Order Your Credit Profile*! Congratulations! You just started the process of becoming a better informed consumer by requesting your personal Credit Profile from Equifax. Now you can see what information businesses, banks, and employers use to make credit and employment decisions. Your profile helps grantors determine whether your request for credit will be approved and whether you will get the best rates offered. This transaction is secure. When you order by Internet, we secure the confidentiality of your personal records by "electronically scrambling" the data through SSL encryption. For more information, read What About Online Security? in our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). To help you read your credit profile, we've put together a sample profile to view online. This explains the various sections of information in your profile. Click on the NEXT button below to order your Credit Profile now. * An Equifax Credit Profile refers to a consumer credit file from the Equifax credit reporting system, which is made up of various consumer credit reporting bureaus: some are independent and others are owned by Equifax. It is a picture of how you (as an individual) paid back the companies you have borrowed money from, or how you have met other financial obligations. There are usually five categories of information in an Equifax Credit Profile.