Electronic Payments Privacy Policy
Electronic Payments is committed to safeguarding your privacy and protecting your information against unauthorized use. Our Privacy Statement explains our privacy standards and the policies we follow regarding the collection and use of data and customer information.
If you have questions, please contact Electronic Payments at (800) 966-5520
If you have questions, please contact Electronic Payments at (800) 966-5520
Information Collected
Electronic Payments provides merchant account and payment processing solutions to businesses nationwide. As part of our business operations, we collect and maintain information about our agents and customers in order to provide such services and/or communicate pertinent information about our company’s products and services. Electronic Payments uses the data for operational procedures, including, but not limited to:
We do not license, sell, rent, or trade any collected business data, including personal contact information or specific information about agent/customer accounts or other personally identifiable information unless:
- application/account preparation and setup;
- account maintenance;
- record and file administration;
- accounting and funding;
- legal and regulation compliance;
- product development.
We do not license, sell, rent, or trade any collected business data, including personal contact information or specific information about agent/customer accounts or other personally identifiable information unless:
- it is requested or authorized by the individual;
- information is provided to help complete a transaction initiated by the individual; or
- the disclosure otherwise is lawfully permitted or requested.
Information Collected via our Website
Electronic Payments does not collect user information via our website unless it is voluntarily submitted. This information may include, but is not limited to, the user’s name, job title, phone number, and/or email address, as well as a user’s company name, location, and/or contact information. Electronic Payments will only use this information to follow up on a user’s request. We do not license, sell, rent, or trade any data collected via our website.
Security Practices
Electronic Payments has implemented a number of controls and security measures to safeguard personal and sensitive information, including secured networks and servers, encryption, anti-virus protection, firewalls, vulnerability scans, defense monitoring, and other technology. Our secured networks are only accessible by a limited number of employees who have special rights to access such systems. Only employees who require the information to perform a specific job function are granted access to personally identifiable information. The servers in which we store personally identifiable data are maintained in a secure environment.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website’s computer and then stored on your hard drive. We use cookies for administrative purposes only, such as tracking usage and login authentication. If you reject all cookies, you may not be able to use Electronic Payments’ products or services that require you to “sign in” and you may not be able to take full advantage of all offerings.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this Privacy Statement, please contact us immediately at (800) 966-5520. We respond to all requests received from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection law.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this Privacy Statement, please contact us immediately at (800) 966-5520. We respond to all requests received from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection law.
Data Retention
Electronic Payments retains information when we have a legitimate business or legal reason to do so. Retention periods vary depending on the type of data, but we will generally refer to the following criteria to determine the retention period:
Whether there is a legal or contractual need to retain the data
Whether the data is required to provide our products and services
Whether there is a legal or contractual need to retain the data
Whether the data is required to provide our products and services
Do-Not-Track Signals and Similar Mechanisms
Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to the websites and other online services a user communicates with or accesses. There is no industry standard that governs what, if anything, websites should do when they receive these signals. Electronic Payments currently does not take action in response to these signals.
Links to Third Party Websites
Our website, our newsletters, and other communications may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Any material changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page prior to the change becoming effective and/or we will notify you through our Website or, where appropriate, by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
Transparency in Coverage Rule
This link leads to the machine-readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to access and analyze data more easily.
https://www.cigna.com/legal/compliance/machine-readable-files
https://www.cigna.com/legal/compliance/machine-readable-files