By checking this box, the undersigned individual(s), who is either a principal of the credit application or a personal guarantor of its obligations, provides written instructions to Streamline Financial Services (SFS) or its designees, assignee and/or successor(s)-in-interest authorizing review of his/her personal credit profile from a national credit bureau. Such authorization shall extend to obtaining a credit profile in considering this application and subsequently for the purpose of update, renewal, or collecting the resulting account. Further, I hereby authorize the bank(s) listed in this credit application to release all necessary information required to assist SFS in making its credit determination. A copy of this application shall be valid as the original.

The Federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibits creditors from discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age (providing that the applicant has the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract), because all or part of the applicant's income derives from any public assistance program or because the applicant has, in good faith, exercised any right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act. The federal agency that administers compliance with this law concerning this creditor is the Federal Trade Commission, Equal Credit Opportunity, Washington, D.C. 20580.