Privacy Policy

DC Privacy Policy

1. The personal data we collect

We collect personal data about individuals from various sources described below. Where applicable, we indicate whether and why individuals must provide us with personal data, as well as the consequences of failing to do so.

Information that we collect directly from individuals and the parties with which we do business

We may collect personal data directly from individuals and the parties with which we do business, including prospects. These may include parties that interact with us directly (such as individuals who download our mobile applications or job applicants), parties to which we provide goods or services (such as clients, banks or financial institutions, merchants, and individuals) (collectively, “clients”), parties that provide services to us (such as vendors) (collectively, “service providers”), and other parties with whom we offer or provide products and services (such as acquirers, Independent Sales Organizations, or software development  companies) (collectively, “partners”).

We may collect information from these parties in a variety of contexts, such as when completing one of our online forms, making an application for one of our products or services offered through a partnership, interacting with us in person or on social media, or corresponding with us. The types of information we obtain in these contexts include:

• Contact information of the business entity and its personnel who interact with us, such as name, job title, address, telephone number, and email address
• Profile information, such as username and password that an individual may establish on one of our websites or mobile applications, along with any other information that an individual enters into their account profile
• Demographic details, such as date of birth, country of citizenship and/or country of residence
• Information about individuals’ affiliation with a legal entity, such as an individual’s role, and whether he or she is a beneficial owner or authorized signatory
• Photographs, video footage, audio recordings, or written statements provided or captured during a DeGross Consulting event or when giving a testimonial
• Details of the individual’s consent to and release of media and image rights to DeGross Consulting
• Government-issued identification numbers (to the extent permitted under applicable law), such as a national identification number (e.g., a Social Security Number, tax identification number, or passport number), state or local identification number (e.g., a Driver’s License or other government-issued identification number), and a copy of your government-issued identification card
• Feedback and correspondence, such as information you provide when you request information from us, receive customer support, or otherwise correspond with us, including by interacting with our pages on social networking online sites or services
• Financial account information, such as payment card or bank account details
• Information about merchants, such as merchant name, merchant ID and category code, merchant location where a transaction occurred, and information about transactions processed by the merchant, including transaction volume, velocity, amounts, types of goods or services sold, and chargeback ratios
• Information related to the use of DeGross Consulting products or services or partners products and services, such as account information, spending thresholds, spending activity and patterns, and information about the transactions we process
• Precise geolocation information, if you authorize our mobile application to access your location
• Marketing information, such as your preferences for receiving marketing communications and details about how you engage with our marketing communications
• Other information supplied by job applicants, such as professional credentials and skills, educational and work history, and other information of the type included on a resume or curriculum vitae

Information that we collect about individuals who do not interact with us directly

We may receive personal data about individuals who do not interact with us directly. For example, our clients, service providers, and partners may provide us with information about individuals other than themselves when using our products or services. If you are providing us with personal data of another individual, please ensure you have brought this Privacy Policy to their attention. In addition, due to the unique nature of DeGross Consulting’s business, in many cases, DeGross Consulting obtains personal data from other participants in a transaction processing chain, such as card associations and debit network operators and their members. The types of information we receive about third parties includes:

• Information about the personnel of our clients, service providers, or partners, such as the business contact information that our clients, service providers, or partners provide to us in the context of our contractual relationships with them
• Information about potential job candidates, such as when a recruiter contacts us about an individual who may become a candidate for a job at DeGross Consulting
• Information about customers of our clients that our clients send to us or allow us to collect in the context of the services that DeGross Consulting performs, such as information related to financial transactions initiated by the customer, account registrations, and in some cases information needed to verify a customer’s identity and details of products or services purchased, and as otherwise stated in an applicable specific privacy policy for a DeGross Consulting product or service. Where our technology is incorporated into a merchant’s mobile application or website, we also may automatically collect certain information of the type described in the section below titled “Information collected via automated means.”
• Information obtained when processing transactions, such as information about payment transactions

Information we collect from private and publicly accessible sources

We and our service providers may collect information about individuals that is publicly available, including by searching publicly accessible government lists of restricted or sanctioned persons (such as the Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List), public records databases (such as company registries and regulatory filings), and by searching media and the internet. We and or our third-party verification providers may also collect information from private or commercially available sources, such as by requesting reports or information from credit reference and fraud prevention agencies, to the extent permitted under applicable law.

We may also maintain pages for our company and our products and services on a variety of third-party platforms, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and other social networking services. When you interact with our pages on those third-party platforms, the third-party’s privacy policy will govern your interactions on the relevant platform. If the third-party platform provides us with information about our pages on those platforms or your interactions with them (e.g. for lead generation purposes), we will treat that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information collected via automated means

When you access our websites or use our mobile applications, we, our service providers, and our partners may automatically collect information about you, your computer or mobile device, and activity on our websites or mobile applications. Typically, this information includes your computer or mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, device identifier, browser type, screen resolution, IP address, the website you visited before browsing to our website, general location information such as city, state or geographic area; and information about your use of and actions on or in our websites or mobile applications, such as pages or screens you accessed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and length of access. Certain products or services that we provide or which merchants may incorporate into their websites or mobile applications may automatically collect additional information, as may be further described in a separate privacy Policy.

Our service providers and business partners may collect this type of information over time and across third-party websites. This information is collected via various mechanisms, such as via cookies, pixels, tags, web beacons, embedded scripts, through our mobile applications, and similar technologies. This type of information may also be collected when you read our HTML-enabled emails. You can choose to disable cookies or to opt out of the use of your browsing behavior for purposes of targeted advertising. For opt out instructions, please review the “Targeted online advertising” portion of the “Your Choices” section of this Privacy Policy.

Sensitive personal data

In limited circumstances and when permitted by law, we may request biometric data to confirm your identity, such as when we authenticate a payment using your fingerprint. In some circumstances, we may collect information that may reveal health or medical information, such as when we process transactions at health or medical facilities or pharmacies. In the context of processing employment applications, we may also request sensitive information, such as racial or ethnic origin or information about disability, where required or permitted by law of the country in which you are applying for employment.

Outside of these contexts or otherwise as we specifically request, we ask that you not provide us with any sensitive personal data (meaning information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic, health, or biometric information, information about sex life or sexual orientation, or criminal convictions or offenses) through our websites or mobile applications, or otherwise to us.

2. How we use your personal data

We use your personal data for the purposes of:

Providing our products and services, which includes:

• Operating, evaluating, maintaining, improving, and providing the features and functionality of our products and services
• Fulfilling a payment transaction initiated by you (either with our partners or our client)
• Managing our relationship with you or your company
• Carrying out our obligations, and exercising our rights, under our agreement with you or your company
• Communicating with you regarding your account with us, if you have one, including by sending you service-related emails or messages (e.g., messages regarding account verification, changes or updates to the functionality of our products or services, technical and security notices and alerts, and support and administrative messages)
• Personalizing the manner in which we provide our products and services
• Checking for fraud or money laundering and/or managing either our or our clients’ risk
• Administering and protecting our business
• Providing support and maintenance for our products and services, including responding to your service-related requests, questions, and feedback

For research and development

We use the information we collect for our own research and development purposes, which include:

• Developing or improving our products and services
• Developing and creating analytics and related reporting, such as regarding industry and fraud trends

Marketing

We may use your personal data to form a view on what products or services we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you.

We may contact you with marketing communications using the personal data you have provided to us if you have actively expressed your interest in making a purchase or have made a purchase from us and, in any case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Where required by law, we will get your express opt-in consent before we disclose your personal data with any company outside of DeGross Consulting for marketing purposes.

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us using the details at Contact Us section or clicking on the opt-out link included in each marketing message.

Should you choose to opt out of receiving our marketing messages, we will continue to carry out our other relevant activities using your personal data, including sending non-marketing messages.

We may use the personal data we collect during events or from your testimonials to produce promotional, marketing, and educational materials. This can include photographs, videos, or audio recordings featuring your image or voice, as well as any statements you provide. 

Managing our recruiting and processing employment applications

We process personal data, such as information submitted to us in a job application, to facilitate our recruitment activities and process employment applications, such as by evaluating a job candidate for an employment activity, and monitoring recruitment statistics.

Complying with law and regulations

We use your personal data as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws and regulations, lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.

Compliance, fraud prevention and safety

We use your personal data as we believe necessary or appropriate to (a) enforce the terms and conditions that govern our products and services; (b) protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.

With your consent

In some jurisdictions, applicable law may require us to request your consent to use your personal data in certain contexts, such as when we use certain cookies or similar technologies or would like to send you certain marketing messages.  If we request your consent to use your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent any time in the manner indicated when we requested the consent or by contacting us. If you have consented to receive marketing communications from our third party partners, you may withdraw your consent by contacting those partners directly.

To create anonymous data

We may create anonymous, deidentified, or aggregate data from your personal data and other individuals whose personal data we collect.  We make personal data into anonymous, deidentified, or aggregate data by excluding information that makes the data personally identifiable to you, and use that anonymous data for our lawful business purposes.  

3. How we disclose your personal data

Companies within DeGross Consulting

We may disclose your personal data to our subsidiaries and corporate affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy. 

Service providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to administer and provide services on our behalf (such as companies that provide customer support, companies that we engage to host, manage, maintain, and develop our website, mobile applications, and IT systems, and companies that help us process payments). These third parties may use your information for the purposes set out in the section entitled “How we use your personal data” but only as directed by DeGross Consulting and in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy and are prohibited from using or disclosing your information for any other purpose.

Our clients

When DeGross Consulting performs services for its clients, it may disclose personal data with those entities. For example, DeGross Consulting may collect information about a client’s customers from or on behalf of the client, such as when DeGross Consulting processes payment transactions, and DeGross Consulting may provide personal data about those customers back to the client. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of our clients.

Participants in the transaction processing chain

DeGross Consulting discloses personal data with companies in the transaction processing chain in connection with processing a payment transaction, such as merchants, banks or other card issuers, card associations, debit network operators and their members.

Credit reference, fraud protection, risk management, and identity and verification agencies

DeGross Consulting discloses personal data with credit reference, fraud protection, risk management, and identity verification agencies to help guard against, detect, and respond to fraud or money laundering, and/or manage our or our clients’ risk, as in accordance with law, and to ensure we comply with contractual, legal, or regulatory requirements.

Professional advisors

We may disclose your personal data to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

Marketing

We may share testimonials or images from events, which may include your personal data in physical or digital media channels as part of our marketing and promotional activities.

Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement; Protection and Safety

DeGross Consulting may disclose information about you to government or law enforcement officials (including tax authorities) or private parties as required by law, and disclose and use such information as we believe necessary or appropriate to (a) comply with applicable laws and lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities; (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern our products and services; (d) protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (e) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.

Business Transfers

DeGross Consulting may sell or transfer some or all of its business or assets, including your personal data, in connection with a business transaction (or potential business transaction) such as a merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy, in which case we will make reasonable efforts to require the recipient to honor this Privacy Policy.

To Other Parties with Your Permission or to Fulfill a Contract They Have With You

DeGross Consulting may transfer your personal data to any third party who is not otherwise covered by the other listed categories above where you have given us permission to do so, or with whom you have entered into a contract when we need to transfer your personal data to that party in order to fulfil that contract.

4. Your rights and choices

In this section, we describe the rights and choices available to all users. Users who are located in Europe, UK, and Brazil may read additional information about their rights below.

Marketing communications

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us or clicking on the opt-out link included in each marketing message. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing messages.

Targeted online advertising

Some of the business partners that collect information about users’ activities on our websites or in our mobile applications may be members of organizations or programs that provide choices to individuals regarding the use of their browsing behavior or mobile application usage for purposes of targeted advertising.

Users may opt out of receiving targeted advertising on websites through participating members of the following organizations or programs:

• Network Advertising Initiative (USA)
• Digital Advertising Alliance (USA)
• European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (Europe)
• Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada (Canada)
• Australian Digital Advertising Alliance (Australia)
• Data Driven Advertising Initiative (Japan)

Users of mobile applications may opt out of receiving targeted advertising in mobile applications through participating members of the Digital Advertising Alliance by installing the AppChoices mobile application, available here, and selecting the user’s choices. In addition, your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit our, or our partners’, ability to engage in ad tracking or targeted advertising using the Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertising associated with your mobile device.

Please note that we also may work with companies that offer their own opt-out mechanisms and may not participate in the opt-out mechanisms that we linked above.

If you choose to opt-out of targeted advertisements, you will still see advertisements online but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to opt out, not all companies that serve online behavioural advertising are included in this list, and so you may still receive some cookies and tailored advertisements from companies that are not listed.

Do Not Track Signals

Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to do not track signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Choosing not to provide your personal data

Where we request personal data directly from you, you do not have to provide it to us. If you decide not to provide the requested information, in some circumstances we, or our clients, may be unable to provide products or services to you. For example, we may be unable to process your transaction.

Accessing, modifying or deleting your information

In some jurisdictions, applicable law may provide a right for individuals to access their personal data, correct inaccurate personal data, or delete their personal data in some circumstances. You may contact us directly to request access to, or modify or delete your information in accordance with the law in your jurisdiction. We may not be able to provide access to, modify, or delete your information in all circumstances. Please view the jurisdiction-specific Information for California Residents, Information for Colorado, Connecticut, or Virginia Residents, and Additional information for European and UK users sections of this Privacy Policy for additional information on how you may exercise these rights if you live in these jurisdictions.

Complaints

If you have a complaint about our handling of your personal data, you may contact [email protected]. We request that a complaint be made in writing. Please provide details about your concern or complaint so that our data protection officer can investigate it. We will take appropriate action in response to your complaint, which may include conducting internal discussions with relevant business representatives. We may contact you for additional details or clarification about your concern or complaint. We will contact you to inform you of our response to your complaint. You also may have a right to file a complaint with a national or local regulatory agency.

5. International transfers

DeGross Consulting is headquartered in the United States, and it maintains offices and has service providers in other countries. Your personal data may be transferred to the United States or other locations outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where we or our service providers maintain offices and where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If we make such a transfer, we will require that the recipients of your personal data provide data security and protection in accordance with applicable law.

6. How we keep your data safe

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, sub-agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We maintain annual compliance with global Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) adopted by the payment card brands for all companies that process, store or transmit cardholder data. 

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

7. This Website May Link to Other Websites

We may also link to third-party websites, mobile applications, and other content. DeGross Consulting is not responsible for the privacy practices of any third party, and this privacy policy does not apply to such third party’s websites, mobile applications, or other content. DeGross Consulting does not guarantee, approve, or endorse any information, material, services, or products contained on or available through any linked third-party website, mobile application, or other content. DeGross Consulting is not responsible for any content on third-party properties to which we link. DeGross Consulting provides links to third-party properties or content as a convenience, and visiting or using linked third-party properties or content is at your own risk.

8. Additional Information for European, UK and Brazilian Users

Data Controller

DeGross Consulting is made up of one legal entity. References to “DeGross Consulting”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Policy should be read to refer to DeGross Consulting responsible for handling your data. We will let you know which member of the DeGross Consulting will be the controller for your data. That information will be provided either in the contract we sign with you or in a privacy policy we provide to you that specifically relates to the relationship we have with you.

Legal bases for processing (EU and UK)

If you are based in Europe or the UK, we are required to inform you of the legal bases of our processing of your personal data, which are described in the table below.  If you have questions about the legal basis of how we process your personal data, Contact Us

Use for new purposes

We may use your personal data for reasons not described in this Privacy Policy where permitted by law and the reason is compatible with the purpose for which we collected it.

How long will you use my personal data?

We will use your personal data for as long as necessary based on why we collected it and what we use it for. This may include our need to satisfy a legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirement.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In general terms, we will retain your personal data for the duration of your involvement/engagement with us and for as long as reasonably necessary afterwards; however, we may maintain different retention periods for different products and services. There are also certain types of information which are required to be retained for a certain period by law.

Your individual legal rights

Under certain circumstances, individuals in Europe, the UK and Brazil have rights under data protection laws in relation to their personal data. If you are located in Europe, UK or Brazil, you may ask us to take the following actions regarding personal data that we hold:

• Access. You are entitled to ask us if we are processing your personal data and, if so, for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, as well as obtain certain other information about our processing activities.
• Correction. If any personal data we hold about you is incomplete or inaccurate, you can require us to correct it, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
• Erasure. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law.  If you are in Brazil, you may also ask us to anonymize or block personal data that is excessive, unnecessary or where we may have processed your information unlawfully.
• Object. Where our reason for processing your personal data is legitimate interest you may object to processing as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
• Restriction. You may ask us to suspend our use of your personal data in the following scenarios:
  • if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy;
  • where our use of your personal data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it;
  • where you need us to hold your data for a longer period than we usually would, because you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
  • you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
• Transfer / Portability. Where it is possible, we will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to personal data provided by you which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• Withdraw consent. Where our reason for processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
• Automated decision making. You have the right not to be subject to automated decision making (e.g., profiling) that significantly affects you. The exercise of this right is not available to you in the following cases:
  • The automated decision is required to enter into, or perform, a contract with you.
  • We have your explicit consent to make such a decision.
  • The automated decision is authorized by local law of an EU member state.

However, in the first two cases set out above, you still have the right to obtain human intervention in respect of the decision, to express your point of view and to contest the decision.

You can submit requests to exercise these rights by contacting our customer service department at [email protected]. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure you are entitled to exercise a right in respect of your personal data, for example, a merchant identification number or account number. This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

There may be legal or other reasons why we cannot, or are not obliged to, fulfil a request to exercise your rights. We will use available lawful exemptions to your individual rights to the extent appropriate. If we decline your request, we will tell you why, subject to legal restrictions.

You will not have to pay a fee to exercise any of your rights relating to your personal data. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We will respond to all legitimate requests promptly and, in any event, within any timeframes prescribed by applicable law. In general, we must respond to queries within one month from the receipt of the request, so it is important that requests are identified and submitted using the email [email protected]. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated. Any transmission of your personal data will be handled in a secure manner.

If you are located in Europe, you also have the right to make a complaint at any time to a supervisory authority (for more information go to https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en). If you are located in the UK, you also have a right to make a complaint to the ICO.

Cross-border data transfer

We transfer your personal data within DeGross Consulting, including outside of Europe or the UK. Sometimes we transfer your personal data out of Europe within DeGross Consulting to countries not deemed by the European Commission or ICO to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data, the transfer will be based on our ability to fulfill the obligations we have entered into with you through one of our processing partners.

When we transfer personal data outside of Europe, within the group where the obligations we have entered into do not apply, or to third parties in countries not deemed by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data, the transfer will be made pursuant to:

• A contract approved by the European Commission (called “Standard Contractual Clauses”);
• The recipient’s Binding Corporate Rules;
• The consent of the individual to whom the personal data relates; or
• Other mechanisms or legal grounds as may be permitted under applicable European law

Please contact us if you would like to receive further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of Europe.

9. Information for California Residents

We are required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA”) to provide to California residents an explanation of how we collect, use and disclose their personal Information, and of the rights and choices we offer California residents regarding our handling of the personal information. 

Your California privacy rights

If you are a California resident, you have the rights listed in the section above titled Accessing, correcting or deleting your information. However, these rights are not absolute, and we may decline your request as permitted by the CCPA.

You are entitled to exercise these rights free from discrimination. This means that we will not penalize you for exercising your rights by taking actions such as by denying you goods or services, increasing the price/rate of goods or services, decreasing the service quality, or suggesting that we may penalize you as described above for exercising your rights. However, the CCPA allows us to charge you a different price or provide a different service quality if that difference is reasonably related to the value of the Personal Information we are unable to use.

How to exercise your rights

If you are a California resident, you may exercise your access, correction, and deletion rights as follows:

• Visiting DeGrossConsulting.com
• Calling 202-335-9846
• Identify verification. The CCPA requires us to verify the identity of the individual submitting the request before providing a substantive response to the request. A request must be provided with sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate and respond. The requester must provide sufficient information to allow us to reasonably verify that the individual is the person about whom we collected information. A request may also be made on behalf of your child under 13.
• Authorized agents.  California residents can empower an “authorized agent” to submit requests on their behalf.  We will require the authorized agent to have a written authorization confirming that authority.

Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

Our websites and online services may use analytics and advertising tools that enable us and our analytics and marketing partners to collect and disclose internet or other electronic network activity information based on your activity across our services and sites, including to analyze your usage of our services and to serve you advertisements that are relevant to you (collectively, “cross-context behavioral advertising”). However, please note that we do not knowingly sell or share the Personal Information of consumers under 16 without consent.

You have the right to opt-out of our sale or sharing of your Personal Information using our opt-out tool located in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen.

We also support the Global Privacy Control, which is a browser-based opt-out preference signal that communicates your privacy preferences to the websites you visit. Note that because the Global Privacy Control and other choices available to you may be a browser-based mechanism, your opt-out preferences will apply only to the browser from which you exercised that choice. You are welcome, however, to enable the Global Privacy Control on all of your browsers and devices.

To the extent that we otherwise sell or share personal information outside our use of these technologies, you may request to opt out by visiting www.degrossconsulting.com. For example, please use this form to request to opt out of the sale of merchant personal information subject to the CCPA to credit reference and other companies engaged in data collection and analysis, such as in the context of personal information that is sold for business credit purposes.

Personal information that we collect, use and disclose

The chart below summarizes our collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information during the last 12 months. We describe the sources through which we collect your Personal Information in section above titled The Personal Data We Collect, and describe the purposes for which we collect, use, and disclose this information in section above titled How We Use Your Personal Data and How We Share Your Personal Data.

Please note that we may also disclose personal information for our Everyday Business Purpose and to comply with law, and for compliance, fraud prevention, and safety purposes; in the event of business transfers; and to our professional advisors, and as further described above in Section 3 of this Privacy Policy.

We will retain your Personal Information as set forth above.

Sensitive Personal Information

We do not use or disclose Sensitive Personal Information except for purposes for which you do not have a right to limit the use and disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information under the CCPA.  For example, we may use Sensitive Personal Information to provide you products or services you have requested.

10. Information for Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, or Virginia

The information provided in this “Information for Colorado, Connecticut, or Virginia Residents” section only applies to residents of the states of Colorado, Connecticut, or the Commonwealth of Virginia acting in an individual or household context.  It does not apply to the data or Colorado, Connecticut, or Virginia residents acting in a commercial or employment context. It also does not apply to the extent data is handled pursuant to the GLBA. We describe the categories of personal data that we process and disclose to third parties, the purposes for which we process personal data, and the categories of third parties that we disclose personal data to in the sections above titled The Personal Data We Collect, How We Use Your Personal Data, The Parties With Whom We Disclose Your Personal Data, and the Personal information that we collect, use and disclose sub-section of the Information for California Residents section.

As a Colorado, Connecticut, or Virginia resident, you may have the rights listed in the section above titled Accessing, correcting or deleting your information. However, these rights are not absolute, and we may decline your request as permitted by the VCDPA.

How to exercise your rights

If you are a Colorado, Connecticut, or Virginia resident, you may exercise your access, correction and deletion rights as follows, by:

• Visiting www.degrossconsulting.com 
• Calling 202-335-9846

You can also appeal a denial of your request by emailing [email protected]

11. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on our website and in app stores where our mobile applications covered by this Privacy Policy are available for download. We may (and, where required by law, will) also provide notification of changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you, such as via e-mail (if you have an account where we have your contact information) or another manner through our website or mobile applications.

Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting of the new terms and/or upon implementation of the new changes (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your continued use of our products or services after the posting of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.

12. Contact Us

For European, UK or Brazilian privacy inquiries, you may contact [email protected]

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, or Virginia resident data inquiries please refer to “How to exercise your rights” in the relevant sections above.

For all other privacy inquiries related to this Notice, please contact us at [email protected]

For questions about your credit or debit card or your purchase, please contact the financial institution that issued your card or the merchant.