Privacy Policy

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18th March 2020

How we use your personal information

Your information will be held by Babb Group Ltd and any of its entities. This privacy notice is to let you know how we promise to look after your personal information. This includes what you tell us about yourself, what we learn by having you as a customer, and the choices you give us about what marketing you want us to send you. This notice also tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Our Privacy Promise

We promise:

To keep your data safe and private.

Not to sell your data.

To give you ways to manage and review your marketing choices at any time.

Personal information and the law

1. Who we are

This section gives you the legal name of the company who holds your personal information – known as the ‘legal entity’ – and tells you how you can get in touch with us.

Babb Group Limited is a company registered and incorporated in England and Wales with company number 11197989 and registered office at 40 Bank Street, 18th Floor, London, Canary Wharf, E14 5NR United Kingdom. It operates the following subsidiary companies:

Babb Platform Ltd is a company registered and incorporated in England and Wales with company number 10803612 and registered office at 40 Bank Street, 18th Floor, London, Canary Wharf, E14 5NR United Kingdom. It operates under an agency agreement under Babb Remit LTD.

Babb Remit LTD is a company registered and incorporated in England and Wales with company number 10407809 and registered office at 40 Bank Street, 18th Floor, London, Canary Wharf, E14 5NR United Kingdom. Babb Remit LTD is registered with the Financial Conduct Authority as a Small Payments Institution under the firm reference number 761308

Babb BNK Limited is a company registered and incorporated in England and Wales with company number 11392951 and registered office at 40 Bank Street, 18th Floor, London, Canary Wharf, E14 5NR United Kingdom.

To find out more about these regulatory licences, see the Financial Services Register: https://register.fca.org.uk/ or call the FCA on 0800 111 6768.

Contacting us about data privacy

Please use these details to contact us about any of the topics set out in this Privacy Notice.

If you have any questions, or want more details about how we use your personal information, you can e-mail us at hello@getbabb.com.

2. How the law protects you.

This section sets out the legal reasons we rely on, for each of the ways we may use your personal information.

As well as our Privacy Promise, your privacy is protected by law. This section explains how that works.

Data Protection law says that we are allowed to use personal information only if we have a proper reason to do so. This includes sharing it outside of the company. The law says we must have one or more of these reasons:

To fulfil a contract we have with you, or
When it is our legal duty, or
When it is in our legitimate interest, or
When you consent to it.

When we have a business or commercial reason of our own to use your information, this is called a ‘legitimate interest’. We will tell you what that is, if we are going to rely on it as the reason for using your data. Even then, that use of your Information must not unfairly go against your interests.

The law and other regulations give special treatment to some types of sensitive personal information. This includes information about racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, trade union membership, health data, and criminal records. We will not collect or use these types of data without your consent unless the law allows us to do so. If we do, it will only be when it is necessary:

For reasons of substantial public interest, or
To establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Here is a list of all the ways that we may use your personal information, and which of the reasons we rely on to do so. This is also where we tell you what our legitimate interests are.

What we use your personal information for

Our reasons

Our legitimate interests

Serving you as a customer

To manage our relationship with you or your business
To develop and carry out marketing activities
To study how our customers use products and services from us and other organisations
To communicate with you about our products and services
To facilitate the social interaction platform element of our products and services, enabling customers to search for and engage directly with each other and to identify campaign projects they may wish to donate to.
Your consent
Fulfilling contracts
Our legitimate interests
Our legal duty
Keeping our records up to date, working out which of our products and services may interest you and telling you about them
Developing products and services, and what we charge for them
Defining types of customers for new products or services
Seeking your consent when we need it to contact you
Being efficient about how we fulfill our legal and contractual duties
Providing customers with the best possible service and user experience.

Business improvement

To test new products
To manage how we work with other companies that provide services to us and our customers
To develop new ways to meet our customers’ needs and to grow our business
Fulfilling contracts
Our legitimate interests
Our legal duty
Developing products and services, and what we charge for them
Defining types of customers for new products or services
Being efficient about how we fulfil our legal and contractual duties

Managing our operations

To deliver our products and services
To make and manage customer payments
To manage fees, charges and interest due on customer accounts
To collect and recover money that is owed to us
To manage and provide treasury and investment products and services
Fulfilling contracts
Our legitimate interests
Our legal duty
Being efficient about how we fulfil our legal and contractual duties
Complying with rules and guidance from regulators
Providing customers with the best possible service and user experience.

Managing security, risk and crime prevention

To detect, investigate, report, and seek to prevent financial crime
To manage risk for us and our customers
To obey laws and regulations that apply to us
To respond to complaints and seek to resolve them
Fulfilling contracts
Our legitimate interests
Our legal duty
Developing and improving how we deal with financial crime, as well as doing our legal duties in this respect
Complying with rules and guidance from regulators
Being efficient about how we fulfill our legal and contractual duties

Business management

To run our business in an efficient and proper way. This includes managing our financial position, business capability, planning, adding and testing systems and processes, managing communications, corporate governance, and audit
Our legitimate interests
Our legal duty
Complying with rules and guidance from regulators
Being efficient about how we fulfill our legal and contractual duties
To exercise our rights set out in agreements or contracts
Fulfilling contracts

For processing special categories of personal data

Substantial public interest
Using criminal records data to help prevent, detect, and prosecute unlawful acts and fraudulent behavior
Using criminal and health information as needed to provide insurance products.
Responding to regulatory requirements
Showing whether we have assessed your situation in the right way
Passing information to the regulator as needed to allow investigation into whether we have acted in the right way
Legal claims
Using any special categories of data as needed to establish, exercise or defend legal claims
Consent
Telling you that we need your consent to process special categories of personal data, when that is what we rely on for doing so

3. Groups of Personal Information

This explains what all the different types of personal information mean, that are covered by data protection law.

We use many different kinds of personal information. They are grouped together like this. The groups are all listed here so that you can see what we may know about you. We don’t use all this data in the same way. Some of it is useful for marketing, or for providing services to you. But some of it is private and sensitive and we treat it that way.

Type of personal information

Description

Financial

Your financial position, status and history

Contact

Your name, where you live and how to contact you

Socio-Demographic

This includes details about your work or profession, nationality, education and where you fit into general social or income groupings

Transactional

Details about payments to and from your accounts with us, and insurance claims you make

Contractual

Details about the products or services we provide to you

Locational

Data we get about where you are. This may come from your mobile phone or the place where you connect a computer to the internet. It can also include shops where you buy something with your card

Behavioural

Details about how you use products and services from us and other organisations

Technical

Details on the devices and technology you use

Communications

What we learn about you from letters and emails you write to us and conversations between us

Social Relationships

Your family, friends and other relationships

Open Data and Public Records

Details about you that are in public records, such as the Electoral Register, and information about you that is openly available on the internet

Usage Data

Other data about how you use our products and services

Documentary Data

Details about you that are stored in documents in different formats, or copies of them. This could include things like your passport, drivers licence or birth certificate

Special types of data

The law and other regulations treat some types of personal information as special. We will only collect and use these types of data if the law allows us to do so:

Racial or ethnic origin
Religious, political or philosophical beliefs
Trade union membership
Genetic and bio-metric data
Health data
Lifestyle information, including data related to sex life or sexual orientation
Criminal records of convictions and offences
Allegations of criminal offences

You can read how we may use special types of data in the table ‘How the law protects you’

Consents

Any permissions, consents or preferences that you give us. This includes things like how you want us to contact you, whether you get paper statements, or prefer large-print formats

National Identifier

A number or code given to you by a government to identify who you are, such as a National Insurance number or social security number, or Tax Identification Number (TIN)

4. Where we collect personal information from

This section lists all the places where we get data that counts as part of your personal information.

We may collect personal information about you (or your business) from any of these sources:

Data you give to us

When you apply for our products and services
When you talk to us on the phone or in our offices, including recorded calls and notes we make
When you use our websites, mobile device apps, web chat or any similar messaging or communications services
In emails and letters
In insurance claims or other documents
In financial reviews and interviews
In customer surveys
If you take part in our competitions or promotions

Data we collect when you use our services

This covers two things: details about how and where you access our services, and account activity that is shown on your statement.

Payment and transaction data
This includes the amount, frequency, type, location, origin and recipients. If you borrow money, it also includes details of repayments and whether they are made on time and in full.
Profile and usage data
This includes the security details you create and use to connect to our services. It also includes your settings and marketing choices. We also gather data from the devices you use (such as computers and mobile phones) to connect to our internet, mobile and telephone banking services. We also use cookies and other internet tracking software to collect data while you are using our websites or mobile apps. You can find out more about this in our cookies policy.

Data from outside organisations

Companies or individuals that introduce you to us (such as any merchant or store)
Credit card providers like Visa and Mastercard
Credit reference agencies such as Equifax and Experian
Insurers
Retailers
Comparison websites
Social networks (for instance, when you click on one of our Facebook or Google ads)
Fraud prevention agencies
Other financial services companies (to help prevent, detect and prosecute unlawful acts and fraudulent behaviour)
Employers (for instance, to get a reference if you apply for a mortgage)
Payroll service providers
Land agents (such as firms who do property valuations for mortgages)
Public information sources such as the Electoral Register or Companies House
Loyalty schemes like Avios or Everyday Offers
Agents, suppliers, sub-contractors and advisers
These can be types of firm we use to help us run accounts and services. They can also be specialist companies who advise us on ways to develop and improve our business.
Market researchers (who combine data from many sources to produce market trend reports and advice.)
Medical professionals*
Government and law enforcement agencies

5. How long we keep your personal information

This section explains how long we may keep your information for and why.

We will keep your personal information for as long as you are a customer of the company.

We may keep your data for up to 5 years after you stop being a customer. The reasons we may do this are:

To respond to a question or complaint, or to show whether we gave you fair treatment
To study customer data as part of our own internal research
To obey rules that apply to us about keeping records

We may also keep your data for longer than 5 years if we cannot delete it for legal, regulatory or technical reasons.

We will only use your personal information for those purposes and will make sure that your privacy is protected.

6. If you choose not to give personal information

You can choose not to give us personal information. In this section we explain the effects this may have.

We may need to collect personal information by law, or to enter into or fulfil a contract we have with you.

If you choose not to give us this personal information, it may delay or prevent us from fulfilling our contract with you, or doing what we must do by law. It may also mean that we cannot run your accounts or policies. It could mean that we cancel a product or service you have with us.

We sometimes ask for information that is useful, but not required by law or a contract. We will make this clear when we ask for it. You do not have to give us these extra details and it won’t affect the products or services you have with us.

7. How to complain

This section gives details of how to contact us to make a complaint about data privacy. It also shows you where you can get in touch with the government regulator.

Please let us know if you are unhappy with how we have used your personal information.

You can contact us using our website or via e-mail at complaints@getbabb.com. You also have the right to complain to the regulator, and to lodge an appeal if you are not happy with the outcome of a complaint.

In the UK this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk/). Find out on their website how to report a concern .

8. How to withdraw your consent

This section explains what to do if you no longer want us to hold or use your personal information.

You can withdraw your consent at any time. Please contact us if you want to do so.

This will only affect the way we use information when our reason for doing so is that we have your consent. See the section ‘Your Rights’ about more generally restricting use of your information.

If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. If this is so, we will tell you.

9. Letting us know if your personal information is incorrect

Here you can find out how to contact us if you think the information we hold for you is wrong, incomplete or out of date.

You have the right to question any information we have about you that you think is incorrect. We’ll take reasonable steps to check this for you and correct it.

You can contact us via email at hello@getbabb.com.

10. How to get a copy of your personal information

This section tells you where to write to us to get a copy of your personal information, and how to ask for a digital file you can use yourself or share easily with others. You can do this online or by writing to us.

You can get a copy of all the personal information we hold about you by e-mailing us at hello@getbabb.com.

When you want to share your data with outside companies

You also have the right to get certain personal information from us as a digital file, so you can keep and use it yourself, and give it to other organisations if you choose to.

If you wish, we will provide it to you in an electronic format that can be easily re-used. If you want to do this you can e-mail us at hello@getbabb.com.

11. Your rights

What if you want us to stop using your personal information? This section explains about your right to object and other data privacy rights you have – as well as how to contact us about them.

You can object to us keeping or using your personal information. This is known as the ‘right to object’.

You can also ask us to delete, remove, or stop using your personal information if there is no need for us to keep it. This is known as the ‘right to erasure’ or the ‘right to be forgotten’.

There may be legal or other official reasons why we need to keep or use your data. But please tell us if you think that we should not be using it.

We may sometimes be able to restrict the use of your data. This means that it can only be used for certain things, such as legal claims or to exercise legal rights.

You can ask us to restrict the use of your personal information if:

It is not accurate
It has been used unlawfully but you don’t want us to delete it
It is not relevant any more, but you want us to keep it for use in legal claims
You have already asked us to stop using your data but you are waiting for us to tell you if we are allowed to keep on using it

If we do restrict your information in this way, we will not use or share it in other ways while it is restricted.

If you want to object to how we use your data, or ask us to delete it or restrict how we use it, you can e-mail us at hello@getbabb.com.

12. Who we share your personal information with

We may share your personal information with outside organisations such as credit card providers or tax authorities. This is so that we can provide you with products and services, run our business, and obey rules and the laws that apply to us. Here we list all the types of organisation that we may share your personal information with.

Authorities
This means official bodies that include:

Central and local government
HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other tax authorities
UK Financial Services Compensation Scheme and other deposit guarantee schemes
Law enforcement and fraud prevention agencies.
Banking and financial services
Outside companies we work with to provide services to you and to run our business.
Agents, suppliers, sub-contractors and advisers
These are types of firm that we use to help us run accounts, policies and services.
Agents who help us to collect what is owed to us
Credit reference agencies (such as Callcredit, Equifax and Experian)
Someone linked with you or your business’s product or service. This could mean a joint account holder, trustee, or fellow company director.
Other financial services companies (to help prevent, detect and prosecute unlawful acts and fraudulent behaviour)
Independent Financial Advisors. This could be someone who advises you on things like pensions or life assurance. We won’t share any personal information unless they have your consent to ask us for it.
Price comparison websites and similar companies.
Employers (for instance, to confirm your identity)
Companies you ask us to share your data with
This is to do with something called Open Banking , which gives you more freedom and control to use your own banking data. It can make it easier for you or your business to shop around for products like credit cards, savings and current accounts.

Other services and schemes
These are organisations that we may need to share your personal information with, because of what you can do with the product or service you have with us.

If you have an account or wallet with us, we will share relevant transaction details with companies which help us to provide this service (such as Visa and Mastercard, or any bank where may we keep your funds in).
This is needed to keep your account balance and statements up to date, for example.
If and when we provide direct debit servies and you use this service, we will share your data with the Direct Debit scheme.

General business
Outside companies we use to help grow and improve our business.

Companies we have a joint venture or agreement to co-operate with (such as those that provide identification and verification services)
Organisations that introduce you to us
This might be a store or merchant sites.
Market researchers
We send anonymous data which these firms combine with data from other sources to produce market trend reports and advice.
Advisers who help us to come up with new ways of doing business.
This might be a legal firm, IT supplier or consultancy.

13. How we work out what marketing you receive

We use marketing to let you know about products, services and offers that you may want from us. This section tells you how we decide what marketing to show or send you. It also explains how we work out what you may be interested in.

We may use your personal information to make decisions about what products, services and offers we think you may be interested in. This is what we mean when we talk about ‘marketing’.

We can only use your personal information to send you marketing messages if we have either your consent or a ‘legitimate interest’. That is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information. It must not conflict unfairly with your own interests.

The personal information we have for you is made up of what you tell us, and data we collect when you use our services, or from outside organisations we work with. We study this to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you.

This is called profiling for marketing purposes. You can contact us at any time and ask us to stop using your personal information in this way.

If you allow it, we may show or send you marketing material online (on our own and other websites including social media), in our app, or by email, mobile phone or post.

What you get will depend on marketing choices that you set. You can change these at any time and tell us to stop sending you marketing.

You can also tell us not to collect data while you are using our websites or mobile apps. If you do, you will still see some marketing but it will not be tailored to you.

Whatever you choose, you’ll still receive statements and other important information such as changes to your existing products and services.

We do not sell the information we have about you to outside organisations.

We may ask you to confirm or update your choices, if you take out any new products or services with us in future. We will also ask you to do this if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.

If you change your mind you can contact us to update your choices at any time.

14. How we use your information to make automated decisions

Here we tell you how we use automated systems to make decisions about you and your money. We also explain the rights you have to challenge decisions made this way.

We sometimes use systems to make automated decisions about you or your business. This helps us to make sure our decisions are quick, fair, efficient and correct, based on what we know. Automated decisions can affect the products, services or features we may offer you now or in the future, or the price that we charge you for them. They are based on personal information that we have or that we are allowed to collect from others.

Here are the types of automated decision we might make:

Pricing
We may decide what to charge for some products and services based on what we know. For instance, we may use personal financial details to help us develop better products or services to offer to you. We may offer bundled services that may make your use of our services work more effectively for you.

Tailoring products, services, offers and marketing

We may place you in groups with similar customers. These are called customer segments. We use these to study and learn about our customers’ needs, and to make decisions based on what we learn. This helps us to design products, services and offers for different customer segments, and to manage our relationships with them. It also helps us tailor the marketing that individuals receive or are shown on our own and other websites and mobile apps, including social media.

Detecting fraud
We use your personal information to help decide if your personal or business accounts may be being used for fraud or money-laundering. We may detect that an account is being used in ways that fraudsters work. Or we may notice that an account is being used in a way that is unusual for you or your business. If we think there is a risk of fraud, we may stop activity on the accounts or refuse access to them.

Opening accounts
When you open an account with us, we check that the product or service is relevant for you, based on what we know. We also check that you or your business meet the conditions needed to open the account. This may include checking age, residency, nationality or financial position.

Approving credit
We may use a system to decide whether to lend money to you or your business, when you apply for credit such as a loan. This is called credit scoring. It uses past data to assess how you’re likely to act while paying back any money you borrow. This includes data about similar accounts you may have had before.

Credit scoring uses data from three sources:

Your application form
Credit reference agencies
Data we may already hold.

It gives an overall assessment based on this. Banks and other lenders use this to help us make responsible lending decisions that are fair and informed.

Credit scoring methods are tested regularly to make sure they are fair and unbiased.

Your rights

As a person you have rights over automated decisions.

You can ask that we do not make our decision based on the automated score alone.
You can object to an automated decision, and ask that a person reviews it.

If you want to know more about these rights, please contact us.

15. Fraud Prevention Agencies (FPAs)

This section deals with information we share outside our group to help fight financial crime. This includes crimes such as fraud, money-laundering and terrorist financing.

We may need to confirm your identity before we provide products or services to you or your business. This may include carrying out fraud checks at the point of sale.

Once you have become a customer of ours, we will share your personal information as needed to help combat fraud and other financial crime. The organisations we share data with are:

Registered Fraud Prevention Agencies (FPAs)
Other agencies and bodies acting for the same purpose

Industry databases used for this purpose
Insurers

Throughout our relationship with you, we and these organisations exchange data between us to help prevent, deter, detect and investigate fraud and money-laundering.

None of us can use your personal information unless we have a proper reason to do so. It must be needed either for us to obey the law, or for a ‘legitimate interest’.

We will use the information to:
Confirm identities
Help prevent fraud and / or money-laundering
Fulfil any contracts you or your business has with us.

We or an FPA may allow law enforcement agencies to access your personal information. This is to support their duty to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute crime.

These other organisations can keep personal information for different lengths of time, up to six years.

The information we use

These are some of the kinds of personal information that we may use:

Name
Date of birth

Residential address
History of where you have lived
Contact details, such as email addresses and phone numbers
Financial data
Whether you have been a victim of fraud

Data about insurance claims you have made
Data relating to your or your businesses products or services
Employment details
Vehicle details where appropriate
Your current location

Data that identifies computers or other devices you use to connect to the internet. This includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address.

Automated decisions for fraud prevention

The information we have for you or your business is made up of what you tell us, and data we collect when you use our services, or from third parties we work with.

We and other organisations acting to prevent fraud may process your personal information in systems that look for fraud by studying patterns in the data. We may find that an account or policy is being used in ways that fraudsters work. Or we may notice that an account is being used in a way that is unusual for you or your business. Either of these could indicate a risk that fraud or money-laundering may be carried out against a customer, the bank or the insurer.

How this can affect you

If we or an FPA decide there is a risk of fraud, we may stop activity on the accounts or block access to them. FPAs and cross-industry organisations may also keep a record of the risk that you or your business may pose.

This may result in other organisations refusing to provide you with products or services, or to employ you.

Data transfers out of the EEA

FPAs and other organisations we share data with for these purposes may send personal information to countries outside the European Economic Area (‘EEA’). When they do, there will be a contract in place to make sure the recipient protects the data to the same standard as the EEA. This may include following international frameworks for making data sharing secure.

16. Sending data outside the EEA

This section tells you about the safeguards that keep your personal information safe and private, if it is sent outside the EEA.

We will only send your data outside of the European Economic Area (‘EEA’) to:

Follow your instructions
Comply with a legal duty
Work with our suppliers who help us to run your accounts and services.

If we do transfer your personal information outside the EEA to our suppliers, we will make sure that it is protected to the same extent as in the EEA. We’ll use one of these safeguards:

Transfer it to a non-EEA country with privacy laws that give the same protection as the EEA. Learn more on the European Commission Justice website.
Put in place a contract with the recipient that means they must protect it to the same standards as the EEA. Read more about this here on the European Commission Justice website.
Transfer it to organisations that are part of Privacy Shield. This is a framework that sets privacy standards for data sent between the US and EU countries. It makes sure those standards are similar to what is used within the EEA. You can find out more about data protection on the European Commission Justice website.

Fees and Limits