Background Investigations takes safeguarding online privacy and general site policies seriously. Please read the following to understand our practices and procedures. From time to time, we may need to change our policy statement because of changes in its business, or in its attempts to better serve your needs. Background Investigations will use reasonable efforts to publish any changes to its privacy statement.

Global Privacy & Site Policies

(Last update) October 18th, 2007

Billing Policy

All invoices are due and payable in full within 30 days of the date of invoice. Finance charges are assessed at a rate of 1.5% per month (18% annually) on all balances more than 30 days old. The minimum finance charge is $2.50. Clients with outstanding invoices over 90 days will be unable to access services until the account is paid in full.

Privacy Policy

If you visit our site to read or download information, request record searches or link to other sites we collect and store only the following information about you:

  • The date and time you access our site
  • The Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site
  • The pages viewed
  • Browser & Plugin Configuration (used exclusively for diagnostics)

This information is used to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. Also, you may decide to send us personally-identifying information, for example, an electronic mail message containing a unique service request. The information collected from these types of communications are stored or logged.

Improper Usage Policy

Improper usage of this website and the information contained within may be remedied by any or all of the following actions.

  • Immediate de-activation of all related user and or client accounts
  • Sanctions as provided by the FCRA

Unauthorized Modification Or Defacement

Unauthorized modifications and or defacement of any or all pages contained in this website will be remedied by the following actions:

  • Criminal and or civil prosecution to the fullest extent of the law