1. Information Collection and Use
We collect information from various sources to provide our Services to you, to analyze and improve our Services, and to communicate with you (e.g., to send you updates or notices about our organization, or emails about products or services that we believe may be of interest to you).
Information that you provide to us: We collect information that you provide to us when you set up an account with us, use our Services, or communicate with us.
As an example, if you register for an online account with us, then we may request your personal information (e.g., name, postal address, email address, DOB,
telephone number, credit/debit card number, security code) or as applicable your business information, to complete the registration process, to process transactions, to send you information about our products, to send you promotional offers from third parties that we think may be of interest to you, or to otherwise provide our Services to you. Similarly, if you request information from us through an online contact form (or if you email us), we collect the information you provide (e.g., name, telephone number, email address) so that we can respond to you.
Information collected from third parties: We may collect information about you or your business from third parties in the course of providing our Services to you. For some services,we may also collect information from third parties, such as credit reporting agencies or financial institutions, or other entities with information pertaining to the Services that we are providing to you.
Information collected through technology: When you visit our websites or mobile applications (or when you use any of our online services) we may collect certain information about your computer or device through technology such as cookies, web beacons, or other tracking/recording tools. The information collected may include, but is not limited to, IP addresses, referring URLs, access times, browser types, device types, mobile device identifiers, or information about your interactions with our websites, applications or services. (Note that a "cookie" is a text file placed on a computer's hard drive or stored on a mobile device; a "web beacon," also known as an Internet tag, pixel tag or clear GIF, is used to transmit information back to a web server.)
We may use the information described in this paragraph to, among other things, (i) operate our Services, including by remembering information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you sign in to your account, (ii) identify and protect our customers, (iii) control unauthorized use or abuse of our Services, (iv) provide custom, personalized content and information, which could include advertising, (v) monitor aggregate traffic patterns on our websites and services, and (vi) analyze and improve our Services.