PRIVACY STATEMENT

This privacy policy applies to www.directpaymentsystems.com (“site”) owned and operated by Direct Payment Systems. This privacy policy describes how Direct Payment Systems collects and uses the personal information you provide on our web site: www.directpaymentsystems.com. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

Direct Payment Systems is committed to safeguarding the privacy and security of the information we collect. We have implemented multiple security measures to ensure the protection of your information including secure servers and networks that are accessible to a limited number of employees and industry standard encryption technologies when transferring or receiving sensitive information.

Direct Payment Systems has developed and adopted this privacy statement to demonstrate the organization’s respect for your privacy. When you visit our site, we may collect and store information on an anonymous basis, such as time and length of your visit, the pages you view on our site, and the site you visited prior to our site. We may also record the name of your Internet service provider, browser type and IP address. This information is collected to improve content, measure use of the site, administer the site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We provide you with the opportunity to share information on our site such as your name, mailing address, phone, and e-mail address. The only personal information about you that is gathered is the information you choose to provide us or that which is required to purchase products or services through our site. If you choose to share any personal information with us, we may store it and use it for internal processing purposes. We do not share this information with other entities. Direct Payment Systems reserves the right to alter our privacy policy as needed. We will attempt to post any alterations to the policy on this site in a timely manner. Please contact us at info@directpaymentsystems.com or at 866-288-2502 if you have any questions concerning this site.

Online Security
We use reasonable measures to protect personal information from access by unauthorized persons. This includes, among other things, standard techniques such as firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection, and site monitoring. We also use reasonable internal controls to protect personal information from misuse by our employees. We restrict access to your personally identifiable information to employees who need to know that information in order to provide products or services to you. We review our security policies on a routine basis to ensure we are maintaining industry standards. Unfortunately, no electronic data or transmission can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we use reasonable measures to protect personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted or otherwise provided to us or received from us. This is especially true for information that is transmitted via e-mail that is unprotected until it reaches our servers. Once a transmission is received, we use the reasonable measures set forth above to secure our servers.

Direct Payment Systems is committed to handling your customer information with the highest regard for online security. If you are conducting online transactions via our site, your information and  your credit card information is gathered in a secure site owned by our one of our processing partners, BluePay and transferred in encrypted format from your computer to their servers. You should always see a URL containing “https://secure.bluepay.com” for any page on the site that provides transaction services.

We do not collect personal information from you unless you provide it to us in conjunction with an application for a merchant account or any other service we offer. The information collected such as your name, company name, credit card information, email address and phone number, is used for the underwriting, approval and set up required for the service you request. We do not license, sell, rent or trade any collected business information about your account or other personal information unless you request it, the information is provided to help complete a transaction initiated by you, or the disclosure is otherwise lawfully permitted or requested. We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy.

We may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as shipping your order or offering customer service. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

We may also disclose your personal information as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request, if Direct Payment Systems is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information, to any other third party with your prior consent to do so.

Correcting and Updating Your Personal Information
To review, update or delete your personal information to ensure it is accurate, you may contact your sales representative directly, or you may contact us at www.directpaymentsystems.com or 866-288-2502.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

We may store and process your personally identifiable information in order to fulfill any requests for information that you make of us, or to better understand your needs and to learn how to improve our services and products. We may also use your personally identifiable information to contact you (for example, we may send you marketing or promotional materials or other information, we may respond to your comments or requests for information, we may ask you for feedback on products and services or we may contact you if needed in the course of processing your requests). We may also use your personally identifiable information in accordance with any agreements that you may have entered into with us.

If you do not wish us to send you any information concerning new services or other matters offered by us please contact us by email at info@directpaymentsystems.com or call at 866-288-2502 to notify us of your wishes.

Cookies
“Cookies” are small text files that are either used for the duration of a session (‘session cookies’), or saved on a user’s hard drive in order to identify that user the next time he/she logs on to the Site (‘persistent cookies’).  Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent that, although if you do disable cookies from your browser you may not be able to access certain sections of the Site.

Minors
Direct Payment Systems does not market to or solicit data from minors. The services we provide are for businesses with owners and principals 18 years of age or older. At Direct Payment Systems we value keeping information private and secure. Direct Payment Systems is a member of the BBB (Better Business Bureau).