Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 2006

UnfairCreditCardFees.com is a project of the Merchants Payments Coalition. This initiative seeks to mobilize supporters to seek a more competitive and transparent credit card fee system that works better for consumers and merchants alike.

When you use www.unfaircreditcardfees.com to support these activities, we will collect your address, ZIP code and telephone number for the purpose of identifying your congressional district and confirming that you are a constituent to the recipient of your letter to Congress. Many congressional offices have enough staff resources to respond only to constituents, and this will help identify you as such.

If you choose to write a letter to your elected representative and then affirmatively check a box that says "remember me," a "cookie" will be used to store your user ID and password on your local machine in order to save you time. If you wish to prevent this cookie from being set to your hard drive, do not check the "remember me" box.

If you decide to join our campaign, we will collect your email address and mailing address and send you updates on initiatives by email. We will do our best to respect both your time and attention. If you choose to share your story with us, we will not disclose your personal information without your explicit permission and consent, except to the congressional offices to which you have addressed your correspondence. Your information also will be available to our Web site vendor for the purpose of assisting us with the campaign and administering and operating this web site.

We realize that you may be concerned about providing demographic information. For this reason, the Web site vendor for unfaircreditcardfees.com takes precautions to protect the data you provide. The data is housed on secure servers which are physically guarded 24-hours a day in a restricted access building. The data is backed-up as part of a nightly security routine to prevent loss, misuse or alteration.

You may cancel your subscription and opt out of future communications at any time by sending a message to [email protected] with the word 'cancel' in the subject line. You may also return to this site at any time to correct or update your information.

Children
Under 18: You must be at least 18 years old in order to use unfaircreditcardfees.com. If you are under 18 years of age, please do not send any information about yourself, including your name, address or e-mail address. If we discover that we have collected any personally-identifying information from a child under the age of 18, we will remove that information from our database as soon as possible.

Links to other Sites
Unfaircreditcardfees.com may contain links to other sites that may not follow the same privacy policies as this site. These sites may use cookies, collect data, and use the data in ways that our campaign would not. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or any information or materials on these other sites. Please visit these sites if you wish to review their privacy policies.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy Terms
We reserve the right to change this policy. Any changes to this policy will be posted to this page as soon as reasonably possible, so please check this page periodically. Use of this Web site constitutes consent to the privacy policy then in effect.