Effective Date: October 1, 2015
This Privacy Policy describes a user's privacy rights regarding our collection, use, storage, sharing and protection of personal information.
It applies to the Interswitch website and all related sites, applications, services and tools regardless of how they are accessed or used.
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Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organisations on a timely and consistent basis.
This privacy policy will explain how our organization uses the personal data we collect from our customers and related partners when they use our website or subscribe to any of our products and services.
Interswitch conducts business in a responsible and sustainable manner and ensures customer information is securely collected, processed, and stored based on business requirements. In furtherance of this and compliance with industry regulations, Interswitch has provided appropriate documentation, which includes a privacy policy. Interswitch, therefore, provides notice about this policy and applicable procedures. It identifies the purposes for which personal information is collected, used, processed, disclosed, retained, and disposed.
Throughout this Privacy Policy, we use the term "personal information or data" to describe information that can be associated with a specific person and can be used to identify that person. We do not consider personal information to include information that has been made anonymous such that it does not identify a specific user.
As a Customer, you accept this Privacy Policy when you sign up for, access, or use our products, services, content, features, technologies or functions offered on our website and all related sites, applications, and services (collectively referred to as “Interswitch Services”).
This Privacy Policy is intended to govern the use of Interswitch Services by users (including, without limitation those who use these Interswitch Services in the daily course of their trade, practice or business) unless otherwise agreed through contract. User reserve the right to exercise their data protection right as listed under the Customer Data Protection Rights.
We collect Personally Identifiable Information (PII), otherwise known as Personal Information or Personal Data. They include: Name, email address, phone number, contact address, limited financial information, location data, device data, etc.
Customers data is collected electronically when they visit our website and register to use any of our services. This is collected electronically with exchanges between your system (Computer, Server, Mobile Device) or service provider’s system and our system.
We collect Customers’ data manually when they complete our product and services registration forms in registering to use any of our services. Similar data are also collected when customers or visitors’ visit our physical locations for enquiries or business relationship. We collect information from or about customers from other sources, such as through your contact with us, including our Customer Support interfaces – email, portal, phone calls, social media and other communication channels; Customer support teams, Customer response to surveys, Training programmes, Corporate Social Responsibility events, Promotional events, and interactions with members of the Interswitch Group or other companies (subject to their privacy policies and applicable law).
We may also obtain information about you from third parties such as credit bureaus and identity verification services.
We collect personal information to provide users of our services with a secure, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Furthermore, the information collected may also be used to: provide Interswitch Services and customer support; process transactions and send notices about your transactions; verify your identity, including during account creation and password reset processes; resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems; manage risk, or to detect, prevent, and/or remediate fraud or other potentially prohibited or illegal activities; detect, prevent or remediate violations of policies or applicable user agreements.
We also collect personal information to improve Services by customizing your user experience; measure the performance of the Interswitch Services and improve their content and layout; manage and protect our information technology infrastructure; provide targeted marketing and advertising, provide service update notices, and deliver promotional offers based on your communication preferences; contact you at any telephone number, by placing a voice call or through text (SMS) or email messaging; perform creditworthiness and solvency checks, and compare information for accuracy and verify it with third parties.
Additionally, we may contact you via electronic means to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, or as otherwise necessary to service your account. Furthermore, we may contact you to offer coupons, discounts and promotions, and inform you about Interswitch Services or its group services.
Finally, we may contact you as necessary to enforce our policies, applicable law, or any agreement we may have with you. When contacting you via phone, to reach you as efficiently as possible we may use, and you consent to receive, autodialled or pre-recorded calls and text messages. Where applicable and permitted by law, you may decline to receive certain communications.
We store and process your personal information on our computers in Lagos, Nigeria and anywhere else where our facilities are located. We protect your information using physical, technical, and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration.
Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to our data centres, and information access authorization controls. We have also taken additional measure by ensuring our system complies with industry information security standards.
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may combine customer’s information with information collected from other companies and use it to improve and personalize Interswitch Services, content, and advertising. We have also included opportunity for customers that had initially subscribed to receiving notification or information about their activities in relation to the use of Interswitch’s service to unsubscribed or request to be removed from applicable databases.
We may share your personal information with:
We may share your personal information with:
Please note that these third parties may be in other countries where the laws on processing personal information may be less stringent than in your country. If you open a Quickteller or related wallet account directly on a third-party website or via a third-party application, any information that you enter on that website or application (and not directly on an Interswitch website) will be shared with the owner of the third-party website or application. These sites are governed by their own privacy policies and you are encouraged to review their privacy policies before providing them with personal information. Interswitch is not responsible for the content or information practices of such third parties.
Interswitch is committed to protecting customers’ personal information regardless of where the data resides and to providing appropriate protection for where such data is transferred across borders, including outside of Nigeria. We have further taken measure to ensure our relationships are with countries that are governed by similar data protection regulation. Interswitch conducts assessment of other entities to provide a reasonable assurance of the safety of customer’s information.
Our customers have data protection rights and are entitled to the following:
Customer request based on any of the rights above shall be handled between 2 to 4 working weeks. Customer may contact us by email or writing to details in Section 17.
When you access our websites or use Interswitch Services, we may place small data files on your computer or another device. These data files may be cookies, pixel tags, "Flash cookies," or other local storage provided by your browser or associated applications (collectively referred to as "Cookies"). These technologies are used to recognize users as customers; customize Interswitch Services, content, and advertising; measure promotional effectiveness; help ensure that account security is not compromised; mitigate risk and prevent fraud, and to promote trust and safety across Interswitch Services and related sites.
Users can freely decline our Cookies if the web browser or browser add-on permits unless our Cookies are required to prevent fraud or ensure the security of websites we control. However, declining our Cookies may interfere with your use of our websites and Interswitch Services.
This privacy policy applies to only Interswitch Group and not any other brands, though mentioned on our Websites. Neither does it apply to our Merchants, Vendors, or other related partners.
Please refer to end of this notice for providing your consent. Your consent to personal data collection and processing may be revoked by notifying us via our contact page. For users below the age of 18, the consent should be provided by the holder of parental responsibility of the child.
Please note, in case you choose to not provide us with the consent or withdraw the consent at any given point of time, we shall not be able to provision the services as detailed in section 2.2 of this notice.
In the event of a violation of this Policy by the Company, we shall immediately upon becoming aware of such violation, assess the extent of the violation and take specific actions such as correction, modification, or transfer of the data, subject to the lawful demands of the data subject. The specific actions of correction, modification and transfer shall be effected within 30 days, subject to external factors not within the reasonable control of the Company.
We review our privacy policy periodically and when there is any substantial change to business or regulatory requirement. At the minimum, we shall review this annually and communicate via our communication channels such as Newsletter, on Website, Social Media Accounts.
Customers who have concerns, questions about privacy policy or would like to exercise their protection rights can contact us through the following channels:
Email us at: [email protected]
Call us: 016283888
Customer Contact Centre 0700-9065000
Or write to us at: 6th Floor, Orbit Place, Chiromo Lane/Westlands Road Westlands, Kenya.
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