Security and Privacy Policy

This security and privacy notice discloses the privacy and security practices for our company and for this web site www.cdladvantage.com:

Security and Privacy Notice

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. 

Wherever we collect sensitive information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only personnel who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, credit application, school enrollment, job placement or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

We may partner with other parties to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we may share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. In general, these parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services. However, we have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. 

This four items immediately below apply solely to information that may be collected directly by this website. Regarding information collected directly by this website, it will notify you of the following:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.

2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.

3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.

4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing 

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site and on the forms associated or linked to this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or form entries or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.    

We will use your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, including, but not restricted to, facilitating your request for any product or service.   

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information 

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the the contact form on our website:

•See what data we have about you, if any.

•Change/correct any data we have about you.

•Have us delete any data we have about you.

•Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Cookies 

We may use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Additional privacy and security information

Subject to the disclaimers herein and the notices regarding links to other sites, we provide the following general information on privacy and security:  

256 Bit SSL

Forms are served across protected 256 bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connection that uses a SHA256 Certificate. This is the same level of protection used by online banking or e-commerce providers.

Encryption and PCI Compliance

Submission data is transferred and stored in a secure format and no one else can read it. Submissions are encrypted with high-grade RSA 2048 right at user's computer then transferred and stored securely.  By default, we and our vendors and partners utilize the TLSv1.2 connection standard on top of SHA256/RSA encryption for HTTPS. For encryption of form submissions, we and our vendors and partners use 2048 Bit RSA Keys. The forms are also PCI DSS Service Provider Level I Compliant.

File uploads

Files are stored on secure servers and further protected under a randomized hexadecimal naming and storage strategy and also further secured by 256 Bit SSL.

CCPA Compliance

Submissions are compliant with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which protects California residents by requiring businesses to handle their online and offline data in a responsible manner.

Legal Compliance

We will share your information with third parties as required by law. We cooperate with government, law enforcement, and private third party requests for information as we, in our sole discretion, determine is reasonably necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, government request or legal process, including but not limited to subpoenas. 

Consent to electronic communication

By entering into a relationship with us or providing information to us, you consent to do business with CDLA and our current and future affiliates, contractors, vendors, and agents electronically. You consent to use electronic records in our relationship with you. You are responsible for privacy protection of any electronic records in your possession, including, but not restricted to, any disclosures, agreements, account information, notices, statements, emails, sms texts, files, voice mails, attachments, electronic signatures, links, and other information sent to you or from you electronically. 

We may share your personal information as permitted by law, including, but not limited to, as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to ensure security and confidentiality, to prevent, detect or respond to fraud or security incidents, to respond to claims and legal process, to protect the property or rights of CDL Advantage or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical or legally actionable activity. 

CDLA Program Administrators and Facilitators

All organizations and individuals who administer or facilitate any CDLA program (including, but not restricted to, individuals, schools, employers, training facilities and career development organizations) are third parties who are solely responsible for (a) privacy protection of any of your data in their possession whether provided by you or provided by CDLA; and (b) for ensuring CDLA program information is only shared with personnel, organizations, and CDLA on a “need-to-know” basis; and (c) ensuring personally identifiable information is only disseminated to CDLA via approved channels.

Children's Privacy

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 18. In the case we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

Disclaimers and Links to other sites

We value your trust in providing us your personal information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, nor method of electronic storage, is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. You are responsible for the privacy of any information that is in your possession.

The statements above include information provided by our vendors and partners, all of whom are third parties.   These third parties may include, but are not restricted to, originators, servicers, lenders, training facilities and employers. CDLA is not responsible for the security practices of third parties. Third parties are solely responsible for privacy protection of any data in their possession.  We make no warrant or representation as to statements made by third parties, whether they are included herein or otherwise.  We specifically disclaim responsibility for any warrant and representation made by any third parties. 

This website may contain links to other sites. If you click on a link to a third-party, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, and practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to this Security and Privacy Policy and Notice 

We may update our Security and Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Security and Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Security and Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.