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General Support Documents:
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Startup your HireSafe account
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Background Screening Glossary of Terms
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How to Evaluate & Select a Background Screening Vendor
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What the Reports Will Reveal
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Terms & Conditions of Use
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QuickAPP Digital Signature users guide
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Understanding TU credit reports
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Red Flag Policy & Procedures
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TransUnion Credit Bureau disputes
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Obtaining Your Personal File
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HireSafe services & pricing summary
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Background Screening Best Practices
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Background Screening White Papers
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HireSafe e-Brochure
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Privacy Policy Statement
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InstaScreen Online Data Security
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Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) Basics
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The Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA)
The GLB Act gives authority to eight federal agencies and the states to administer and enforce the Financial Privacy Rule and the Safeguards Rule. These two regulations apply to “financial institutions,” which include not only banks, securities firms, and insurance companies, but also companies providing many other types of financial products and services to consumers. Among these services are lending, brokering or servicing any type of consumer loan, transferring or safeguarding money, preparing individual tax returns, providing financial advice or credit counseling, providing residential real estate settlement services, collecting consumer debts and an array of other activities.
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The USA Patriot Act
The USA Patriot Act was signed into legislation in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the USA. This law contains elements that tighten money-laundering laws and enable the tracking of domestic and international terrorist activity.
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Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
The FCRA enhances the accuracy of consumer reports through requirements that credit bureaus maintain reasonable procedures to promote accuracy, and by mechanisms to ensure that consumers can find out what is in their reports and act to correct errors. The FCRA requires users of credit reports to notify consumers when a report plays any role in an adverse action, such as denial of credit, and to tell the consumer what bureau supplied the report. Consumers can always obtain disclosure of the information in their files at credit bureaus and dispute inaccuracies.
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
The ADA ensures equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in employment, State and local government services, businesses that are public accommodations or commercial facilities, and in transportation.
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Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
The US. Department of Labor's Employment Standards Administration, Wage and Hour Division, administers and enforces the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for all private, state and local government employees, and some federal employees. Most Federal and certain congressional employees are also covered by the law and are subject to the jurisdiction of the US. Office of Personnel Management or the Congress.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
The EEOC coordinates all federal equal employment opportunity regulations, practices, and policies. The Commission interprets employment discrimination laws, monitors the federal sector employment discrimination program, provides funding and support to state and local Fair Employment Practices Agencies (FEPA's), and sponsors outreach and technical assistance programs.
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Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
The Justice Department Guide to the Freedom of Information Act is an overview discussion of the FOIA's exemptions, its law enforcement record exclusions, and its most important procedural aspects. Prepared by the attorney staff of the Office of Information and Privacy, it is updated and revised biennially.
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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was established within the Department of Transportation on January 1, 2000. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s primary mission is to prevent commercial motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries.
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act
On July 30, 2002, President Bush signed into law the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which he characterized as "the most far reaching reforms of American business practices since the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt." The Act mandated a number of reforms to enhance corporate responsibility, enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting fraud, and created the "Public Company Accounting Oversight Board," also known as the PCAOB, to oversee the activities of the auditing profession.
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We are NOT the nation’s leading provider of background screening services and we are NOT the largest background checking firm either. We make no claims or boasts that cannot be backed-up with documented facts, and we operate strictly within the confines of all state and federal laws.
