Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us

It is Encore Capital Advisors’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to encorecapitaladvisors.com (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "encorecapitaladvisors.com/"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.

1. Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Encore Capital Advisors collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Encore Capital Advisors’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Encore Capital Advisors’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Encore Capital Advisors may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Encore Capital Advisors also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://encorecapitaladvisors.com/ blog posts. Encore Capital Advisors only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

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2. Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Encore Capital Advisors’ websites choose to interact with Encore Capital Advisors in ways that require Encore Capital Advisors to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Encore Capital Advisors gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who leave a comment at https://encorecapitaladvisors.com to provide a username and email address.

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3. Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

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4. Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Encore Capital Advisors and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

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6. Encore Capital Advisors uses Google AdWords for remarketing

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Encore Capital Advisors and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

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7. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Encore Capital Advisors discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Encore Capital Advisors’ behalf or to provide services available at Encore Capital Advisors’ website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Encore Capital Advisors’ website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Encore Capital Advisors will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Encore Capital Advisors discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Encore Capital Advisors believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Encore Capital Advisors, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://encorecapitaladvisors.com/ and have supplied your email address, Encore Capital Advisors may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Encore Capital Advisors and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Encore Capital Advisors takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

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8. Aggregated Statistics

Encore Capital Advisors may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Encore Capital Advisors may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Encore Capital Advisors does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

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9. Affiliate Disclosure

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

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10. Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Encore Capital Advisors uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Encore Capital Advisors uses cookies to help Encore Capital Advisors identify and track visitors, their usage of https://encorecapitaladvisors.com/, and their website access preferences. Encore Capital Advisors visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Encore Capital Advisors’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Encore Capital Advisors’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Encore Capital Advisors’ use of cookies.

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11. E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with Encore Capital Advisors – by purchasing Encore Capital Advisors’ services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Encore Capital Advisors collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Encore Capital Advisors. Encore Capital Advisors does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

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12. Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Encore Capital Advisors may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Encore Capital Advisors’ sole discretion. Encore Capital Advisors encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

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13. Contact Information & Credit

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us.

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