Last Modified: January 23, 2024

First Shield Financial or FSF or 1Shield Financial (collectively, “us,” “we” or “our”) are deeply committed to your right to ​privacy and takes your ​privacy seriously. FSF has prepared this ​privacy policy statement (“​Privacy Policy​”) to describe our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information through the www.firstshieldfinancial.com websites (“Web Site”). This ​Privacy Policy is incorporated into the Terms and Conditions Agreement. FSF will collect, use, and disclose your personal information as described in this ​Privacy Policy​. A. By using the Web Site, you agree to follow and be bound by the terms of use (“Terms and Conditions”), and the Privacy Policy and Full Disclaimer, which are hereby incorporated into the Terms and Conditions. In the Terms and Conditions, the words “you” and “your” refer to each Web Site visitor or user, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to FSF and First Shield Financial, and “Services” refers to all services provided by us. Please see the Terms and Conditions located at ​www.firstshieldfinancial.com​/privacy-terms-conditions​ for its requirements. B. We may revise the Terms and Conditions at any time without notice to you. It is your responsibility to review the Terms and Conditions periodically. If at any time you find the Terms and Conditions unacceptable ​or if you do not agree to the Terms and Conditions​, please do not use this Web Site. If you have any questions about the Terms and Conditions, please contact us at info@1shieldfinancial. C. FSF respects your ​privacy and permits you to control the treatment of your personal information. A complete statement of FSF’s current ​Privacy Policy can be found below. FSF’s ​Privacy Policy is expressly incorporated into the Terms and Conditions. When you open an account to use or access certain portions of the Web Site or the Services, you must provide complete and accurate information as requested on the registration form. You will also be asked to provide a user name and password. If you choose to register, you agree to: (a) supply the information requested in the registration process, (b) ensure that all the information you supply to us is accurate, and (c) update your personal information. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You may not use a third party’s account, user name or password at any time. You agree to notify FSF immediately of any unauthorized use of your account, user name or password. FSF shall not be liable for any losses you incur as a result of someone else’s use of your account or password, either with or without your knowledge. You may be held liable for any losses incurred by FSF, our affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents and representatives due to someone else’s use of your account or password. D. In connection with the use of certain FSF products or Services, you may be asked to provide personal information in a questionnaire, application, form or similar document or service. This information will be protected pursuant to our ​Privacy Policy​. In addition, you grant FSF a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, and fully sub-licensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, publish and translate this personal information solely for the purpose of enabling your use of the applicable service. You may revoke this license and terminate FSF’s rights at any time by canceling your subscription. 1. Information Collected Through the combination of both internal and third party tracking code as well as cookies, we track the following categories of information when a visitor enters the Web Site: (1) IP address, (2) domain servers, (3) type of computer used to access the Web Site, (4) types of web browsers (collectively “Anonymous Data”). Such data does not collect information that identifies you as an individual. FSF uses Anonymous Data for general marketing purposes and to help enhance customer experience on the Web Site. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous. For you to access certain free and/or paid or subscription based services that we offer through the Web Site, we may require you to provide us with information that can identify you as an individual (“Personally Identifiable Information”). Personally Identifiable Information includes: (i) “Contact Data” (such as your first and last name, physical street address, city, state, zip code, phone number and email address), (ii) “Financial Data” (such as your credit card number, expiration date, and verification code), (iii) “Legal Data” (such as your social security number, mortgage information, and automobile information). Please note that Contact Data and Anonymous Data is used to gather general statistics regarding our customers and visitors, in order to enhance the consumer experience on the Web Site. We may also use demographic data in a manner that does not identify you specifically or allow you to be contacted but does identify certain criteria about our users in general. For example, we may inform third parties about the number of registered users, number of unique visitors, and the pages most frequently browsed. We use your Contact Data to provide you with special information and promotions regarding our products or to contact a customer regarding an order or to respond to a question or request. Any Financial Data gathered is used for the purposes of processing or completing the financial transaction for your order or subscription. If you post information on any of our chat groups, message boards or forums, or elect to make any of your Contact Data public, such information you provide may be available to other members of the Web Site and other Web Site visitors. You should use caution when deciding to disclose your personal information in these venues as we do not control who may participate in these interactive forum. Also, please be advised that certain personal information becomes public record upon the filing of documents with the state or the court. For example, the corporate name, business address and the name of the registered agent become public information upon the filing of articles of incorporation. In many cases, the Secretary of State will provide this information to third parties for a fee. The US Patent and Trademark Office will also make public the names and addresses of trademark registrants. In some states, fictitious business names, including the name and address of the business owner, must be published in a newspaper. FSF’s ​privacy policy​ does not cover actions by these third parties.   2. Choice Regarding Disclosure of Contact Information You may choose not to provide us with any Contact Information. In such an event, you can still access and use some portions of the Web Site; however you will not be able to access and use portions of the Web Site that require your Contact Information. 3. Confidentiality and Security of Contact Information Except as described in this ​Privacy Policy​, we will not share your Contact Information with third parties, unless such disclosure is necessary (as determined in our sole discretion) to: (a) comply with a court order or other legal process; (b) protect the rights, property, and/or safety of FSF or any third party; or (c) enforce the Terms and Conditions. We use reasonable measures to maintain the security of your Contact Information. However, no company, organization, or online community, including FSF, can fully eliminate security risks associated with personal information. 4. Other Disclosures We may provide your personal information to third party service providers, including a payment processor, such as stripe.com or similar provider, who work on behalf of or with FSF to provide some of the services and features of the Web Site and to help us communicate with the members of our Web Site, including processing of payments. However, these service providers do not have any independent right to share this information without your permission (except pursuant to a legal requirement such as a subpoena or warrant). Third party service providers may have their own privacy policies that contain less or additional protections than this ​Privacy Policy​. You are responsible for reviewing each third party service provider’s privacy policy to confirm you understand and agree with their policies. See Section 5 for additional information. We may share some or all of your personal information with our parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (“Affiliates”), in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this ​Privacy Policy​. If the assets related to the Web Site are acquired by another company, that company will possess the personal information collected by us and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal information as described in this ​Privacy Policy​. FSF has security measures in place to minimize the loss, misuse, destruction and alteration of the information that you provide us or that we obtain from you. We will have no liability however to you or to any third-party arising out of any such loss, misuse, destruction, or alternation.   5. Other Limits to Your Privacy Our Web Site contains links to other third-party websites (“Linked Websites”). We are not responsible for the ​privacy practices or the content of the Linked Websites. If you choose to visit other websites, we are not responsible for the ​Privacy Practices or content of those other websites, and it is your responsibility to review the ​Privacy Policies​ at those websites to confirm that you understand and agree with their ​policies​. As discussed above, we also make chat groups, forums, and message boards available to you, but please understand that any information you disclose in these areas becomes public information and accordingly, such information is not subject to this ​Privacy Policy​. We have no control over its use and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information. 6. Updates and Changes to Privacy Policy We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update or modify this ​Privacy Policy​, by posting such change, update or modification on the Web Site. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting. 7. Contact If you have any questions about this ​Privacy Policy​, or your dealings with the Web Site, you can contact us at Kim@1shieldfinancial.com. 8. Governing Law; Venue​. By using this Web Site, you expressly agree that your rights and obligations shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida, excluding its choice of law rules. Any legal action or proceeding relating to your access to or use of the Web Site or Materials shall be instituted in a state or federal court in the State of Florida. You and FSF agree exclusively and irrevocably to submit to the jurisdiction of, and agree that venue is proper in, these courts in any such legal action or proceeding. The Terms and Conditions expressly exclude and disclaim the terms of the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, which shall not apply to any transaction conducted through or otherwise involving this Web Site.

PRODUCTS, WEBINARS, WORKSHOPS AND CONSULTANCY:

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

COMPANY Web Site Terms and Conditions (“Terms”)

Please read the following Terms carefully before using First Shield Financial ’S (“COMPANY”, “our” or “we”) web site, www. firstshieldfinancial.com, including but not limited to the firstshieldfinancial.com Web Site, as well as any online features, services and/or programs offered by COMPANY (collectively, the “Web Site”). By accessing or using the Web Site, you agree to the following Terms. You should review these Terms regularly as they may change at any time at the sole discretion of COMPANY. If you do not agree to any portion of these Terms, you should not access or otherwise use the Web Site. “Content” refers to any text, materials, documents, images, graphics, logos, design, audio, video and any other information provided from or on, uploaded to and/or downloaded from the Web Site.

We will make an effort to update this web page with any changes to these Terms and/or to the services described in these Terms and you are encouraged to review these Terms frequently (the date of the most recent revision to these Terms appear at the end of these Terms).

Terms related to Online Account Access to your account(s) that you have with COMPANY (“Account”) is set forth in Paragraph 3 herein.

1. CONVENIENCE AND INFORMATION ONLY; ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS. By merely providing access to the Web Site, COMPANY does not warrant or represent that: (a) the Content is accurate, complete, up-to-date or current; (b) COMPANY has any obligation to update any Content; (c) the Content is free from technical inaccuracies or typographical errors; (d) that the Content does not infringe on the intellectual property rights of any third party; (e) that the Content is free from changes caused by a third party; (f) your access to the Web Site will be free from interruptions, errors, computer viruses or other harmful components; and/or (g) any information obtained in response to questions asked through, or postings made on, the Web Site is accurate or complete. Your use of the Web Site and the services offered therein are subject to federal law, the law of the state where COMPANY maintains your Account, or, if COMPANY transfers your Account to another location, where COMPANY currently maintains your Account (“Applicable Law”).

You affirm that you are either more than 18 years of age, or an emancipated minor, or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in these Terms, and to abide by and comply with these Terms. In any case, you affirm that you are over the age of 13, as THE WEB SITE IS NOT INTENDED FOR CHILDREN UNDER 13 THAT ARE UNACCOMPANIED BY HIS OR HER PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN.

1. SITE USE AND CONTENT. You may view, copy or print pages from the Web Site solely for personal purposes. You may not otherwise use, resell, advertise, modify, copy, print, display, reproduce, distribute or publish any information from the Web Site without the express, prior, written consent of COMPANY. At any time, we may, without further notice, make changes to the Web Site, to these Terms and/or to the services described in these Terms.

Subscriber shall not edit, alter, abridge or otherwise change in any manner the content of the Service, including, without limitation, all copyright and proprietary rights notices. Subscriber may not, and may not permit others to:

• reverse engineer, decompile, decode, decrypt, disassemble, or in any way derive source code from, the software or Service;

• modify, translate, adapt, alter, or create derivative works from the Service;

• copy (other than one back-up copy), distribute, publicly display, transmit, sell, rent, lease or otherwise exploit the Service; or

• distribute, sublicense, rent, lease, loan, or grant any third party access to or use of the Service to any third party.

• use the Licensed Products for the purposes of competing with COMPANY, including without limitation competitive intelligence.

You agree that the Service and Feed specifications, including without limitation the editorial coding and metadata contained therein, are the property of COMPANY or COMPANY’S licensors. The works and databases included in the content of the Service are protected by applicable copyright laws. You agree that only Authorized Users shall be permitted access to the Service. Except as set forth herein, no clients or other persons or entities who are not legal employees of you or independent contractors consulting for you in the ordinary course of Subscriber’s business may be Authorized Users. You shall not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of the Service. You further agree that neither you nor any Authorized User shall store (except as permitted under Section 1(d)(ii) for retrieval and display purposes only), copy, reproduce, retransmit, disseminate, sublicense, sell, distribute, publish, broadcast, circulate, create derivative works (including, without limitation, trading algorithms), test algorithms in conjunction with, or distribute by any means the Service in whole or in part to anyone, including, but not limited to, other employees of you, without COMPANY’S express prior written consent; provided, however, that Authorized Users may on an occasional basis in the normal course of business include limited portions of the Service (a) in oral and (with proper attribution to the respective Service) non-electronic written communications with clients and other employees, and (b) in email and instant messaging communications with other employees and/or securities professionals. Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall distribution under this Section by you be permitted if such distribution may be viewed as a substitute for a subscription to the Service itself. You agree that when using the Service in this way, the facts, content and intent of the Service will not be changed in form or in spirit or otherwise in any way be prejudicial to the integrity of the Service or COMPANY.

1. USER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, SECURITY AND ELECTRONIC ACCOUNT SERVICES.

1. DEFINITIONS. The following definitions govern the terms of this Paragraph 3 and as used elsewhere in these Terms:

• Bill Payment Cutoff Time means 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on any Business Day and is the time by which you must transmit Payment Instructions for such Payment Instructions to be considered effective for that particular Business Day.

1. Business Day means every day except Saturdays and Sundays and federal holidays.

1. Linked Accounts [If users will be allowed to manage all their Accounts for different properties from one online account, a description of what the customer may do with each Account will be provided here.]

1. Payment Account means your personal or business checking, savings, or money market account from which COMPANY bill payments for your Account(s) may be made by you. COMPANY recommends that you confirm with your banking institution any fees that you may be changed for bill payments from your Payment Account before designating a banking account as a Payment Account (e.g., your money market account may permit a limited number of transfers before fees are imposed).

1. Payee means COMPANY or its subsidiary to which you direct a payment.

1. Payment Instructions means the information provided by you for a bill payment to be made to Payee (i.e., banking account number, ABA number, payment date, payment amount, and any additional information).

1. Payment Due Date means the Business Day of your choice and as designated by you upon which your payment will be received by Payee and your Payment Account will be debited. Note: Your Payment Due Date may be no later than the “Due Date” set by COMPANY for your most current bill.

1. Pending Bill Payment means a pending bill payment authorized by you through the Online Service that has not been debited to your Payment Account.

1. ONLINE ACCOUNT ACCESS. For certain types of features available through the Web Site, including the Online Account Access features (the “Online Service”), we require the use of encryption technologies provided for your protection and/or your use of a user identification name (“UserID”) and password after setting up a user account (“User Account”). The Online Service is available by clicking on the Online Account Access login at www.firstshieldfinancial.com. For self-enrollment, you must provide Account-specific information to authenticate yourself (e.g., Account owner name and address, Account number and meter number). In these Terms, “you” and “your” refer to each person, or, if applicable, the entity who is an owner, signer, or has unrestricted access to a User Account and each person that uses the Online Service with your permission (“Authorized User”). You may never use another person’s User Account and/or UserID without permission. When your Online Service is linked to one or more Accounts, COMPANY may act on the oral, written, or electronic instructions of any authorized signer regarding your service for those Accounts. It is your responsibility to notify COMPANY if an Authorized User should no longer be given access to an Account through the Online Service.

2. USER ACCOUNT AND PASSWORD. We use reasonable precautions to protect the privacy of your UserID, password and User Account information by utilizing a Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) connection. Accordingly, your UserID, password and User Account information are encrypted using an SSL connection and are not expected to be read in an intelligible form as they travel to the Web Site. You, however, are ultimately responsible for protecting your UserID, password and User Account information from disclosure to third parties, and you are not permitted to circumvent the use of required encryption technologies. You are required to take reasonable precautions to safeguard your UserID and password. You agree to never leave your computer unattended while using the Online Service and to always exit the Online Service by clicking on “Log Out.” You also agree to immediately notify COMPANY of any unauthorized use of your UserID, password and/or User Account, or any other breach of security by email at info@1shieldfinancial.com, or through the online message center (if applicable). You are solely responsible for any activity that occurs with respect to your User Account and UserID. While we provide certain encryption technologies and use other reasonable precautions to protect your confidential information and provide suitable security, we do not and cannot guarantee or warrant that information transmitted through the Internet is secure, or that such transmissions are free from delay, error, interception or interruption.

3. RELIANCE BY COMPANY. You authorize COMPANY to rely on your UserID and password to identify you when you use the Online Service, and as signature authorization for any payment made using the Online Service. You acknowledge and agree that you are responsible for all payments you make using the Online Service and for paying any and all late charges or penalties. You also acknowledge and agree that if you permit another person or persons to use the Online Service or give them your UserID and/or password, you are responsible for any payment that person makes to your Account, even if the person exceeds your authorization. You agree that COMPANY may comply with the Payment Instructions entered by any person using your UserID and Password, subject to the terms set forth more fully below in the Unauthorized Payments section of these Terms.

4. SECURITY. COMPANY is committed to protecting the security and confidentiality of information about you and your Account and User Account. COMPANY uses, and may in the future use, several different security methods to protect your Account and User Account information, including:

• You can only access the Online Service with certain browsers that have high security standards.

1. If the Online Service does not recognize your computer, you will be prompted to answer one of your challenge questions to verify your identity.

1. The Online Service will automatically log off if prolonged periods of inactivity occur.

1. Your session will terminate if you navigate away from the Online Service to another website.

1. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION.

• Email and Online Message Center. When you enroll in the Online Service, you must designate a primary email address that will be used for receiving electronic communication. To the extent that COMPANY maintains an online message center now or in the future, such exchange of communications shall be considered an electronic communication and may be utilized by COMPANY for providing you notices pursuant to these Terms, as required by Applicable Law (as permitted) or generally regarding your Account(s) with COMPANY. COMPANY will NEVER send you email requesting confidential information such as Account numbers, usernames, or passwords and you should NEVER respond to any email requesting such information. If you receive such an email purportedly from COMPANY, do not respond to the email and notify COMPANY by forwarding the email to info@1shieldfinancial.com.

• Usage of Electronic Communication. By your enrollment in the Online Service, you agree to receive these Terms and any disclosures or notices required by Applicable Law and all other communications electronically to the email address you designate in your account profile. You also agree that COMPANY may respond to any communication you send to COMPANY with an electronic communication, regardless of whether your original communication with COMPANY was an electronic communication. Any electronic communication COMPANY sends to you will be considered received within 3 calendar days of the date such communication is sent by computer servers utilized by COMPANY to the email address you designate in your account profile or posted to COMPANY’s online message center (if applicable). To the extent permissible under Applicable Law, any electronic communication you send to COMPANY will not be effective until COMPANY has had a reasonable opportunity to act on the electronic communication. You should not rely on electronic communication if you need to communicate with COMPANY immediately and, in no event, should your sole method of communication with COMPANY regarding any emergency be by electronic communication. COMPANY strongly suggests that you report all matters requiring immediate attention to COMPANY by emailing Kim@1shieldfinancial.com. COMPANY may require you to provide written confirmation of any verbal or electronic notice of alleged error by COMPANY.

1. PERMISSIBLE ACTIVITIES. You may perform the following activities with the Online Service:

• Account Inquiry. You may retrieve Account information (such as a balance due) and view your transactions as set forth by the terms and conditions of Stripe or other comparable accounting platform as designated by COMPANY.

1. Alerts. You may set alert messages for certain circumstances, such as when a new statement is available for viewing or when a pending payment has posted to your Account.

1. Review Statements. You may view electronic version of Account statements as set forth by the terms and conditions of Stripe or other comparable accounting platform as designated by COMPANY. Online statements are your official statements and no paper statement will be provided. You expressly opt in to receive solely online statements.

1. Bill Payments. You may make payments to your Account from your Payment Account. Bill Payments may only be made from checking, money market, or savings accounts and must be made in accordance with the terms of these Terms and any other applicable account agreements.

1. PAYMENTS. You authorize COMPANY to debit your Payment Account and remit funds on your behalf to the Payee via Stripe or other comparable accounting platform as designated by COMPANY. When COMPANY receives a Payment Instruction, you have authorized COMPANY to debit your Payment Account and remit funds on your behalf so that the funds arrive as close as reasonably possible to the Payment Due Date as designated by you. You also authorize COMPANY to credit your Payment Account for payments returned to you COMPANY.

2. CANCELLING/MODIFYING PENDING BILL PAYMENTS. All terms and conditions for Bill Payments are governed by the terms and conditions of Stripe or other comparable accounting platform as designated by COMPANY.

3. DISCLOSURE OF ACCOUNT INFORMATION. COMPANY will not disclose any information to third parties about you, including email addresses, or your Account, except in the situations described below or as otherwise set forth in COMPANY’s Privacy Policy located at http://www.firstshieldfinancial.com/legal/privacy-policy. We will disclose such information:

• where disclosure is necessary for completing payments, or to resolve a problem related to a payment;

1. to verify the condition and existence of your Account for a third party, such as a credit bureau or merchant;

1. to persons authorized by law in the course of their official duties;

1. to a consumer reporting agency as defined by Applicable Law;

1. to comply with a government agency or court order, such as a lawful subpoena;

1. to COMPANY employees, auditors, service providers, attorneys or collection agents in the course of their duties; or

1. if you give COMPANY written permission (including by email).

1. INSUFFICIENT FUNDS TO COMPLETE BILL PAYMENT. You must have sufficient available funds in your Payment Account on the Payment Due Date. If your Payment Account has insufficient funds, the Bill Payment will not be completed. Should a Bill Payment fail because of insufficient funds in your Payment Account, an amount equal to COMPANY’s Returned Payment Fee then in effect will be applied to your Account.

2. COMPANY’S LIABILITY FOR FAILURE TO COMPLETE BILL PAYMENTS. If COMPANY debits your Payment Account incorrectly, COMPANY will be responsible for returning the improperly debited funds to your Payment Account. If COMPANY does not complete a Bill Payment from your Payment Account on time or in the correct amount in accordance with your Payment Instructions, COMPANY will be liable for the actual charges incurred by you, to the extent required by Applicable Law and in any event subject to paragraph 5 herein. However, COMPANY will not be liable in the following situations:

• You did not properly follow the provisions of these Terms, the online instructions for the Online Service, or other instructions for making a payment;

1. Through no fault of COMPANY’s, you have insufficient funds in your Payment Account to make a payment;

1. Your computer, the software, phone lines, COMPANY’s computer system or the Online Service were not working properly or were temporarily unavailable, and this problem was or reasonably should have been apparent to you when you attempted the payment or you were advised by the Online Service of the malfunction before you executed the payment;

1. Circumstances beyond our control prevented the payment, despite reasonable precautions that we have taken, including telecommunications outages, fires, floods, or other natural disasters;

1. COMPANY has reasonable basis to believe that unauthorized use of your UserID, Password, or User Account or Account has occurred or may be occurring;

1. COMPANY or you has terminated your Online Service or closed your Account to which the UserID was linked;

1. You have supplied your login information to another party; or

1. For any other reason specified in these Terms or any other agreement COMPANY has with you.

1. ACCURATE INFORMATION. In creating and using your User Account on the Web Site, you agree to: (i) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself on any registration form required on the Web Site (such information being the “Registration Data”); and (ii) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or COMPANY has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, COMPANY has the right to suspend or terminate your User Account and refuse any and all current or future use of your User Account.

2. TERMINATION OF ACCOUNT. COMPANY reserves the right to terminate your use of the Online Service for any reason including inactivity and at any time without notice to you. You have the right to terminate your use of the Online Service by Emailing COMPANY at info@1shieldfinancial.com or by writing to COMPANY at the address provided at the end of these Terms. Any termination of your use of the Online Service, whether initiated by you or by COMPANY, will not affect any of your or COMPANY’s rights and obligations under these Terms that have arisen before the effective date of such termination.

3. RELATED AGREEMENTS. Your Account linked to the Online Service will also be governed by the agreements, disclosures, COMPANY’s service tariff in your area, and other documents provided to you in connection with the opening of your Account, as they may be amended periodically. If any inconsistency exists between such other documentation and these Terms, then these Terms shall control to the extent of inconsistency.

4. ERRORS OR QUESTIONS ABOUT BILL PAYMENTS. In case of errors or questions about Bill Payments, you should notify COMPANY at once at by email at info@1shieldfinancial.com, or through the online message center (if applicable).

1. DISCLAIMERS.

1. NO WARRANTIES; INDEMNIFICATION. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE WEB SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE WEB SITE, THE ONLINE SERVICE AND THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” FOR YOUR USE, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, UNLESS SUCH WARRANTIES ARE LEGALLY INCAPABLE OF EXCLUSION. COMPANY PROVIDES THE WEB SITE AND THE ONLINE SERVICE ON A COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE BASIS AND COMPANY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES THAT THE WEB SITE, THE ONLINE SERVICE, THE CONTENT OR ANY SERVICES OFFERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB SITE ARE OR SHALL REMAIN UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THE CONTENT SHALL BE NON-INFRINGING ON ANY THIRD PARTY’S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, THAT DEFECTS SHALL BE CORRECTED, THAT THE WEB PAGES ON THE WEB SITE, THE ONLINE SERVICE, ANY ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION OR THE SERVERS USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB SITE ARE OR SHALL REMAIN FREE FROM ANY VIRUSES, WORMS, TIME BOMBS, DROP DEAD DEVICES, TROJAN HORSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT ANY PERSON USING THE WEB SITE WILL BE THE PERSON THAT HE OR SHE REPRESENTS HIMSELF OR HERSELF TO BE. COMPANY DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS OR USE THE WEB SITE AND/OR THE ONLINE SERVICE AT TIMES OR LOCATIONS OF YOUR CHOOSING, OR THAT COMPANY SHALL HAVE ADEQUATE CAPACITY FOR THE WEB SITE AND/OR THE ONLINE SERVICE AS A WHOLE OR IN ANY SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC AREA.

2. INDEMNIFICATION. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold COMPANY and its affiliates, subsidiaries, owners, directors, officers, employees and agents harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, suits, proceedings, liabilities, judgments, losses, damages, expenses and costs (including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees) assessed or incurred by COMPANY, directly or indirectly, with respect to or arising out of: (i) your failure to comply with these Terms; (ii) your breach of your obligations under these Terms; (iii) your use of the rights granted hereunder, including without limitation any claims made by any third parties; and/or (iv) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right.

3. NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. COMPANY DOES NOT INTEND TO PROVIDE ANY INVESTMENT ADVICE OR INFORMATION RELATING TO ITSELF OR ANY COMPANY IDENTIFIED ON THE WEB SITE. Nevertheless, the Web Site may, from time to time, contain information on the current or prospective financial condition of this and/or certain other companies. COMPANY cautions that there are various important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the information you may encounter on the Web Site. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that such indicated results will be realized. These factors include, among other things, legislative and regulatory initiatives regarding regulation of American companies doing business abroad; political and economic conditions and developments in the United States and in foreign countries in which the companies discussed on the Web Site operate; financial market conditions and the results of financing efforts; and changes in commodity prices and interest rates.

1. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. COMPANY’S ENTIRE LIABILITY AND YOUR EXCLUSIVE REMEDY WITH RESPECT TO THE USE OF THE WEB SITE, THE ONLINE SERVICE AND/OR ANY SERVICE PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB SITE SHALL BE THE CANCELLATION OF YOUR USER ACCOUNT WITH COMPANY. EXCEPT FOR THE ACTUAL CHARGES DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH 3(L) ABOVE, IN NO EVENT WILL COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE WEB SITE AND/OR ANY SERVICE PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB SITE, THE ONLINE SERVICE AND/OR ANY SERVICE PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB SITE, OR FOR ANY OTHER CLAIM RELATED IN ANY WAY TO YOUR USE OF THE WEB SITE, THE ONLINE SERVICE AND/OR ANY SERVICE PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, (A) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT, (B) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE WEB SITE, THE ONLINE SERVICE AND/OR ANY SERVICE PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB SITE, (C) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR COMPUTER SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN, (D) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE WEB SITE, THE ONLINE SERVICE AND/OR ANY SERVICE PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB SITE, AND/OR (E) ANY VIRUSES, WORMS, TIME BOMBS, DROP DEAD DEVICES, TROJAN HORSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS THAT MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH THE WEB SITE, THE ONLINE SERVICE AND/OR ANY SERVICE PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB SITE BY ANY THIRD PARTY OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND. BECAUSE SOME STATES OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, IN SUCH STATES OR JURISDICTIONS COMPANY’S LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

2. PRIVACY. Personal data that you provide regarding yourself will be handled in accordance with COMPANY’s Privacy Policy located at http://www.firstshieldfinancial.com/legal/privacy-policy.

3. THIRD PARTY CONTENT.

1. COMPANY may provide hyperlinks to other web sites maintained by third parties, or COMPANY may provide third party content on the Web Site by framing or other methods. THE LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEB SITES ARE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE AND INFORMATION ONLY. THE CONTENT ON ANY LINKED WEB SITE IS NOT UNDER COMPANY’S CONTROL AND COMPANY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF LINKED WEB SITES, INCLUDING ANY FURTHER LINKS CONTAINED IN A THIRD PARTY WEB SITE. IF YOU DECIDE TO ACCESS ANY OF THE THIRD PARTY WEB SITES LINKED TO THE WEB SITE, YOU DO SO ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

2. If a third party links to the Web Site, it is not necessarily an indication of an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, affiliation, joint venture or partnership by or with COMPANY. In most cases, COMPANY is not even aware that a third party has linked to the Web Site. A web site that links to the Web Site: (i) may link to, but not replicate, COMPANY’s Content; (ii) may not create a browser, border environment or frame COMPANY’s Content; (iii) may not imply that COMPANY is endorsing it or its products; (iv) may not misrepresent its relationship with COMPANY; (v) may not present false or misleading information about COMPANY’s products or services; and (vi) should not include content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive or controversial, and should contain only Content that is appropriate for all age groups.

1. COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS. The trademarks, service marks and logos used and displayed on the Web Site are COMPANY’s, or its subsidiaries’ or affiliates’, registered and unregistered trademarks. COMPANY is the copyright owner or authorized licensee of all text and all graphics contained on the Web Site. All trademarks and service marks of COMPANY that may be referred to on the Web Site are the property of COMPANY. Other parties’ trademarks and service marks that may be referred to on the Web Site are the property of their respective owners. Nothing on the Web Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use any of COMPANY’s trademarks or service marks without COMPANY’s prior written permission. COMPANY aggressively enforces its intellectual property rights. Neither the name of COMPANY nor any of COMPANY other trademarks, service marks or copyrighted materials may be used in any way, including in any advertising, hyperlink, publicity or promotional materials of any kind, whether relating to the Web Site or otherwise, without COMPANY’s prior written permission, except that a third party web site that desires to link to the Web Site and that complies with the requirements of Paragraph 7(b) above may use the name “COMPANY” in or as part of that URL link. If you believe that any Content on the Web Site violates any intellectual property right of yours, please contact COMPANY at the address, email address or telephone number set forth at the bottom of these Terms.

2. UPTIME, DOWNTIME AND EXCLUDED SERVICE SUSPENSIONS; SECURITY

1. UPTIME. Company will use all commercially reasonable efforts to make the Service available with a Service Year Uptime Percentage (defined as the percentage of time in the Service Year during which Service is available for your use, not including Excluded Service Suspensions outlined under Section 7.3) of at least 99% during the Service Year. The Service Year shall be defined as the 365-day period preceding the date on which you claim a Service Credit. If Company does not meet this Service Year Uptime Percentage commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described in Section 8.2.

2. DOWNTIME. In addition to our rights to terminate or suspend Services to you as described above, you acknowledge that your access to and use of the Services may be temporarily suspended for the duration of any unanticipated or unscheduled Downtime or unavailability of any portion or all of the Services for any reason, including as a result of power outages, system failures or other interruptions.

3. EXCLUDED SERVICE SUSPENSIONS. We shall be entitled, without any liability to you, notwithstanding our Service Year Uptime commitments outlined above, to suspend access to any portion or all of the Services at any time, on a Service-wide basis: (a) for scheduled downtime to permit us to conduct maintenance or make modifications to any Service; (b) in the event of a denial of service attack or other attack on the Service or other event that we determine, in our sole discretion, may create a risk to the applicable Service, to you or to any of our other customers if the Service were not suspended; (c) due to factors that are outside of our reasonable control, including any force majeure event or Internet-wide disruption or related problems beyond the demarcation point of the Services; (d) that are caused by you or any third party; (e) that result from the failure of your equipment, software or other technology and/or third party equipment, software or other technology; (f) that arise from our suspension and termination of your right to use the Services in accordance with this Agreement; or (g) as a result of our determination that any Service is prohibited by law or regulatory reasons (collectively, “Excluded Service Suspensions”).

4. Without limitation, we shall have no liability whatsoever for any damage, liabilities, losses (including any loss of data or profits) or any other consequences that you may incur as a result of disruption due to any Excluded Service Suspensions. To the extent we are able, we will endeavor to provide you email notice of any planned Excluded Service Suspensions and to post updates on the Company Websites regarding resumption of Services (if applicable) following any Excluded Service Suspensions, but shall have no liability for the manner in which we may do so or if we fail to do so.

5. SECURITY. We strive to keep Your Content secure, but cannot guarantee that we will be successful at doing so, given the nature of the Internet. Accordingly, without limitation, you acknowledge that you bear sole responsibility for adequate security, protection and backup of Your Content and Applications. We strongly encourage you, where available and appropriate, to (a) use encryption technology to protect Your Content from unauthorized access, (b) routinely archive Your Content, and (c) keep your Applications or any software that you use or run with our Services current with the latest security patches or updates. We will have no liability to you for any unauthorized access or use, corruption, deletion, destruction or loss of any of Your Content or Applications.

1. LOCAL LAWS. COMPANY makes no representation that content or materials in the Web Site are appropriate or available for use in jurisdictions outside the United States. Access to the Web Site from jurisdictions where such access is illegal is prohibited. If you choose to access the Web Site from other jurisdictions, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. COMPANY is not responsible for any violation of law. You may not use or export the Content or materials in the Web Site in violation of U.S. export laws and regulations. You agree that the Web Site, these Terms and the Online Service shall be interpreted and governed in accordance with federal law and, to the extent not preempted by federal law, with the laws of the state where COMPANY maintains your Account, or, if COMPANY transfers your Account to another location, where COMPANY currently maintains your Account. The Web Site and the Online Service shall be deemed a passive website and service that does not give rise to personal jurisdiction over COMPANY, either specific or general, in jurisdictions other than the states covered by the preceding sentence. You agree and hereby submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located where COMPANY maintains your Account, or, if COMPANY transfers your Account to another location, where COMPANY currently maintains your Account. You further agree to comy with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States and the country in which you reside (if different from the United States).

1. AVAILABILITY. Information that COMPANY publishes in the Web Site may contain references or cross-references to products, programs or services of COMPANY that are not necessarily announced or available in your area. Such references do not mean that COMPANY will announce any of those products, programs or services in your area at any time in the future. You should contact COMPANY for information regarding the products, programs and services that may be available to you, if any.

1. NON-TRANSFERABILITY OF USER ACCOUNT. User Accounts and UserIDs are non-transferable, and all users are obligated to take preventative measures to prohibit unauthorized users from accessing the Web Site with his or her UserID and password. You may not assign these Terms, in whole or in part, or delegate any of your responsibilities hereunder to any third party. Any such attempted assignment or delegation will not be recognized by COMPANY unless acknowledge by COMPANY in writing. COMPANY has no obligation to provide you with written acknowledgment. COMPANY may, at any time and in its sole discretion, assign these Terms, in whole or in part, or delegate any of our rights and responsibilities under these Terms to any third party or entity.

1. TERMINATION OF SERVICE. We may terminate your User Account or right to access secured portions of the Web Site at any time, without notice, for conduct that we believe violates these Terms and/or is harmful to other users of the Web Site, to COMPANY, to the business of the Web Site’s Internet service provider, or to other information providers.

1. CUSTOMER COMMENTS. We welcome the submission of comments, information or feedback through the Web Site. By submitting information through the Web Site, you agree that the information submitted shall be subject to the COMPANY Web Site Privacy Policy located at http://www.firstshieldfinancial.com/legal/privacy-policy.

1. MISCELLANEOUS. If any provision of these Terms is deemed invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any term of these Terms shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and COMPANY’s failure to assert any right or provision under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. These Terms and the COMPANY Web Site Privacy Policy located at http://www.firstshieldfinancial.com/legal/privacy-policy. are the entire agreement between you and COMPANY with respect to your use of the Web Site and the Online Service, and supersede any and all prior communications and prior agreements, whether written or oral, between you and COMPANY regarding the Web Site and the Online Service.

Your Consent To This Agreement

By accessing and using the Web Site, you consent to and agree to be bound by the terms of the foregoing Terms. If we decide to change these Terms, we will make an effort to post those changes on the web page so that you will always be able to understand the terms and conditions that apply to your use of the Web Site and/or the Online Service. Your use of the Web Site and/or the Online Service following any amendment of these Terms will signify your assent to and acceptance of its revised terms.

If you have additional questions or comments of any kind, or if you see anything on the Web Site that you think is inappropriate, please let us know by email info@1shieldfinancial.com] or by sending your comments to:

COMPANY

16 Harvard West Drive

Jackson, NJ 08527

Attn: Kim Brown

Kim@1shieldfinancial.com

EFFECTIVE AS OF: February 9, 2020

LAST UPDATED: February 9, 2020

Privacy and Information Security Policy

First Shield Financial (“Company”) is committed to safeguarding your online privacy with respect to the personally identifiable information that we may obtain from you at the https://firstshieldfinancial.com and www.firstshieldfinancial.com web site (the “Web Site”). Our Privacy and Information Security Policy (“Privacy Policy”) answers frequently asked questions about your online privacy, including what personally identifiable information we may obtain from you and how it will be used and protected. Company may from time to time change this Privacy Policy, so please check back periodically.

WHAT PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION DO WE OBTAIN FROM YOU? WHEN DO WE OBTAIN SUCH INFORMATION?

If, upon visiting our Web Site, your use is limited to browsing our informational content, we will not require that you provide us with any personally identifiable information. However, we may request personal information from you at other times. For example:

• If you enroll for a First Shield Financial membership through our Web Site, we may ask that you provide us with certain personal information, including your name, credit card number, expiration date, e-mail address, mailing address and telephone number. Your credit card information will be transferred to Stripe or other comparable accounting platform as designated by COMPANY for processing. Stripe (as discussed in more detail below) employs a variety security and risk management technologies to facilitate secure on-line transactions and to protect your credit information. You can find more information about Stripe at www.stripe.com.

1. If you post to our discussion forums, we will ask that you provide us with your name, e-mail address and password.

1. If you want to enter any sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored by us or by one of our business partners, we will need your name, e-mail address and other information as may be required by the rules of the specific contest.

1. If you choose to participate in a customer survey conducted by us or by one of our business partners, we may ask for your name, e-mail address and other information as may be required by the particular survey.

1. If you report a problem or submit a customer review, we will ask that you provide your name, e-mail address, membership number, address, phone number and fax number. Should you contact us for any reason other than to report a problem and/or submit a review, we may also keep a record and/or copy of your correspondence with us.

HOW DO WE PROTECT THE SECURITY AND QUALITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

To protect the security and quality of your personal information, we have implemented technical and managerial procedures to maintain accurate, current and complete information as well as to protect your personal information against loss, misuse or alteration when it is under our control. Your personally identifiable information will be encrypted and stored on our secured servers. Your personal information is also password protected so that access is limited to yourself and those with whom you share your password, Company, as well as third party access facilitated by Company with your prior permission. We have also taken steps to help protect the integrity of your personal financial information when you complete a purchase transaction on our Web Site. As noted above, we use Stripe to facilitate confidential online business transactions. You can find more information about Stripe’s security at https://stripe.com/docs/security.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

Our primary use of your information is to administer, maintain and improve your experience on our Web Site generally as well as provide you with customized, personalization services and interactive communications.

• If you check the “opt-in” feature on our Web Site, or if you do not uncheck a pre-checked “opt-in” box we may from time to time send you e-mails regarding our Web Site and special promotions. Also, we occasionally may send you direct mail about products or services that we believe may be of interest to you.

1. We use your financial information (e.g., your credit card number) only to verify your credit and to bill you for memberships purchased through our Web Site. We also use your contact information as necessary to send you information about the memberships that you have purchased on our Web Site.

1. When you enter any sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored by us or by one of our business partners, we may use your e-mail address to send you status updates.

1. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the services offered on our Web Site. We also use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information that we may share with our business partners, but only in the aggregate without any of your personally identifiable information.

1. We may research the demographics, interests and behavior of our customers based on the information provided to us during membership registration, during sweepstakes, contests and promotions, from our server log files, from cookies and from surveys. Our research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis. We may share this aggregate data with business partners, but only in the aggregate, without any of your personally identifiable information.

CAN YOU “OPT-OUT” OF RECEIVING COMMUNICATIONS FROM COMPANY?

If you change your mind and decide that you no longer want to receive promotional e-mails and/or direct mailings, you may opt-out at any time by simply sending an e-mail request to info@1shieldfinancial.com. Similarly, if you are not receiving our promotional e-mails and/or direct mailings and wish to receive these materials, you may opt-in at any time by simply sending an e-mail request to Info@1shieldfinancial.com.

PRIVACY POLICIES OF COMPANY PARTNERS

Third parties that have links on our Web Site may collect personally identifiable information about you. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of such sites and the practices of these sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. If you have questions about the privacy policies or practices of a third party site, you should contact the site administrator or web-master of the specific site. We may from time to time partner with other companies to offer co-branded services as well as sweepstakes, contests and promotions. Any information that you provide in connection with the co-branded services or any jointly sponsored sweepstakes, contests or promotions will become the joint property of Company and its business partners. We will maintain your information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. However, this Privacy Policy does not govern the privacy policies and practices of our business partners. If you have questions about the privacy policies or practices of our business partners, you should contact them directly.

DO WE SELL OR RENT YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?

No, as a general rule, we do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to any one. If and whenever we intend to share your personally identifiable information with a third party (other than to a business partner as provided herein), you will be notified at the time of data collection or transfer, and you will have the option of not permitting the transfer. However, we may from time to time rent or sell demographic information in the aggregate that does not contain your personally identifiable information.

WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE INFORMATION?

We generally will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission to do so or under some special circumstances described below.

• As noted previously, we may from time to time partner with other companies to offer co-branded services as well as sweepstakes, contests and promotions. Any information that you provide in connection with the co-branded services or any jointly sponsored sweepstakes, contests or promotions will become the joint property of Company and its business partners. We may also disclose other personal information about you to our business partners, but only if we have obtained your permission to make the disclosure before data collection or before transferring the data.

1. We may, from time to time, offer you the opportunity to receive materials or special offers from third parties. If you want to receive this information, we may (but only with your permission) share your name and e-mail address with them.

1. Under confidentiality agreements, we may match user information with third party data. We also may disclose aggregate demographic and/or user information and statistics in order to describe our customer base to prospective partners and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

1. We may disclose your personally identifiable information without your prior permission in special cases. For example, we may have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the User Terms and Conditions, or may be causing intentional or unintentional injury or interference to the rights or property of Company or any third party, including other customers. Also, we may disclose or access your personally identifiable information when we believe in good faith that law or regulation requires disclosure.

HOW CAN YOU UPDATE, CORRECT OR DELETE YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?

You may edit your personally identifiable information and your password at any time by sending an e-mail request to info@1shieldfinancial.com.

WHAT ARE COOKIES? HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?

Cookies enable us to customize and personalize your experience on our Web Site, including the products and promotions that are offered to you. Essentially, a cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and is stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies for several purposes in connection with the operation of our Web Site

• We may use cookies to identify you and access your information stored on our computers in order to deliver you a better and more personalized experience. For example, we may use cookies to tell you about products and services specific to your interests.

1. Upon request, we will save your “user name” so that you do not have to re-enter it every time you visit our Web Site. In providing you with this service, we use cookies.

1. We may use cookies to estimate our customer base and customer usage patterns. Each browser accessing our Web Site may use given a unique cookie that is then used to determine the extent of repeat visits and the customer activity during those visits. We may use the historical information to help target promotions based on customer interests and behavior, both specifically to individual customers and on an aggregate basis with respect to all customers.

1. We also may use cookies to track your progress and number of entries in some promotions, sweepstakes and contests, or through a meeting registration process. For example, when a promotion uses cookies, the information coded to the cookie indicates your progress through the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions and status of prize drawings.

Business partners that offer co-branded services and jointly-sponsored sweepstakes, contests and promotions on our Web Site, may use their own cookies. We have no control over those cookies, nor does this Privacy Policy cover how your personal information contained in those cookies may be used or protected. If you have any questions about the cookies of such third parties, or about the use of your personal information by such third parties, you should contact the site administrator or web-master of the third party site.

DO YOU HAVE CHOICES ABOUT COOKIES?

Yes, you have several choices with respect to cookies. You can modify your browser preferences to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. However, our Web Site uses cookie-based authentication. Accordingly, if you choose to reject all cookies, you may not be able to log onto our Web Site and/or use our services or participate in our sweepstakes, contests or promotions.

WHAT ELSE SHOULD YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR ONLINE PRIVACY?

It is important to remember that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on-line, your information can be collected and used by others. If you transmit or post personal information on-line that is accessible to others, you will not be able to control how that information is used by others. When we receive the transmitted information, we will use the procedures summarized in this Privacy Policy to ensure the integrity and security of that information in our systems. Unfortunately, notwithstanding any of the steps taken by us, it is not possible to guarantee the security and integrity of data transmitted over the Internet. Consequently, while we take the above-described reasonable steps to protect your personal information, we cannot and do not warrant the security or integrity of any information you transmit to us when registering for our Web Site or otherwise. All such transmission of information is at your own risk. Moreover, though we are committed to having our Web Site comply with this Privacy Policy, you are ultimately responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password and your personally identifiable information. If you are careless with your password, or you decide to share your password with third parties, you must be aware of the risk that such third parties will have access to all your personally identifiable information.

CONTACT US.

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Statement or the practices of our Web Site, please feel free to e-mail us at info@1shieldfinancial.com or visit our contact page.

FIRST SHIELD FINANCIAL, CONSULTATION TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

1. Counselee’s Acknowledgment and Acceptance of Terms

First Shield Financial, (referred to as “us” or “we”) will conduct individual Consultations for the Counselee (referred to as “you” and all variations thereof) to participate in, subject to your compliance with all the terms, conditions, and notices contained or referenced herein (the “Terms of Use”), as well as any other written agreement between us (or you or your company).

“Consultation” is defined as the sharing of FIRST SHIELD FINANCIAL, ’s, and its agents’, opinions and experience with the purchase of performing and non-performing mortgage notes, and its related matters, which is solely opinion for informational purposes only and is not intended to be investment advice. These opinions may include ‘forward-looking’ statements that involve uncertainties and risks. There can be no assurance that actual results will not differ from the experiences of FIRST SHIELD FINANCIAL, . FIRST SHIELD FINANCIAL, does not guarantee or warrant any specific results or outcome of any of its Consolations and the Consultations do not create, by implication or otherwise, any fiduciary duty to any Counselee, and no such duty will be deemed to have arisen in connection with any Consultation. Counselees shall responsible for seeking duly licensed professional for financial or investment advice and shall be responsible for making their own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby. The Consultation(s), and all their content, are governed by Sections 8 and 9, herein.

In addition, when using particular services or materials in conjunction with the Consultations, Counselees shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services or materials that may contain terms and conditions in addition to those in these Terms of Use. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use.

BY COMPLETING THE REGISTRATION PROCESS AND/OR ATTENDING A CONSULTATION, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THE THESE TERMS OF USE, PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER FOR OR ATTEND A CONSULTATION. YOUR REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH A CONSULTATION, OR ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, CONTENT, OR OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN OR PRESENTED THROUGH THE CONSULTATION OR THIS SITE, IS TO STOP ATTENDANCE OF THE CONSULTATIONS. YOUR AGREEMENT WITH US REGARDING COMPLIANCE WITH THESE TERMS OF USE BECOMES EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON COMMENCEMENT OF YOUR REGISTRATION FOR A CONSULTATION.

These Terms of Use are effective as of January 1, 2019. We reserve the right to change these Terms of Use from time to time without notice to you. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review our website, www.firstshieldfinancial.com (hereinafter the “site”), and these Terms of Use periodically and to be aware of any modifications. Your continued attendance at a Consultation after such modifications will constitute your acknowledgment of the modified Terms of Use and agreement to abide and be bound by the modified Terms of Use.

As used in these Terms of Use, references to our “Affiliates” include our owners, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, officers, directors, suppliers, partners, sponsors, and advertisers, and includes (without limitation) all parties involved in creating, producing, and/or participating in the Consultations and/or their contents.

2. Description of Services

The focus of the Consultations is to share with the Counselee, in a one-on-one setting, FIRST SHIELD FINANCIAL, ’s, and its agents’, knowledge, opinions and, experience regarding the purchase of performing and non-performing mortgage notes, and related matters. This is achieved by Consultations regarding the following:

• (a) Online review and analyzation of the Counselee’s Return on Investment Calculator and strategies regarding modifications to such operations; and

• (b) Telephone or web-based question and answer sessions regarding strategies in the field of mortgage note ownership and maintenance.

Topics of the Consultations will concern, but not be limited to:

• (a) Building successful and accurate Bid/Return on Investment Calculators;

• (b) Sourcing deals;

• (c) Solutions to investment issues, including:

• (i) Managing encounters with borrowers, attorneys, and servicers;

• (ii) The process and steps of a foreclosure action;

• (iii) Working with sellers for joint benefit;

• (iv) Due diligence in the pre-purchase post-purchase processes; and

• (v) Spreadsheet education.

• (d) Networking with other known and trusted investors;

• (e) Building capital;

• (f) Systems and Automations useful in the field;

• (g) Support Service Provider relationships, including:

• (i) Collateral manager relationships;

• (ii) Property evaluator relationships;

• (iii) Property Preservation Personnel relationships; and

• (h) Effective spreadsheet education and application.

We reserve the sole right to either modify or discontinue the Consultations, including any information or materials therein, at any time with or without notice to you. We shall not be liable to you or any third party should we exercise such right. Modifications may include, but are not limited to, changes in the pricing structure, the addition of fee-based services, or changes to the format or schedule of the Consultations. Any new features that augment or enhance the Consultations shall also be subject to these Terms of Use.

3. Schedule, Accessibility, Registration Data, and Privacy

The scheduling of the Consultations will be determined prior to purchase by the parties. Consultations shall be scheduled in fifteen (15) minute increments, which may be scheduled cumulatively in that amount desired by the Counselee.

If you cannot attend a scheduled Consultation, you will be given a credit to schedule another Consultation within two (2) weeks of the Consultation you could not attend at a mutually agreeable time, with such mutually agreeable time to be approved by both parties. If you fail to re-schedule, attend, or participate in a re-scheduled Consolation, your credit will expire, and you agree that we may retain the fees paid by you for the Consultation. No credit will be given for partial attendance at any Consultation as a result of your inability to fully attend the same.

You understand and agree that temporary interruptions in the accessibility of the Consultations may occur as normal events. You further understand and agree that we have no control over third party networks you may access in the course of accessing and participating in the Consultations, and therefore, delays and disruption of other network transmissions are completely beyond our control. In the event of a technical error that results in the inability of FIRST SHIELD FINANCIAL, ’s participation in a Consultation, you will be given a credit subject to the terms of Section 3, herein.

You are solely responsible for providing, at your own expense, all equipment necessary to virtually access the Consultations, including, but not limited to, a telephone, a computer, and your own internet access (including payment of telephone service fees associated with such access, as applicable).

In order to pay the fees charged to participate in the Consultations, you will be required download and create an account and password with PayPal (“PayPal”). A PayPal account can be obtained by visiting PayPal at https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/account-selection and completing PayPal’s online registration form, which requests certain information and data (“Registration Data”) and maintaining and updating your Registration Data as required.

Any Registration Data provided by you to PayPal is subject to PayPal’s terms and conditions.

We will not be provided, obtain, use, or disseminate any such Registration Data. We expressly disclaim any liability for PayPal’s use of any Registration Data you provide to them.

4. Payment; Fees; Refunds

Fees for the Consultations shall be paid at the time of registration and exclusively via the PayPal link provided on our site. Payment via check may be made only with special approval by our staff. All fees must be paid in advance of attendance of any Consultation. The fee for each Consultation will be agreed to by the parties prior to the scheduling of the Consultation and the amount of the fee shall be demerited by FIRST SHIELD FINANCIAL, based on the scope of the matters to be considered in the Consultation. You agree that you are responsible for the payment of fees of all Consultations scheduled, even if you do not attend a purchased Consultation.

Once a Consultation has been scheduled and paid for, no refund will be offered, and you agree specifically that any cancelled Consultations, whether due to you, FIRST SHIELD FINANCIAL, , or technical issues, shall be rescheduled as governed by Section 3 herein.

If, for any reason, your PayPal account, or any other method of payment, refuses or fails to pay the amount billed for the Consultation(s), you agree that we may, at our option, suspend or cancel any further scheduled Consultation(s) and require you to pay the overdue amount by other means acceptable to us. In this event, we may charge a fee for rescheduling of suspended or canceled Consultations.

In the event legal action is necessary to collect on balances due, you agree to reimburse us for all expenses incurred to recover sums due, including attorney fees, costs, and other legal expenses.

5. Third Party Sites and Information

During the course of the Consultations, you may be directed to link to other sites on the Internet or otherwise the Consolations may include references to information, documents, software, materials and/or services provided by other parties. These sites may contain information or material that some people may find inappropriate or offensive. These other sites and parties are not under our control, and you acknowledge that we are not responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, decency, or any other aspect of the content of such sites, nor are we responsible for errors or omissions in any references to other parties or their products and services. The inclusion of such a link or reference is provided merely as a convenience and does not imply endorsement of, or association with, Consultations with us, or any warranty of any kind, either express or implied.

6. Intellectual Property Information

Copyright (c) 2019 First Shield Financial, All Rights Reserved.

For purposes of these Terms of Use, “Content” is defined as any information, communications, software, photos, video, graphics, music, sounds, and other material and services that can be accessed or viewed by Consultees in connection with the Consultations. This includes, but is in no way limited to, message boards, chat, video conferences, YouTube videos, Webinars, and other original content.

By accepting these Terms of Use, you acknowledge and agree that all content presented to you on this site or in connection with the Consultation(s) is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws, and is the sole property of First Shield Financial, and/or its Affiliates. You are only permitted to use the content presented to you in the Consultations as expressly authorized by us or the specific content provider. You may not copy, record, reproduce, modify, republish, upload, post, transmit, or distribute any documents, videos, or information from the Consultation(s) in any form or by any means without prior written permission from us or the specific content provider, and you are solely responsible for obtaining permission before reusing any copyrighted material that is made available in the Consultation(s). Any unauthorized use of the materials made available in the Consultation(s) may violate copyright, trademark, and other applicable laws and could result in criminal or civil penalties.

Neither we or our Affiliates warrant or represent that your use of materials provided by, or obtained through, the Consultation(s) will not infringe the rights of third parties. See “Use of Your Materials” below for a description of the procedures to be followed in the event that any party believes that content within the Consultation(s) infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other proprietary right of any party.

The following are registered trademarks, trademarks or service marks of First Shield Financial, or its Affiliates: All custom graphics, icons, logos, and service names are registered trademarks, trademarks, or service marks of First Shield Financial, or its Affiliates. All other trademarks or service marks are property of their respective owners. Nothing in these Terms of Use grants you any right to use any trademark, service mark, logo, and/or the name of First Shield Financial, or its Affiliates.

7. Attendee’s Materials

Subject to our Privacy Policy, any communication, information, or material that you transmit while participating in the Consultation(s), or to us, whether by electronic mail, video conference, or other means, for any reason, will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. While you retain all rights in such communications or material, you grant us and our designated licensees a non-exclusive, paid-up, perpetual, and worldwide right to copy, distribute, display, perform, publish, translate, adapt, modify, and otherwise use such material for any purpose regardless of the form or medium (now known or not currently known) in which it is used.

Please do not submit confidential or proprietary information to us unless we have mutually agreed in writing otherwise. We are also unable to accept your unsolicited ideas or proposals, so please do not submit them to us in any circumstance.

We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask you to do the same. If you or any participant in the Consultation(s) believe its copyright, trademark, or other property rights have been infringed by use in the Consultation(s), you or the participant should send notification to our Designated Agent (as identified below) immediately. To be effective, the notification must include:

• (a) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

• (b) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;

• (c) Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as address, telephone number and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;

• (d) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be subject to infringing activity and that is to be removed and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the materials;

• (e) A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, agent, or the law; and

• (f) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringing.

Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Sec. 512(c), our Designated Agent for Notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as indicated below. Service of repeat infringers of copyright or of Attendees about whom repeat claims of copyright infringement are received will be terminated.

Designated Agent for Claimed Infringement:

Kim Brown

Managing Member

First Shield Financial

Kim@1shieldfinancial.com

(800) 270-1956

RE: CONSULTATION

You acknowledge and agree that upon receipt of a notice of a claim of copyright infringement, we may immediately remove the identified materials from any Consultation content without liability to you or any other party and that the claims of the complaining party and the party that originally posted the materials will be referred to the United States Copyright Office for adjudication as provided in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties

ALL INFORMATION AND MATERIALS PRESENTED IN THE CONSULTATION(S) ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR THE WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (a) THE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (B) THE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (c) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE INFORMATION OR MATERIALS WILL BE EFFECTIVE, ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, OR (d) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, OR INFORMATION PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU FROM THE SITE FROM US OR OUR AFFILIATES WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS OR BE FREE FROM MISTAKES, ERRORS OR DEFECTS.

THE CONSULTATION(S) COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL OR OTHER MISTAKES, INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS PRESENTED IN THE CONSULTATION(S), INCLUDING THE PRICES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF ANY PRODUCTS LISTED THEREIN, AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE. THE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS PRESENTED IN THE CONSULTATION(S) MAY BE OUT OF DATE, AND WE MAKE NO COMMITMENT TO UPDATE SUCH INFORMATION OR MATERIALS.

THE USE OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE CONSULTATION(S) OR THE DOWNLOADING OR OTHER ACQUISITION OF ANY MATERIALS OR APPLICATIONS TO ACCESS THE CONSULTATION(S) IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND WITH YOUR AGREEMENT THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM, REGISTRATION DATA DISSEMINATION, OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM SUCH ACTIVITIES.

We do not endorse, nor are we responsible for the accuracy or reliability of, any opinion, advice, or statement made by anyone other than an authorized First Shield Financial, spokesperson speaking in his/her official capacity.

Under no circumstances will First Shield Financial, or its Affiliates be liable for any loss or damages caused by your reliance on information or advice obtained through participation in the Consultation(s). In particular, you are urged to consult an appropriate professional licensed in your jurisdiction before using or otherwise relying on any legal, accounting, or other professional advice or information obtained through any Consultation.

9. Limitation of Liability

Your exclusive remedy and our entire liability, if any, for any claims arising out of these Terms of Use and your participation in the Consultation(s) shall be limited to the amount you paid us for the Consultation(s) during the twelve (12) month period before the act giving rise to the liability.

IN NO EVENT SHALL WE OR OUR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THOSE RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS PRESENTED WITHIN THE CONSULTATION(S), THE USE OF OUR SITE, OR OF ANY WEB SITE REFERENCED OR LINKED TO THE CONSULTATION(S).

10. Indemnification

Upon a request by us, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us and our Affiliates harmless from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including attorney’s fees, that arise from your use or misuse of the information presented in, or your participation in, the Consultation(s). We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.

11. Security and Password

You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your passwords and accounts with PayPal and for any and all statements made and acts or omissions that occur through the use of your passwords and accounts, including any mail sent and any charges incurred. Therefore, you must take steps to ensure that others do not gain access to your passwords and accounts. Our personnel will never ask you for your passwords.

12. International Use

Although the Consultation(s) may be accessible worldwide, we make no representation that the information and materials presented in the Consultation(s) are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United States and accessing and participating in them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access and participate in the Consultation(s) from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

13. Termination of Use

You agree that we may, in our sole discretion, terminate, or suspend your participation in any, all, or part of the Consultation(s) with or without notice and for any reason, including, without limitation, breach of these Terms of Use. Any suspected fraudulent, abusive, or illegal activity may be grounds for terminating your relationship and may be referred to appropriate law enforcement authorities.

14. Governing Law

The Consultations (excluding any linked sites) are hosted by us from our offices within the State of Florida, United States of America. It can be accessed from all 50 states, as well as from other countries around the world. As each of these places has laws that may differ from those of Florida, by participating in the Consultation(s), both of us agree that the statutes and laws of the State of Florida, without regard to the conflicts of laws principles thereof and the United Nations Convention on the International Sales of Goods, will apply to all matters relating to the Consultation(s). Each of us agrees and hereby submits to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of Florida, United States of America, with respect to such matters.

15. Notices

All notices to us shall be in writing and shall be made via e-mail. Notices to us must be sent to the attention of Kim Brown, Managing Member, First Shield Financial, at Kim@1shieldfinancial.com. Notices to you may be sent either to the e-mail address supplied for your account or to the physical address supplied to us by you.

Any notices or communication under these Terms of Use will be deemed delivered to the party receiving such communication (a) on the delivery date if delivered personally or by service to the party; (b) two business days after deposit with a commercial overnight carrier, with written verification of receipt; (c) five business days after the mailing date, if sent by US mail, return receipt requested; (d) on the sent date if transmitted by confirmed facsimile; or (e) on the sent date if transmitted by e-mail.

16. Entire Agreement

These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement and understanding between us concerning the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings of the parties with respect thereto. These Terms of Use may NOT be altered, supplemented, or amended by the use of any other document(s). Any attempt to alter, supplement or amend this document or to enter an order for products or services which are subject to additional or altered terms and conditions shall be null and void, unless otherwise agreed to in a written agreement signed by you and us. To the extent that anything presented in or associated with the Consultation(s) is in conflict or inconsistent with these Terms of Use, these Terms of Use shall take precedence.

17. Miscellaneous

In any action to enforce these Terms of Use, the prevailing party will be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees and costs. Any cause of action brought by you against us or our Affiliates must be instituted with one year after the cause of action arises or be deemed forever waived and barred.

You may not assign your rights and obligations under these Terms of Use to any other party, and any purported attempt to do so shall be null and void. We are free assign our rights and obligations under these Terms of Use.

You agree not to sell, resell, reproduce, record, duplicate, copy, or use for any commercial purposes any portion of the Consultation(s), or use of or access to the Consultation(s).

In addition to any excuse provided by applicable law, we shall be excused from liability for non-delivery or delay in delivery of information and materials presented in the Consultation(s) arising from any event beyond our reasonable control, whether or not foreseeable by either party, including but not limited to, labor disturbance, war, fire, accident, adverse weather, inability to secure transportation, governmental act or regulation, internet outages, denial of service attacks, viruses, malware, and other causes or events beyond our reasonable control, whether or not similar to those which are enumerated above.

If any part of these Terms of Use is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in a manner consistent with applicable law to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intentions of the parties, and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.

Any failure by us to enforce or exercise any provision of these Terms of Use or related rights shall not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.

18. Contact Information

Except as explicitly noted on our site, the information and materials presented in the Consultation(s) are offered by First Shield Financial, a Florida Limited Liability Company located in Jacksonville Florida. Our telephone number is (800) 270-1956‬. For general information, issues, questions, or concerns, please contact Info@1shieldfinancial.com. If you notice that any Attendee is violating these Terms of Use, please contact Kim Brown, Managing Member, at Kim@1shieldfinancial.com.