that page or account, including
your user ID and/or username, and any information you have made public in
connection with that social media service. Please note, however, that we will
comply with the privacy policies of the corresponding social media platform,
and we will only collect and store such Personal Information that we are
permitted to collect by these social media platforms.
Our
Website includes social media widgets, such as
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube widgets. These features collect Automatically
Collected Information about your IP address and which page you�re visiting on
our Website, and they use a cookie to make sure their
features function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted
by a third party or hosted directly on our Website.
Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of
the companies that provide them.
III.
How We Use Your Information
We
use the Information we collect from you and about you to help us personalize
and continually improve your experience with the Website and the Services. You
have no obligation to provide us with any of your Information, but you may not
be able to use or access certain portions of the Website or the Services if you
do not provide us with your Personal Information (and you cannot use our Website or Services without agreeing to the terms of this
Privacy Policy).
As
non-limiting examples, we use the Information we collect from and about you in
the following ways:
- Providing
the features, products and services you request;
- Registration
and promotions;
- To
communicate with you and provide you with information;
- When
we perform our obligations under a contract with you;
- To
follow federal and state regulations and audit purposes;
- To
deliver to you relevant advertising;
- To
provide you with other offers;
- To
improve our Website, features, products and
services;
- To
detect and protect against security incidents and related malicious
activity; and
- To
undertake internal research for technological development and
demonstration.
We
will store your information only for the above stated purposes.
We have
collected and shared the following
categories of Personal Information from our consumers within the last twelve
(12) months:
Category |
Examples |
Collected? |
Categories of Recipients |
A. Identifiers. |
A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. |
YES |
Organizations providing services to CountryPlace |
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code � 1798.80(e)). |
A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some Personal Information included in this category may overlap with other categories. Please
note that CountryPlace Mortgage only collects certain Personal Information
categories listed in the California Consumer Records statute to: maintain consumer relationships, provide our products,
services, and other opportunities related to home loans, modular, and manufactured home
financing nationwide, for marketing and advertising, and for research purposes. |
YES |
Organizations providing services to CountryPlace |
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. |
Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). |
YES |
Organizations providing services to CountryPlace |
|
Please note that CountryPlace Mortgage only collects certain Personal
Information categories listed in the protected classification characteristics
under California or federal law
to: maintain consumer relationships, provide our products, services, and
other opportunities related to home loan, modular, and manufactured home
financing nationwide, for marketing and advertising, for Services research purposes, and to report to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under
the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. |
|
|
D. Commercial information. |
Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. |
YES |
Organizations providing services to CountryPlace] |
E. Biometric information. |
Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. |
NO |
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F. Internet or other similar network activity. |
Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. |
YES |
Organizations providing services to CountryPlace |
|
Please note that CountryPlace Mortgage only collects internet or
similar network activity to: provide consumers with
the most appropriate and customized, products and Services preferences and to
display relevant advertising. We are collecting information for interaction
with our website only and not your web browsing history. |
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G. Geolocation data. |
Physical location or movements. |
NO |
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H. Sensory data. |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. |
NO |
|
I. Professional or employment- related information. |
Current or past job history or performance evaluations. Please note that CountryPlace Mortgage
collects professional or employment-related information from prospective job
applicants, current employees, and prospective borrowers via our online loan
application. CountryPlace Mortgage also collects employment- related
information when we service a loan and become delinquent. |
YES |
Organizations providing services to CountryPlace |
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). |
Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. Please note that CountryPlace Mortgage
only collects non-public education information from prospective job
applicants and current employees. CountryPlace Mortgage does not collect this
category of Personal Information on a widespread basis
from general Website or Services users. |
YES |
Organizations providing services to CountryPlace |
K. Inferences drawn from other Personal Information. |
Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. |
NO |
|
IV.
How We Disclose Your Information
Generally, we do not disclose your
Personal Information to third parties. However, we may disclose aggregated Automatically
Collected Information without your permission. Further, we may use and disclose
your information both internally and externally, including without limitation,
as described herein.
We do not sell your Information to any �nonaffiliated third parties. However, you should be aware that CountryPlace
Mortgage may use this Information that you supply about yourself for
promotional or marketing purposes.
We will not disclose any Personal
Information about our current or former customers or consumers to anyone,
except in emergency situations, or as described below.�
In an emergency situation, we may also use or disclose your Personal Information if
required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is
necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served
on us or the Website, or the Services; (b) respond to requests from public and
government authorities; (c) protect and defend our rights or property, the
Website, the Services, or our users; or (d) act under emergency circumstances
to protect the personal safety of us, our affiliates, agents, the users of the
Website or Services, or the public.
We may disclose all of the
information we collect about you to our affiliates and to nonaffiliated third-parties that perform services on our behalf.
We
may disclose information we collect about you to our external network of
manufactured housing retailers, dealers and community owners, court records, loan
servicers, government-sponsored enterprises, private and financial institution
investors.�
If we collect Personal Information
from you to provide third-party financial products and services requested by
you, such third-party's use of your Personal Information will be subject to
their privacy policy as disclosed to you by them.
We sometimes engage third parties,
such as contractors or consultants, to provide certain operational services to
us or on our behalf. We may share your Information with those third parties on
a "need to know" basis.
If we sell all or part
of our business, or make a sale or transfer of our assets, or are otherwise
involved in a merger or transfer of all or a material part of our business, or
are involved in a bankruptcy, CountryPlace Mortgage may transfer your
information to the party or parties involved as part of that transaction.
If you are a California resident and have
an established business relationship with us, you can request a notice
disclosing the categories of Personal Information we have shared with third
parties, if any, for the third parties� direct marketing purposes, during the
preceding calendar year. To request a notice, please submit your request to the
contact information provided below. California law also permits residents of
California to opt-out of CountryPlace Mortgage�s disclosure of Personal
Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. You may
choose to opt-out of the sharing of your Personal Information with third
parties for marketing purposes at any time by submitting a request in writing
to the contact information provided below. Please note that this opt-out does
not prohibit disclosure made for non-marketing purposes.
V.
Your Rights and Choices
You can see, review
and change your information by sending a request to our webmaster at privacy@countryplacemortgage.com.
At any time, you may request us to delete your information by sending us an
email at privacy@countryplacemortgage.com.� Although, we will make every effort
to delete your information from our databases and inform third-parties
with whom we have shared to do the same. We retain Personal Information about
you for as long as necessary to provide you the Services. In some cases, we
retain Personal Information for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with
our legal obligations, or as otherwise permitted by applicable law. Afterwards,
we may need to retain some of your information in our archives and records in order to comply with law, resolve disputes, troubleshoot
problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms and Conditions and
other policies, and take other actions otherwise permitted by law.
If you are a California resident,
you may have the following rights under the CCPA/CPRA in relation to personal
information we have collected about you, to the extent required by the
CCPA/CPRA and subject to verification:
Right to Know/Access:
The right to request certain information about our collection and use of
personal information about you as described below:
- The
specific pieces of your personal information collected.
- The
categories of your personal information collected.
- The
categories of sources from whom your personal information is collected.
- The
purpose for collecting your personal information.
- The
categories of third parties with whom we have shared your personal
information.
Right to Delete:
You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we
have about you.
Freedom from Discrimination:
You have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising any
of your privacy rights.
Right
to Correct:
You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information
regarding the information you provide us.
Right
to Restrict the Use of Sensitive Personal Information:
You have the right to restrict the use of your sensitive personal information.
Right to Access Information on Automated
Decision-Making: You have the right to access
information collected through automated decision-making. Additionally, you can
opt-out of our use of automated decision-making related to your personal
information.
To make a request in relation to the above
rights, please contact us using the information in Section 14 below. To fulfil
your request, we will need to verify your identity. Only you or someone legally
authorized to act on your behalf may make a request related to your personal
information. To designate an authorized agent, the authorized agent must
provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify that you
authorize them to act on your behalf.
VI.
How We Store Your Information
Personal
information collected on our Website and through our
Services, or received by CountryPlace Mortgage from you or third parties may be
stored or processed in the United States or any other country where our service
providers maintain facilities.
The
servers and databases in which information is stored may be located outside the
country from which you accessed Services, and in a country that does not have
the same privacy laws as your country of residence. The Personal Information
you provide us may be transmitted abroad, but we will collect, process and use Personal Information only in accordance with
this Privacy Policy.
If you choose to provide
us with Personal Information, we may transfer that information to our
affiliates and subsidiaries or to other third parties, across borders, and from
your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world
in accordance with legal requirements.
Employment-related information and queries may be transferred
to any member of the CountryPlace Mortgage affiliates. By visiting this Website
and our Services and submitting information, you consent to such collection,
processing, transfer and/or storage of your Personal Information.
VII.
How We Protect your Information
We have procedures in place that
limit access to Personal Information to those employees and other individuals
who need to know such information to provide products and services to you. We
will maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the
confidentiality of your Personal Information as required by law. However, such
precautions do not guarantee the absolute safety of your data, and CountryPlace
Mortgage makes no guarantees, warranties, or representation that your
information is protected from viruses and other security attacks. Further,
while CountryPlace Mortgage follows appropriate procedures to ensure that third
parties will keep your information secure, CountryPlace Mortgage cannot make
any guarantees with respect to the actions or policies of such third parties.� You are also responsible
for taking reasonable steps to protect your information against unauthorized
disclosure or misuse such as by maintaining the confidentiality of your
username and password and logging out of your account when not using the
Website or Services.
VIII.
Links on Our Website
Our privacy policies apply only to
your use of the Website. The Website contains links to other sites, including
sites on which you will find our logo, or sites for which we are sponsors. We
are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites, even if they bear
our logo and name. Links to other sites do not imply an endorsement of the
materials or policies on those Websites. You should read the privacy policies
of each site you visit to determine what information that site may be
collecting about you.
IX.
How We Protect the Privacy of Children
�The
Website and Services are not intended for use by children. Individuals under
the age of 18 may not use the Website or Services. CountryPlace Mortgage does
not knowingly collect any information from children. If you are under 18, do
not attempt to register for the Website or Services or send us any personal
information. By accessing, using and/or submitting information through the
Website or Services, you represent that you are not younger than 18 and that
you have authority to do so. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a minor
child, you may, in compliance with this Privacy Policy, use the Website and
Services on behalf of such minor child. Information you provide through the
Website and Services on behalf of a minor child will be treated as Personal Information
as provided herein. If you use the Website or Services on behalf of another
person, regardless of age, you represent and warrant that you have authority to
do so.
X.
Tracking Tools, Behavioral Advertising, and Opt Out
Options
Tracking
Tools
We
may use tools outlined below in order to provide the
Website or Services, advertise to, and better understand users.
Cookies
When
you interact with the Website, we automatically receive and record information
on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, �cookie�
information, and the page you requested.
Cookies
and other tracking technologies (such as pixels and beacons) are comprised of
small bits of data that often include a de-identified or anonymous unique
identifier. Websites, apps and other services send
this data to your browser when you first request a web page and then store the
data on your computer, so the website can access information when you make
subsequent requests for pages from that service. We may use these technologies
to collect and store information about your usage of the Website (such as the
pages you have visited, content you have viewed, search queries you have run,
and advertisements you have seen), which information is then used to understand
your preferences so as to enable us to provide you with improved services in
future visits, and to compile aggregate data about site traffic and
interactions so that we can offer better experiences and tools in the future.
Most
browsers are initially set to accept cookies, but you can change your settings
to notify you when a cookie is being set or updated, or to block cookies
altogether. Please consult the �Help� section of your browser for more
information. Please note that by blocking any or all cookies, you may not have
access to certain features, content, or personalization available through the
Website.
Analytics
We,
as well as third-party vendors acting on our behalf (such as Google), may use
first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party
cookies (such as the Google, Yahoo cookies) or other third-party identifiers to
gather anonymous analytics and statistics about our Website
and how it is are being used by our visitors so we can improve our Website. Our
web server storage logs may collect the domain names, internet protocol
addresses, the types of web browsers, and certain data of visitors to the Website.
Data
about your activities online may be collected for use in providing advertising
tailored to your individual interests, either by us, our affiliates, or third
parties. We may work with third parties such as network advertisers and ad
exchanges to serve advertisements across the internet and may use third party
analytics service providers to evaluate and provide us and/or third parties
with information about the use of these ads on third party websites and viewing
of ads and of our content.
We
and these third-party vendors, including Google, may use third-party
technologies (such as a Facebook Custom Audience Pixel) together with our own
first party technologies in order to analyze ad
impressions, your use of ad services, and interactions with these ad
impressions and ad services. The information collected may also include
information about your visits to our Website, include
the pages you have viewed and what content you have seen. These third-party
tracking technologies may be set to, among other things: (a) help deliver
advertisements to you that you might be interested in; (b) prevent you from
seeing the same advertisements too many times; and (c) understand the
effectiveness of the advertisements that have been delivered to you.
Behavioral Advertising
We
may use a type of advertising commonly known as interest-based or online
behavioral advertising.� This means that
some of our partners use tracking tools to collect information about a user�s
online activities to display CountryPlace Mortgage ads to the user based on the
user�s interests (�Behavioral Advertising�). Our partners may include
third-party advertisers and other third-party service providers, and such
partners may collect information when you use the CountryPlace Mortgage
Services, such as IP address, mobile device ID, operating system, and
demographic information. These tracking tools help CountryPlace Mortgage learn
more about our users� demographics and Internet behaviors.
Options
for Opting Out of Cookies and Advertising
You can opt out of
certain tracking and advertising, as follows:
1. By visiting the Network Advertising
Initiative consumer opt out page at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/,
2. By using the Google Analytics Opt-out
Browser Add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, or
3. By visiting the Digital Advertising
Alliance�s opt-out page at https://www.aboutads.info/choices.
�Do
Not Track� (DNT) and Universal Opt-Out Preference Signals
Some
web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome)
incorporate a �Do Not Track� (DNT) or similar feature that signals to web
services that a visitor does not want to have their online activity and
behavior tracked. If a web service operator elects to respond to a particular
DNT signal, the web service operator may refrain from collecting certain
personal information about the browser�s user. Not all browsers offer a DNT
option and there is currently no industry consensus as to what constitutes a
DNT signal. For these reasons, many web service operators, including
CountryPlace Mortgage, do not proactively respond to DNT signals.� For more information about DNT signals, visit
http://allaboutdnt.com.
New
standards are being developed for a Universal Opt-Out Mechanism, such as the
Global Privacy Control (GPC), which allow users with GPC-enabled browsers and
devices to send a signal that will communicate the user�s request to opt-out of
sales of their personal information and to opt-out of certain sharing of their
personal information. The CPRA and other laws allow for the acceptance of
Opt-Out Preference Signals such as the GPC, as an option for users to transmit
an Opt-Out of selling or sharing personal information. If we detect and
recognize such a signal from your device or browser, we will honor it.
XI. General
Users should be aware that CountryPlace
Mortgage has no control over any information that users may disclose to other
users of a CountryPlace Mortgage Website. Please notify CountryPlace Mortgage
immediately if you discover that any user of a CountryPlace Mortgage Website is
improperly collecting or using personally identifying information of users of
the CountryPlace Mortgage Websites.
We know that online security is a
serious matter. At CountryPlace Mortgage, we consider your online security an
important factor of our commitment to overall customer satisfaction. For
additional information on your privacy rights concerning data collected by Websites,
refer to the Federal Trade Commission's How to Protect Your Privacy pamphlet.
The effective date of this Privacy
Policy is set forth at the bottom of this webpage. We reserve the right to
change or update this Privacy Policy at any time, without notice, by posting
revisions on the Website. Your continued use of the CountryPlace Mortgage
Services after the effective date of any amendment to this Privacy Policy
constitutes your acceptance of the amended Privacy Policy. We encourage you to
periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy
practices. Any amended Privacy Policy supersedes all previous versions. IF YOU
DO NOT AGREE TO FUTURE CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST STOP USING THE
CLIENT SERVICES AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CHANGES.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated
by reference in and is a part of the Terms of Use Agreement. If you have any
questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or if you want to exercise any
of your rights outlined herein, please submit a verifiable consumer request to
us at privacy@countryplacemortgage.com or you can reach us by regular mail at:
CountryPlace
Mortgage, Ltd.
Attn:
Privacy Policy
5100
Tennyson Pkwy., Suite 200
Plano, TX
75024
Last updated February 2024