The Equifax Way: All About Equifax Credit Bureau
Since over a century ago, Equifax Credit Bureau has provided valuable information services to both businesses and individuals globally. With an annual revenue of over $1.3 billion dollars and 4,400 employees in 12 different countries, Equifax Credit Agency maintains its market leading position by adhering to a strict, self-imposed corporate governance program that includes:
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clearly communicating their operating principles
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following a stringent code of ethics
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compliance requirements
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committee charters
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a privacy policy
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and a set of values for guiding Equifax information services employees in their daily business; "The Equifax Way"
From the moment they opened their doors in the final year of the 19th century, Equifax Credit Bureau employees abide by the Equifax Way, their common guiding principles, starting with -
the belief that a business whose principal product is information
must set an unparalleled standard for integrity.
Equifax Credit Bureaus guiding purpose - the Equifax Way - goes on to make two key distinctions:
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Operating Principles - It is all about growth, innovation, and deployment of technology, led by the greatest people anywhere;
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Our Business Values - At Equifax we lead with integrity, work as a team, respect all people, and are performance-driven to achieve excellence in all that we do.
But Equifax Credit Agency's commitment to technology and humanity, to progress and compassion, doesn't stop there. The aforementioned Equifax Credit Bureau Code of Ethics includes the following:
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to conduct a socially-responsible business within both the letter and the spirit of their self-imposed Code;
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to recognize that their greatest strength are its people;
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to treat everyone - customers, consumers, and employees with respect and dignity;
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to address consumer privacy issues;
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to actively seek out business partners and customers whose ethics and values mirror their own.
And the Equifax Credit Bureau Board of Directors has their very own Code of Ethics on top of that.
The Equifax information services' Privacy Policy promises:
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to give all visitors to the Equifax Credit Bureau website clear notice whenever requesting information from you, detailing the types of information requested, the general purposes that information will be used for, the categories of users to whom we provide the information, and - most significantly - provide you the ability to opt out of such uses online;
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keep accurate records, allow you access to whatever personally identifiable information is able to be retrieved online, and lay out for you a fair procedure for updating and correcting data;
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maintain safe and secure systems - both physical and electronic - for safeguarding any information about you.
Those are principles a consumer can feel secure about. And together they make up the foundation of all Equifax Credit Bureau's information services.
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