Privacy Policy

ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS PRIVACY POLICY

ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS (including, without limitation, affiliates, subsidiaries, partners, associates, divisions, agents, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with us which are collectively referred to herein as “ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS”) respect the privacy of users of our websites (collectively, the “ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites”). ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTION's privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) is intended to inform you of our policies, procedures and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any information that we collect from users of the ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites as well as users of ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS’s applications, products or services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any websites, mobile applications or other online services that do not display or link to this Privacy Policy.

THE TYPES OF INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

We collect information from you in various ways when you access or use the ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites, including, without limitation, in the following ways:

(a) Personal Information Which We May Collect Via Information You Provide to Us

We may collect the information that you voluntarily provide to us. For example:

  • We may collect personal information from you, such as your first and last name, e-mail, telephone number and password when you create an account.

  • If you tell us where you are (e.g., by allowing your mobile device to send us your location or by entering your city, state and/or zip code information), we may use that information to provide you with location-based information, such as the location of restaurants in your proximity that use ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS’ applications, products or services. If you want to deactivate this feature, you can deactivate GPS on your mobile device.

  • If you utilize our applications, products or services which allow you to store preferences such as your location, recent orders and favorite menu items in order to make it more convenient for you to place additional orders in the future, we may collect that information.

  • If you order menu items from Wholesale Payments’s Websites or from third-party websites that use Wholesale Payments’s applications, products or services, we may collect information which we believe is necessary to complete the transaction, including, without limitation, your name and address.

  • If you provide us feedback or contact us via email, we may collect your name and email address, as well as any other content included in the email.

  • We may also collect other types of personal information that you provide to us voluntarily, such as any information requested by Wholesale Payments if you contact us regarding information about or support requests for any Wholesale Payments applications, products or services.

(b) Personal Information Which We May Collect Via Technology

We may collect certain information from you automatically as described below when you access and use the WHOLESALE PAYMENTS Websites or WHOLESALE PAYMENTS’s applications, products or services:

  • Information Collected by Wholesale Payments’s Servers. To make the Wholesale Payments Websites and Wholesale Payments’s applications, products and services more useful to you, our servers (which may be hosted by a third-party service provider) may collect information from you, including the referring/exit pages, your browser type, domain name, date/time stamp of your visit and your Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer or device when you use the Internet). We use this information to analyze trends, administer and update the Wholesale Payments Websites and Wholesale Payments’s applications, products and services, to monitor for fraudulent activities and for the efficacy of our fraud management tools, and to better tailor our applications, products and services to our users’ needs.

  • Cookies. Like many companies with websites, we use cookies to collect information. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that a web site sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a web site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on the Wholesale Payments Websites. This type of information is collected to make the Wholesale Payments Websites as well as Wholesale Payments’s applications, products and services more useful to you and to tailor your experience with us to meet your particular interests and needs.

  • Mobile Services. We may also collect non-personal information from your mobile device if you have downloaded Wholesale Payments’s mobile application. This information is generally used to help us deliver the most relevant information to you. Examples of information that may be collected and used include, without limitation, your geographic location, how you use the Wholesale Payments application(s), and information about the type of mobile device you use. In addition, in the event Wholesale Payments’s application crashes your mobile device, we may receive information about your mobile device model software version and the device carrier, which allow us to identify and fix bugs and otherwise improve performance of Wholesale Payments’s application(s). This information is sent to us as aggregated information and is not traceable to any individual and cannot be used to identify an individual.

  • Third Party Analytics. We may use third party analytics service providers to help analyze how users use the Wholesale Payments Websites and Wholesale Payments’s applications, products and services. These analytics service providers may use Cookies to collect information such as how often users visit the Wholesale Payments Websites, what pages they visit and what other websites they used prior to coming to the Wholesale Payments Websites. We may use the information we get from these analytics service providers to improve the Wholesale Payments Websites and Wholesale Payments’s applications, products or services.

(c) Social Networking Websites and Services

The ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites and ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS’s applications, products and services may allow users to access a social networking sites (each, an “SNS”) to interact with and share with their friends their experiences with ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS or company’s which utilize ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS’s applications, products or services. If you use an SNS that ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS supports, and then entering your SNS login credentials on such SNS we may receive information from that SNS to make it easier for you to create an account with ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS and to show you our relevant content on such SNS. Any information that we collect from each of your SNS account may depend on the privacy settings you have with such SNS, so please consult your SNS’s privacy and data practices.

(d) Location Information.

If you have enabled location services on your mobile device and agree to the collection of your location when prompted by the ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites or by ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS’ applications, products or services, we may collect your location information in order to locate those restaurants or other businesses which are in proximity to you and which utilize ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS’ applications, products or services. If you do not want us to collect this information collected, you may decline the collection of your location when prompted or disable location services on your mobile device.

TYPE OF INFORMATION WHICH WE DO NOT NORMALLY COLLECT

We do not collect or process any of the following types of data unless we are required to do so by law (such as in the event of a court case)

  • Race or ethnic origin

  • Political opinions

  • Religious or philosophical beliefs

  • Trade union memberships

  • Genetic or biometric data

  • Health or mortality

  • Sex life or sexual orientation

HOW WE MAY USE YOUR INFORMATION

(a) General Use

In general, we use your personal information to respond to your requests as submitted through the ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites or through ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS applications, products and services, to provide you with the information, products and services that you request, or to aid us in serving your better. We may use your personal information in one or more of the following ways:

  • facilitate the creation of and to secure your account on our network;

  • identify you as a user in our system;

  • provide improved administration of the Wholesale Payments Websites and Wholesale Payments’s applications, products and services;

  • provide the applications, products and services you request;

  • improve the quality of your experience when you interact with the Wholesale Payments Websites or when you use Wholesale Payments’s applications, products and services

  • send you a welcome e-mail to verify ownership of the e-mail address that was provided when your account with Wholesale Payments was created

  • send you administrative e-mail notifications, such as security or support and maintenance advisories

  • respond to your inquiries related to employment opportunities or other communications from Wholesale Payments

  • solicit your feedback; and

  • send newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials related to our applications, products or services and for other marketing purposes of any company which is utilizing Wholesale Payments’s applications, products or services.

(b) Creation of Anonymous Information

We may create anonymous information records from personal information by excluding information (such as your name) that make the information personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous information to analyze request patterns and usage patterns so that we may enhance the ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites and our applications, products and services. We reserve the right to use and disclose anonymous Information to third parties in our sole discretion.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may disclose your personal data as described below and as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.

(a) Third Party Service Providers

We may share your personal information with third-party service providers to: provide you with the applications, products or services that may be available on the ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites; to conduct quality assurance testing; to facilitate the creation of accounts; to process payments; to provide technical support; and/or to provide other services.

(b) Affiliates

We may share some or all of your personal information with our affiliates, subsidiaries, partners, associates, divisions, , joint ventures, or other companies under common control with us , in which case we will require those entities to honor this Privacy Policy.

A NOTE ABOUT MINORS

We do not intentionally gather personal information about visitors who are under the age of 18. Furthermore, we do not intentionally allow visitors under the age of 18 to register for ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS’s applications, products or services. If a minor under the age of 18 submits personal information to us. and we learn that the personal information is the information of a minor, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have any personal information from a minor under the age of 18, please contact us immediately at: 201 3rd St NW, Suite 600, Albuquerque, NM 87102, Attention: Privacy Officer.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS’ Websites may contain links to third-party websites (including, without limitation, websites owned or operated by WHOLESALE PAYMENTS Partner Food Vendors). When you click on a link to any third-party website, you will leave an ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Website and go to a website owned and controlled by another entity and that entity may collect personal and/or anonymous information from you. Our provision of a link to any third-party website is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such third-party website or its contents. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these third-party websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of our Privacy Policy do not apply to these third-party websites.

YOUR CHOICES REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION

You have several choices regarding use of your information on ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS’ Websites or ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS’ applications, products or services.

(a) Cookies

If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to accept cookies from the ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites or from ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS applications, products or services for any of the purposes described above, then you can instruct your browser, by changing its settings, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. Consult your browser’s technical information. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions or all functionality of the ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites or ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS applications, products or services. If you have any questions about how to disable or modify cookies, please let us know at the contact information provided below.

(b) Application

You can stop all collection of information by an ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS application by uninstalling such application. You may use the standard uninstall processes as may be available as part of your mobile device or via the mobile application marketplace or network.

(c) How We Respond to Do Not Track Signals

Some web browsers transmit “do not track” signals to the websites and other online services with which your web browser communications. There is currently no standard that governs what, if anything, websites should do when they receive these signals. We currently do not take action in response to these signals. If and when a standard is established, we may revise our policy on responding to these signals.

(d) For personal information that we have about you, you can request the following:

Delete Data: You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data (e.g., if it is no longer necessary to provide services to you).

Change or Correct Data: You can ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate.

Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: You can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to keep using it) or to limit our use of it (e.g., your personal data is inaccurate or unlawfully held).

Right to Access and/or Take Your Data: You may contact us (see below) to request a copy of your personal data and can ask for a copy of personal data be provided in machine readable form. You can also ask to review any of the information that we have retained, how we have used it, and to whom we have disclosed it at any time by contacting us.

PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision, and if we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, or disclose your personal information, we will post a notice on the ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites and/or within the relevant ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS application, product or services. For existing uses of the ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites, any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective thirty (30) calendar days following our posting of notice of the changes. For new users of the ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS Websites, these changes will be effective immediately. If you object to any such changes, you must notify us prior to the effective date of such changes that you wish to deactivate your account with us. Continued use of the WHOLESALE PAYMENTS Websites following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement and agreement with such changes.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or if you require additional information about our Privacy Policy, our data collection or processing practices, or if you want to report any security violations to us, please contact us at: 806-698-0625 ; by email at: support@wholesalepayments.com; or by postal mail at: ABSOLUTE MERCHANT SOLUTIONS, Inc., 7602 University Ave, Lubbock, TX 79423.