Billinger

Billinger Privacy Policy

Last updated: December 12, 2023

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Billlinger.io, which includes Billinger Services (“Billinger.io”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we treat your personal data when you use our platforms and services (collectively referred to as “Services”) and when you use our website. This policy does not apply to third-party websites, products or services.

Billinger is committed to adequately protecting your personal data regardless of where it is processed and regardless of your location.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT?

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data from which the identity of the individual cannot be discerned (anonymous data).

We use different methods to collect data from and about you. Data is collected through the following:

Our Website:

When you use our website, we may collect, use, store and transfer the following data:

Information you give us while using our website. We may ask you to provide us with personally identifiable information while you use our website. This includes your full name, e-mail address, phone number and your website.
Automated technologies or interactions. We may use cookies, server logs and other technologies, such as web beacons, to collect information that your browser sends us when you are using our website. This includes your computer’s internet protocol, browser type, browser version, the country from which you visited our website, how you arrived at our website, length of your visit and which pages you viewed. Please refer to our cookie policy for further information about how we use cookies and similar technologies.

We may collect personal data directly from you, as set out below:

We will ask you to provide us with personal data when you register to use our Service. We will collect, store and process personal data, such as your full name, e-mail address and your website.
Personal data collected from our merchants. We will ask you to provide us with personal data when you apply to become our merchant. We may require you to provide us with additional personal data as you use our Services. If you are a merchant applying to use our Services, we will collect, store and process personal data relating to you and other individuals associated with you, such as full name, email address, date of birth, home address, proof of address, photocopy of a personal identification card or passport and other information as required to on-board you and meet applicable legal requirements.

Information provided by third parties. We may collect personal data about you from third parties, as set out below:

Personal data collected while processing your payment. If you are a card-holder making a payment using our Services to process your payment, we may, directly or our payment processing service, collect, store and process financial and transaction related personal data about you and your transaction. This may include your billing address, delivery address, date of birth, purchase amount, date of purchase, payment method, credit or debit card number, bank account information and additional necessary information required to process your transaction.
When required for compliance with applicable laws (including specifically anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws and regulations), we may verify your information and collect information from publicly available sources, credit reference or fraud prevention agencies or check data against government sanction lists, either directly, or using identity verification providers or due diligence and screening information providers.
When securing our website and Services, we may collect details about your device, your transaction, your computer’s internet protocol and other technical information, through our data security and firewall providers.
When marketing our Services, we may collect identity and contact data from publicly available sources.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We will process your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you as our merchant or freelancer.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests, such as mitigating financial loss or other harm to our merchants, you and us.
Where we need to comply with legal or regulatory obligations, such as detecting and preventing fraud.
Where we need to improve and analyze our products, website, systems and tools.

Examples of how we may process your personal data include:

To manage risk and protect the website, the Services and you from fraud, abuse and other illegitimate activities, by monitoring, detecting and preventing such activities.
To comply with our obligations and to enforce the terms of our website and Services, including to comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
Process a payment, communicate with third-parties regarding a payment, and provide related customer service.
Monitor illegitimate activities and prevent information security risks related to our website and Services.
Evaluate your application to use our Services and verify your identity for compliance purposes.
Respond to inquiries, send service notices and provide customer support.
For audits, regulatory purposes, and compliance with industry standards.
Notify you about changes to the nature or terms of our Service.
To administer our website, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes.
To improve our website to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner.
Authenticate your access to your account.
To improve or modify our Services.
To develop new products.
To send marketing communications.
To conduct aggregate analysis and develop business intelligence that enable us to operate, protect, make informed decisions, and report on the performance of our business.
For our legitimate interests, including to: enforce the terms of our website and Services; manage our everyday business needs, such as monitoring and analyzing; and anonymize personal data in order to provide aggregated statistical data to third parties, for example to our clients.

PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We have set out a description of the purposes we plan to use your personal data and the lawful basis for our processing activities below:

Type of data	Purpose Activity	Processing Basis
Identity and contact details	To facilitate and enable our relationship with you as a prospective, new or existing merchant	Performance of a contract with you Necessary to comply with a legal obligation Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business and to prevent fraud)
Identity, contact details and transaction details	To process and execute your transaction, and other payments related activities, including: Manage payments, fees and charges Collect and recover funds for our business purposes	Performance of a contract with you Necessary to comply with a legal obligation Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business and to prevent fraud) Processing of your personal data for this purpose may include automated decision-making
Identity and contact details	To manage our relationship with you as a user of our website or Services, which will include: Notifying you about changes to our Service, terms or privacy policy Provide Services to you	Performance of a contract with you Necessary to comply with a legal obligation Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products and services)
Technical, device and usage details	To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
Identity, contacts and technical details	To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)	Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We share your personal data with trusted third parties for the purpose of providing our Services and promoting our business, as follows:

Your information may be shared with our affiliates within the Billinger.io, to provide you with our Services. The relevant Billinger.io entity is the party responsible for overall management and use of your personal data.

Business partners, payment industry suppliers and participants to your transactions. We may share your personal data with our merchants and their service providers, card schemes, payment method providers and third party acquirers, as necessary to process payments or provide our Services. The information shared includes:

Personal data necessary to facilitate the transaction and activities related to your transaction;
Personal data to help our partners resolve disputes and detect and prevent fraud; and
Personal data and performance analytics to help our merchants better understand the uses of their platform and to help our merchants enhance their customers’ experiences.

Third-party service providers. We may also use third-party service providers acting on our behalf. These service providers help us with data and cloud services, website hosting, data analysis, application services, advertising networks, information technology and related infrastructure, customer service, communications and auditing.

Advertising and remarketing networks. Our website uses remarketing and conversion tracking technologies provided by Google AdWords. This technology allows us to display targeted advertising to users who have already visited our website when they use the websites of the partner networks of Google across the internet. We may add similar providers to mentioned here in the future. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve you ads based your visits to our website.

Other third parties. We will share your personal data with third parties in the event of any reorganisation, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock.

Safety, Legal Purposes and Law Enforcement. We may share your personal data with third parties to detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or to protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Billinger.io, our users, customers, employees or the public or as otherwise required by law. We also use and disclose your personal data as we believe necessary (i) under applicable law, or payment method rules; (ii) to enforce our terms and conditions, or our Merchant Service Agreement and other agreements, as applicable; (iii) to protect our rights, privacy safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (iv) to respond to requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, which may include authorities outside your country of residence.

All our third-party service providers and other entities in the group are required to process the data in accordance with applicable data protection regulations and to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with EU data protection standards and our policies.

We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes.

In addition, when a third-party entity processes your personal data on our behalf and according to our instructions, we sign a written agreement with it that specifically describes its obligations with regard to security and data protection, in accordance with European data protection laws. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes.

DATA SECURITY

Protecting your information and your privacy is extremely important to us. Being entrusted with some of your most valuable data, we have set high standards for data security. We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed, altered or disclosed in an unauthorized manner.

We are PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) Level 1 compliant, which is the highest standard set by the payment card industry to ensure that credit card data is processed, stored or transmitted in a secure environment.

In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees and third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

YOUR RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

Request correction of the personal data we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing, where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

Object to processing for your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and you object to the processing of your personal data on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which overrides your rights and freedoms.

Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine- readable format. Note that this right only applies to information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you.

Request for manual review. We may use automated decision making in processing your personal information while processing your transaction. If we made an automated decision about your transaction, you have the right to contest the decision, to express your point of view and to require a manual review of the decision.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact [email protected] or use the postal address mentioned at the beginning of this privacy policy. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to update this privacy policy at any time, and we will publish an updated privacy policy if we do so. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.