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At The Merchant Account Explorer Corporation protecting your privacy is very important to us. Our goal is to treat your personal information with the utmost respect and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please review it for information about how information collected on this site is used. By using this site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information collection and use

THE MERCHANT ACCOUNT EXPLORER is the sole collector and owner of information collected on this website. We will not use information collected on this website other than as disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

Registration information & security of information

You may be required to register personal information via an online form in order to use some part or all of the web site. During registration, you are required to provide your contact information, such as your name, title, the name of the organization you represent, and your e-mail address, as well as additional information about yourself and your organization. This information is used to validate your identity you for the purposes of providing you with our newsletter if you so choose, and in connection with helping you locate a merchant account provider ("Provider") for your business. All information received from a visitor when completing the online form for the FQS or the MACS is encrypted (to an industry-standard 128-bit encryption and high-grade 256-bit encryption) in order to protect the vistors's data.

Use of cookies

Cookies are small packets of data that are placed on your computer's hard drive. Cookies used by THE MERCHANT ACCOUNT EXPLORER do not contain anything other than a unique session identifier. We use cookies for identifying you as an authorized user of this website. Your browser will normally automatically accept cookies, but you do have the option of disabling them. However, if you do so, your ability to use this website will be limited.

Collection of pageviews and clickstream data

THE MERCHANT ACCOUNT EXPLORER collects pageview and clickstream data each time you access this website. Pageview and clickstream data includes information about what pages on the website you have chosen to view, and how you have selected or clicked them, and may also include your IP address, the type of browser you use, your operating system, the website you came from and the time and date you access the website. This information is collected to measure the number of visits and other statistics about the use of our site, in order to monitor site performance, to make the site easier and more convenient to use, and to gather and analyze broad demographic information.

Sharing of information

No personal information collected by THE MERCHANT ACCOUNT EXPLORER is shared with any third party, except with Providers and then only for the sole purpose of assisting you in locating a merchant account for your business. All Providers have agreed not to use such information except for that singular purpose.

Linked sites

This site may contain links to other sites. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, please understand that we are not responsible for the content of the privacy practices employed by other sites.

Accessing and updating personal information

In order to continually monitor and strengthen our privacy procedure, we have on staff a Manager of Privacy, who can be contacted at privacy@merchant-account-explorer.com . If you wish to access, correct, update, or remove personal information that has been collected by THE MERCHANT ACCOUNT EXPLORER please e-mail our Manager of Privacy and we will do our best to accommodate you. Please contact the Manager of Privacy if you have questions about privacy that were not answered here. We welcome any suggestions.

Modifications of our Privacy Policy

THE MERCHANT ACCOUNT EXPLORER reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy statement at any time. If we make any material change to this Privacy Policy, we will update this site to include such change and post a notice on our home page with a link to the updated Privacy Policy. If at any time THE MERCHANT ACCOUNT EXPLORER decides to use personal information collected in a manner or for a purpose other than those stated at the time such information was collected, THE MERCHANT ACCOUNT EXPLORER will notify you by e-mail. You will have a choice as to whether this information will be used in that manner or for those purposes.

Thank You.