MasterCard Rules (PDF)

Service Providers
7.2 Program Service
7.1.2.3 Type III
NOTE
A Rule on this topic appears in Chapter 15, “United States Region Rules.”
7.1.3 Data Storage Entity
A Data Storage Entity (DSE) is a Service Provider that performs any one or more
of the services described in Rule 7.1 as DSE Program Service.
7.1.4 Service Provider Registration Facilitator
7.2 Program Service
A Service Provider Registration Facilitator (SPRF) is a Service Provider that
performs Service Provider registration services, which is deemed by the
Corporation to be a Program Service.
Before a person commences to perform Program Service that directly or
indirectly supports or otherwise benefits a Customer’s Program(s), the Customer
must cause such a person to be registered by the Corporation as a Service
Provider.
A Service Provider may perform only the type of Program Service that it is
registered to perform. A corporate affiliate of a Customer that is Owned and
Controlled by the Customer or by the Customer’s ultimate parent and which
performs Program Service exclusively for the Customer and not for any other
Customer is deemed not to be a Service Provider.
The Customer must ensure that any person performing Program Service that
directly or indirectly supports or otherwise benefits the Customer’s Program(s),
and whether or not such person is registered by the Corporation as a Service
Provider.
1. Complies with all Standards applicable to the Program Service provided
(including, by way of example and not limitation, data use and protection,
confidentiality and privacy Standards) for so long as such person performs
such Program Service. This Customer obligation arises and continues
regardless of the nature of the Program Service performed and whether
the person is performing Program Service pursuant to an agreement or
other arrangement with the Customer, a Merchant, a Service Provider of
the Customer, or any other person.
2. Promptly provides to the Corporation any information requested by the
Corporation pertaining to the Program Service or the performance thereof.
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