Privacy Policy

In the course of doing business with House Counsel, you provide non-public personal

information to House Counsel. This Privacy Statement provides information about the types of

information collected and House Counsel’s policy with respect to the use of that information.

This statement is being provided in compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act (Pub. Law

106-102).

Information Collected

We collect only the information necessary to consistently deliver responsive products and

services to you. This service may include advising you of other products and services that

House Counsel offers. The information collected may include:

• Information we receive from you on applications or other forms:
• Information about your transactions with us;
• Information about your transactions with non-affiliated third parties; and
• Information from a consumer reporting agency.

Use of Information Collected

House Counsel does not sell information about current or former customers to third

parties. We also do not share such information, except when it is required to complete

transactions at your request, or to provide you with information that may be relevant to

your insurance needs.

We may contract with non-affiliated third parties to perform services for House Counsel.

When necessary, we will only disclose the information necessary for the third party to

carry out its agreed responsibilities. We require these non-affiliated third parties to treat

your personal information as confidential.

We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our clients or former

clients to anyone, except as stated above or as otherwise permitted by law.

Protection of Information Collected

We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who

need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain

physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to

guard your nonpublic personal information.

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information

through the electronic check and credit card processing networks. See an online payments diagram [link

to http://www.authorize.net/resources/howitworksdiagram/] to see how it works.

House Counsel adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:

• 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.
• Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.
• Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the

Authorize.Net Privacy Policy [link to http://www.authorize.net/company/privacy/].

www.housecounsel.com is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.