Certain Disclosures Regarding Lead Generation

These disclosures are made to you by Doshound ("we" or "us"). Although you are applying for a loan through a website maintained by us, we are not a lender. We are a lead generator. The following disclosures describe how we operate and process your application.

1. As a lead generator we work with lender networks. Lender networks have a network of lead generators from which lender networks buy leads and a separate network of purchasers to whom lender networks sell leads. Lead generators do not know the identities of the lead purchasers in lender networks or details about the terms of the credit products offered to consumers, and the lead purchasers do not know the identities of the lead generators.
2. We operate websites that advertise loans and through which consumers submit loan applications (the information contained in the application is sometimes referred to as leads). Lead generators sell the applications to lenders or lender networks, and lender networks sell the applications to lead purchasers. The purchasers are online and offline loan lenders, data managers, data brokers, and remarketing companies. Data managers are intermediaries for lenders that outsource their lead-purchasing activities. Data brokers are lead aggregators that have their own networks of lead purchasers to which they sell leads after they purchase them from us. Remarketing companies buy consumer information to send marketing materials to consumers for products other than the loans for which the consumers applied. We do not know the end purchasers of the leads or applications.
3. To filter leads to lead networks, we sometimes use a "ping tree," which sets the order in which lead buyers have the option to purchase a given lead from us. The position of each purchaser in the ping tree is determined primarily by the price the purchaser is willing to pay for a lead; the higher the price, the better the purchaser's position in the ping tree.
4. A consumer who submits a loan application on a lead generator's webpage is nearly immediately redirected from that page to a lender's webpage. This automated process typically takes just seconds, and the consumer is not informed that the loan application has been sold by us to a lead purchaser either directly or through a lender network.
5. We do not provide loans directly to consumers, do not select the lenders that will see a consumer's application, and have no involvement in or knowledge of the terms of the loan a consumer receives after we sell the lead. We do nothing more than forward applications to loan networks or lead purchasers.
6. We do not know the loan terms that consumers will be offered by lead purchasers, and we make no attempt to match consumers with the best loan for their needs. Once we sell the lead, we do not know whether a loan is actually made, or whether the consumer accepts or rejects the lender's terms.
7. We do not require loan networks, data managers, data brokers, or remarketers to disclose the ultimate purchasers of our leads. We therefore do not know the identity of lenders that obtain consumer applications through our websites.
8. We do not perform any screening or on-going compliance monitoring of lead purchasers.
9. Lender networks provide regular feedback to us regarding the quality of our leads, including the number of leads that convert to loans and reasons why leads did not convert. We use this information to refine our lead processing to optimize lead conversion.
10. Some of the entities that ultimately buy our leads may be organized by Indian tribes, known as tribal lenders, or organized under the laws of foreign jurisdictions, known as offshore lenders. These lenders typically claim immunity from state regulation, do not comply with the laws of the states where the consumers to whom they make loans are located, and do not concede that they are subject to jurisdiction in a forum convenient to the consumer.
11. Tribal lenders and offshore lenders typically charge higher interest rates than lenders adhering to state laws. Because they charge higher interest rates, these lenders generally are willing to pay more for leads and most likely represent the ultimate buyers at the top of our ping tree.
12. Many of the tribal lenders offer contracts providing for the application of tribal law to the contract and providing an exclusive tribal dispute-resolution process.
13. If you are seeking a particular form of credit for which you do not qualify, you may receive solicitations for a form of credit that you are not seeking. The terms of the credit offered may be inferior to those you were originally seeking. You do not have to accept or respond to these solicitations.
14. We may sell your email address to third parties who will use your address to solicit you for goods and services for which you have not applied or which you have not otherwise sought. You do not have to accept or reply to these solicitations.
15. Parties to whom we sell leads, including data managers and brokers, regularly combine the information provided by you with information available about you from other sources, such as public records and credit bureaus, for the purpose of offering you goods and services. Some of these goods and services may be other than those for which you have applied. You do not have to accept or reply to these offers.