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Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy is designed to
assist you in understanding how we collect and use
the personal information you provide to us and to
assist you in making informed decisions when using
our site and our products and services.
What Information Do We
Collect?
When you visit our Web site you
may provide us with two types of information:
personal information you knowingly choose to
disclose that is collected on an individual basis
and Web site use information collected on an
aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web
site.
1. Personal Information You
Choose to Provide
Registration Information.
You will provide us information
about yourself, your firm or company, and your
practices when you purchase from our Web site,
register for certain services, or register for email
newsletters and alerts. You may also provide
additional comments on how you see Merchants
Solutions and our Web site servicing your needs and
interests via email at
info@merchants-solutions.com.
Email Information.
If you choose to correspond with
us through email, we may retain the content of your
email messages together with your email address and
our responses.
2. Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web
sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology
called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are
Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect
information about how our Web site is used.
Information gathered through cookies and Web server
logs may include the date and time of visits, the
pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the
Web sites visited just before and just after our Web
site. We, our advertisers and ad serving companies
may also use small pieces of code called “web
beacons” or “clear gifs” to determine which
advertisements and promotions users have seen and
how users responded to them.
How Do We Use the
Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal
information for purposes of administering and
expanding our business activities, providing
customer service and making available other products
and services to our customers and prospective
customers. Occasionally, we may also use the
information we collect to notify you about important
changes to our Web site, new services and special
offers we think you will find valuable. You may
notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive
these offers by emailing us at
info@merchants-solutions.com.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text
document, which often includes an anonymous unique
identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's
computer asks your computer for permission to store
this file in a part of your hard drive specifically
designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its
own cookie to your browser if your browser's
preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy)
your browser only permits a Web site to access the
cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies
sent to you by other sites.
How Do We Use Information We
Collect from Cookies?
As you shop on our Web site, the
site uses its cookies to differentiate you from
other shoppers so your shopping cart is only
available to you. In some cases, we also use cookies
to prevent you from seeing unnecessary
advertisements or requiring you to log in more than
is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction
with our Web server's log files, allow us to
calculate the aggregate number of people visiting
our Web site and which parts of the site are most
popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to
constantly improve our Web site and better serve our
customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any
personal information about you and we do not
generally store any personal information that you
provided to us in your cookies.
Sharing Information with
Third Parties
We may enter into alliances,
partnerships or other business arrangements with
third parties who may be given access to personal
information including your name, address, telephone
number and email for the purpose of providing you
information regarding products and services that we
think will be of interest to you. In connection with
alliances, partnerships or arrangements, we may also
provide certain information to third parties if we
have determined that the information will be used in
a responsible manner by a responsible third party.
We also use third parties to facilitate our
business, including, but not limited to, sending
email and processing credit card payments. In
connection with these offerings and business
operations, our partners and other third parties may
have access to your personal information for use in
connection with business activities. As we develop
our business, we may buy or sell assets or business
offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information
is generally one of the transferred business assets
in these types of transactions. We may also transfer
such information in the course of corporate
divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.
Notice of New Services and
Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the
information we collect to notify you about important
changes to our Web site, new services and special
offers we think you will find valuable. As our
customer, you will be given the opportunity to
notify us of your desire not to receive these offers
by sending us an email request at
info@merchants-solutions.com.
How Do We Protect Your
Information?
How Do We Secure Information
Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a
secure medium of communication. For this reason, we
request that you do not send private information to
us by email. Some of the information you may enter
on our Web site may be transmitted securely via
Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption
services, which are enabled by Thawte. Pages
utilizing this technology will have URLs that start
with HTTPS instead of HTTP. Please contact
info@merchants-solutions.com if you have any
questions or concerns.
How Can You Access and
Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all
your personally identifiable information that we
collect online and maintain in our database by
emailing
info@merchants-solutions.com.
Certain Disclosures
We may disclosure your personal
information if required to do so by law or subpoena
or if we believe that such action is necessary to
(a) conform to the law or comply with legal process
served on us or Affiliated Parties; (b) protect and
defend our rights and property, the Site, the users
of the Site, and/or our Affiliated Parties; (c) act
under circumstances to protect the safety of users
of the Site, us, or third parties.
What About Other Web Sites
Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the
practices employed by Web sites linked to or from
our Web site nor the information or content
contained therein. Often links to other Web sites
are provided solely as pointers to information on
topics that may be useful to the users of our Web
site.
Please remember that when you use
a link to go from our Web site to another Web site,
our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your
browsing and interaction on any other Web site,
including Web sites which have a link on our Web
site, is subject to that Web site's own rules and
policies. Please read over those rules and policies
before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent
to our collection and use of your personal
information as described in this Privacy Policy. If
we change our privacy policies and procedures, we
will post those changes on our Web site to keep you
aware of what information we collect, how we use it
and under what circumstances we may disclose it. |