MassEZCredit.com / Potratz Partners Automotive Advertising uses a variety of security safeguards to protect information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. For example, customers are only able to access information in their account by submitting their user name and password they created during registration. We provide access to personal information to MassEZCredit.com / Potratz Partners Automotive Advertising employees and other authorized parties on a "need to know" basis. In addition, we require that all employees attend a privacy training program and sign a Confidentiality Agreement that indicates that they are aware of MassEZCredit.com / Potratz Partners Automotive Advertising privacy policy regarding the use and disclosure of information.

MassEZCredit.com / Potratz Partners Automotive Advertising also uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology supporting up to 128-bit encryption to prevent unauthorized parties from viewing any personal information transmitted to or from MassEZCredit.com / Potratz Partners Automotive Advertising . We maintain up-to-date firewalls and use anti-virus software that updates automatically.

MassEZCredit.com / Potratz Partners Automotive Advertising uses technology to:

• Gather technical information from Web browsers (IP address, operating system).
• Set cookies on your computer. "Cookies" are small computer files which are automatically placed on your computer's hard drive when you are connected to a website or remote server so that the website can recognize you upon your return to the website and tailor your experience based on your earlier use of the site. MassEZCredit.com / Potratz Partners Automotive Advertising uses a cookie for each computer that visits its site. The cookie is integral to the customer experience and is necessary in order to use our online services. It allows MassEZCredit.com / Potratz Partners Automotive Advertising to customize the website presentation based on your accounts. While cookies can be disabled, if you choose to disable our cookie you will not be able to use some of our websites. We do not use cookies to collect information from hard drives or to collect personal identifiable information; rather, it allows us to recognize you and know how you navigated through our site. It is also part of our effort to detect and stop fraud.
• Keep track of loan application statuses through the use of "Action tags" (also known as Web Beacons, Trackers, or Bugs), which are invisible pixel.gif files placed on web pages that are used to track web navigation to those pages.

We maintain electronic loan application information and hardcopy data. We also protect all personal information by storing the information on tapes at an offsite facility in our Data Warehouse. The Data Warehouse is disconnected from the production environment and the information is used internally for reporting purposes.