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Exhibit “F” Death Master File Access Requirements Subscriber agrees that based on its use of the Services that it may receive information for the Social Security Administrations Death Master File (DMF). Subscriber hereby warrants and agrees to the following requirements as users of the DMF. A. Subscriber agrees to restrict Subscriber's use of deceased flags or other indicia with ONLINE's Serv ices to legitimate fraud prevention or business purposes in compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations and consistent with Subscriber's applicable Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. §1681 et seq.) or Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (15 U.S.C. § 6801 et seq.) use. B. Subscriber certifies it will not take any adverse action against any conusmer without further investigation to verify the information from teh deceased flags orther indicia with ONLINE's Services. C. Subscriber has systems, facilities, and procedures in a place to safeguard the accessed informaiton; experience in maintaining the confidentiality, securityand appropriate useof the accessed information, pursuant to requirements similar to the requirements of section 6103 (p)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and agrees to satisfy the requirements of such section 6103(p)(4) as if such section applied to Subscriber; and Subscriber shall not disclose information derived from the DMF to the consumer or any third party, unless clearly required by law. D. Subscriber acknowledges that failure to comply with the provisions above may subject Subscriber to penalties under 15 CFR 1110.200 of $1,000 for each disclosure or use, up to a maximum of $250,000 in penalties per calendar year. E. Subscriber shall indemnify and hold harmless the TransUnion and the U.S. Government/NTIS from all claims, demands, damages, expenses, and losses, whether sounding in tort, contract or otherwise, arising from or in connection with End User’s, or End User’s employees, contractors, or subcontractors, use of the DMF. This provision shall survive termination of the Agreement and will include any and all claims or liabilities arising from intellectual property rights. F. Neither the Data Providers nor the U.S. Government/NTIS (a) make any warranty, express or implied, with respect to information provided under this Section of the Policy, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular use; (b) assume any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential damages flowing from any use of any part of the DMF, including infringement of third party intellectual property rights; and (c) assume any liability for any errors or omissions in the DMF. The DMF does have inaccuracies and NTIS and the Social Security Administration (SSA), which provides the DMF to NTIS, does not guarantee the accuracy of the DMF. SSA does not have a death record for all deceased persons. Therefore, the absence of a particular person on the DMF is not proof that the individual is alive. Further, in rare instances, it is possible for the records of a person who is not deceased to be included erroneously in the DMF. G. If an individual claims that SSA has incorrectly listed someone as deceased (or has incorrect dates/data on the DMF), the individual should be told to contact to their local Social Security office (with proof) to have the error corrected. The local Social Security office will: a. Make the correction to the main NUMIDENT file at SSA and give the individual a verification document of SSA’s current records to use to show any company, recipient/purchaser of the DMF that has the error; OR, Find that SSA already has the correct information on the main NUMIDENT file and DMF (probably corrected sometime prior), and give the individual a verification document of SSA’s records to use to show to any company subscriber/ purchaser of the DMF that had the error. DocuSign Envelope ID: ED55B3D5-BAD0-45B4-977B-F09C4091C16A