US Merchants Privacy Notice
Last Updated: 06/06/25
US Merchants (“we,” “us,” “our”) provides packaging services, point-of-sale consumer product displays, and is a manufacturer of injection molded storage & organizational products.
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices, including how we collect, use and share personal information that we gather on the subdomains and websites for www.usmerchants.com (the “Sites”). We may collect this information when you become a Customer, contact us to obtain more information, or directly through your use of the online platform and services (“Services”). A reference to US Merchants, “we,” “us,” or the Company is a reference to US merchants and its relevant affiliates involved in the collection, use, sharing or other processing of personal information.
Please visit the following links to learn more about this privacy notice:
1. Whose Personal Information We Collect
2. Information We Collect
3. How We Use Your Information
4. How We Share Your Information
5. How We Respond to ‘Do Not Track’ and Other Opt-Out Signals
6. Cookies
7. Privacy Rights & Additional Disclosures for Certain U.S. Residents
8. Children’s Privacy
9. International Transfers of Data
10. Change of Control
11. Data Security and Retention
12. Privacy Notice Updates
13. Contact Information
1. Whose Personal Information We Collect
This privacy notice does not apply to the way we process information on behalf of our Customers. We process and safeguard information on behalf of our Customers in accordance with our agreements with our Customers.
Third Party Links and Websites. Our Sites may contain links to and from the websites of third parties. 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. Please check these policies before you submit any data to these websites.
2. Information We Collect
Information You Give Us. You may give us information by signing up for an online account, entering information through our online forms or surveys, inputting information while using our Services, or contacting us by phone or email for information or customer service.
The categories of information include:
· Identifiers, such as real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers.
· Categories of personal information described in Section 1798.80(e) of the California Civil Code, such as name, address, telephone number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information.
· Commercial information, such as records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
· Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet website, application, or advertisement.
· Professional or employment-related information.
· Education information.
· Inferences drawn from your personal information to create a profile about you and your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
The categories of sensitive information include:
· Account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card, in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to the account.
Information We Automatically Collect
· Sites: Like many website operators, we collect information that your web browser sends whenever you visit our Sites. This includes log data, such as your computer’s IP address, browser types, browser version, the pages of our Sites that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time you spent on those pages and other statistics, and whether you reached our page via a social media or email campaign. This information may be collected via several technologies, including cookies, web beacons, clear GIFs, canvas fingerprinting and other means, such as Google Remarketing and Facebook Pixel. You can control cookies in your browser to enable or disable them. You can learn more in the “Cookies” section, below.
· Services: Some of our Services will collect IP addresses, log-in credentials, connectivity details and locations. This is used for access control and management.
Information We Collect from Third Parties. If you access our Sites through third parties (e.g. Facebook or Google), or if you share content from our Sites to a third party social media service, the third-party service will send us certain information about you if the third-party service and your account settings allow such sharing. The information we receive will depend on the policies and your account settings with the third party service.
Information We Collect from the Public. We may also collect publicly available information concerning clients, or potential clients, using searches on LinkedIn, Google or other similar websites.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
· To provide you with the Services on our Sites, which includes:
o maintaining and servicing accounts,
o providing customer service,
o processing and fulfilling orders and transactions,
o verifying customer information,
o processing payments, and
o providing advertising or marketing services to you.
· To provide analytic services, such as analyzing customer usage and improving services offered.
· To conduct market research and project planning.
· To detect security incidents, protect against fraudulent or other criminal activity, debug and repair errors, and maintain the overall quality and safety of our Sites.
· To share your website visitor activity, through website cookies, with third-party marketing partners to market our service on our Sites and other website that you may visit.
· To fulfill our legal and financial obligations.
· To provide you with employment opportunities.
Marketing. We may use your personal information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in any marketing email we send, or you can contact us using the details provided in the “Contact Information” section below. You will still continue to receive service-related messages concerning products and Services you have purchased (unless we have indicated otherwise).
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
4. How We Share Your Information
Affiliates and Service Providers. We share your information with our third-party service providers and any subcontractors as required to offer you our products and Services. The service providers we use help us to:
· Run, operate, and maintain our Sites through third-party platforms and software tools;
· Perform crash analytics;
· Run email and mobile messaging campaigns;
· Perform marketing analytics;
· Provide measurement services and targeted ads (you can opt out of these services at websites such as http://www.aboutads.info/choices and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/);
· Provide payment attribution; and,
· Provide technical and customer support.
Some external service providers may also collect information directly from you (for example, a payment processor may request your billing and financial information) in accordance with their own privacy policy. These external service providers do not share your financial information, like credit card number, with us, but may share limited information with us related to your purchase, like your zip code.
Aggregated Data. We may also aggregate or otherwise strip information of all personally identifying characteristics and may share that aggregated, anonymized data with third parties or publish it, We reserve the right to make use of any such aggregated data as we see fit.
Third Party Marketing and Advertising Cookies. With respect to website cookies, we share your information with third-party marketing and advertising partners to market our products and services on our Sites and other websites that you may visit. You can learn more in the “Cookies” section, below.
Disclosures Required by Law. We may be required to disclose your data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet law enforcement requirements. We may be under a duty to disclose or share your personal information to comply with any legal obligation, to enforce or apply our terms and conditions and other agreements, to protect our rights, property, or safety, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.
5. How We Respond to ‘Do Not Track’ and Other Opt-Out Signals
Some browsers provide you with a way to signal that you do not want your browsing activity to be tracked. The Services may not currently respond to all Do Not Track (“DNT”) or similar signals, as we are awaiting consensus from the Internet policy and legal community on the meaning of DNT and the best way to respond to these signals.
California and certain other U.S. state residents may opt out of tracking technologies by broadcasting an Opt-Out Preference Signal, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC) (on the browsers and/or browser extensions that support such a signal). To download and use a browser supporting the GPC browser signal, click here: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/orgs. If you choose to use the GPC signal, you will need to turn it on for each supported browser or browser extension you use. Your request to opt-out of sale/sharing will be linked to your browser identifier only and not linked to any account information because the connection between your browser and the account is not known to us. If you would like us to make the connection between your browser and your account, and you have not yet opted out of sale/sharing your personal information, please submit the form at [LINK TO FORM].
6. Cookies
To make our Sites and Services work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, shopping cart, or other preferences) over a period of time, so you do not have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Google Analytics. We may use Google Analytics. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve the Sites. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy for more information. You may also choose to download the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
You may wish to restrict the use of cookies. Please be aware that some of the features of our Sites may not function correctly if you disable cookies. Most modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the options or preferences menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links for commonly used browsers may be helpful:
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Microsoft Edge
Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS
Personalized Advertising. We may also use targeted advertising cookies, such as Google Ads, to deliver tailored advertising on our Sites and other websites that you may visit. You can learn more about how to control advertising cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out link, the DAA’s Consumer Opt-Out link for browsers, or the DAA’s opt-out link for mobile devices. Please note that electing to opt-out will not stop advertising from appearing in your browser or applications and may make the ads you see less relevant to your interests.
7. Privacy Rights & Additional Disclosures for Certain U.S. Residents
Several jurisdictions grant state residents certain rights and disclosures. We provide the following information to further help you understand your potential privacy rights. If you would like to exercise any rights or inquire as to whether such rights are available to you, please email us using the information in the “Contact Information” section below.
Request for Information or Deletion. Residents of certain U.S. states have the right to know whether we are processing your personal information, and in some instances, you have the right to request that we disclose to you the categories listed below for the preceding 12 months. In responding to this right, we shall provide you:
· The categories of personal information we collect about you.
· The categories of sources from which your personal information is collected.
· The business or commercial purpose(s) for collecting, selling, sharing, or disclosing your personal information, and the categories of personal information disclosed for such purpose(s).
· The categories of third parties with whom we share your personal information.
· The categories of personal information we have sold, if any, about you and the categories of third parties to whom your personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.
· The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
In addition, you may have the right to request we delete your personal information.
Request for Correction. Residents of certain U.S. states have the right to request the correction or rectification of inaccurate information in the resident’s personal information.
Request for Portable Data. Residents of certain U.S. states have the right to receive, in certain circumstances, a portable format of their personal information that allows the data to be transmitted to another entity.
Opting Out of Cookies and Sale/Sharing Using Online Tracking Technologies. Our use of online tracking technologies may be considered a “sale” / “sharing” under applicable law. Residents of certain U.S. states may have the right to opt out of being tracked by these third parties by clicking the [Your Privacy Choices / Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information] link at the bottom of our website and selecting your preferences.
Residents of certain U.S. states may opt out by broadcasting an opt-out preference signal, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC) (on the browsers and/or browser extensions that support such a signal). To download and use the browser supporting the GPC browser signal, click here: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/orgs. If you choose to use the GPC signal, you will need to turn it on for each supported browser or browser extension you use.
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Residents of certain U.S. states have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of the consumer’s personal information. We do not sell your personal information. However, we may use your personal information to provide personalized or targeted advertising. In such circumstances, you may have the right to direct us not to share your personal information for such purposes.
If you wish to opt out of this sharing of your personal information for personalized or targeted advertising, please visit this webpage: [Your Privacy Choices/Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information].
In the preceding twelve months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:
· Identifiers, such as real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers.
· Categories of personal information described in Section 1798.80(e) of the California Civil Code, such as name, address, telephone number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information.
· Commercial information, such as records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
· Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet website, application, or advertisement.
· Professional or employment-related information.
· Education information.
· Inferences drawn from your personal information to create a profile about you and your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
Limiting the Use of Sensitive Personal Information. Residents of California have the right to direct us to use or disclose sensitive personal information only for providing goods or services, or as otherwise minimally permitted under applicable law.
However, we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for any purpose other than providing our goods and services to you, or as otherwise minimally permitted under applicable law.
Third Party’s Direct Marketing. If you are one of our customers, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information to third parties for third parties’ direct marketing purposes.
We do not disclose your personal information to third parties for third parties direct marketing purposes.
Automated Processing & Profiling. Residents of certain U.S. states have the right to opt out of the processing of personal information for purposes of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.
Verification Process for Exercising Rights. To protect our consumers’ privacy, we verify privacy rights requests to ensure that only you (or your authorized agent) can exercise rights pertaining to your Personal Data. As part of our verification process, we may request you to submit additional information.
If you are an authorized agent wishing to exercise rights on behalf of a state resident, please contact us using the information at the bottom of this privacy notice and provide us with a copy of the consumer’s written authorization designating you as their agent. We may need to verify your identity and place of residence before completing your rights request.
Appeal Process. In certain cases, we may decline to take action on your request as permitted by law. Should we decline your request, we may provide you with a written explanation of the reasons for our decision and an opportunity to appeal the decision.
If we deny your appeal, we may provide a written explanation of our decision with instructions on how to contact your local Attorney General or Department of Justice for further review, where permitted under certain U.S. state privacy laws.
8. Children’s Privacy
The Sites are not directed at individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact Information” section at the bottom of this privacy notice. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information.
9. International Transfers of Data
Any data that you provide to use may be accessed, share, or processed by our offices, located in the U.S. and services providers located in the U.S., if such data transfer is necessary for the specific purpose for which you submitted your personal information (such as the provision of goods or services under a written contract). This may entail a transfer of your personal information across international borders. The data protection standards may differ and be lower than the standards enforced in your jurisdiction. We maintain appropriate safeguards as required and applicable by law for any personal information transferred internationally.
10. Change of Control
Personal information may be transferred to a third party because of a sale, acquisition, merger, reorganization, or other change in control. If we sell, merge, or transfer any part of the business, part of the sale may include your personal information.
11. Data Security and Retention
We take precautions and implement a variety of security measures to protect and maintain the safety of your personal information. However, no website, application, or transmission can guarantee security. Thus, while we have established and maintain what we believe to be appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of personal information obtained through the Sites, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.
We retain information from or about you for so long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlines in this privacy notice. When the information is no longer necessary for these purposes, we delete it or keep it in a form that does not identify you, unless we are required by law to keep this information for a longer period. When determining the retention period, we take into account various criteria, such as the type of products and services requested by or provided to you, the nature and length of our relationship with you, possible re-enrollment with our products or services, the impact on the services if we delete some information from or about you, mandatory retention periods provided by law and the statute of limitations.
12. Privacy Notice Updates
This privacy notice may be periodically updated. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy notice to ensure you are familiar with the most current version. Please review carefully before submitting personal information to our sites. The date the privacy notice was last updated is indicated at the top of this page.
13. Contact Information
If you wish to contact us or have any questions about or complaints in relation to this privacy, please contact us via telephone at 310-228-4000 or via email at info@usmerchants.com
