Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Overview

This Privacy Policy describes Walker & Dunlop’s (“Walker & Dunlop” or “we”) collection and use of any information collected by and through the walkerdunlop.com domain and all associated sub-domains existing or adopted by Walker & Dunlop in the future (collectively, the or this “Web Site”). NOTHING CONTAINED HEREIN SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A DEFENSE TO OR, A WAIVER BY WALKER & DUNLOP OF, ANY RIGHTS WALKER & DUNLOP HAS UNDER ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR OTHER AGREEMENT OR APPLICABLE LAW, RULE, REGULATION OR REQUIREMENT. Walker & Dunlop reserves the right, at its sole discretion to change, modify, add or remove any portion of the terms, in whole or in part, of the Privacy Policy. Such changes, modifications and additions to and removals from the Privacy Policy are valid once posted on the Web Site. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the Privacy Policy in order to be apprised of such changes. This Web Site is a commercial web site and is intended for use by commercial real estate owners, real estate professionals, investors, and their employees and agents, to obtain information about Walker & Dunlop’s commercial financial products and services. THIS PRIVACY POLICY ONLY APPLIES TO INFORMATION COLLECTED ONLINE.

Information Collected

The web servers that serve the Web Site may gather certain navigational information about where visitors go on our Web Site and information about the technical efficiencies of our Web Site and services. In the process of gathering navigational information, non-personally identifiable information (i.e. domain type, browser version, service provider and IP address) may be collected which will provide information regarding a visitor’s use of our Web Site. We may also gather personally identifiable information through the ability to access your accounts online as well as have questions answered through our contact us section. Information that we may collect about you through online interaction includes information that you input, such as your name, address, email address, other contact information; data resulting from your activity, such as transaction information; and location information

Using Information

This information allows us to improve our product and service offerings as well as improve the Web Site’s functionality. Borrower information collected is used to help us identify what loans the borrower should have access to. It provides us a way to contact you and provide you with login credentials.

Cookies

We may use a browser feature known as a “cookie.” Cookies are small data files sent by a website and stored by the browser to assist in providing a customized browsing experience on that website. The “help” section of the toolbar on most browsers will inform you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you upon the receipt of a new cookie, or how to disable the use of cookies completely. Certain areas of the Web Site have been designed to take advantage of the use of cookies; therefore, if you configure your browser to decline their use, certain features of the Web Site may not function correctly and you may be required to reenter any user IDs and passwords more frequently

Account and Password Security

You may receive a unique user name and password (“Access Codes”) upon completing a registration process for certain Services. It is your responsibility to safeguard and protect your Access Codes and to monitor use of these Access Codes for all purposes. You accept all responsibility for maintaining the security of your Access Codes and for all utilization of the Services via your Access Codes, with or without your knowledge or consent. You agree to (a) immediately notify Walker & Dunlop of any unauthorized use of your Access Codes or any other breach of security; (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session; and (c) notify Walker & Dunlop immediately if you have lost your Access Codes or wish to terminate your access or have these Access Codes changed

Linking

Periodically, links may be established from this Web Site to one or more external web sites or resources operated by third parties (the “Third Party Sites”). These links are provided for your convenience only. Walker & Dunlop is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Third Party Sites. To help ensure the protection of your privacy, Walker & Dunlop recommends that you review the privacy policy of any site you visit via a link from Walker & Dunlop’s Web Sites or through any such Third Party Site.

PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

Effective Date: 1/1/2020

This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS supplements the information contained in the Privacy Statement of WALKER & DUNLOP and its affiliates (collectively, “we,” “us,” or “our”) and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws.  Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

Information We Collect

We collect information about you or your business that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer (“personal information”). In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• De-identified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the CCPA's scope, like:
  • health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
  • personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from our clients (or their agents). For example, from documents that our clients provide to us related to the services for which they engage us; i.e. in support of loan applications or other financial services that Walker & Dunlop provides, or to manage accounts, relating to sponsors and guarantors, and other loan origination and servicing information.
• Indirectly from our clients or their agents. For example, through information we collect from our clients in the course of providing services to them such as loan servicing or loan origination.
• Directly and indirectly from activity on our website (www.Walker & Dunlop.com). For example, from submissions through our website portal or website usage details collected automatically.
• From our employees and potential employees relating to all aspects of employment at the company.

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided. For example, if you provide us with personal information in in connection with a loan application, we will use that information to prepare the application and submit it to the applicable agency. 
• In connection with employment.
• To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
• To provide you with email alerts, event registrations and other notices concerning our products or services, or events or news, that may be of interest to you.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections.
• To persons assessing our compliance with industry standards or licensing and regulatory requirements.
• To improve our website and present its contents to you.
• For testing, research, analysis and product development.
• As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients or others.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose.  When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

• Our affiliates.
• Service providers.
• Third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you.
• Auditors, accountants, and attorneys.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold any personal information.

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
• If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
  • sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
  • disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

1. Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.).
6. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
7. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
8. Comply with a legal obligation or internal document retention policies that are in place to comply with legal obligations.
9. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

• Calling us at 866-312-6144
• Emailing us at [email protected] 

Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.  Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.  We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt.  If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.  If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account.  If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.  Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt.  The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.  For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded.  If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
• Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will notify you by email or through a notice on our website homepage.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, our Privacy Statement, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Phone: 866-312-6144
Website: www.walkerdunlop.com
Email: [email protected]
Postal Address: 7501 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 1200E, Bethesda, MD 20814 Attn: Legal Department