OpenEdge Website Privacy Policy

OpenEdge, a division of Global Payments, Inc., respects your concerns about privacy. This Website Privacy Policy (“Policy”) relates to the collection of personal information, information security and privacy standards applicable to all users of our websites, forums and blogs (collectively, the “Sites”), in the course of our business activities.

For the purpose of this Policy, “OpenEdge”, “we” and “us” refer to OpenEdge Payments LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates, as the context requires. Our privacy practices vary depending on the services we provide and the country-specific requirements for the countries in which we operate. For some products and services, where required, we will provide additional privacy notices before collecting your personal information. Please read this Policy carefully. If you have any questions, you may contact us at privacy@globalpay.com or by the methods provided in the “Contact Us” section below.

OpenEdge provides payment products and services for commercial and non-commercial enterprises. Those products and services include payment card processing, ACH processing, gift card processing, point-of-sale terminal management and support, merchant accounting and funds transfer. As a part of our payment processing function, we routinely collect and retain personal information about our customers and the third parties with whom our customers do business. For our customers, information about disclosures, transfers and other processing of personal information as part of our payment processing function is set out in their agreement with us and the documentation provided to them at or before onboarding and is outside of the scope of this Policy, which relates only to information we collect through our Sites.

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Personal Information We Collect

Through our Sites, subject to your consent if required by law, we may collect the following personal information, as relevant and as is voluntarily supplied to us by you:

• Identifiers including name and contact details including telephone number, email address and postal address;
• Information protected against security breaches, such as your username and password, which you may use to log in to the Sites (see “Login Details and Your Responsibility” below), as well as bank information and credit card information
• Commercial information, such as your preferences regarding products and related services which are of interest to you (see “Managing Your Preferences” below); records of any correspondence we have with you, and information you provide if you report a problem with our Sites
• Internet and electronic activity information, such as information from cookies and other tracking technologies including location, device identifier, usage and browsing history

Sources of Personal Information

We collect personal information that you provide to us when you visit our Sites, set up an account with us, or communicate with us. We may also collect information about you from third parties. For example, we may receive referrals from independent software vendors with which you have a relationship. In addition, when you visit our Sites we may collect certain information about your location, usage, or device through technology such as cookies (see “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” below).

How We Use the Personal Information We Obtain

Subject to your consent if required by law, we may use your personal information for the following business purposes:

• To contact you regarding any inquiry you make or to fulfill a request, such as, for example, a request for information about our products and services;
• To improve and personalize your experience when you use our Sites;
• To improve our products and services and for the development of future products and services;
• For internal record keeping and administration of records;
• For auditing related to a current interaction with the consumer and concurrent transactions, including, but not limited to, auditing compliance with laws and other standards;
• For detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity
• For internal research for technological development and demonstration;
• To verify or maintain the quality or safety of our products and services and to improve, upgrade, or enhance our services;
• To contact you by email and, if you have signed up for the service, to share e-newsletter or any other updates, communications or publications;
• For direct marketing purposes subject to your consent if required by applicable law (see “Managing Your Preferences” below);
• As necessary to set up and administer your sign up to, and use of, the log in facility available on the Sites; and
• For compliance with applicable laws and/or regulations and as otherwise required or permitted by applicable laws and/or regulations.

How we Share the Personal Information We Collect

We are a multinational business headquartered in the United States, with subsidiaries and affiliates in various countries around the world. Your personal information may be disclosed to recipients located outside of your country, including our global subsidiaries and affiliates (see “Our Relationship with Affiliate Companies” below), as well as other types of service providers engaged to help us run our business, subject to your consent if required by law. These types of service providers may include distributors of our products and services, vendors retained to perform functions on our behalf or to provide services to us, including (without limitation) legal, accounting, audit, consulting and other professional service providers, and providers of other services related to our business.

In addition, if you were referred to OpenEdge for services via a partner, such as independent software vendor, we may share information with such partner in accordance with our business relationship with you and that partner, consistent with any privacy notice shared with you by either party at the time of the collection of your personal information.

We take steps aimed at ensuring that all persons who process your personal information as a service provider to us processes such information only as necessary for their service delivery and, where required by law, we ensure appropriate written instruction is provided to each service provider.

We may also disclose your personal information to third parties who are not service providers. Below is a list of categories of third parties to which we may disclose personal information and the business purpose for such disclosure:

• To regulators including state and federal agencies, card payment networks, issuing banks and other parties required to enable compliance with laws, regulations and industry standards related to transaction processing in order to obtain commercial and credit information to establish, maintain or renew a customer’s contract(s), as may be required to provide any of the services for which a customer has subscribed, to comply with the rules and regulations of any credit or debit card payment network or otherwise in accordance with this policy;
• To law enforcement, courts and other relevant parties in response to a court order or a request for cooperation from a regulatory, law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend legal claims; as otherwise required or permitted by applicable laws and/or regulations; when we believe that disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding actual or suspected illegal activity, fraud, or other wrongdoing; or to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of OpenEdge, its customers, staff, suppliers or others; and
• Subject to applicable legal requirements, to another company or agent of such company in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of our business assets to such company.
• Subject to applicable legal requirements, with advertising or social media networks for personalized marketing purposes (See “Cookies” for additional information”).

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

Our Relationship with Affiliate Companies (Including Sharing and Cross-Border Transfers)

Subject to your consent if required by law, we may appoint an affiliate company to process personal information in a service provider role for and on our behalf. In most cases, we will remain responsible for that company’s processing of your personal information pursuant to applicable data privacy laws.

Because our affiliate companies are located around the globe, your personal information may be transferred to and stored in the United States or in another country outside of the country in which you reside, which may be subject to different standards of data protection than your country of residence.

We will take appropriate steps to ensure that transfers of personal information are in accordance with applicable law, are carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests and limited to countries which are recognized as providing an adequate level of legal protection or where alternative adequate arrangements are in place to protect your privacy rights.

Login Details and Your Responsibility

Subject to your consent if required by law, we will collect and process your personal information as necessary to set up and administer your sign up to, and use of, the log in facility available on our Sites. We will use “cookies” to “remember” the machine or other device you use to access our Sites (see “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” below). Please remember that if we contact you, we will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited email, message or phone call. If you choose to use the log in facility available on our Sites, you are required to adhere to the following security procedures in relation to your username (currently, your email address) and password, which are referred to as “login information”:

• Keep your login information secret and secure at all times and do not disclose it to any other person or allow any other person to use it;
• Do not write down or record in any form your login information or store it on any software, including a password save feature;
• Destroy any notice from us concerning your login information as soon as you have read and understood it;
• Should you become aware or have reason to suspect that your login information has been lost or disclosed to, or seen or accessed by someone other than yourself, immediately notify OpenEdge at the email address provided above;
• Do not leave your computer or other device unattended while you are using the log in facility available on this website or let anyone else use your computer or other device unless and until you have logged out; and
• Use particular caution if you access the log in facility available on our Sites from a public or shared computer, to ensure that other people are not able to see your login details.

Managing Your Preferences

Subject to your consent if required by applicable law, we may use your personal information to provide you with direct marketing information about our products and services as well as those of our global affiliates and third parties. Our direct marketing may be by email, telephone, post or SMS or such other method(s) as may become relevant. In addition, we may provide direct marketing information and permit others to do that as allowed by our customers’ respective contracts.

We will take steps to seek to ensure that any direct marketing from us and which is sent by electronic means will provide a simple means for you to stop further communications, in accordance with applicable law. For example, in emails, we may provide you with an “unsubscribe” link, or an email address to which you can send an opt-out request. In addition, if we need your consent for direct marketing communications under applicable law, and if you provide your consent, you will be able to change your mind at any time.

Your Legal Rights

Subject to certain exemptions, and in some cases dependent upon the processing activity we are undertaking, some users, including residents of the state of California, may have certain rights in relation to their personal information. These rights may include:

CA Resident Rights	What does this mean?
Right to know about personal information collected, disclosed, and sold	You have the right to request that we disclose to you what personal information we have collected, used, disclosed, or sold over the past 12 months. We have provided information about the categories of personal information we have collected, the sources from which we collected it, the purposes for which it was collected, and the third parties with whom we may share it with above.
Right to opt-out of the sale of personal information	You may request that we do not sell your personal information to third parties.
Right to request deletion	In some circumstances, you have the right to have your personal information erased or deleted.
Right to equal service and prices (“non-discrimination”)	Your choice to exercise your privacy rights will not be used as a basis to discriminate against you in services offered or pricing.

Data Anonymization and Aggregation

Subject to your consent if required by law, we may anonymize or aggregate your personal information in such a way as to ensure that you are not identified or identifiable from it, in order to use the anonymized or aggregated data, for example, for statistical analysis and administration including analysis of trends, to carry out actuarial work, to tailor products and services and to conduct risk assessments and analysis of costs and charges in relation to our products and services. We may share anonymized or aggregated data with our global affiliates and with other third parties. This Policy does not restrict our use or sharing of any non-personal, summarized, derived, anonymized or aggregated information.

Commitment to Security, Privacy and Standards

We take seriously our responsibility to protect the security and privacy of the information we receive via our Sites. We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information you provide via our Sites against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.

Please remember that communications over the internet such as emails are not secure. We seek to keep secure all confidential information and personal information submitted to us through our Sites in accordance with our obligations under applicable laws and regulations. However, like all website operators, we cannot guarantee the security of any data transmitted through our Sites.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

A “cookie” is a text file that is stored to your browser when you visit a website.

Unique device identifiers like IP address or UDID recognize a visitor’s computer or other device used to access the internet. Unique device identifiers are used alone and in conjunction with cookies and other tracking technologies for the purpose of “remembering” computers or other devices used to access the Sites and Apps.

We may also use other technologies like pixels or tags that allow us to measure responses to our email communications.

Cookies can be classified by duration and by source:

• Duration. The Sites use both “session” and “persistent” cookies. Session cookies are temporary - they terminate when you close your browser or otherwise end your “active” browsing session. Persistent cookies remember you on subsequent visits. Persistent cookies are not deleted when you close your browser, and they will remain on your computer or other device unless you choose to delete them (see below for “How to Delete or Block Cookies”).
• Source. Cookies can be “first-party” or “third-party” cookies, which means that they are either issued by or on behalf of OpenEdge or by a third-party operator of another website. For an example of a third-party cookie, our Sites may contain a Facebook “like” button, which would set a cookie that can be read by Facebook. Our Sites may use both first-party and third-party cookies.

The cookies that we may use on the Sites fall into the following categories:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions taken by you such as logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but blocking them may impede the functionality of the Sites.
• Performance Cookies. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
• Functionality Cookies. These cookies enable the Sites to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some of these services may not function properly.
• Targeting Cookies. These cookies may be set through our Sites by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites. They are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

How to Delete or Block Cookies

On some Sites, when technically feasible, we will enable tools to help you make choices about cookies. You may also delete or block cookies at any time by changing your browser settings. You can click “Help” in the toolbar of your browser for instruction or review the cookie management guide produced by the Interactive Advertising Bureau available at www.allaboutcookies.org. If you delete or block cookies, some features of the Sites may not function properly.

External Links

OpenEdge may provide links on our Sites to other websites that are not under our control. We do not endorse or make any warranty of any type regarding the content contained on such websites or products and services offered on those websites. We make no representation regarding your use of such websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of the operators of other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Sites and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal information. This Policy applies solely to information collected by us. You should read any other applicable privacy and cookies notices carefully before accessing and using such other websites.

Children

Our Sites are not intended for use by children. We do not solicit or knowingly accept any personal information from persons under the age of 18. Please do not use this website if you are under the age of 18.

Changes and Updates

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, update, add to, discontinue, remove or otherwise change any portion of this Policy, in whole or in part, at any time. When we amend this Policy, we will revise the “last updated” date located at the top of the document. We will also take reasonable steps to ensure you are made aware of any material updates including providing you direct communication about such changes or providing a notification through the Services, as appropriate. If you provide personal information to us or access or use our Sites after this Policy has been changed, you will be deemed to have unconditionally consented and agreed to such changes. The most current version of this Policy will be available on the Sites and Apps and will supersede all previous versions of this Policy.

Choice of Law

This Policy, including all revisions and amendments thereto, is governed by the laws of the United States, State of Georgia, without regard to its conflict or choice of law principles which would require application of the laws of another jurisdiction.

Arbitration

By using our Sites, you unconditionally consent and agree that: (1) any claim, dispute, or controversy (whether in contract, tort, or otherwise) you may have against OpenEdge and/or its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates and each of their respective members, officers, directors and employees (all such individuals and entities collectively referred to herein as the "OpenEdge Entities") arising out of, relating to, or connected in any way with the Services or the determination of the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate, will be resolved exclusively by final and binding arbitration administered by JAMS and conducted before a sole arbitrator in accordance with the rules of JAMS; (2) this arbitration agreement is made pursuant to a transaction involving interstate commerce, and shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. § 1-16; (3) the arbitration shall be held in Atlanta, Georgia; (4) the arbitrator's decision shall be controlled by the terms and conditions of this Policy and any of the other agreements referenced herein that the applicable user may have entered into in connection with the Services; (5) the arbitrator shall apply Georgia law consistent with the FAA and applicable statutes of limitations, and shall honor claims of privilege recognized at law; (6) there shall be no authority for any claims to be arbitrated on a class or representative basis, arbitration can decide only your and/or the applicable OpenEdge Entity's individual claims; the arbitrator may not consolidate or join the claims of other persons or parties who may be similarly situated; (7) the arbitrator shall not have the power to award punitive damages against you or any OpenEdge Entity; (8) in the event that the administrative fees and deposits that must be paid to initiate arbitration against any OpenEdge Entity exceed $125 USD, and you are unable (or not required under the rules of JAMS) to pay any fees and deposits that exceed this amount, OpenEdge agrees to pay them and/or forward them on your behalf, subject to ultimate allocation by the arbitrator. In addition, if you are able to demonstrate that the costs of arbitration will be prohibitive as compared to the costs of litigation, OpenEdge will pay as much of your filing and hearing fees in connection with the arbitration as the arbitrator deems necessary to prevent the arbitration from being cost-prohibitive; and (9) with the exception of subpart (6) above, if any part of this arbitration provision is deemed to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, or otherwise conflicts with the rules of JAMS, then the balance of this arbitration provision shall remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with its terms as if the invalid, unenforceable, illegal or conflicting provision were not contained herein. If, however, subpart (6) is found to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, then the entirety of this Arbitration Provision shall be null and void, and neither you nor OpenEdge shall be entitled to arbitrate their dispute. For more information on JAMS and/or the rules of JAMS, visit their website at www.jamsadr.com.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Policy, or if you want to exercise your rights as described in this Policy, you may contact us as follows:

OpenEdge Inc.
2578 W 600 N
Lindon UT 84042-1227
privacy@globalpay.com
1-800-774-6462

In order to honor any access or deletion request, we will require you to provide enough information for us to verify your identity. For example, we may ask you for information associated with your account, including your contact information or other identifying information. If you designate an authorized agent to make a rights request on your behalf, we may require proper proof of that authorization as well as direct verification of your identity from you.