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Privacy Policy
How CompareBankLoans collects, uses, and shares personal information — including what we share with lender partners during a pre-qualification flow.
Effective:
Overview
This Privacy Policy describes how CompareBankLoans ("we", "us") collects, uses, and shares personal information when you use this site. By using the site you agree to the practices described here.
What we collect
- Information you provide: name, email, phone, employment, income, loan amount, and other application details you enter into pre-qualification forms.
- Automatically collected: IP address, browser, device, pages visited, time spent, referring URL.
- From third parties: marketing partner referral data, credit bureau soft-pull responses during pre-qualification (only with your explicit consent).
How we use it
- To match you with appropriate lender offers (only when you complete a pre-qualification flow).
- To personalize content and recommendations.
- To send communications you opted into.
- To detect fraud and abuse.
- To comply with legal requirements.
Who we share information with
We share your pre-qualification information with lender partners you select during the application flow. We do not sell information to unrelated parties. See our CCPA notice for California-specific rights.
Data retention
Application data: 7 years (regulatory requirement for lending records). Marketing data: 24 months. Browsing analytics: 13 months.
Your rights
You can request access to your information, deletion, opt-out of marketing, and (where applicable under state law) opt-out of sale. Submit requests at privacy@comparebankloans.com.
Contact
privacy@comparebankloans.com — questions about this policy or your rights.