Merchant Marketing Services USA, PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is vital to our long-term relationship with you, and protecting
your privacy is just one part of our mission to provide you with highly
personalized and valuable service. In addition, in an effort to comply
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not
knowingly collect personally identifying information from children under
the age of 13.
This statement describes our privacy policy with respect to:
- What Information is Collected; How
Information is Collected; and by Whom is Information Collected
- The Sharing of Collected Information
- How You Can Access, Change or Limit the Information Collected About You
- Security of Information
- Amendments to Our Privacy Policy
What Information is Collected; How Information is Collected; and by Whom is
Information Collected
Required Personally Identifiable Information
To register on our Web site, you must submit your name and e-mail address.
In addition, to purchase a calling card, you must submit additional information,
including your address, phone number and credit card information. This
required personally identifiable information is necessary for us to process
transactions for you, protect you against credit card fraud and contact
you. When you register with Merchant Marketing Services USA™, we will ask you for a "e-mail." The
e-mail you select may appear on the web site in connection with future
services we provide, such as discussion forums in which you may voluntarily
participate.
We will never share the information stored on that database, as well as
other information we collect or you provide with any business partners or
third parties, including those who offer services that complement those provided
by us or which we believe may be of interest to you.
Transaction Information
When you authorize a purchase transaction, we will collect certain information
related to that transaction such as the location from which you are requesting
the search or transaction, the product or service involved, the quantity
or amount of the product or service and certain personally identifiable
information, such as your password, your credit card information and any
special handling requests. This personally identifiable information will
never knowingly appear in public areas of our Web site.
Third Party Information
During the processing of your transactions, we collect verification information
from our credit card authorization services. Credit card authorization
services verify that credit card information and address that they have
on file for you matches the information that you have provided to us.
General Information
We collect general information about you when you visit our web site. This
information includes technical information related to your computer and
the manner in which you are accessing our site and includes such information
as the internet protocol (IP) address of your computer, what operating
system your computer is using, what browser software (e.g., Explorer, Netscape
or other) your computer is using, and who your Internet service provider
is, the Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") of the web site from which you
just came and the URL to which you go next and certain operating metrics,
such as the amount of time you use our Web site.
The general information that we gather about you may be aggregated with
general information of all users to help us better understand how our site
is used. In addition, we aggregate the general information and the personal
information. We compile and analyze this aggregated information so that we
can provide more meaningful information to corporate partners and more relevant
content and advertisements to you.
The Sharing of Collected Information
Personally Identifiable Information
As noted above, we only share certain information about you with those of
our vendors who are responsible for handling your account or performing
other necessary services that you require. We will not share your personally
identifying information with other third parties without your consent,
except for the following limited purposes:
- We are compelled to do so by law or by an order of a court or governmental
authority.
- In order to cooperate with law enforcement authorities or governmental
regulatory bodies, and if we find any fraudulent activities.
- As necessary to complete a transaction for you.
- As we deem necessary to protect the rights, safety or property of Merchant Marketing Services USA,
our users or others o r to enforce our terms of use agreement or privacy
policy.
- If you use our Web site through a link from one of our promotional partners,
then we may be required to share your user registration information or
other personally identifying information about any search or transaction
that you initiate through such promotional partner with that partner.
Aggregated General Information
In addition, we may share aggregated general information about our site with
our business partners or the general public. For example, we may share information
regarding the daily number of unique users to our site with potential corporate
partners or others. Aggregated data does not contain any information that could
be used to contact or identify you.
Third Party Sites
We may publish links to other sites from our web site. Please note that Merchant Marketing Services USA
does not control the content, practices or policies of any other site,
including what information those sites collect about you. Accordingly,
we do not endorse or hold ourselves responsible for the privacy policies
or information gathering practices of any site that you may link to from
our site. In addition, you may choose to respond to advertisements that
are posted on our web site or made available via our service or to direct
marketing offers from third party sponsors or advertisers. We do not control
the content, practices or policies of our sponsors or advertisers and,
accordingly, do not endorse or hold ourselves responsible for the privacy
policies or information gathering practices of any sponsor or advertiser
who may collect information about you.
How You Can Access, Limit or Change the Information Collected About You
Security
Merchant Marketing Services USA uses the highest security standard available (SSL) to encrypt
all of your credit card and personally identifiable information while it
is in transit to us. All data stored on the Merchant Marketing Services USA server is protected
by a secure "firewall" so that no unauthorized use or activity can take place.
Although Merchant Marketing Services USA will make every effort to safeguard your personal
information from loss, misuse or alteration by third parties, you should
be aware that there is always some risk that thieves may find a way to thwart
our security system or that transmissions over the Internet will be intercepted.
Amendments to Our Privacy Policy
We may, from time to time, amend our Privacy Policy. If we do, then we will
post such amendments to this document so that you may always have access
to our most recent policy. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change,
modify, add or remove portions of our Privacy Policy at any time and from
time to time. If at any point we decide to disclose personal information
in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will
notify users by email. You will be given t he choice at that time to "opt-out" of
any disclosures of your personal information that you made available to us
prior to the change in our policy.
Acknowledgment and Acceptance of our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Statement is incorporated into and subject to the Terms of
Use contained on this web site (the "Terms"). As you know, your use of the
Merchant Marketing Services USA web site is subject to the Terms. When you register with
us, you affirmatively agree to all terms of the Terms, including this Privacy
Policy. Your continued use of this Web site constitutes your continued agreement
to the terms of the Terms, including this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree
with the terms of our Privacy Policy, you should cease using our Web site. |