SSV Consumer/Merchant App Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy sets out how SSV uses and protects your personal data that SSV receives from you when you use SSV’s payment application (the App). This SSV Consumer/Merchant App Privacy Policy is in addition to the Privacy Policy that applies when you use SSV’s website.
Consent to installation of the App
Under data protection laws, SSV is required to provide you with certain information about SSV, how SSV processes your personal data and for what purposes, and your rights in relation to your personal data. This information is provided below and it is important that you read that information.
Before installation of this App, please indicate your consent to SSV processing your personal data (including your name, contact details, financial and device information) as described in this policy.
YES I consent to the installation of the App for the purposes of making/receiving payments
NO I do not consent to the installation of the App.
How you can withdraw consent
Once you provide consent by selecting "YES", you may change your mind and withdraw consent at any time by contacting SSV at info@ssvsmartpay.co but that will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.
Consent to processing Location Data
YES I consent to processing of my Location Data (including details of my current location disclosed by GPS technology so that location-enabled services are activated.
NO I do not consent to processing of my Location Data and location-enabled services are disabled in my settings.
How you can withdraw consent
Once you provide consent by selecting "YES", you may change your mind and withdraw consent at any time by contacting SSV at info@ssvsmartpay.co but that will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.
This policy (together with the Terms and Conditions as set out at [WEB ADDRESS] and any additional terms of use incorporated by reference into those Terms and Conditions, together the Terms of Use) applies to your use of:
Please read the following carefully to understand SSV’s practices regarding your personal data and how SSV will treat it.
Important information about SSV
SSV is the controller and responsible for your personal data that you disclose to SSV.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact SSV using the information set out in the contact details section.
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.
SSV may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which SSV has grouped together as follows:
SSV also collects, uses and shares aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data which is not personal data as it does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, SSV may aggregate individuals' Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature in order to analyse general trends in how users are interacting with SSV’s website to help improve the website and SSV’s service offering.
How is your personal data collected?
SSV will collect and process the following data about you:
Unique application numbers. When you want to install or uninstall a Service containing a unique application number or when such a Service searches for automatic updates, that number and information about your installation, for example, the type of operating system, may be sent to SSV.
SSV uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the App, App Site, the distribution platform (Appstore) or Services Sites and to remember your preferences. This helps SSV to provide you with a good experience when you use the App or browse the Services Sites and also allows SSV to improve the App and the Services Sites. For detailed information on the cookies SSV uses, the purposes for which SSV uses them and how you can exercise your choices regarding SSV’s use of your cookies, see SSV’s cookie policy https://ssvsmartpay.azurewebsites.net/legal/SSV-Privacy-and-Cookies-Policy
How SSV uses your personal data
SSV will only use your personal data when the law allows it to do so. Most commonly SSV will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Purposes for which SSV will use your personal data
Purpose/activity |
Type of data |
Lawful basis for processing |
To install the App and register you as a new App user |
Identity Contact Financial Device |
Your consent |
To deliver Services |
Identity Contact Financial Transaction Device Marketing and Communications Location |
Your consent Performance of a contract with you Necessary for SSV’s legitimate interests (to recover debts due to SSV) |
To manage relationship with you including notifying you of changes to the App or any Services |
Identity Contact Financial Profile Marketing and Communications |
Your consent Performance of a contract with you Necessary for SSV’s legitimate interests (to keep records updated and to analyse how customers use SSV’s products/ Services) Necessary to comply with legal obligations (to inform you of any changes to SSV’s terms and conditions) |
To enable you to complete a survey |
Identity Contact Device Profile Usage Marketing and Communications |
Your consent Performance of a contract with you Necessary for SSV’s legitimate interests (to analyse how customers use SSV’s products/Services and to develop them and grow SSV’s business) |
To administer and protect SSV’s business and the App including troubleshooting, data analysis and system testing |
Identity Contact Device |
Necessary for SSV’s legitimate interests (for running SSV’s business, provision of administration and IT services, network security) |
To deliver content and advertisements to you To make recommendations to you about goods or services which may interest you To measure and analyse the effectiveness of the advertising SSV serves you To monitor trends so SSV can improve the App |
Identity Contact Device Content Profile Usage Marketing and Communications Location |
Your consent Necessary for SSV’s legitimate interests (to develop SSV’s products/Services and grow SSV’s business) |
During the registration process when your personal data is collected, you will be asked to indicate your preferences for receiving direct marketing communications from SSV via email, text, telephone or post.
SSV may also analyse your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view which products, services and offers may be of interest to you so that SSV can then send you relevant marketing communications.
SSV will get your express consent before SSV shares your personal data with any third party for their own direct marketing purposes.
You can ask SSV to stop sending you marketing communications at any time by following the opt-out links within any marketing communication sent to you or by contacting SSV at info@ssvsmartpay.co.
If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, you will still receive service-related communications that are essential for administrative or customer service purposes for example checking that your contact details are correct.
Disclosures of your personal data
When you consent to providing SSV with your personal data, SSV will also ask you for your consent to share your personal data with the third parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table:
Automated Decision-Making and Profiling
If SSV uses personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making and those decisions have a legal (or similarly significant effect) on you, you have the right to challenge to such decisions, requesting human intervention, expressing their own point of view, and obtaining an explanation of SSV’s decision.
SSV make automated decisions to determine whether to allow a transaction or not based on the checks carried out through SSV’s transaction monitoring service which monitors suspicious transactions based on factors such as:
Depending upon the results of the checks carried out, this could result in SSV automatically declining a transaction. The right to object to automatic processing of your personal data does not apply in the following circumstances:
International transfers
SSV may transfer your personal data to service providers that carry out certain functions on its behalf. This may involve transferring personal data outside the UK to countries which have laws that do not provide the same level of data protection as the UK law.
Whenever SSV transfers your personal data out of the UK to service providers, it ensures a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring that the following safeguards are in place:
Data security
All information you provide to SSV is stored on SSV’s secure servers. Where SSV has given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of the Services Sites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. SSV asks you not to share a password with anyone.
SSV will collect and store personal data on your Device using application data caches and browser web storage (including HTML5) and other technology.
SSV has put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, SSV limits access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on SSV’s instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
SSV put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where SSV is legally required to do so.
SSV will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes SSV collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. SSV may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if it reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to its relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, SSV considers the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which it processes your personal data and whether it can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
In some circumstances you can ask SSV to delete your data as set out below.
In some circumstances SSV will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case SSV may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
In the event that you do not use the App for a period of 180 days then SSV will treat the account as expired and your personal data may be deleted.
You have a number of rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
You have the right to:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact SSV at info@ssvsmartpay.co.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, SSV may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, SSV could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
SSV may need to request specific information from you to help it confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. SSV may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up its response.
SSV try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, SSV will notify you and keep you updated.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or about the use of your personal data or you want to exercise your privacy rights, please contact SSV in the following ways:
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). SSV would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact SSV in the first instance.
Changes to the privacy policy and your duty to inform SSV of changes
SSV keep this privacy policy under regular review. It is important that the personal data SSV holds about you is accurate and current. Please keep SSV informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with SSV, for example a new address or email address.
This App may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. SSV does not control these third-party websites and is not responsible for their privacy statements. SSV encourages you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.