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The updated policy states that Mercury may now collect personal information directly from employees, contractors, payment beneficiaries, and dependents at a business's direction, without requiring those individuals' direct consent to Mercury. This expands the pool of individuals whose data Mercury processes beyond those who directly use the service. Additionally, the revised SMS terms separate transactional messages (receipts, confirmations) from marketing messages, requiring separate consent for marketing SMS. You can manage marketing SMS consent independently from transactional message receipt.
View change record →The updated privacy policy now discloses that cookies from Facebook Ads, Bing Ads, Braze, Google Ads, and LinkedIn Ads serve an additional purpose: 'SaleOfInfo'. This means data collected through these cookies may be sold or shared with third-party commercial partners, beyond their existing use for advertising and analytics. Under the revised policy, Mercury treats data from these cookies as subject to potential sale or commercial sharing. You can review Mercury's full privacy policy to understand your data rights and any available opt-out mechanisms.
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"Please note that opting out does not mean you will stop seeing ads, just that the ads you see may be less personalized.Excerpt from Mercury's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “Please note that opting out does not mean you will stop seeing ads, just that the ads you see may be less personalized.”
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