Ever wonder how that purchase you made ends up in a pop up ad? These are the credit spies, while collecting your information that is used in a transaction, part of it is peeled away.
Your name and email address along with other personal information is added to big data. This is how an inference is calculated (see how big data is calculated for more information). While stopping for a stick of gum at a convenience store in a strange neighborhood might mean nothing to you. The information is gathered about your location and added to your personal profile.
These companies have no right to you personal information. Your data where you go and what you buy is your property. There is a reason we don’t wear name tags on our chests.
You can notify them to stop collecting information outside of processing your card. Download the cease and desist letter and mail it to them.
| ACE Merchant Processing | Merchant Credit Card |
| Bank of America | Merchant Financing |
| BankCard USA | Merchant One |
| Best Merchant Rates | Merchant Warehouse |
| BluePay | Merchants Bancard Network |
| Breadcrumb | Mercury Merchant Services |
| Certified Payment Processing | Meritus Payment Solutions |
| Charge Card Systems | MersaTech |
| Charge.com | National Bankcard |
| Chase Paymentech | National Processing |
| Cornerstone Merchant Services | National Transaction Corporation |
| CPN USA | Nationwide Merchant Solutions |
| CreditCardProcessing.com | Network Merchants, Inc. |
| CyberSource Corporation | North American Bancard |
| Dharma Merchant Services | PayLeap |
| E Commerce Exchange | Payment Depot |
| East Commerce Solutions | PayPal |
| Electronic Payment Exchange | PowerPay |
| Electronic Transfer Inc. | Priority Payment Systems |
| Emerio Payments | Prolific Business Solutions |
| Encore Payment Systems | Propay |
| First Data | Regal Payment Systems |
| First National Payment Solutions | Safecharge |
| Flagship Merchant Services | Sage Payment Solutions |
| Free AuthNet | Secure Trading |
| Global Payments, Inc. | Square |
| Got Merchant | Swift Pay Systems |
| Govolution | Swipely |
| Group ISO | The Merchant Solutions |
| Harbortouch | The Transaction Group |
| Heartland Payment Systems | Total Merchant Services |
| IPayment | TransFirst |
| iTransact Inc. | Tranzilla |
| Leaders Merchant Services | TSYS |
| Leap Payments | U.S. Merchant Services (USMS) |
| MagicPay | Wells Fargo |
| Maverick BankCard, Inc. | Yoozy |