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The updated policy expands the categories of personal information Mercury collects and processes for business customers. Mercury now explicitly collects investment profile information, demographic data (citizenship status, sex assigned at birth), and information about dependents and payment beneficiaries. For business customers, Mercury may collect personal information directly from contractors, payment recipients, and other connected individuals at the business's direction to support payroll, benefits, and payment processing. The policy also clarifies that marketing SMS messages require separate consent from transactional messages, and that phone numbers will not be shared with third parties for their own advertising purposes. You can opt out of marketing SMS messages without affecting receipt of transactional messages.
View change record →The updated policy discloses Mercury's SMS and MMS messaging practices and establishes specific protections for users who opt in. The policy states that mobile phone numbers and opt-in consent data will not be sold, rented, or shared with third parties for marketing purposes, and will only be shared with telecommunications carriers under binding confidentiality agreements to deliver the service. You can opt out at any time by replying 'STOP' to any message or updating your notification preferences in your Mercury account settings.
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The clause states: “Mobile opt-in data and phone numbers will only be shared with third-party service providers where strictly necessary to deliver the SMS messaging service (such as telecommunications carriers), and only under binding confidentiality agreements.”
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