CIRCLE PAYMENT / LEGAL

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 2024

1. Introduction

At Circle Payment ("CIRCLE", "we", "us", or "our"), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

2. Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Services, including:

Personal Information: Name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline.
Financial Information: For merchants, we collect business tax IDs, banking information for settlements, and transaction data necessary to provide processing services.
Technical Data: IP addresses, browser types, and usage details collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us:

To provide, maintain, and improve our payment processing services.
To process transactions and send notices about your transactions.
To manage risk, or to detect, prevent, and/or remediate fraud or other potentially prohibited or illegal activities.
To comply with financial services regulations and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements.
To communicate with you via text message (SMS/MMS) regarding support, customer care, and notifications about using our restaurants POS software, provided you have opted in.

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and contractors who support our business (such as our banking partners and processing networks). We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

SMS/Mobile Data Privacy

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

5. Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All payment transactions are encrypted using SSL technology and comply with PCI-DSS standards.

6. Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: office@circleisv.com.