Sentences with phrase «by a collection company»

A great personal injury lawyer represents victims who have been injured because of medical malpractice, falls in a public location, being pestered by collection companies, being rejected benefits, or vehicle accidents.

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Sehested recommends that companies leverage new technology to help them execute better due diligence, «Smart technology can facilitate efficient due diligence processes by automating baseline risk ranking, information and document collection, and providing global screening reports.»

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

By creating four engaging video advertisements and using influencers, such as Tyler Posey, Hannah Simone, Jana Kramer and Peyton List, the company was able to reach over 12 million customers across the world with its new collection.

The company has also designed two collections with Disney: one inspired by Mickey Mouse and the other spotlighting its most infamous villains.

This model is profitable for the employee because they can serve several families without the headache of financial collections or self - employment taxes and is convenient for the customer because the aids will be background - checked and bonded by the company.

Practices regarding the collection, use, storage, transmission and security of personal information by companies operating over the Internet have recently come under increased public scrutiny.

According to fund tracker Morningstar: «A mutual fund is a basket of stocks, bonds or other types of assets that is professionally managed by an investment company on behalf of investors who don't have the time, know - how or resources to buy a diversified collection of individual securities (stocks, bonds etc.) on their own.

Like Equifax and D&B, they also collect information available within the public record, information reported by both lenders and suppliers, as well as information from credit card companies, collection agencies, and other databases.

In his view the company also needs to create systems to audit third party data collection and sharing «on an ongoing basis» — and thereby «hold third parties to their promises by engineering controls and contractual lockups» — including «effective remedies when third parties break the rules — including enforceable rights to audit, retrieve, delete and destroy data improperly acquired or used, and liquidated and actual damages for violations».

While Sherman echoed Zuckerberg in saying that users tell the company they prefer relevant ads, and that this data can help thwart hackers and scrapers, many users are unsettled by the offsite collection practices.

For eight years it resided with CasePlace.org and grew to have more than 700 teaching materials, including videos, cases, syllabi, teaching modules, and reading collections, with thousands of downloads per year by researchers, teachers, and companies.

Companies should not assume that users are aware of the connection between data collection and targeted advertising, and targeted advertising should be off by default.

The hearings didn't reveal new information about Facebook's practices, but they suggested that many members of Congress are ready to move on from the status quo of weak privacy protections and unfettered data collection by companies in the U.S. Below, we break down some of the top hits, misses, and unanswered questions from the hearings.

Not merely a collection of good ideas, this book spells out the 67 timeless principles and practices used by the world's most successful men and women — proven principles and strategies that can be adapted for your own life, whether you want to be the best salesperson in your company, become a leading architect, score top grades in school, lose weight, buy your dream home, make millions, or just get back in the job market.

To focus on simply Google and Facebook, though, is to miss how much other data collection is going on: ad networks are tracking you on nearly every website you visit, your credit card company is tracking your purchases (and by extension your location), your grocery store is tracking your eating habit, the list goes on and on.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Perhaps Buffett, too, had realized this by the 1970s, when he wound the partnerships down and instead lumped his money in with that of his most faithful investors to co-own the collection of companies that became the modern Berkshire Hathaway.

The dramatic fall from grace appears to have occurred when Facebook stepped on a third rail: the large - scale data collection by an outside party — Cambridge Analytica — without the company's knowledge, said Peter Crist, chairman of the executive search firm Crist Kolder Associates.

He was co-founder and CEO of Meridian Equity Partners, a licensed financial and lending firm; Strategic Intelligence, an online publishing firm; and Marketshare, a data collection and market - research company acquired by Harris Interactive (AC Nielsen) where he also served on the global management team.

Facebook's data collection practices, the core of its ad - based business model, have come under broad scrutiny in recent weeks as the company has been forced to raise its estimates of how much user information was leaked and to admit that «most» of its more than two billion users may have had their public profile data scraped by outside harvesters.

Companies whose businesses are dominated by either of the following activities: The construction or provision of oil rigs, drilling equipment and other energy - related service and equipment, including seismic data collection.

Income mutual funds are a collection of stocks and bonds administered by a company for the benefit of investors.

The first is the company's very consistent and dependable stream of rental revenue and AFFO generated by STORE's highly diversified collection of long - term leases, from high - quality tenants.

In China, about 90 % of ecommerce is done in online marketplaces, vast collections of the virtual shops of thousands of independent merchants supported by third - party service providers such as parcel - delivery companies.

Bain Capital revamped production, restructured executive pay, and offered discounts to customers that gave Accuride all their business, instead of splitting it among competitors, according to the book «The Loyalty Effect», a collection of business case studies written by a Bain & Company director.

The TOMS Marketplace features a hand - selected collection of items made by companies that give back.

One of the finest collection of essays on ecological issues by a diverse group of authors, including representatives of process thought and creation centered spirituality, is the previously mentioned Joranson, Philip N., and Butigan, Ken, eds., Cry of the Environment: Rebuilding the Christian Creation Tradition (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bear and Company, 1984).

For peoples subject to, or allied with, the Roman state, this change in the form of government did not make a great deal of difference, except that in the early years of the empire the power struggles which accompanied the decline of the republic seemed to have come to an end, and tax - collection by private companies, often accompanied by extortion, was replaced by tax - collection by civil servants.

Now, it is hoped that with the funding from Costa making it more financially viable for companies to collect coffee cups, there will be an associated increase in investment in collection infrastructure, ensuring that more cups are able to be recycled at the Kemsley mill as well as at the other UK facilities able to process the items, run by James Cropper and ACE UK.

Urban Accents, a creative culinary spice blends company, celebrates its 20th Anniversary by adding its first line of spice - infused pumpkin and pizza simmer sauces to its established collection of over 150 dry blended products.

Proudly certified by Australian Organic, The Divine Company is a premium beauty and personal care collection for women, men and children.

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There are $ 5 sprouted nut bars popping up in corner delis alongside the PopTarts and I was just sent a collection of sprouted pasta and cereals that are beautifully packaged with a tan and white palate and manufactured by a company that makes nothing but sprouted food.

Early embossed hand blown mold pepper sauce bottles in the author's collection include: several spiral designed bottles patented by E. R. Durkee & Company; many varieties of colored spiral bottles with Stickney & Poor (S&P) embossed on the base; a multiple - paneled William Schotten & Co..

The positive spot features Michelle Minton, a Republican mother of two from Buffalo, who says she was harassed and threatened by a predatory debt collection company for a $ 4,400 bill she didn't owe.

The operational part — collection, treatment and landfilling — is performed by private companies or subsidiaries, which compete in public tenders.

A collection of news and information related to Republican Party published by Tribune Company sources.

Although he could not give the quantum of debts owed by the companies, he said the were being consolidated to enable the government to clear them within a period of three to five years from collections from energy sector levies.

Refuse collection companies in Accra have stopped collecting refuse generated by residents for the last month.

Under the legislation, pharmaceutical companies would be required to devise and operate drug collection programs that were approved by the state Health Department.

A collection of energy companies and trade associations have filed a lawsuit seeking to reverse a decision by the Cuomo administration to subsidize several struggling upstate nuclear plants.

One Hundred Butterflies, a new book by Harold Feinstein (Little, Brown and Company), showcases an extraordinary collection of butterflies and moths in stunning photographs.

If you would like more information about advertising - related data collection practices and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.

A metadata expert reveals the sobering implications of personal data collection by governments and companies

The Strategic Partnership Programme is open on a rolling basis to applications involving strategic opportunities within all areas covered by SFI's legal remit where significant co-funding from a company, collection of companies, funding agency, charity, philanthropic organization or Higher Education Institute is available.

Unlike (some) other fashion brands that are forever evolving, Burberry is one that has stayed most consistent and true to its roots — not changing its aesthetic when it comes to the fashion collections produced by the company.

According to the company's spring fashion report, designers like Daniel Silverstain, Herve Leger by Max Azria, and Dennis Basso showcased Marsala in their spring 2015 collections.

We are seeing so many combo's on the runway and luckily department stores like Ny & Company offer amazing collection like Soho by Jennifer Hudson to meet our denim thirst!

This company is an online jewelry brand that was started by 7 friends, each with their own collection and style.