Membership Terms and Conditions

1. Membership Levels and Associated Benefits

For a complete description of membership benefits and corresponding fees for each membership level, please refer to the Join Member page applicable to your respective region.

2. Membership Term

Membership in MAG is offered on a calendar-year basis, commencing January 1 and concluding December 31 of each year. Unless terminated in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, membership will remain active and will automatically renew at the start of each successive calendar year.

3. Membership Dues Payments and Renewals

As a MAG Member, you agree to pay the annual dues applicable to your membership level, as set forth at the Join Member page and as determined each calendar year by the MAG Board of Directors. Payment is due upon approval of your membership and annually thereafter at the start of each calendar year.
Initial membership fees are due within thirty (30) days from invoice. All memberships automatically renew annually and will be invoiced sixty (60) days prior to the start of the next calendar year unless written notice of cancellation is provided to your membership representative or to partnerships@merchantadvisorygroup.org no later than (30) days prior to the start of the calendar year.
If any invoice, whether initial or renewal, is not paid by the stated due date, the membership account and all associated contacts may be suspended until payment is received. If membership fees remain unpaid, payment must be received prior to company representatives participating in a MAG conference.
Membership upgrades may be requested at any time by contacting your membership representative or partnerships@merchantadvisorygroup.org and paying the applicable fees. Downgrades are subject to approval by the MAG Partnerships Team.

4. Cancellation

Membership renewal may be cancelled by providing notice to a membership representative or by contacting partnerships@merchantadvisorygroup.org. Upon cancellation, member company’s account and all associated contacts will be deactivated, and all included membership benefits will terminate, with the exception of any individually purchased eLearning courses.
Any dues or fees owed as of the effective date of cancellation shall remain due and payable, and the Member’s confidentiality obligations under Section 5 shall survive such cancellation as set forth in Section 5(c) below.

5. Confidentiality

For purposes of this Confidentiality clause, the “Disclosing Party” shall be the Party disclosing confidential information to the other Party, and the “Receiving Party” shall be the Party receiving the confidential information. As used in this Confidentiality section, “Party” or “Parties” means, as applicable, MAG and/or any MAG Member (including, for purposes of Section 5(g) below, an individual added to a Member’s roster) that is disclosing or receiving Confidential Information, and more than one MAG Member may act as a Disclosing Party or a Receiving Party with respect to different information at the same time.
To foster free and open dialogue among MAG members and sponsors, MAG members agree not to share information about the businesses of other members publicly if the Disclosing Party so requests. This does not require that any Disclosing Party require its own information must be kept confidential—a Disclosing Party may consent to the sharing of its own information. The objective is to enable the free and open sharing of information such as industry best practices and individual company experiences with issues common among merchants managing their payment acceptance.
With respect to any information a Disclosing Party has requested be kept confidential pursuant to Section 5(b) above, Receiving Party agrees: (a) to maintain such information in confidence; (b) not to disclose such information to anyone except Receiving Party’s employees, agents, and consultants on a need-to-know basis; and (c) not to use such confidential information of Disclosing Party for any purpose other than that for which it is disclosed.

Confidential Information. Information considered confidential hereunder includes information of Disclosing Party relating to: (a) matters of a technical nature such as trade secret processes or devices, know-how, data formulas, inventions (whether or not patentable or copyrighted), specifications and characteristics of products or services planned or being developed, and research subjects, methods, and results; (b) matters of a business nature such as information about costs, profits, pricing, policies, markets, sales, suppliers, customers, product and service plans, and business concepts, plans, or strategies; and (c) other information of a similar nature not generally disclosed by Disclosing Party to the public and which may be provided to Receiving Party or otherwise come into Receiving Party’s possession.

Exclusions. The obligations imposed by this Confidentiality clause shall not apply to any information that: (a)the Receiving Party has rightfully received from a third party without accompanying use or disclosure restrictions; or (b) the Receiving Party has independently developed by employees of the Receiving Party’s organization who have not had access to such confidential information; or (c) is or becomes publicly available through no wrongful act of Receiving Party; or (d) is already known to Receiving Party; (e) is approved for release by an authorized representative of Disclosing Party; or (f) is required to be disclosed pursuant to regulation or other legal requirement, court order, duly authorized subpoena, or governmental authority.

Remedies. The Parties agree that the remedy at law for any breach of any of the covenants and agreements set forth in this Confidentiality clause may be inadequate and that, in the event of any such breach or threatened breach, the non-breaching Party shall, in addition to all other remedies which may be available to it at law, be entitled to seek equitable relief in the form of preliminary and permanent injunctions without the necessity of proving damages. The breaching Party further agrees that the terms of this Confidentiality clause shall in no way restrict or limit any other remedies the non-breaching Party may have against the breaching Party.

Enforceability. In the event any one or more of the provisions of this Confidentiality Agreement shall be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
This Confidentiality Section does not in any way create any obligation of either Party to pursue or consummate any business or other relationship. This Confidentiality Section shall govern disclosures of Confidential Information from the date a Member, or an individual added to a Member’s roster, accepts these Terms and Conditions (including by electronic or checkbox acceptance), and shall remain in effect for so long as that Member’s MAG membership remains active (the “Term”); the obligations of this Confidentiality Section shall survive termination or cancellation of the Member’s MAG membership, and Receiving Party’s obligations with respect to confidential information disclosed hereunder during the Term shall survive any termination of this Confidentiality Section or of the Member’s MAG membership.
Entire Agreement. These Terms and Conditions, together with the Benefits Overview Chart and any other document expressly incorporated by reference herein, constitute the entire agreement between MAG and the Member with respect to the Member's MAG membership, and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements, representations, and understandings between MAG and the Member on that subject, whether oral or written, except any previous standalone non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement, which shall remain in effect under the terms of those separate agreements. No modification of these Terms and Conditions shall be effective unless made in writing.

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Effective August 1, 2026