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Privacy Policy
At Finwareium, we take privacy and security seriously. This Privacy Policy outlines how Finwareium Financial LLC and its affiliates (collectively, “Finwareium,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) process the information we collect about you through our websites, mobile apps, and other online services (collectively, the “Services”) and when you otherwise interact with us, such as through our customer service channels.
If you have a Finwareium account, or have taken steps to register for an account, you can also review our Financial Privacy Notice and our Financial Privacy Notice for a summary of our practices regarding the personally identifiable financial information we collect about you.
Information You Provide
We collect information you provide when you use our Services or otherwise engage or communicate with us as described below.
- Identity Data, such as your name, date of birth, marital status, social security number, biometric identifiers, and other data on government-issued identification documents;
- Contact Data, such as your email address, mailing address, and telephone number;
- Financial Data, such as your bank account and payment card details, and information about your income, account balances, financial transaction history, credit history, tax information, and credit scores;
- Profile Data, such as your username and password, your knowledge assessment results, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses;
- Stored Content, such as photos from your mobile phone gallery or contacts stored in your mobile device or email accounts. We only collect this information with your permission; and
- Additional Data You Provide, such as via focus groups, survey responses, contests/sweepstakes, customer support, or other means.
- Usage Information. We collect information about your activity on our Services, which includes device identifiers (like IP address or mobile device identifiers), pages or features you use, time and date of access, and other similar usage information.
- Transactional Information. When you receive, submit, or complete a transaction via the Services, we collect information about the transaction, such as transaction amount, type and nature of the transaction, and time and date of the transaction.
- Location Data. We may collect the GPS location of your mobile device in accordance with your device permissions. You can stop the collection of this precise location information at any time (see the Your Control section below for details). Google uses technologies to approximate your location, including IP address (see Google’s Privacy Policy located at https://policies.google.com/privacy to learn more about how they process this information). We also approximate your location by your IP address.
- Information Collected Through Tracking Technologies. We and our service providers also use technologies, including cookies and web beacons, to automatically collect certain types of usage and device information when you use our Services or interact with our emails. The information collected through these technologies includes your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, platform type, device type, operating system, date and time stamp, a unique device or account ID, usage information and other similar information. For information about how to disable cookies, please see the Your Controls section below.
Information We Collect Automatically
As is true of many digital platforms, we also collect certain information about you automatically when you use our Services, as described below.
Information We Collect from Other Sources
We also obtain information about you from other sources as described below.
- Vendors and Business Partners. We collect information about you from companies that we do business with, such as name, contact data, inferences about your preferences and attributes, as well as inferred fraud risk, from identity verification and fraud prevention partners.
- Financial Account Linking. Finwareium offers account linking and aggregation services through Plaid Inc. ("Plaid"). By utilizing these services, you acknowledge and agree that the terms of Plaid's Privacy Policy (currently located at https://plaid.com/legal/#end-user-privacy-policy) will govern Plaid's use of such information, and you consent to Plaid's Privacy Policy. Further, you expressly grant Plaid the right, power, and authority to access and transmit your information as reasonably necessary for Plaid to provide its services. To the extent you previously utilized account linking and aggregation services through Finwareium's previous service provider, Quovo, Inc., you expressly authorize Quovo, Inc. to transmit any information or data arising out of those services to Plaid so that Plaid can provide its services.
- Connected Services. If you link, connect, or log in to your Finwareium Account with a third-party service (e.g., Google, Apple), the third-party service may send us information such as your profile information from that service. This information varies and is controlled by that service or as authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service.
- Publicly Available Data. includes contact information, your interactions with our social media platforms, and other information from publicly available sources, such as public websites.
- Advertising Data. We collect information in connection with our ad campaigns that surfaced on other platforms, such as the ads you clicked on and other interactions with our ads.
- Data from other users. If you are in another user’s contact list and they choose to share that list with us, then we will collect the contact information and your association with that user.