Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 1, 2026

PremierProcessors.com (“Premier Processors,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates PremierProcessors.com.

Premier Processors is an independent educational, comparison, and referral website that helps businesses research payment-processing options and identify providers that may be worth considering based on the information they provide.

Premier Processors is not a payment processor, bank, acquiring bank, card network, merchant account provider, or financial institution. We do not process payment-card transactions or make merchant-underwriting or account-approval decisions.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, when we may disclose it, and the privacy choices that may be available to you.

1. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use PremierProcessors.com.

Information You Provide to Us

When you use our payment processor selector, request processor options, ask to be connected with a provider, download a resource, subscribe to communications, or contact us, you may provide information such as:

• First and last name
• Business name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• State or general business location
• Business type or industry
• Estimated monthly payment-processing volume or volume range
• How your business accepts or expects to accept payments
• Payment-processing priorities or preferences
• Software, ecommerce, accounting, or other integrations you use
• Information you include in messages or inquiries to us
• Your consent and communication preferences

We may also maintain answers you provide through our processor-selection tools so that we can identify or review processor options based on the information you provide.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting providers, analytics tools, security services, or similar technologies.

This information may include:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Referring website
• Pages viewed
• Approximate geographic location derived from an IP address
• Dates and times of visits
• Interactions with website features
• Cookie or similar device identifiers
• Diagnostic, security, and performance information

Referral and Tracking Information

Some links on PremierProcessors.com may contain referral or tracking information.

If you click one of these links, we or the provider operating the link may receive information indicating that the visit or referral originated from Premier Processors.

A payment-processing provider, referral partner, or tracking provider may also provide us with limited information regarding the status or outcome of a referral, such as whether a referral was received, whether an application was initiated, or whether a referred business became a customer.

We do not need access to your payment-processor login credentials or your customers’ payment-card information for these purposes.

2. Information We Do Not Intend to Collect

Premier Processors is not a payment processor, and our website is not intended to collect sensitive merchant-underwriting or payment-card information.

Unless we specifically request information through an appropriate secure process, please do not submit:

• Credit or debit card numbers
• Customer payment-card information
• Bank account or routing numbers
• Social Security numbers
• Taxpayer identification numbers
• Driver’s license or government identification numbers
• Processor passwords or account credentials

If you apply for payment-processing services through a third-party provider, that provider may request financial, banking, identification, ownership, or underwriting information directly from you.

Information you provide directly to a payment processor or other third party is governed by that company’s privacy policy and practices, not this Privacy Policy.

3. How We Use Information

We may use information we collect to:

• Operate and maintain PremierProcessors.com
• Provide educational information about payment processing
• Identify processor options based on information you provide
• Review your business needs when additional review is needed to identify processor options
• Provide requested processor information or other requested information
• Respond to inquiries
• Facilitate a connection with a payment-processing provider when you request or authorize that connection
• Track and administer referral relationships
• Improve our comparison tools, website content, and user experience
• Understand website usage and performance
• Detect fraud, abuse, security incidents, or technical problems
• Maintain records of requests, disclosures, consents, and opt-outs
• Comply with applicable law
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal rights
• Send marketing or educational communications when permitted by law and consistent with your communication preferences

We do not use information submitted through our selector to make credit decisions, merchant-underwriting decisions, or payment-processing account-approval decisions.

4. Processor Options and Referral Disclosures

An important part of Premier Processors’ service is helping businesses identify payment processors that may be worth considering based on their stated needs and the information they provide.

The processor options displayed or discussed by Premier Processors are informational in nature. They do not constitute a guarantee that a particular provider will approve an application, offer particular pricing or terms, support a particular business type, or provide any specific product or service.

If you affirmatively request or authorize a connection with a payment-processing provider, we may provide that provider with information you submitted to us, which may include your:

• Name
• Business name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• State
• Business characteristics
• Estimated processing volume
• Processor-selector answers
• Other information relevant to your request

The provider may then contact you regarding its payment-processing products or services.

Submitting information to Premier Processors does not obligate you to open an account, purchase a product or service, or select a particular payment processor.

Premier Processors may receive referral or other compensation from certain payment-processing providers when users connect with them, apply for services, or become customers.

Compensation does not determine whether a processor option is identified by our selector based on the information you provide.

Payment-processing providers independently determine matters such as merchant eligibility, underwriting, approval, pricing, contract terms, equipment availability, product availability, and services.

5. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information

Premier Processors does not sell lists of personal information to data brokers or unrelated marketers.

We do not provide your contact information to a payment-processing provider for a referral unless you request or authorize us to facilitate that connection.

When you request or authorize a connection, we may disclose information you submitted to the selected provider for the purpose of facilitating the connection you requested.

Premier Processors may receive referral or other compensation from some providers.

Certain privacy laws define terms such as “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” more broadly than their ordinary meanings. As a result, certain referral, analytics, advertising, or tracking activities could potentially be treated as a sale or sharing of personal information under applicable law even when personal-information lists are not sold in the traditional sense.

Where applicable law provides a right to opt out of such activities, Premier Processors will provide or honor the privacy rights and mechanisms required by applicable law.

6. When We Disclose Information

We may disclose information to the following categories of recipients.

Payment-Processing Providers

We may disclose information to a payment-processing provider you select or authorize us to contact for the purpose of facilitating the connection you requested.

We do not control how an independently operated provider subsequently uses information you provide to it. The provider’s own privacy policy and practices apply to its handling of your information.

Service Providers

We may use companies that help us operate the website or business, including providers of:

• Website hosting
• Email delivery
• Customer relationship management
• Analytics
• Form processing
• Website security
• Spam prevention
• Data storage
• Technical support

These providers may process information as reasonably necessary to perform services on our behalf.

Referral Partners and Tracking Providers

Referral partners or tracking providers may receive or process information reasonably necessary to attribute a click, referral, application, or customer relationship to Premier Processors.

Legal and Safety Disclosures

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law, legal process, or governmental requests
• Investigate fraud or misuse of our website
• Protect the security of Premier Processors or others
• Protect our legal rights or property
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

Business Transactions

If Premier Processors or substantially all of its assets are acquired, sold, reorganized, or transferred, information maintained by the business may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

7. Cookies and Analytics

PremierProcessors.com may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, understand website usage, measure performance, provide security, and evaluate referrals.

These technologies may include:

• Essential or functional cookies
• Analytics cookies
• Security technologies
• Referral tracking technologies

We may use third-party analytics services, including Google Analytics, to help us understand how visitors interact with the website.

Analytics providers may collect information such as device and browser information, approximate location, website activity, and identifiers used to distinguish visits or sessions.

You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings or through cookie-management tools made available on PremierProcessors.com.

Disabling some cookies may affect the operation of certain website features.

8. Advertising and Third-Party Tracking

Premier Processors may use referral tracking technologies in connection with links to third-party products or services.

If Premier Processors uses advertising technologies that collect personal information for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising, we will update this Privacy Policy and implement privacy-choice mechanisms as required by applicable law.

We will not represent advertising or tracking technologies as being in use unless they are actually implemented on the website.

9. Email and Marketing Communications

If you request information from us, we may send communications related to your request.

We may also send educational or promotional communications where permitted by applicable law and consistent with any consent or communication preferences you have provided.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions contained in the message.

Even after you unsubscribe from marketing communications, we may retain limited information necessary to maintain your opt-out preference and may send non-promotional communications relating to a request you made.

10. Calls and Text Messages

Permission to receive marketing calls or text messages, when applicable, will be requested separately at the point where such permission is needed.

This Privacy Policy by itself does not constitute consent to receive automated, prerecorded, artificial-voice, or marketing calls or text messages.

Where we transmit information to a payment-processing provider at your request or with your authorization, that provider’s communications with you are subject to its own policies and applicable law.

You may request that Premier Processors stop contacting you at any time. If an independently operated payment-processing provider is contacting you, you may also need to communicate your request directly to that provider.

11. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:

• Provide requested processor information or referrals
• Administer referral relationships
• Respond to inquiries
• Maintain records of consent and communications
• Maintain opt-out or suppression records
• Detect or prevent fraud and security incidents
• Resolve disputes
• Enforce agreements
• Meet legal, accounting, or compliance obligations

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the purpose for which it was collected, and applicable legal requirements.

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.

12. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information under our control against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

However, no website, network, transmission method, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You should use care when transmitting information online and should not provide sensitive financial, banking, payment-card, or identification information through PremierProcessors.com unless we specifically provide an appropriate method and request that information.

13. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including the right to:

• Request information about personal information we maintain about you
• Request access to certain personal information
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request deletion of certain information
• Request a portable copy of certain information
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Opt out of certain uses of personal information
• Opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or certain profiling where applicable
• Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable
• Appeal certain decisions regarding a privacy request where applicable
• Exercise privacy rights without unlawful discrimination

These rights are subject to exceptions and limitations under applicable law.

To submit a privacy request, contact:

Contact@PremierProcessors.com

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

Where applicable law permits an authorized agent to submit a request for you, we may request documentation confirming that person’s authority.

If applicable law provides a right to appeal our response to a privacy request, you may submit an appeal by replying to our response or contacting us at the email address above.

14. Global Privacy Control and Browser Signals

Some browsers and browser extensions provide privacy-preference signals such as Global Privacy Control (“GPC”).

If Premier Processors engages in processing for which applicable law requires recognition of a legally valid universal opt-out mechanism, we will implement and honor such mechanisms as required by applicable law.

Traditional “Do Not Track” browser signals do not currently operate under a single universally accepted industry standard.

15. Third-Party Websites and Payment Processors

PremierProcessors.com may contain links to websites operated by payment processors, technology companies, referral partners, and other third parties.

When you leave PremierProcessors.com, the applicable third party’s privacy policy and terms govern your interaction with that website or service.

Premier Processors does not control and is not responsible for the privacy, security, products, services, claims, terms, or practices of independently operated third-party websites or companies.

We encourage you to review a provider’s privacy policy, merchant agreement, pricing disclosures, and other applicable terms before providing sensitive business, financial, ownership, banking, or identification information.

16. Children’s Privacy

PremierProcessors.com is intended for business owners, business representatives, and adults researching commercial payment-processing services.

The website is not directed to children under 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through PremierProcessors.com.

If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can review and appropriately address the information.

17. International Visitors

Premier Processors is based in the United States.

If you access the website from outside the United States, your information may be processed or stored in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.

Where applicable privacy law provides additional rights or requires a particular legal basis for processing personal information, we will process information in accordance with applicable requirements.

Depending on applicable law, processing may be based on consent, performance of a requested service, compliance with legal obligations, or legitimate interests in operating and securing PremierProcessors.com.

18. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as our website, business relationships, technologies, or legal obligations change.

When we make changes, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this page.

If a change materially affects how previously collected personal information is used, we will provide additional notice when required by applicable law.

We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy.

19. Contact Us

Questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our handling of personal information may be sent to:

Premier Processors
Email: Contact@PremierProcessors.com

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