PRIVACY POLICY

Transact Payments Malta Limited (“TPML”, “we”, “our” or “us”) is the issuer of your card and is the Data Controller for the personal data which you provide to us in relation to the card only. TPML is not the Data Controller in relation to any use of your personal data to send marketing or promotional material to you. TPML is an e-money institution, authorised and regulated by the Malta Financial Services Authority. Our registered office address is Vault 14, Level 2, Valletta Waterfront, Floriana, FRN 1914, Malta and our registered company number is C91879.

Enfuce is the Program Manager of your card and is a Data Processor of the personal data which you provide to us in relation to the card.

We collect information from you when you apply for a payments card which is issued by us and when you use your card to make transactions. We also obtain information from third parties (such as fraud prevention agencies) who may check your personal data against any information listed on an electoral register and/or other databases.

Contract
Your provision of your personal data and our processing of that data is necessary for each of us to carry out our obligations under the contract (known as the Card Terms and Conditions or similar) which we enter into when you sign up for our payment services. At times, the processing may be necessary so that we can take certain steps, at your request, prior to entering into that contract, such as verifying your details or eligibility for the payment services. If you fail to provide the personal data which we request, we cannot enter into a contract to provide payment services to you or will take steps to terminate any contract which we have entered into with you.

Legal/Regulatory
We may also process your personal data to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations.

Legitimate Interests
We, or a third party, may have a legitimate interest to process your personal data, for example:
-To analyse and improve the security of our business;
-To anonymise personal data and subsequently use anonymized information.

Explicit Consent
Where biometric data is collected in order to perform a face liveness check, your explicit consent is obtained first.

When you apply for, and use, a card, we, or our partners on our behalf, collect the following information from you: Full name, nationality, address, date of birth, email address, Social Security Number (SSN), phone number, account balances, transactional and cryptographic data, IP address, login details, identity verification documents, document image such as copy of passport or other identification document and card data and face liveness biometric check.

When you use your card to make transactions, we store that transactional and financial information. This includes the date, amount, currency, card number, card name, account balances and name of the merchant, creditor or supplier. We also collect information relating to the payments which are made to/from your account.

We use your personal data to:
- set up your account, including processing your application for a card, creating your account and verifying your identity.
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- maintain and administer your account, including processing your financial payments, processing the correspondence between us, monitoring your account for fraud and providing a secure internet environment for the transmission of our services.
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- comply with our regulatory requirements, including anti-money laundering obligations.

- improve our services, including creating anonymous data from your personal data for analytical use, including for the purposes of training, testing and system development.

We pass your information to our third party service providers, agents, subcontractors, program managers and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks, managing your account and providing services to you on our behalf, as detailed above. When we use third party service providers, we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and confidential.
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We pass your information to the following categories of entity:

companies and organisations that assist us in processing transactions you make (including but not limited to payment processing service providers) and in providing services that you have requested;companies and organisations that run and manage the card program;identity verification agencies to undertake required verification, regulatory and fraud prevention checks;information security services organisations, web application hosting providers, mail support providers, network backup service providers and software/platform developers;payment networks, payment service providers and mobile payments providers (i.e. Mastercard, Visa or any third parties involved in processing the financial transactions that you make);document destruction providers;anyone to whom we lawfully transfer or may transfer our rights and duties under this agreement;any third party as a result of any restructure, sale or acquisition of TPML or any associated entity, provided that any recipient uses your information for the same purposes as it was originally supplied to us and/or used by us.regulatory and law enforcement authorities, whether they are outside or inside of the EEA, where the law requires us to do so.

To deliver services to you, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal information outside the European Economic Area (EEA), e.g.:
-with service providers located outside the EEA;
-if you are based outside the EEA;
-where there is an international dimension to the services we are providing to you.

These transfers are subject to special rules under European and Malta data protection law.

These non-EEA countries do not have the same data protection laws as Malta and EEA. We will, however, ensure the transfer complies with data protection law and all personal information will be secure. We will send your data to countries where the European Commission has made an adequacy decision, meaning that it has ruled that the legislative framework in the country provides an adequate level of data protection for your personal information. You can find out more about this here.

Where we send your data to a country where the European Commission has not made an adequacy decision, our standard practice is to use standard data protection contract clauses that have been approved by the European Commission. To obtain a copy of those clauses, please go to the European Commission’s website.

If you would like further information please contact our Data Protection Officer on the details below.

We will store your information for a period of at least six years after our business relationship ends in order that we can comply with our obligations under applicable legislation such as anti-money laundering and anti-fraud regulations. If any applicable legislation requires us to retain your data for a longer period of time, we shall retain it for that period. We will not retain your data for longer than is necessary.

You have certain rights regarding the personal data which we process:
-You may request a copy of some or all of it.
-You may ask us to rectify any data which we hold which you believe to be inaccurate.
-You may ask us to erase your personal data.
-You may ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data.
-You may object to the processing of your personal data.
-You may ask for the right to data portability.
-If you would like us to carry out any of the above, please email the Data Protection Officer at DPO@transactpaymentsltd.com.

We implement security policies and technical measures in order to secure your personal data and take steps to protect it from unauthorised access, use or disclosure.

While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. Where we have given (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

We hope that our Data Protection Officer can resolve any query or concern you may raise about our use of your personal information.
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The *General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in Malta is the Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner. Their contact details are as follows:
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IDPC,
Floor 2, Airways House, Triq il-Kbira, Tas-Sliema, SLM1549, Malta.(+356) 23287100 / info@idpc.org.mt
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Our website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

We keep our Privacy Policy under review and we regularly update it to keep up with business demands and privacy regulation. We will inform you about any such changes. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 14th  October 2021.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or the personal information which we hold about you or, please send an email to our Data Protection Officer at DPO@transactpaymentsltd.com.