Our Website
Our website address is: https://253paymentpros.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media: Media including photos, videos, text content, forms, PDFs and other content of this website are protected by Copyright laws. Please request permission before saving or downloading any of our site’s content for any other than customer-use purposes. If you upload images to a public portion of the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics: We use search engine analytics in order to improve the site visitor experience, analyze trends and track how effectively our website is working to attract and convert site visitors.
Contact forms: We use contact forms to make it easy for you to request information, get a quote for the cost of services or apply for services or financing. The information you supply is protected by encryption technology to help safeguard it from inappropriate access or use. The information you submit is shared with our 253 Payment Pros representatives as appropriate and needed in order to provide you with information, rates, a quote for services or financing, customer care, service, equipment installation, etc.
Completion of a contact form on our website also indicates your approval to receive email updates from 253 Payment Pros and direct contact with our representatives by email, phone or mail when you have requested follow up, additional information, requested a quote, contacted us for service, or taken some other action which necessitates that we contact you directly. Data provided to us on contact forms may be stored indefinitely, downloaded for follow up or backup purposes.
Who we share your data with: We don’t share or sell your data to any third parties, except in the case where you have provided information that requires us to disclose information to a third party, such as a credit bureau or financing company in the case of an application for financing or request for a free quote. We don’t sell or share your data with any 3rd party companies for the purposes of marketing. Furthermore, this site uses encryption software to help safeguard the data that you provide to us on all of our online forms.
How long we retain your data: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
