When You Use or Visit Our Website
Continental Finance Company may collect information about you when you browse our website or use our online services. We may collect Personal Information when you voluntarily provide it to us through forms on our website or in our mobile applications, such as survey forms, credit card account applications, contest entries, and login pages for online account management or mobile application access.
“Cookies”, a feature in your browser software, may be used to collect information. If enabled, cookies store small amounts of data on your computer about actions you take on the pages of our website and other online tracking devices such as pixel tags and clear GIFs (also known as web beacons) to collect Online/Mobile Activity Data from you depending on your browser settings. Cookies are small text files that a website’s server places on your computer. Cookies provide a means for websites that you visit to track browsing activities conducted with your computer. A Web beacon is a small string of software code that represents a graphic image on a website or email.
The Company may also partner with certain third parties to deliver advertisem*nts and monitor activities on our own website and other websites. Our partners may use cookies, web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to compile statistics about website visitors.
When You Use Our Mobile Apps
Additionally, Continental Finance Company may collect Online/Mobile Activity Data when you access our mobile applications or use the browser on your mobile device to access our website. For example, if you have enabled location services on your mobile device, we may collect geolocation data from your device.
When You Use Our Other Technology Tools
We may also collect Personal Information while monitoring and using our technology tools and services, including our interactive voice response systems. We may collect or receive information about you from other sources, such as keeping the contact details we already hold for you accurate and up to date using publicly available sources. Continental Finance Company may also collect Online Activity Data or information such as your likes, interests, feedback, and preferences when you interact with our official pages on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram or from our social media partners (but only if you choose to share with them and they, in turn, share that information with us). Please refer to the policies of those companies to better understand your rights and obligations with regard to your activity on those websites.
When You Use Our Social Media Pages
Continental Finance Company may establish official pages on social media that will enable consumers and customers to discuss their experiences with our products and services. We may also partner with companies that operate social media websites through which you may engage with Continental Finance Company. When you interact with us on social media websites, we may collect information such as your likes, interests, feedback and preferences. When you interact with our partners, you are subject to their terms of use and privacy policies. We may collect information from our social media partners, but only if you choose to share with them and they, in turn, share such information with us. Never include sensitive personal, financial or other confidential information such as your Social Security number, account number, phone number, mailing address or email address when posting or commenting online. Any posts you make on our official social media pages -- including posts that contain pictures, comments, suggestions, opinions, complaints or Personal Information -- are available to others who use those pages and are subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of the companies that operate the websites on which they appear. Please refer to the policies of those companies to better understand your rights and obligations with regard to such posts. You are also subject to this Statement and our social media guidelines when you visit our official social media pages.
Cookie Type. We use “session” cookies which are not permanently stored on your hard drive. Session cookies usually expire after inactivity or when you close your browser. Session cookies allow us to keep track of this data until you have completed your search or registration. As you access our online services, cookies and similar technologies allow us to customize content and advertisem*nts for our products and services on our websites or apps. In order to make content and advertising as relevant as possible, we may use information about your relationship with us (such as types of accounts and transactional information). Using cookies can give you additional or easier access to certain features on our website (such as allowing you to sign in easier) and can allow us to provide you with more personalized offers.
Removing Cookies. You have the ability to accept, decline or remove cookies, at any time, by modifying your browser settings. Please see the “help” section of your browser or read more about cookies at http://cookiecentral.com.
Web Beacons. We may use electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs, clear gifs or action tags) which allow us to collect information about your visit to our website, measure and improve the effectiveness of advertisem*nts and track delivery of advertising. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of page view, as well as a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides.
Disabling Web Beacons. Because Web beacons are the same as any other content request, you cannot opt out or refuse them. However, they can be rendered ineffective by either opting out of cookies or changing the cookie setup in your browser.
