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A Summary of Your Rights Under California Civil Code § 1786.22
An investigative consumer-reporting agency (“Agency”) will supply
files and information that
you have a right to inspect during normal business hours and on reasonable notice.
All files the Agency maintains on you will be made available
for your visual inspection, as
follows:
In person, if you appear in person and furnish proper identification,
for copies to be sent to
a specified address. However, agencies complying for a request for such a
mailing will not
be liable for disclosures to third parties caused by mishandling of mail
after it leaves the
Agency.
A summary of all information contained in your file and required
to be provided to you
under the California Civil code will be provided by telephone, if you have
made a written
request, with proper identification for telephone disclosure, and the toll
charge, if any, for
the telephone call is prepaid or charged directly to you.
“
Proper identification” includes documents such as valid driver’s
license, social security
account number, military identification card, and credit cards. Only
if you cannot identify
yourself with such information may the Agency require additional information
concerning
your employment and personal or family history in order to verify his
identity.
The Agency will provide trained personnel to explain any information
furnished to you
pursuant to § 1786.10.
The Agency will provide a written explanation of any coded
information in your file. This
written explanation shall be distributed whenever a file is provided
to you for visual
inspection.
One other person of your choice may accompany you when you
come to inspect your file.
This person must furnish reasonable identification. The Agency
may require you to furnish a
written statement granting permission to the Agency to discuss
your file in your companion
presence.
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