Privacy Policy

Data Protection

Any information you provide us with will only be disclosed in accordance with the Data Protection Act of 1998. Required Information When you appoint Axcess Merchant Services Limited (Axcess) to act on your behalf to seek to obtain a Merchant Account with a card acquiring bank, you also authorise us to collect certain personal information concerning you and your business. This can include for example personal information such as your name, email address, date of birth and postal address and proofs of identity. In addition, you will be asked to provide commercial information will be required including for example, the nature of your business, web address and business address.

Use of Personal Information

We would normally only use your personal information as part of our normal business operation, to help you to establish a Merchant Account with a suitable card acquiring bank, this may include sharing some of this personal information with card processing and verification services. Unless required by law, these organisations may not use your information for secondary purposes. Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy we may need to disclose personal information when required by law when we believe that such action is necessary to comply with current judicial proceedings, a court order or legal process serviced on our web site. Otherwise, under no circumstances will information you provided to Axcess be transmitted in any way to a third party.

Aggregate Statistical Information

We may collect aggregated statistical information for purposes of improving our service and your experience with Axcess. This data does not contain personally identifying information, such as your name or email address. From time to time, Axcess may use cookies. A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on your computer's hard drive. It may be stored and updated at various times as you access the website. Each time you visit the website, the server may deliver certain customised information to your computer based on the data stored in your cookie. This can allow Axcess to tailor the service to your preferences. You are not obliged to accept a cookie and you may modify your browser so that it will not accept cookies. If you do not want to accept cookies please use the help tools provided with your internet browser to find out how to achieve this. We never use cookies to retrieve information from your computer which was not originally contained in the cookie. We use cookies and IP addresses for system administration and to monitor aggregate non-personalised information (such as anonymous statistics related to the take up or use of services, or to patterns of browsing). Certain non-personal information about users is recorded by the standard operation of Axcess’ internet servers. Examples of this type of information include the type of browsers being used, its operating system and the domain names (not e-mail addresses) of users.

Links

This web site contains links to other websites; however Axcess is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these external websites. We recommend you, our users, to be aware that when you leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.