Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 6, 2024
This Privacy Policy contains important information about your personal data and we encourage you to read it carefully.
Welcome
We provide payment processing through the internet to government organizations and other enterprises. People utilize our services to make purchases, and businesses of all sizes rely on our technology and services to collect payments, deliver payouts, and run their operations online. PayTekSoft wants to be clear about how we use the Personal Data provided to us. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the “Personal Data” that we collect about you, how we use it, how we share it, your rights and choices, and how you can contact us about our privacy practices. This Policy also outlines your data subject rights, including the right to object to some uses of your Personal Data by us. Please visit the PayTekSoft Privacy Center for more information about our privacy practices. “PayTekSoft”, “we”, “our” or “us” means the PayTekSoft entity responsible for the collection and use of Personal Data under this Privacy Policy. It differs depending on your jurisdiction. “Personal Data” means any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual, and can include information that you provide to us and that we collect about you, such as when you engage with our Services (e.g. device information, IP address). “Services” means the products and services that PayTekSoft indicates are covered by this Policy, which may include PayTekSoft-provided devices and apps. Our “Business Services” are Services provided by PayTekSoft to entities (“Business Users”) who directly and indirectly provide us with “End Customer” Personal Data in connection with those Business Users’ own business and activities. Our “End User Services” are those Services which PayTekSoft provides directly to people (rather than entities) for their own use. “Sites” means PayTekSoft.com, mypaytek.com and the other websites, apps and online services that PayTekSoft indicates are covered by this Policy. Collectively, we refer to Sites, Business Services and End User Services as “Services”. Depending on the context, “you” means End Customer, End User, Representative or Visitor:

When you directly use an End User Service for your personal use (such as when you sign up for our portal, or make a payment to PayTekSoft in your personal capacity), we refer to you as an “End User.”
When you do business with, or otherwise transact with, a Business User (e.g. when you pay an invoice to a government entity that uses PayTekSoft for payment processing) but are not directly doing business with PayTekSoft, we refer to you as an “End Customer.”
When you are acting on behalf of an existing or potential Business User (e.g. you are a founder of a company, administer an account for a merchant who is a Business User, or receive an employee credit card from a Business User using PayTekSoft Issuing), we refer to you as a “Representative.”
When you visit a Site without being logged into a PayTekSoft account or otherwise communicate with PayTekSoft, we refer to you as a “Visitor.” (e.g. you send PayTekSoft a message asking for more information because you are considering being a user of our products).

Depending on the activity, PayTekSoft acts as a “data controller” and/or “data processor (or service provider)” and for more information about this and on the PayTekSoft entity that is responsible under this Policy, see below.

Personal Data that we collect and how we use and share it.
More ways we collect, use and share Personal Data.
Legal bases for processing data.
Log Files and Cookies Policy.
GDPR Privacy Policy (Data Protection Rights).
Your rights and choices.
Security and retention.
Updates and notifications.
Jurisdiction-specific provisions.
Contact us

1. Personal Data that we collect and how we use and share it
Our collection and use of Personal Data changes depending on whether you are acting as End User, End Customer, Representative or Visitor and our different Services. For example, if you are the sole owner of a business (i.e., sole proprietorship), we may collect Personal Data to onboard your business, but you may also be an End Customer that purchased goods from another Business User or government agency that uses PayTekSoft’s Services for payment processing and you may also be an End User who uses our portal to make those purchases.
“Transaction Data” as used in this Privacy Policy includes Personal Data, and may include the following: your name, email address, billing address, shipping address, payment method information (such as credit or debit card number, bank account information or payment card image selected by you), merchant and location, purchase amount, date of purchase, and in some cases, some information about what you have purchased and your phone number and past purchases.
1.1 End Users
We provide End User Services where we do not act as a service provider or processor to Businesses but instead provide the Services directly to you for your personal use. We provide more information about our collection, use and sharing of Personal Data in our Privacy Center, including the legal bases which we rely on for using (processing) your Personal Data.
a. Personal Data that we collect about End Users

Using our portal or Connecting your Bank Account. PayTekSoft offers you the opportunity to store your payment methods with PayTekSoft so that you can conveniently use it across merchants who are our Business Users. When you opt in to use our technology, you agree to let us store your Personal Data such as your payment method so that you can more readily make purchases through the platform with Business Users of our payment processing Business Services (e.g. name, contact information, payment method details (e.g. card number, cvc, and expiration date)). When you choose to pay n our platform, we will also collect Transaction Data related to your transactions.

If you choose to share bank account information with us, PayTekSoft will periodically collect and process your account information (e.g. bank account owner information, account balances, account number and details, account transactions and, in some cases, credentials). With your separate permission, we will share this Personal Data with Business Users that you choose. You can ask us to stop collecting and sharing this information.
With your separate permission, we will share contact information (e.g. shipping address, billing address and phone number) with Business Users that you do business with.

Paying PayTekSoft. If you are buying goods or services directly from PayTekSoft, we receive Transaction Data. For example, when you make a payment to PayTekSoft, we will collect contact information, payment method information, and information about that transaction.

b. How we use and share Personal Data of End Users

Services. We use your Personal Data to provide the End User Service to you, including security, sanctions screening, delivery, support, personalization (e.g. language preferences and settings choices) and messages related to the End User Service (e.g. communicating Policy updates and information about our Services). For example, we will use Personal Data to assess whether your use of our technology to make a payment with a merchant is authorized by you (and not a bad actor) and likely to be successfully authorized by the payment method you choose to use when you choose to make purchases.
Our Business Users. When you choose to connect your financial account with PayTekSoft you may also choose to share account information with Business Users or government agencies that you do business with. These Business Users will have their own privacy policies which describe how they use that information.
Transactions. For payment transactions with us, End User Personal Data is shared with others to enable or “process” the transaction. For example, when you choose to use a payment method for the transaction with PayTekSoft (e.g. credit card, debit card, buy now pay later, or direct debit), the third party provider of your payment method will receive Transaction Data that includes your Personal Data. When you use our technology, the merchant you choose to do business with will also receive Transaction Data that includes your Personal Data and, with your separate consent, your bank account information. Please review the privacy policies of your payment method and the merchants who you choose to learn more about their processing of your Personal Data.
Fraud Detection and Loss Prevention. We use your Personal Data collected across our Services to detect fraud and prevent financial losses for you, us, and our Business Users and financial partners, including to detect unauthorized purchases. We may provide Business Users and financial partners (including card issuers, payment methods and others involved in payment processing activities) that use our fraud Business Services with Personal Data about you (including your attempted transactions) so that they can assess the associated fraud or loss risk with a transaction.
Advertising. We may use your Personal Data to assess your eligibility for, and offer you, other End User Services or promote existing End User Services. Where allowed by law (including with your opt-in consent where required), we use and share End User Personal Data with others so that we may market our End User Services to you, including through interest-based advertising. See our Cookie Policy.

We do not sell or share End User Personal Data with third parties for marketing or advertising their products without your separate consent.

More. Please see below for information about additional ways in which we may use and share your Personal Data.

1.2 End Customers
PayTekSoft offers Business Services to our Government agencies and Business Users (e.g. payment processing through in-person or online checkout, or processing pay-outs for those Business Users). When we are acting as a Government agencies or Business User’s service provider (also known as a data processor), we will process Personal Data in accordance with the terms of our agreement with the Government agencies or Business User and the Business User’s lawful instructions (e.g. when we process a payment for a Business User because you bought a product from them) or they instruct us to send funds to you. Business Users are responsible for making sure that their End Customers’ privacy rights are respected, including ensuring appropriate disclosures about data collection and use that happens in connection with their products and services. If you are an End Customer, please refer to the privacy policy or notice of the Business User you choose to do business with for information regarding their privacy practices, choices and controls.
a. Personal Data that we collect about End Customers

Transaction Data. If you are an End Customer, when you make payments to, get refunds from, begin a purchase, make a donation or otherwise transact with a Business User that uses us to provide payment processing Business Services, we will receive Transaction Data. We may also receive your transaction history with the Business User. Moreover, we may obtain information typed into a checkout form, even if you choose not to complete the form or purchase with the Business User.

b. How we use and share Personal Data of End Customers
To provide our Business Services to our Business Users, we use Personal Data, and share Personal Data of a Business User’s End Customers with the Business User. Where allowed, we also use End Customers’ Personal Data for PayTekSoft’s own purposes to secure, improve and provide our Business Services and prevent fraud, loss and other harms as described below.

Payments and Accounting. We use your Transaction Data to provide our Payments related Business Services to Business Users, including to process online payment transactions, to calculate applicable sales tax, to invoice and bill, and to help them calculate their revenue, pay their bills and perform accounting tasks. We may also use Personal Data to provide and improve our Business Services.

For payment transactions, your Personal Data is shared with a number of parties in connection with your transaction. Because we act as a service provider or processor, we share Personal Data to enable the transaction. For example, when you choose to use a payment method for the transaction (e.g. credit card, debit card, buy now pay later, or direct debit), your payment method will receive the Transaction Data that includes your Personal Data. Please review your payment method’s privacy policy to learn more about how they use and share this information.
The merchant you choose to do business with will also receive Transaction Data that includes your Personal Data and the merchant may share that Personal Data with others. Please review your merchant’s privacy policy to learn more.

Financial Services. Some of our Business Users use our Services in order to offer financial services to you, through PayTekSoft or its financial partners. For example, they may provide a card product that enables you to purchase goods and services. These cards may carry the PayTekSoft brand, bank partner brand and/or the brands of Business Users. In addition to any Transaction Data we may produce or receive when these cards are used for purchases, we will also receive and use your Personal Data in order to provide and manage these products. Please also see the privacy policies of the Business User and our bank partners, if applicable, associated with the financial service (whose brands may be shown on the card).
Identity/Verification Services. We may use Personal Data about your identity, including information provided by you and our service providers, to perform verification Services for PayTekSoft or for the Business Users that you are doing business with, to reduce fraud and enhance security. If you provide a “selfie” along with an image of your identity document, we will use technology to compare and calculate whether they match, and you can be verified.
Fraud Detection and Loss Prevention. We use your Personal Data collected across our Services to detect and prevent losses for you, us, our Business Users and financial partners. We may provide Business Users (including card issuers, payment methods and others involved in payment processing activities) that use our fraud Business Services with Personal Data about you (including your attempted transactions) so that they can assess the fraud or loss risk associated with a transaction. You can learn more about how we may use technology to assess the fraud and loss risk associated with an attempted transaction and what information we may share with Business Users about such risks.
Our Business Users (their Authorized Third Parties). We share Personal Data of End Customers with their respective Business Users and with parties directly authorized by those Business Users to receive Personal Data. This includes sharing Personal Data of End Customers with Business Users when a Business User authorizes a third-party application provider to access its PayTekSoft account using PayTekSoft Connect. For example, when the Business User uses Identity Services to verify an End Customer’s identity, PayTekSoft shares with the Business User the information, documents or photos provided by the End Customer to verify their identity. The Business Users you choose to do business with may further share your Personal Data to third parties they authorize (e.g. other third party service providers). Please review their privacy policy to learn more.
Advertising by Business Users. If you have begun a purchase, we share Personal Data with that Business User in connection with our provision of Services and that Business User may use your Personal Data to market and advertise their products or services, subject to the terms of their privacy policy. Please review your merchant’s privacy policy to learn more, including your rights to stop their use of your Personal Data for marketing purposes.

We do not use, sell or share End Customer Personal Data for our marketing or advertising, or for marketing and advertising by third parties who are not the Business User with which you have transacted or attempted to transact.

1.3 Representatives
To provide Business Services, we collect, use and share Personal Information from Representatives of Business Users (e.g. a business owner). We provide more information about our collection, use and sharing of Personal Data herein.
a. Personal Data that we collect about Representatives

Registration and Contact Information. If you register for a PayTekSoft account for a Business User (including incorporation of a Business), we collect your name and account login credentials. If you register for an event that PayTekSoft organizes or attends or if you sign up for PayTekSoft communications, we collect your registration and profile information. If you are a Representative or Representative of a potential Business User, we receive your Personal Data from third parties (including data providers) in order to advertise to, market and communicate with you as described further below and in Section 2. We may also associate a location with you in order to assess which Services or information may be useful to you.
Identification Information. If you are an owner of a Business User or you are expected to be a shareholder, officer or director of a Business User, we require that you provide your contact details, such as name, postal address, telephone number, and email address to fulfill our financial partner and regulatory requirements. We will directly (and through others) collect Personal Data about you, such as your ownership interest in the Business User, your date of birth and government identifiers associated with you and your Business User (such as your social security number, tax number, or Employer Identification Number). You may also choose to provide bank account information.

b. How we use and share Personal Data of Representatives
We generally use Personal Data of Representatives to provide the Business Services to the associated Business Users, as well as for the purposes described herein.

Business Services. We use and share Personal Data of Representatives with Business Users to provide the Services you (or the Business User you are associated with) have requested.

In some cases our Business Service will require us to submit your Personal Data to a government entity.
We share data with parties directly authorized by a Business User to receive Personal Data (e.g. financial partners servicing the financial product, or third party apps or services the Business User uses in conjunction with our Business Services). For example, providers of payment methods (e.g., Visa, Mastercard, American Express, etc.) will require merchant onboarding information for the Business Users that accept their payment methods, and PayTekSoft will provide required onboarding information (including Personal Data of Representatives) to those financial partners.

The use of Personal Data by a Business User’s authorized third party is subject to the third party’s privacy policy.

1If you are a Business User and have chosen a name that includes Personal Data (e.g. a sole proprietorship or family name in a company name), we will share and use that information as any company name in connection with the provision of our Services (e.g. including it on receipts and other descriptions identifying financial transactions).

Advertising. Where allowed by applicable law, we use and share Representative Personal Data with others so that we may advertise and market our Services to you. Subject to applicable law (including any consent requirements), we may advertise to you through interest-based advertising and emails and seek to measure the effectiveness of our ads. See our Cookie Policy. We do not sell or share Representative Personal Data to others for their advertising purposes.

1.4 Visitors
We collect, use and share Personal Data of Visitors (who are not End Users, End Customers or Representatives). We provide more information about our collection, use and sharing of Personal Data in this Privacy policy.
a. Visitor Personal Data that we collect
When you visit our Sites, we will receive your Personal Data either from you providing it to us or through our use of cookies and similar technologies. See our Cookie Policy.

Forms. When you choose to fill in a form on the Site or on third party websites featuring our advertising (e.g. LinkedIn or Facebook), we will collect the information included in the form (e.g. your contact information and other information about your question related to our Services). We may also associate a location with your visit.

b. How we use and share visitor Personal Data

Personalization. We use information about you that we gather from cookies and similar technologies to measure engagement with the content on the Sites, to improve relevancy and navigation, to personalize your experience (e.g. language and relevant geography) and to tailor content about PayTekSoft and our Services to you. For example, because not all of our Services are available in all regions, so we may tailor our answers for your region.
Advertising. As allowed by law, we use and share Visitor Personal Data with others so that we may advertise and market our Services to you. Subject to applicable law (including any consent requirements), we may advertise our Services to you through interest-based advertising and emails, and seek to measure the effectiveness of our ads. See also our Cookie Policy. We do not sell or share Visitor Personal Data to others for their advertising purposes.
Engagement. When visitors engage with our PayTekSoft.com site, we will use information we collect about and through your devices in order to provide the opportunity to engage in conversations or with chatbots to address your questions.
More. Please see below for information about additional ways in which we may collect, use and share your Personal Data.

2. More ways we collect, use and share Personal Data
In addition to the ways we collect, use and share Personal Data that are described above, we also process your Personal Data as follows:
a. Personal Data Collection

Online Activity. Depending on the Service you use and the Business Users’ implementation of our Business Services, we will collect information about:
Devices and browsers across our Sites and third-party websites, apps and other online services (“Third-Party Sites”),
Usage data associated with those devices and browsers and how you’ve engaged with our Services, including IP address, plug-ins, language used, time spent on Sites and Third-Party Sites, pages visited, links clicked, payment methods used, and the pages that led or referred you to Sites and Third-Party Sites. For example, activity indicators, like mouse activity indicators, to help us detect fraud.

Communication and Engagement Information. We will collect any information you choose to provide to us, for example, through support tickets, emails or social media. When you respond to PayTekSoft emails or surveys, we collect your email address, name and any other information you choose to include in the body of your email or responses. If you contact us by phone, we will collect the phone number you use to call PayTekSoft, as well as other information you may provide during the call. We will also collect your engagement data such as your registration for, attendance of, or viewing of PayTekSoft events and other interaction with PayTekSoft personnel.
Forums and Discussion Groups. Where our Sites allow you to post content, we will collect Personal Data that you provide in connection with the post.

b. Personal Data Usage. In addition to the Personal Data usage described above, we use Personal Data in the following ways:

Improving and Developing our Services. We use analytics on our Sites to help us analyze your use of our Sites and Services and diagnose technical issues. To learn more about the cookies that may be served through our Sites and how you can control our use of cookies and third-party analytics, please see our Cookie Policy. We also collect and process Personal Data through our different Services, whether you are an End User, End Customer, Representative or Visitor, to improve our Services, develop new Services and support our efforts to make our Services more relevant and more useful to you.
Communications. We will use the contact information we have about you to perform the Services, which may include sending codes via SMS to authenticate you. If you are an End User, Representative or Visitor, we may communicate with you using the contact information we have about you (e.g. using email, phone, text message or videoconference) to provide information about our Services and our affiliates’ services, invite you to participate in our events or surveys, or otherwise communicate with you for our marketing purposes, provided that we do so in accordance with applicable law, including any consent or opt-out requirements. For example, when you submit your contact information to us or when we collect your business contact details through our participation at trade shows or other events, we may use the information to follow-up with you regarding an event, send you information that you have requested on our products and services and include you on our marketing information campaigns.
Social Media and Promotions. If you choose to submit Personal Data to us to participate in an offer, program or promotion, we will use the Personal Data you submit to administer the offer, program or promotion. We will also use that Personal Data and Personal Data you make available on social media to market to you unless we are not permitted to do so.
Fraud Prevention and Security. We collect and use Personal Data to help us to detect and manage the activity of fraudulent and other bad actors across our Services, to enable our fraud detection Business Services, and to otherwise seek to secure our Services and transactions against unauthorized access, use, modification or misappropriation of Personal Data, information and funds. In connection with fraud and security monitoring, prevention, detection, and compliance activities for PayTekSoft and its Business Users, we receive information from service providers (including credit bureaus), third parties, and the Services we provide. We may collect information from you, and about you, from Business Users, financial parties and in some cases third parties. For example, to protect our Services, we may receive information from third parties about IP addresses that malicious actors have compromised. This Personal Data (e.g. name, address, phone number, country) helps us to confirm identities, run credit checks subject to applicable law and prevent fraud when necessary. We may also use technology to assess the fraud risk associated with an attempted transaction by an End Customer or End User with a Business User or financial partner.
Compliance with Legal Obligations. We use Personal Data to meet our contractual and legal obligations related to anti-money laundering, Know-Your-Customer ("KYC") laws, anti-terrorism, export control and prohibitions on doing business with restricted persons or in certain business areas and other legal obligations. We strive to make our Services safe, secure and compliant, and the collection and use of Personal Data is critical to this effort. For example, we may monitor patterns of payment transactions and other online signals and use those insights to reduce the risk of fraud, money laundering and other activity that is harmful to PayTekSoft, our End Users and their End Customers.
Minors. The Services are not directed to minors, including children under the age of 13, and we request that they not provide Personal Data through the Services. As applicable in some countries, we may impose higher age limits as required by applicable law.

c. Personal Data Sharing. In addition to the ways described above, we share Personal Data in the following ways:

PayTekSoft Affiliates. We share Personal Data with other PayTekSoft affiliated entities. When we share with these entities, it is for purposes identified in this Policy.
Service Providers or Processors. In order to provide Services to our Business Users and End Users and to communicate, market and advertise to Visitors, Representatives and End Users regarding our Services, we will rely on others to provide us services. Service providers provide a variety of critical services, such as hosting (storing and delivering), analytics to assess the speed, accuracy and/or security of our Services, identity verification, customer service, email and auditing. We authorize such service providers to use or disclose the Personal Data that we make available to perform services on our behalf and to comply with applicable legal requirements. We require such service providers to contractually commit to protect the security and confidentiality of Personal Data they process on our behalf. Our service providers are predominantly located in the United States of America.
Financial Partners. “Financial Partners” are financial institutions that we partner with to offer the Services (including payment method acquirers, banks and payout providers). We share Personal Data with certain Financial Partners to provide the Services to the associated Business Users and to offer certain Services in partnership with our Financial Partners.
Others with Consent. In some cases we may not provide a service, but instead refer you to, or enable you to engage with, others to get services (e.g. professional services firms that we partner with to deliver portal services). In these cases, we will disclose the identity of the third party and the information that will be shared with them and seek your consent to share the information.
Corporate Transactions. In the event that we enter into, or intend to enter into, a transaction that alters the structure of our business, such as a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, change of control, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock, we may share Personal Data with third parties in connection with such transaction. Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your Personal Data, but subject to the terms of this Policy.

Compliance and Harm Prevention. We share Personal Data as we believe necessary: (i) to comply with applicable law, (ii) to comply with rules imposed by a payment method in connection with use of that payment method (e.g. network rules for Visa, Mastercard, American express, etc); (iii) to enforce our contractual rights; (iv) to secure or protect the Services, rights, privacy, safety and property of PayTekSoft, you or others, including against other malicious or fraudulent activity and security incidents; and (v) to respond to valid legal process requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities.

3. Legal bases for processing data
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation, we rely upon a number of legal bases to enable our processing of your Personal Data.
a. Contractual and Pre-Contractual Business Relationships. We process Personal Data for the purpose of entering into business relationships with prospective Business Users and End Users and to perform the respective contractual obligations with them. Activities include:

17Creation and management of PayTekSoft accounts and PayTekSoft account credentials, including the evaluation of applications to commence or expand the use of our Services;
Creation and management of PayTekSoft Checkout accounts;
Accounting, auditing, and billing activities; and
Processing of payments, including fraud detection, loss prevention, optimizing valid transactions, communications regarding such payments, and related customer service.

b. Legal Compliance. We process Personal Data to verify the identity of individuals and entities in order to comply with fraud monitoring, prevention and detection obligations, laws associated with the identification and reporting of illegal and illicit activity, such as "Anti-Money Laundering ("AML") and Know-Your-Customer ("KYC")" obligations, and financial reporting obligations. For example, we may be required to record and verify a User’s identity for the purpose of compliance with legislation intended to prevent money laundering and financial crimes. These obligations are imposed on us by the operation of law and may require us to report our compliance to third parties, and to submit to third party verification audits.
c. Legitimate Interests. Where allowed under applicable law, we rely on our legitimate business interests to process Personal Data about you. The following list sets out the business purposes for which we have a legitimate interest in processing your data:

Detect, monitor and prevent fraud and unauthorized payment transactions;
Mitigate financial loss, claims, liabilities or other harm to End Customers, End Users, Business Users and PayTekSoft;
Determine eligibility for and offer new PayTekSoft products and services;
Respond to inquiries, send Service notices and provide customer support;
Promote, analyze, modify and improve our Services, systems, and tools, and develop new products and services, including reliability of the Services;
Manage, operate and improve the performance of our Sites and Services by understanding their effectiveness and optimizing our digital assets;
Analyze and advertise our Services, and related improvements;
Conduct aggregate analysis and develop business intelligence that enable us to operate, protect, make informed decisions, and report on the performance of, our business;
Share Personal Data with third party service providers that provide services on our behalf and business partners which help us operate and improve our business;
Enable network and information security throughout PayTekSoft and our Services; and
Share Personal Data among our affiliates.

d. Consent. We may rely on consent to collect and process Personal Data as it relates to how we communicate with you and for the provision of our Services. When we process data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on such consent before the consent is withdrawn.

4. Log Files and Cookies Policy PayTekSoft follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons. Like any other website, PayTekSoft uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
DoubleClick DART Cookie. Google is a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.payteksoft.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads . Some advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below. Google - https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

5. GDPR Privacy Policy (Data Protection Rights). We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

6. Your rights and choices You may have choices regarding our collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Data:
a. Opting out of receiving electronic communications from us If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us, you may opt-out via the unsubscribe link included in such emails. We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, (i) we retain the right to communicate to you regarding the services you receive (e.g. support and important legal notices) and (ii) our Business Users may still send you messages and/or direct us to send you messages on their behalf.
b. Your data protection rights Depending on your location and subject to applicable law, you may have the following rights described here with regard to the Personal Data we control about you:

The right to request confirmation of whether PayTekSoft processes Personal Data relating to you, and if so, to request a copy of that Personal Data;
The right to request that PayTekSoft rectify or update your Personal Data that is inaccurate, incomplete or outdated;
The right to request that PayTekSoft erase your Personal Data in certain circumstances provided by law.
The right to request that PayTekSoft restrict the use of your Personal Data in certain circumstances, such as while PayTekSoft considers another request that you have submitted (including a request that PayTekSoft make an update to your Personal Data);
The right to request that we export your Personal Data that we hold to another company, where technically feasible;
Where the processing of your Personal Data is based on your previously given consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time;
Where we process your information based on our legitimate interests, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data. Unless we have compelling legitimate grounds or where it is needed for legal reasons, we will cease processing your information when you object.
The right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights; and/or
The right to appeal any decision by PayTekSoft relating to these rights.

You may have additional rights regarding your Personal Data under applicable law. For example, see Jurisdiction-specific provisions section under California below.
c. Process for exercising your data protection rights
To exercise your data protection rights please also see the PayTekSoft Privacy or contact us as described below.
7. Security and retention We make reasonable efforts to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk associated with the processing of your Personal Data. We maintain organizational, technical and administrative measures designed to protect Personal Data covered by this Policy against unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration or misuse. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
To help us protect Personal Data, where you have an account with PayTekSoft, we encourage you to use a strong password, protect that password from unauthorized use and not use the same log-in credentials (e.g. password) for your PayTekSoft accounts as you do with other services or accounts. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (e.g. you feel that the security of your PayTekSoft account has been compromised), please contact us immediately.
We retain your Personal Data as long as we are providing the Services to you or our Business Users (as applicable) or for a period during which we reasonably anticipate providing the Services. Even after we stop providing Services directly to you or a Business User with which you are doing business, and even if you close your PayTekSoft account or complete a transaction with a Business User, we may retain your Personal Data:

to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
to enable fraud monitoring, detection and loss prevention activities.
to comply with our tax, accounting, and financial reporting obligations
where required by our contractual commitments to our financial partners (and where data retention is mandated by the payment methods you used).

In cases where we keep Personal Data, we do so in accordance with any limitation periods and records retention obligations that are imposed by applicable law.
8. Updates and notifications
We may change this Policy from time to time to reflect new services, changes in our privacy practices or relevant laws. The “Last updated” legend at the top of this Policy indicates when this Policy was last revised. Any changes are effective the latter of when we post the revised Policy on the Services or otherwise provide notice of the update as required by law. We may provide you with disclosures and alerts regarding the Policy or Personal Data collected by posting them on our website and, if you are an End User or Representative, by contacting you through your PayTekSoft Dashboard, email address and/or the physical address listed in your PayTekSoft account.
9. Jurisdiction-specific provisions

United States - California. If you are a consumer located in California, we process your personal information in accordance with California law (e.g. the "CCPA"). PayTekSoft uses cookies, including advertising cookies, as described in our Cookie Policy.

Your Rights and Choices. As a California consumer and subject to certain limitations under the CCPA, you have choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information. In addition to the above rights, please note these other California-specific rights:

Exercising the right to know: You have a right to request additional information about the categories of personal information collected, sold, disclosed, or shared; purposes for which this personal information was collected, sold, or shared; categories of sources of personal information; and categories of third parties with whom we disclosed or shared this personal information.
Exercising the right to opt-out from a sale: We do not sell “Personal Information” as defined by the CCPA and have not done so in the past 12 months.
Exercising the right to limit the use or sharing of Sensitive Personal Information: we do not sell or share Sensitive Personal Information as defined by the CCPA and have not done so in the past 12 months.
Right to opt-out of sharing of cross-context behavioral advertising

To submit a request to exercise any of the rights described above, please contact us using the methods described in the Contact Us section below. We will verify your request by asking you to send it from the email address associated with your account or requiring you to provide information necessary to verify your identity, including name, address, transaction history, photo identification, and other information associated with your account.
You may designate, in writing or through a power of attorney, an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights under the CCPA. Your agent may submit a request on your behalf by contacting us using the methods described in the Contact Us section below. We may still require you to directly verify your identity and confirm that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.
Do Not Track and signals.

10. Contact us If you have any questions or complaints about this Policy, please contact us. If you are an End Customer (i.e. an individual doing business or transacting with a Business User), please refer to the privacy policy or notice of the Business User for information regarding the Business User’s privacy practices, choices and controls, or contact the Business User directly.

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