Taptap Send Global Privacy Policy

Version 2
Version 1
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Effective Date: November, 2024
Version number: 1.6

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store, use, share and process your personal data when you use our website, services or mobile application (the “App”). It also describes the rights you have over your personal data.

Personal data means any information about an identified or identifiable individual. It does not include anonymous data, which cannot be linked back to an individual.

1. About us
The Taptap Send group is made up of different companies (set out below, together referred to as “Taptap Send”). Taptap Send offers international remittance services (and other services depending on your location) via its App (the “Services”).

The Taptap Send company providing the Services to you will be responsible for processing your personal data for that Service. We’ll let you know which company you have a relationship with when you first apply for or use a Service. It differs depending on where you live:

Country / region Taptap Send entity Data protection authority
EU Data controller: Taptap Send Belgium S.A.
Address and company information here.
Phone +32 460 20 73 09
Belgian Data Protection Authority (www.dataprotectionauthority.be)
You can find the list of other EU data protection authorities and their contact details at (https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en)
UK Data controller: Taptap Send UK Limited
Address and company information here.
Phone: +44 808 168 7707
Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) (www.ico.org.uk)
ICO registration number ZA282361.
US TapTap Send Payments Co.
Address and company information here.
Phone: +1 833 916 0670
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (www.ftc.gov/)
Canada Taptap Send Payments Canada Inc.
Address and company information here.
Phone: +1 833 916 0670
Office of the Privacy Commission of Canada (OPC) (www.priv.gc.ca/en/)
UAE Data controller: Taptap Send (DIFC) Limited
Address and company information
here.
Phone: +971 800 03 212 18
Data Protection Commissioner in the DIFC (www.difc.ae)
Australia Taptap Send Australia Pty Ltd
Address:
Level 10, 68 Pitt Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
Phone: +61 8 6029 4747
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)(www.oaic.gov.au)


“Taptap Send”, “we”, “our” or “us” means the responsible Taptap Send entity. They are known as the ‘controller’ of your personal data in some jurisdictions. “You” means any visitor to our website or App or user of our Services.

This is a global Privacy Policy, which means that it applies to Taptap Send customers and their personal data in all the regions and countries listed above. Throughout this policy we refer to data protection legislation, but the legislation that is applicable to you will depend on which Taptap Send entity provides Services to you. The data protection legislation applicable to the Taptap Send entities includes (but is not limited to) the UK General Data Protection Regulation, EU General Data Protection Regulation, Dubai DIFC Data Protection Law 2020, UK Privacy Electronic Communication Regulation 2011, EU e-Privacy legislation, Australia’s Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), and other applicable data protection laws.

2. How to contact us about your privacy and data protection
You can contact us about your privacy, to exercise your data rights and for information about how we use, process, store and protect your personal data by emailing us at privacy@taptapsend.com.

Your location Data Protection Officer (“DPO”)
UK, US, Canada or Europe

Our DPO is Evalian Limited, you can contact them at:
Email: dpo@evalian.co.uk
Website: www.evalian.co.uk
Address: West Lodge, Leylands Business Park
Colden Common, Hampshire
SO21 1TH, United Kingdom
UAE or Australia We have appointed a DPO to oversee compliance with this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions over how we protect or use your data, please email our DPO at privacy@taptapsend.com

3. Types of personal data we collect and how we get it
Most of the personal data we process is provided to us directly by you. This sets out the information we collect and process, and where we get it from. The collection and use of data is crucial to providing our Services and keeping the Services safe. Data helps us increase the safety of your online payments, while reducing the risk of fraud, money laundering and other harmful activity.

Information we collect when you:
- register for the App;
- use our Services;
- fill your details and transaction details;
- correspond with us;
- respond to any of our Services;
- take part in online discussions;
- speak with a member of our team or use a chat-bot;
- enter competitions; and/or
- contact us for other reasons.
- Name, address and date and place of birth
- E-mail address, phone number and details of the device you use (e.g. device ID).
- Income and occupation.
- Proof of address.
- Details and copies of your identification documents (for example passport or government ID) and your image to compare against these (either in photo or video form)
   -Taxpayer number, if applicable (for example Social Security Number, or Tax Identification Number).

- Records of our discussions, if you contact us or we contact you (including records of phone calls and chat conversations).
- Your geographical location and IP address.
- Your device settings (e.g. language preference, time zone).
- Information relating to your transaction (e.g. the person you are sending money to, payment reason).
- Information relating to how you pay us (e.g. encrypted card information and bank details)
- Credit reports and other consumer report information.
Information we collect when you use our Services on our App or website. - Information on use of our products, including the date, time and amount of transfers, currencies and exchange rate used, beneficiary details, your IP address, messages sent or received, details of device used to make payment and the payment method used.
- Technical information, including your IP address, login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
- Information about your visit, including the full URL clickstream to, through and from our Website or App (including date and time); page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, methods used to browse away from the page.
- Optional information:
   - If you turn on location services on or in the App, we receive information about your location using GPS technology.
   - If you give us access, information stored on your device like contact information from your contacts list.
Information we collect from others. Information from your use of third-party applications, such as the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, social networking sites, such as name, your social network ID, location information, email, device ID, browser ID, and profile picture. Your use of third-party applications is subject to the privacy policy and terms of service for such applications.

Information from our service providers in destination countries, such as names associated with particular phone numbers.
Information we collect from social media. Occasionally, we’ll use publicly available information about you from selected social media websites or apps to carry out enhanced due diligence checks (to comply with our anti-money laundering or sanctions screening obligations).
Information from other public sources. We have a legal obligation to verify your identity as part of our anti-money laundering checks. To do this we collect information and contact details from publicly available sources, such as online registers or directories.
Information we create. Sometimes we may create new personal data through analysis, combination, interpretation and reporting based on other data we hold or have access to.
Where you are based How to make a complaint
EU Our lead EU supervisory authority is the Belgium Authority, and you can submit a complaint via this link.
If you are based elsewhere within the European Economic Area a list of supervisory authorities can be found here.
UK You can submit a complaint directly to the UK ICO via this link.
US If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to the Attorney General of your State or Territory of residence.
Canada If you are based in Canada, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner via this link. You can also find a list of supervisory authorities in different provinces here.
UAE For Dubai DIFC privacy complaints, you can contact the Commissioner whose contact details are available using this link.
Australia If you are based in Australia you can lodge a complaint with the OAIC here.


18. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to law, best practice and how we process personal data. We will do this by posting a revised version on this website. We recommend that you check this webpage occasionally to stay up to date.

19. What happens if our business changes hands?
We may, from time to time, expand or reduce our business and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of our business. Any personal data that you have provided will, where it is relevant to any part of our business that is being transferred, be transferred along with that part and the new owner or newly controlling party will be permitted to use that data only for the purposes for which it was originally collected by us.

1   For example, in Australia we are required or authorised to collect personal data under laws such as the Privacy Act, Corporations Act, Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act, Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act, Autonomous Sanctions Act, Surveillance Devices acts, Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, Spam Act, Income Tax Assessment acts and other tax laws.