Terms of Use
Last Updated: January 24, 2023
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Credible, Company, we, our, us: Credible Labs Inc. and its subsidiary Credible Operations, Inc.
You or your means the person(s) using the Site and/or the Services, and any person(s) on whose behalf such person(s) are acting as an agent with respect to the Site and/or Services
Service: our online services, website, mobile applications, and software provided on or in connection with the service, and any and all communications with us via phone, email, text or otherwise, whether directed to You or any Provider or other third party on your behalf
Agreement or Terms of Service: this document, together with Credible’s Privacy Policy
Users: all visitors, users, and others who access or use the Service
Providers: any and all third parties with which Credible provides opportunities for you to interact via the Service, such as companies offering financial services in their own name or on behalf of a third party, including banks, credit card issuers, lenders, loan brokers, credit repair companies, real estate companies, and insurance producers or agents.
Account Information: any information relating to financial accounts you maintain that Credible collects from you or a third party in order to provide the Service to you
Third-Party Accounts: financial or other accounts you maintain with companies other than Credible
Login Details: usernames and passwords, or other methods of accessing you Credible account or other third party accounts
THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS:
A MANDATORY ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES PROVISION THAT REQUIRES THE USE OF ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS TO RESOLVE DISPUTES, RATHER THAN JURY TRIALS OR CLASS ACTIONS (SECTION 10);
A CONSENT TO RECEIVE ALL LEGALLY REQUIRED COMMUNICATIONS AND DISCLOSURES FROM US ELECTRONICALLY (SECTION 4); AND
A CONSENT TO RECEIVE AUTOMATED TELEPHONE CALLS AND SMS MESSAGES AND RECORDING OF CALLS (SECTION 3)
THE INSERTS TITLED “WHAT DOES THIS MEAN” ARE NOT PART OF THE CONTRACT, THEY ARE NOTES TO BETTER HELP YOU UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE LEGAL TERMS IN THE CONTRACT.
1. Your Use of Credible’s Service
1.1 Eligibility
What does this mean?
These Terms of Service are a legally binding contract; in order to use our Service you must be legally capable of entering into this contract.
1.2 Modifications to this Agreement
What does this mean?
If there are changes to this Agreement, the date the changes are made will be posted at the top of the page and the posting date is the Effective Date of the revised Agreement. But, if there are significant changes, we will give you 30 days’ notice before the changes become effective.
1.3 Your Consent to Collect and Transmit Your Requests and Information
What does this mean?
There are some instances when your request is being sent over as an application for credit (e.g., after you “Select” a Lender and submit a request for an offer of credit with the Provider).
1.4 Your Accounts and Account Information from Third-parties Integrated with our Service
1.5 Credit Inquiries (“Pulling Your Credit”)
What does this mean?
The below section describes some ways we may use that information from your credit report.
Hard Credit Inquiries: Credible does not conduct hard credit inquiries. Additionally, Providers do perform hard credit inquiries. For example, when you submit an application for credit with a Provider, the Provider or its agents may perform a hard credit inquiry; hard credit inquiries may affect your credit score (typically, a hard credit inquiry may have up to an 8 point impact on your credit score, but in some instances it may be more).
1.6 Prequalified Rates
- Prequalified rates are potential options, not offers of credit: Credible’s prequalification process is intended to provide Users with preliminary information regarding potential options for a loan with one of our lender partners (also referred to as a “Provider”). Credible is not a lender and does not make credit decisions or employ its own credit criteria. A prequalification inquiry is not an application for credit. All credit decisions, including loan approval, if any, are determined by Providers, in their sole discretion. Credible makes no representations, warranties or guarantees about your eligibility for credit or for a particular loan.
- No guarantees: Credible and Providers do not have prequalified rate information for all circumstances and may be unable to provide a prequalified rate in response to every inquiry. Additionally, receiving a prequalified rate does not guarantee that your chosen Provider will extend you an offer of credit. There are some Providers on the Credible platform who do not participate in providing prequalified rates to Users; in these circumstances, you may be presented with the option to apply with these Providers directly.
- Displayed prequalified rates are indicative rates and are subject to change and/or withdrawal at any time: Rate information provided in response to a prequalification inquiry is not an offer of credit. The prequalified rates displayed are indicative rates and should be used for informational purposes only. Providers reserve the right to change or withdraw the prequalified rates at any time. Any rate(s) provided in response to a prequalification inquiry is/are based on the questions you answered and a soft credit inquiry (authorized by you) which are then applied to specific Provider standards. Such standards are determined at the sole discretion of the Provider(s) and may vary from one Provider to another. With respect to home loans, rates change on a frequent basis (i.e., sometimes more than once per day); The rate is not final until an application is submitted, you are approved for loan (if eligible) and the rate is locked, upon your request/approval.
- Post-prequalification process for obtaining an offer of credit from a Provider: Once you choose an option on your Credible Dashboard, if you are provided options, you will be prompted to complete your application with the Provider (including reading and consenting to their terms of use, their privacy policies, their relevant disclosures, the credit pull authorization and any other applicable documents). Additionally, when applying for a home loan, additional documents and verifications will be required. In all circumstances, a hard credit inquiry will then be conducted to further assess your creditworthiness according to the Provider’s criteria (as determined in their sole discretion). Then, actual loan terms, if any, that are available to you will be provided by the Provider on your Credible Dashboard. Providers may decide not to extend you credit if they determine that you do not meet the criteria used to select you for the prequalified rate or any other applicable criteria bearing on your creditworthiness or other non-credit based criteria. Providers reserve the right to approve or decline individual credit applications in their sole discretion;
- Rates are subject to change based on a number of factors which may include, but are not limited to: (i) changes in your personal credit circumstances; (ii) additional information you provide (or are unable to provide) to the Provider during the application process; and/or (iii) changes in APRs (e.g., there may be an increase in the rate index between the time you go through the prequalification process and the time you submit your application for the loan and/or your loan closes (or when you lock your rate with respect to a home loan). Or, if the loan option is a variable rate loan, then the interest rate index used to set the APR is subject to increases or decreases at any time).
- Errors in information displayed or provided to you: Neither Credible nor Providers assume responsibility for typographical or other errors or omissions in the information provided to you.
- Application for credit: You acknowledge that when your information is provided to Credible and/or submitted to Providers, your information may be submitted in the form of a Provider’s application for credit, the relevant disclosures and terms of which you will be provided with, have an opportunity to review, and must accept in order to proceed.
1.7 Federal Aid
1.8 No Recommendations or Professional Advice
What does this mean?
Instead, what we do is try to provide you as much information about the products or services based on the information you provide us or authorize us to go out and get (e.g., your answers to questions, a soft credit pull, preferences you have identified, etc.) so that you can compare your options side-by-side to make the right choices for yourself.
We encourage you to seek advice from a financial professional or other professional who may have more information about your specific financial needs and circumstances.
1.9 Credible Accounts
What does this mean?
In order to use certain functionality of the Service, you must register for an account on our Site. The information you input must be truthful, accurate and complete at all times. If it is not, neither us nor the Provider can verify your identity or display to you products, services and content specific to you. You are only allowed one account, you need to keep it secure; do not share it with others.
When using our Service you may be required to establish an account (“Account”). You agree to the following requirements pertaining to the Account:
2. Change to Service; Prohibited Activities
What does this mean?
There are certain rules that you must follow when using the Service; some examples of what is prohibited are provided in this section.
- copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Service in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated “scraping”;
- using any automated system, including without limitation “robots,” “spiders,” “offline readers,” etc., to access the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the Credible servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional on-line web browser;
- transmitting spam, chain letters, or other unsolicited email;
- attempting to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Service;
- taking any action that imposes, or may impose at our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
- uploading invalid data, viruses, worms, or other software agents through the Service;
- collecting or harvesting any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service;
- interfering with the proper working of the Service;
- accessing any content on the Service through any technology or means other than those provided or authorized by the Service;
- use data provided by us for any competing uses or purposes;
- frame the Site, utilize framing techniques to enclose any Content or other proprietary information, place pop-up windows over this Site's pages, or otherwise affect the display of this Site's pages; or
- bypassing the measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Service, including without limitation features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of the Service or the content therein.
3. Your Consent to Telephone Calls, Recording of Telephone Calls and SMS Messages (text messages)
What does this mean?
- By using our Service and by providing your telephone contact information to us, you agree and have consented in writing to receive calls and text messages from us and our Providers; you have the option to opt-out (but if you opt-out you may miss out on important account updates, account notifications, products, services, etc.)
- Your mobile service provider may charge you for calls/messaging according to your plan and Credible and/or Providers are not responsible for those charges.
- You agree to keep your contact information up-to-date, including your telephone number(s).
- The calls you make to us and the calls we make to you may be monitored and/or recorded.
- Your contact information will be shared with Providers (e.g., when you choose a loan product with a specific lender partner, they will need to contact you to complete the transaction you commenced).
3.1 Consent to receive telephone calls, SMS messages and other messages
3.2 Opt-out or Unsubscribe
3.3 Sharing your phone number with Providers
3.4 The phone numbers you provide
3.5 Charges from your telephone provider
3.6 Call Recording and Monitoring
4. Your Consent to Electronic Communications
Electronic Communications Delivery Policy (E-SIGN Policy)
What does this mean?
The information in this section lets you know what technology you need to be able to view, save and/or print the Communications we send you, and that by using the Service you are agreeing that you have these technological capabilities. This section also lets you know that you must keep your contact information up-to-date.
You also have the right to opt-out of receiving Communications from us and our Providers electronically, but if you do you may not be able to use our Service.
4.1 Electronic Delivery of Communications
- Agreements and Policies (e.g., the Credible Terms of Service and Privacy Policy), including updates to these agreements or policies;
- Federal and State tax statements we or our Providers are required to make available to you, if applicable; and
- Loan Product or other Product-related Disclosures such as Application Disclosures.
4.2 Hardware and Software Requirements
- a computer with an Internet connection;
- a current web browser that includes 128-bit encryption (e.g. Internet Explorer 11 or newer, Safari 9.0.3 or newer, Firefox v. 56 or newer, Chrome V. 60 or newer) with cookies enabled;
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 11 or newer to open documents in .pdf format;
- a valid email address (your primary email address on file with Credible); and
- sufficient storage space to save past Communications or an installed printer to print them.
4.3 Additional Mobile Technology Requirements
4.4 How to Withdraw Your Consent
4.5 Updating your contact information
5. User Content Requirements and Intellectual Property Rights
What does this mean?
We also want to make sure the platform is safe and useful to others, and therefore you must agree to certain rules about the content you provide (5.2; 5.3). If you violate these rules, there are certain ramifications (5.4; 5.5).
All of your ideas are appreciated (with a sincere thank you in advance, but not with monetary compensation or other type of compensation) (5.6).
We also have limits on what you can do with the information that is on our Site (5.8). But, if you believe we, or someone else, is violating your rights in any specific content, we do have a way you can request that we take that information off our Site (5.9).
5.1 You grant us a license to the content you post
5.2 Your representations and warranties about the User Content
5.3 You agree that you will not do any of the following:
- You agree that you will not post any private information about yourself or others (e.g., telephone numbers, addresses, email addresses, account numbers, etc.)
- You agree not to post any false, deceptive or misleading information
- You agree not to post any content that encourages “gaming” or “churning” of another party’s products or services
- You agree that you will not post SPAM (i.e., advertising, commercial materials or content, solicitations or promotional materials)
- You agree that you will not post anything disrespectful, illegal or in violation of our Terms of Service and policies (e.g., unlawful, harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, discriminatory, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, harassing, humiliating to other people (publicly or otherwise), libelous, threatening, profane, or otherwise objectionable)
- You agree that you will not create a risk of loss or damage to any person or property
5.4 Your obligations if you violate (or someone accuses you of violating) their rights with respect to the content you provide.
5.5 Monitoring, editing or removing your User Content
5.6 No compensation for your ideas, content, suggestions, submissions etc.
5.7 Responses to your User Content
5.8 Our Proprietary Rights
5.9 DMCA Notice
- An electronic or physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner;
- Identification of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and where it is located on the Site (e.g., a URL);
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit Credible to contact you, such as your address, telephone number, and, email address;
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or law; and
- A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
Credible Labs Inc.
Address: DPT # 6037
6945 Northpark Boulevard, Suite L
Charlotte, NC 28216-0079
Email: [email protected]
6. Privacy and Security
What does this mean?
7. Indemnity
What does this mean?
We have set forth the rules for using the Service, including your responsibilities and obligations in this Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy. If you violate any of these terms and you get into legal trouble for them, or it results in legal trouble for us, you are legally responsible for any of the ramifications, not us.
8. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND GUARANTEES; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
8.1 ASSUMPTION OF RISK:
8.2 SERVICE AVAILABILITY:
8.3 NO GUARANTEE OF ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY:
8.4 INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY; NO RECOMMENDATIONS OR ADVICE:
8.5 NO WARRANTIES REGARDING PROVIDERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES:
8.6 WE ASSUME NO LIABILITY FOR THE RELATIONSHIP AND INTERACTIONS BETWEEN YOU AND A PROVIDER OR OTHER THIRD PARTY:
9. Legal Disputes
What does this mean?
You agree to arbitrate any and all disputes you may have (or, if the dispute qualifies, in small claims court on a non-class action basis); there is an opt-out procedure (9.7).
You waive your right to a trial by jury.
You can only bring an individual action against us, not a class action.
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS AND WILL HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL IMPACT ON HOW CLAIMS YOU AND CREDIBLE HAVE AGAINST EACH OTHER ARE RESOLVED.
You and Credible agree that any claim or dispute at law or equity that has arisen, or may arise, between you and Credible that relates in any way to or arises out of this or previous versions of the Agreement, your use of or access to the Service, will be resolved in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Legal Disputes Section.
9.1 Dispute resolution
Alternatively, you may assert your claims in small claims court, if your claims qualify and so long as the matter remains in such court and advances only on an individual (non-class, non-representative) basis.
The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Agreement to Arbitrate.
9.2 Prohibition of Class and Representative Actions and Non-Individualized Relief
YOU AND CREDIBLE AGREE THAT EACH OF US MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, OR REPRESENTATIVE OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING. UNLESS BOTH YOU AND CREDIBLE AGREE OTHERWISE, THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE OR JOIN MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S OR PARTY'S CLAIMS, AND MAY NOT OTHERWISE PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF A CONSOLIDATED, REPRESENTATIVE, CLASS, OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING. ALSO, THE ARBITRATOR MAY AWARD RELIEF (INCLUDING MONETARY, INJUNCTIVE, AND DECLARATORY RELIEF) ONLY IN FAVOR OF THE INDIVIDUAL PARTY SEEKING RELIEF AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY TO PROVIDE RELIEF NECESSITATED BY THAT PARTY'S INDIVIDUAL CLAIM(S). ANY RELIEF AWARDED CANNOT AFFECT OTHER USERS.
9.3 Arbitration Procedures
9.4 Costs of Arbitration
9.5 Severability
9.6 Waiver of Jury Trial and Class Action
YOU AND WE AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, THE PARTIES ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION. YOU AND WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ARBITRATION WILL LIMIT OUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL, THE RIGHT TO CONDUCT FULL DISCOVERY, AND THE RIGHT TO APPEAL (EXCEPT AS PERMITTED IN PARAGRAPH (e) OR UNDER THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT).
9.7 Opt-Out Procedure
IF YOU ARE A NEW CREDIBLE USER, YOU CAN CHOOSE TO REJECT THIS AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE ("OPT-OUT") BY MAILING US A WRITTEN OPT-OUT NOTICE ("OPT-OUT NOTICE"). THE OPT-OUT NOTICE MUST BE POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE YOU ACCEPT THE USER AGREEMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME (I.E., YOU ACCEPT THE USER AGREEMENT WHEN YOU USE THE CREDIBLE WEBSITE, WWW.CREDIBLE.COM). YOU MUST MAIL THE OPT-OUT NOTICE TO CREDIBLE INC., ATTN: LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE DEPARTMENT, RE: OPT-OUT NOTICE, DPT # 6037, 6945 Northpark Boulevard, Suite L, Charlotte, NC 28216-0079.
9.8 Future Amendments to the Agreement to Arbitrate
9.9 Judicial Forum for Legal Disputes
10. General
10.1 Term and Termination
10.2 Monitoring of Our Services and Disclosure for Administrative and Legal Reasons:
10.3 Assignment.
10.4 Entire Agreement.
10.5 Severability.
10.6 No Waiver.
10.7 Headings.
10.8 Survival.
10.9 No Agency or Joint Venture.
10.10 Provider and Other Third-Party Terms.
10.11 Contact.
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