Direct Debt Settlement strives to maintain the privacy of all our clients. The following statement describes why and how this information is used.

What information is collected and why?
Your personal information is collected to provide you with our debt negotiation and settlement services. Not all information is mandatory, but we will only obtain the information required to provide our services. Generally we will need your name, e-mail address, phone number, home address, payment information, social security number, birthdate, copy of driver's license, income, expenses, assets, copies of current bills, copies of current monthly bills such as electric, phone, water, gas, etc. This basic information will be needed to complete our debt negotiation and settlement services and more may be requested. Your information will be stored in a secure database.

What we do with your information.
We will use your private information to perform our debt negotiation and settlement services on your behalf and will disclose your personal information to your creditors only to the extent necessary to the performance of our service. We will also need to contact you in order to gather information on your debts and notify you of developments.

We will not provide your personal information to other companies that do not work with Direct Debt Settlement unless you notify us differently. We will not sell, share, or disclose your personal information to other companies.
We will otherwise disclose personal information only when there is a good faith belief it is necessary to comply with the law.
Your personal information will only be available to employees of Direct Debt Settlement, and all reasonable measures will be taken to safeguard this information.

How we collect your information.
Your personal information will be collected via telephone, letter, or our website. We use industry standard security measures to protect your information transmitted through the Internet. We cannot warrant transmittals made through the internet although all reasonable measures will be taken to protect your personal information while on the Internet.

Our privacy policy does not apply to any websites that may be linked from ours. We encourage you to read the privacy statements from all linked websites and websites that may advertise on our website.

Direct Debt Settlement may decide to change this privacy policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the changes on this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.