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Terms of Use

Terms of Use

Last Update Posted: April 10, 2025

ݮƵ., on behalf of itself and its affiliates (together, "ݮƵ"), offers you a wide range of content, communication tools, and information about trends in the financial and technology industries, ݮƵ's products and services and ݮƵ as a company as well as, in certain circumstances, content provided by other persons and entities (collectively, "Materials") via this and ݮƵ's related websites, social media pages and other similar sources, including features and services available through such sites and sources, such as RSS feeds, podcasts, video and downloads (collectively, this "Site"). By using this Site, you are agreeing to accept and comply with these terms and conditions of use, as stated below (these "Terms"), as well as ݮƵ'sPrivacy Notice("Privacy Notice") at all times. YOU MUST READ THESE TERMS (AND THEPRIVACY NOTICE) FULLY.Please contact ݮƵ atgeneral_info@fiserv.comwith any questions you may have.

1. Limited Right to Use.This Site is owned and operated by ݮƵ. Unless otherwise specified, all Materials on this Site are the property of ݮƵ and are protected by the copyright laws of the United States and throughout the world. You may use, view, print, and/or download the Materials from this Site solely for your personal, informational use within your organization, provided that you must keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. You may not copy or distribute any Materials published by ݮƵ on this Site or any portion of those Materials beyond your organization without ݮƵ's prior written permission (or permission of ݮƵ's third-party provider if the Material is owned by that provider). This includes any copying, reproduction, modification, republication, uploading, posting or directly or indirectly sending any Materials (or portions of Materials) in any form or by any means. However, this does not restrict you from linking to publicly available Materials, excluding any Materials available in a part of the Site that requires a password to enter or is otherwise restricted ("Publicly Available Materials"), using any sharing methods ݮƵ provides on this Site for sharing Publicly Available Materials, or referencing or citing Publicly Available Materials, provided that, in all of these instances, you must properly identify ݮƵ as the source of the Publicly Available Materials. Materials available in a part of the Site that requires a password to enter or is otherwise restricted must be treated as Confidential Information unless otherwise marked and may not be not used or disclosed except as expressly permitted in a written agreement with ݮƵ.

2. Eligibility.This Site is not offered to any person under the age of 13. If you are over the age of 13 but under the age of 18, you must either: (i) be an emancipated minor, or (ii) have obtained the legal consent of your parent or legal guardian to use this Site and enter into these Terms.

3. Links and Frames. Links to other sites may be provided on this Site for your convenience. By providing these links, ݮƵ is not endorsing, sponsoring or recommending such sites or the materials disseminated by or services provided by them, and are not responsible for the materials, services or other situations at or related to or from any other site, and make no representations concerning the content of sites listed in any part of this Site. Consequently, ݮƵ cannot be held responsible for the accuracy, relevancy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of material contained in sites listed in any search results or otherwise linked to this Site. For example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement or a search result, your "click" may take you off this Site. This may include links from advertisers, sponsors, and content partners that may use ݮƵ's logo(s) as part of a co-branding agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, solicit personal information, or contain information that you may find inappropriate or offensive. In addition, advertisers may send cookies to users that ݮƵ does not control. ݮƵ reserves the right to disable links from any third-party sites to this Site.

4. Registration.You may be given the opportunity to create and register a user account (your "Account") that you may use to receive information from ݮƵ and/or participate in certain features and functionalities of this Site. By registering, you represent, warrant and otherwise fully confirm to ݮƵ that all information that you provide on the registration form is complete, current and otherwise accurate. ݮƵ may rely on the information you provide, including any user ids or passwords you create, to identify you and your activity, and you must promptly update and otherwise maintain your information to keep your Account current at all times. You agree that ݮƵ may use the information you provide for any purpose, so long as such use does not violate thePrivacy Notice.

5. Password and Security.If you are issued or create any password or other credentials to access this Site or any parts of functionalities that are part of this Site, you agree not to give or make available your password or credentials to any unauthorized individuals, and you agree to be responsible for all actions taken by anyone to whom you have provided such credentials. If you believe that your credentials have been lost or stolen or that someone may attempt to use them to access this Site without your consent, you must notify ݮƵ at once at the address specified below.

6. Interactive Features.This Site may include opportunities for you to access, view and provide content for this Site, such as via blogs, comment sections, discussion forums, chatbots, virtual agents, and other similar interactive features ("Interactive Features"). If you have any questions specifically regarding the Interactive Features (or the related portions of this Site), please contact ݮƵ atcommunities@fiserv.com. Some of the Interactive Features of the Site may generate automated responses (each “Output”) in response to your interaction, chat, or query (collectively, “Input”). You alone are responsible for your use of any Interactive Features and you use them at your own risk. Any content questions, comments, suggestions, information, ideas, concepts, photographs, graphics or other materials, whether oral, written or electronic (collectively, "Content") which you submit through an Interactive Feature must pertain to the designated topic or theme of the applicable Interactive Feature. You may not use this Site or any Interactive Features in any way that (as determined by ݮƵ) impairs, restricts or inhibits anyone else from enjoying or using this Site or the Interactive Features. More specifically, you represent, warrant and otherwise confirm the following:

  • All of your Content is accurate and not misleading, and use and posting or other transmission of your Content does not violate applicable law or these Terms, and will not violate any rights of or cause injury to any person or entity.
  • Except as specified in thePrivacy Notice, you are providing your Content without any expectation or obligation of privacy, remuneration or attribution, and you recognize and agree that your Content will not be considered proprietary to you or be subject to any limitations of use by ݮƵ (See Paragraph 8 below).
  • You will not violate, jeopardize, or otherwise interfere with any other person's right to privacy (whether that person is a user of this Site or not), including the collection, solicitation or aggregation of any information about any person or selling, transmitting or otherwise posting private information about a person or any third party.
  • You will not upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content and/or otherwise take any action in connection with this Site that: (i) violate or infringe in any way upon the rights of others, including any statements which may defame, harass, stalk or threaten others; (ii) is offensive, including blatant expressions of hatred, racism, bigotry, abusiveness, profanity, vulgarity or indecency; (iii) includes, directly or indirectly, any pornographic materials or references or materials or references involving obscene content; or (iv) violates any law, regulation, otherwise constitutes a criminal offense or gives rise to a civil liability, regulatory fine or obligation, or advocates or provides instructions or ideas relating to any illegal activity or any intent to commit any illegal activity.
  • You will not upload, post or otherwise transmit Content that contains any advertisement or solicitation with respect to any products, materials, services or other offerings of you or any third party, including junk mail, SPAM, chain letters or any other solicitation or marketing materials.
  • You will not post Content or otherwise take any action in connection with this Site where you impersonate any person or entity, falsely state or mischaracterize your affiliation with any entity, including ݮƵ, or falsely deny your affiliation with an entity, including ݮƵ.
  • You have, prior to uploading, posting or otherwise transmitting any Content, obtained all required consents from every person or entity involved in such Content (including any person's name or likeness) to include any such person or entity's name, likeness, creation, materials or any other information in or with such Content;
  • You will not upload, post, or otherwise transmit any Content protected by any intellectual property right, including any copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or other proprietary right, without the express permission of the owner of such intellectual property right; provided that (i) you are solely responsible for determining whether any Content is not protected by any intellectual property rights, and (ii) you shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from infringement of any such intellectual property rights or any other harm resulting from the Content you upload, post or otherwise transmit.
  • You acknowledge and agree that other users may and are authorized to access, view, store or reproduce your Content for personal use.  You will not post any information which is personal to you or any other person or entity, such as address, telephone number, or social security number.
  • ݮƵ’s use of the Content in accordance with these Terms will not infringe or violate any intellectual property or other rights of any third party or cause a breach of any agreement or obligations between you and any third-party; and you have all rights and permissions required to submit the Content to ݮƵ for use in accordance with these Terms.
  • You will not use the Interactive Features, Content or Site in a manner that otherwise violates ݮƵ’s Acceptable Use Policy available at /en/legal/acceptable-use-policy.html(“AUP”), which forms a part of these Terms.

ݮƵ reserves the right to, at any time and at its sole discretion, (1) restrict or prevent your access to this Site or any Interactive Features, (2) move, remove or edit any Content posted, uploaded or referenced by you and/or (3) terminate or suspend your Account for any reason. FISERV IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CONTENT POSTED, UPLOADED OR REFERENCED BY ANY USER IN CONNECTION WITH THIS SITE OR ANY INTERACTIVE FEATURES, INCLUDING COMMENTS SECTIONS, DISCUSSION BOARDS OR OTHER SUCH AREAS.

7. Interference and Malicious Code.You may not use this Site, including uploading, posting or otherwise transmitting any Content, that could in any way transmit, directly or indirectly, any form of malicious or unwanted code or program to this Site or any websites, servers, networks, systems or equipment of ݮƵ or any third party, or would otherwise interfere with or disrupt this Site or any websites, servers, networks, systems or equipment of ݮƵ or any third party. You must at all times abide by all policies, procedures and other requirements established by any networks connected to this Site. You also may not employ any spiders, robots or other similar data mining programs or techniques on any Materials or otherwise in connection with your use of this Site.

8. Monitoring.You agree that ݮƵ has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor your use of this Site as well as any Content posted or uploaded to this Site. ݮƵ performs this monitoring for purposes of ensuring compliance with these Terms, compliance with any applicable laws or regulations, and understanding users' use of this Site and the Interactive Features, but this monitoring may be for any purpose permitted or authorized by applicable law, regulation or government or industry agent. ݮƵ may (although is not obligated to), screen, disable, remove or otherwise edit any Content you or any other user posts, uploads or references to or in connection with this Site. You agree that ݮƵ is not required to notify you (or any other user) of any such screening or editing. Furthermore, you agree that you have no expectation that ݮƵ will return that Content or otherwise make such Content available to you or any other user after it is edited or deleted (including any expectation that ݮƵ will create or maintain any backup or archival copies of such Content for any period of time), and ݮƵ has no responsibility to do so or liability if it does not do so.

9. License to Content.If you submit any Content in connection with this Site or your use of this Site, you directly and expressly agree that these submissions are not confidential. These submissions will not, in any way, create any confidential or other relationship between you and ݮƵ. By posting, uploading, referencing or otherwise submitting any Content to this Site or to ݮƵ directly, you grant ݮƵ and its affiliates a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide right and license to use, publish, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, translate, create derivative works from, incorporate into other works, distribute, sublicense and otherwise exploit all such Content (including, without limitation, Input), in part or in whole, in any way and in any form, whether now known or otherwise developed hereafter, including to train or improve ݮƵ’s products and services. Further, you agree that you will not receive any royalty or any other payment or attribution or acknowledgement and that neither ݮƵ nor its affiliates shall owe you any other obligation. You agree that ݮƵ may take any and all legal action available to it against any person or entity if that person or entity violates your or ݮƵ's rights in your Content through a breach of these Terms. If you retain moral rights (including rights of attribution or integrity) in your Content, you hereby declare that: (a) you do not require that any personally identifying information be used in connection with the use of your Content, or any updates, improvements or derivative works made to or from your Content; (b) you do not object to any publication, modification, editing, deletion or other use of your Content by ݮƵ or any of its successors or assigns; (c) you fully and forever waive any right you have to claim or assert entitlement to any and all moral rights of an author regarding your Content; and (d) you fully and forever release ݮƵ and its directors, officers, employees, agents, licensees, successors and assigns from any claims that you could otherwise assert against ݮƵ by virtue of any such moral rights.

10. Third-Party Content.ݮƵ receives some of the Materials on this Site from third parties, including other users. All statements, opinions, advice, criticisms, offers or other information stated or expressed by any such third parties reflect solely the opinion and belief of the respective third party making such statement, and not that of ݮƵ or any of its affiliates. ݮƵ makes no endorsement, guarantee or other statement, express or implied, about such third- party Materials, including that any such third-party Materials are accurate, complete, timely, corroborated or otherwise useful or appropriate for any use or circumstance. You must independently evaluate any such third-party Materials yourself if you intend to rely in any way on the information contained in or provided in connection with such third-party Materials, and you alone must engage any appropriate professionals necessary or prudent in making that evaluation (which ݮƵ recommends you do).

11. Copyright Notice. Materials may be made available to you via this Site that come from third parties not within ݮƵ's control. In connection with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), while ݮƵ fully respects the copyright interest of all of ݮƵ's users and all such third parties, ݮƵ has no obligation to, and does not, scan Materials or any content uploaded, provided, posted or otherwise used in connection with this Site for the inclusion of illegal, infringing, improper, unauthorized or impermissible content. However, as a matter of policy, ݮƵ does not allow Materials it knows are infringing another person or entity's copyright to remain on this Site. To assist ݮƵ with this policy, you agree that, if you believe any Materials on this Site may infringe or otherwise violate your or any other person or entity's copyright, you will write to ݮƵ (atgeneralinfo@fiserv.com) as soon as you reasonably can specifying the Materials you believe are infringing and the reasons why. If you wish to send a formal notice of infringement of your copyright under the DMCA, your notice (to the email address listed above) must specify or provide, at least:

  • A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
  • Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
  • Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permi