We’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We will:
– always keep your personal data safe and private
– never sell your personal data
– allow you to manage and review your marketing choices at any time
1. About us
The MEX Money group is made up of different companies. We’ll let you know which MEX Money company you have a relationship with when you first apply for or use a MEX Money product or service.
The MEX Money company providing the relevant product or service to you will be responsible for processing your personal data for that product or service. This MEX Money company is known as the ‘controller’ of your personal data.
2. Why do I need to read this notice?
We collect your personal data when you use:
– our website at www.mexmoney.com
– the MEX Money app
– any of the services available to you through the MEX Money app or website
We may also collect your personal data from other people or companies. We explain how this can happen in more detail in the What personal data do you collect about me? section below.
When we say ‘personal data’, we mean information which:
– we know about you (for example, we know when you use your MEX Money card to pay for things)
– can be used to personally identify you (for example, a combination of your name and postal address)
This notice explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your rights if you want to change how we use your personal data.
We may provide this notice in languages other than English. If there are any discrepancies between other language versions and the English language version, the English language version is authoritative.
If you have concerns about how we use your personal data, you can contact support@mexmoney.com.
3. What personal data do you collect about me?
The table below explains what personal data we collect and use.
Type of personal data Details
Information you give us we collect information you provide when you:
✓ fill in any forms
✓ correspond with us
✓ respond to any of our surveys
✓ register to use the MEX Money app
✓ register, or approve a registration for, a child to use the MEX Money Junior app
✓ open an account or use any of our services
✓ give us access to your other financial accounts (for example, through Open Banking)
✓ take part in online discussions or promotions
✓ speak with a member of our social media or customer support teams (either on the phone or through the MEX Money app)
✓ enter a competition or share information with us on social media
✓ contact us for other reasons
We will collect the following information:
✓ your name, address, and date of birth
✓ your email address, phone number and details of the device you use (for example, your phone, computer or tablet)
✓ your MEX Money username (this is random and is automatically assigned to you when you first join but you will be able to change it)
✓ your registration information
✓ details of your bank account, including the account number, sort code and IBAN
✓ details of your MEX Money debit cards and credit cards (or other debit or credit cards you have registered with us) including the card number, expiry date and CVC (the last three digits of the number on the back of the card)
✓ copies of your identification documents (for example, your passport or driving licence) and any other information you provide to prove you are eligible to use our services
✓ your country of residence, tax residency information, and tax identification number
✓ information you provide when you apply for credit, including details about your, or your spouse’s, income and financial obligations
✓ information you provide when you register or approve your children to use MEX Money Junior
✓ records of our discussions, if you contact us or we contact you (including records of phone calls)
✓ your image in photo or video form (where required as part of our
Know-Your-Customer (KYC) checks, to verify your identity if you contact us when logged out of your MEX Money account, or where you upload a photo to your MEX Money account)
✓ information about other people (such as a joint account holder, your spouse or family) when we ask you to give us this information to enable us to comply with our obligations under KYC, anti-money laundering laws and to assist with fraud monitoring
If you give us personal data about other people (such as a joint account holder, your spouse or family), or you ask us to share their personal data with third parties, you confirm that you have brought this notice to their attention beforehand.
Information collected from your use of our products and services Whenever you use our website or the MEX Money app, we collect the following information:
✓ technical information, including the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, the browser type and version, the time zone setting,
the operating system and platform, the type of device you use, a unique device identifier (for example, your device’s IMEI number, the MAC address of the device’s wireless network interface, or the mobile phone number used by the device), mobile network information, your mobile operating system and the type of mobile browser you use
✓ information about your visit, including the links you’ve clicked on, through and from our website or app (including date and time), services you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling and clicks), and methods used to browse away from the page
✓ information on transactions and your use of MEX Money products (for example, payments into and out of your account), including the date, time, amount, currencies, exchange rate, beneficiary details, details of the merchant or ATMs associated with the transaction (including merchants’ and ATMs’ locations), IP address of sender and receiver, sender’s and receiver’s name and registration information, messages sent or received, details of device used to arrange the payment and the payment method used
✓ information stored on your device, including if you give us access to contact information from your contacts list. The MEX Money app will regularly collect this information in order to stay up to date (but only if you have given us permission)
Information about your location If you turn location services on in the MEX Money app, we track your location using GPS technology.
Information from others We collect personal data from third parties or other people, such as credit reference agencies, financial or credit institutions, official registers and databases, as well as joint account holders, fraud prevention agencies and partners who help us to provide our services.
This includes your credit record, information about late payments, information to help us check your identity, information about your spouse and family (if applicable in the context of an application for credit that you make) and information relating to your transactions.
When you ask us to, we’ll also collect personal data from accounts you hold with third party financial institutions (when you create a linked account by activating Open Banking in the MEX Money app). If you apply for our credit products, when you allow us, we may use this information for credit checks to improve your experience.
Information from social media Occasionally, we’ll use publicly available information about you from selected social media websites or apps to carry out enhanced due diligence checks. Publicly available
information from social media websites or apps may also be provided to us when we conduct general searches on you (for example, to comply with our anti-money laundering or sanctions screening obligations).
Information from publicly available sources We collect information and contact details from publicly available sources, such as media stories, online registers or directories, and websites for enhanced due diligence checks, security searches, and KYC purposes.
- What is your legal basis for using my personal data?
We must have a legal basis (a valid legal reason) for using your personal data. Our legal basis will be one of the following:
– Keeping to our contracts and agreements with you
We need certain personal data to provide our services and cannot provide them without this personal data.
– Legal obligations
In some cases, we have a legal responsibility to collect and store your personal data (for example, under anti-money laundering laws we must hold certain information about our customers).
– Legitimate interests
We sometimes collect and use your personal data because we have a legitimate reason to use it and this is reasonable when balanced against your human rights and freedoms.
– Substantial public interest
Where we process your personal data, or your sensitive personal data (sometimes known as special category personal data), to adhere to government regulations or guidance, such as our obligation to support you if you are or become a vulnerable customer.
– Consent
Where you’ve agreed to us collecting your personal data, or sensitive personal data, for example when you tick a box to indicate you’re happy for us to use your personal data in a certain way.
We explain more about how we use your personal data in the How do you use my personal data? section below.
- How do you use my personal data?
Explore the ways in which we may use your personal data using this table:
What we use your personal data for Our legal basis for using your personal data
Providing our services
Whenever you sign up with MEX Money, apply for or use a product or service, we’ll use your personal data to:
– check your identity, and the identity of joint account holders (as part of our KYC process)
– decide whether or not to approve your application
– meet our contractual and legal obligations relating to any products or services you use (for example, making payments into and out of your MEX Money account, withdrawing cash or making payments with your MEX Money card)
– help you understand your spending behaviour, how you use MEX Money products and services, and to help you save money (for example, by providing you with product usage and spending insights)
– recover debt and exercise other rights we have under any agreement with you
– provide you with customer support services. We may record and monitor any communications between you and us, including phone calls, to maintain appropriate records, check your instructions, analyse, assess and improve our services, and for training and quality control purposes
MEX Money Junior is our account for children and teenagers aged between 6 and 17. We have a separate Data Privacy Statement for MEX Money Junior that explains how we process MEX Money Junior customers’ personal data. The Data Privacy Statement is specifically designed to be understood by children and teenagers. – Keeping to contracts and agreements between you and us
– Legitimate interests (we need to be efficient about how we meet our obligations and we want to provide you with good products and services)
– Legal obligations
Protecting against fraud
We use your personal data to check your identity to protect against fraud, keep to financial crime laws and to confirm that you’re eligible to use our services. We also use it to help us better understand your financial circumstances and manage fraud risks related to your MEX Money account. – Legitimate interests (to develop and improve how we deal with financial crime and meet our legal responsibilities)
– Legal obligations
Marketing and providing products and services that might interest you
We use your personal data to do the following:
– to personalise your in-app experience and marketing messages about our products and services so they’re more relevant and interesting to you (where allowed by law). This may include analysing how you use our products, services and your transactions
– if you agree, provide you with information about our partners’ promotions or offers which we think you might be interested in
– if you agree, allow our partners and other organisations to provide you with information about their products or services
– measure or understand the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising, and provide relevant advertising to you
– ask your opinion about our products or services
Remember, you can ask us to stop sending you marketing information by adjusting your marketing choices (the How do you use my personal data for marketing? section below explains how to do this). – Legitimate interests (to send direct marketing, ensure our direct marketing is relevant to your interests, develop our products and services, and to be efficient about how we meet our legal and contractual duties)
– Consent (where we’re legally required to get your consent to send you direct marketing about our products or services, or partners’ promotions or offers, or for you to receive marketing from other organisations)
To keep our services up and running
We use your personal data to manage our website and the MEX Money app, (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes), and to make sure that content is presented in the most effective way for you and your device.
We also use your personal data to:
– verify your identity if you contact our customer support or social media teams
– allow you to take part in interactive features of our services
– tell you about changes to our services
– help keep our website and the MEX Money app safe and secure – Keeping to contracts and agreements between you and us
– Legitimate interests (to be efficient about how we meet our obligations and keep to regulations that apply to us and to present content as effectively as possible for you)
– Consent (where required by law)
Helping with social interactions – Legitimate interests (to develop our products and services and to
We use your personal data to help with social interactions through our services, or to add extra functions in order to provide a better experience.
For example, if you give us permission, we’ll use the contacts list on your phone so you can easily make payments to, or message, your contacts using the MEX Money app. be efficient in meeting our obligations)
– Consent (to access information held on your phone, for example, contacts in your contacts list, to track you when you have location services switched on)
Providing location-based services
If you turn location services on in the MEX Money app, we use your personal data to:
– provide you with products and services
– provide relevant advertising to you (for example, information about nearby merchants)
– protect against fraud – Keeping to contracts and agreements between you and us
– Legitimate interests (to develop and market our products and keep to regulations that apply to us)
– Consent (to track you when you have location services switched on)
Preparing anonymous statistical datasets
We prepare anonymous statistical datasets about our customers’ spending patterns:
– for forecasting purposes
– to understand how customers use MEX Money
– to comply with governmental requirements and requests
These datasets may be shared internally or externally with others, including non-MEX Money companies. We produce these reports using information about you and other customers. The information used and shared in this way is never personal data and you will never be identifiable from it. Anonymous statistical data cannot be linked back to you as an individual.
For example, some countries have laws that require us to report spending statistics and how money enters or leaves each country. We’ll provide anonymised statistical information that explains the broad categories of merchants that MEX Money customers in that country spend their money with. We’ll also provide information about how MEX Money customers top up their accounts and transfer money. However, we won’t provide any customer-level information. It will not be possible to identify any individual MEX Money customer. – Legitimate interests (to conduct research and analysis, including to produce statistical research and reports)
– Legal obligations
Improving our products and services
We use your personal data to help us develop and improve our current products and services. This allows us to continue to provide products and services that our customers want to use. – Legitimate interests (to understand how customers use our products so we can develop new products and improve the products we currently provide)
Meeting our legal obligations, enforcing our rights and other legal uses
We use your personal data:
– to share it with other organisations (for example, government authorities, law enforcement authorities, tax authorities, fraud prevention agencies)
– to recover debts from you (for example, where you hold a credit product with us or have a negative balance in your account)
– if this is necessary to meet our legal or regulatory obligations
– to identify and support vulnerable customers by analysing your behaviour in the MEX Money app, customer support communications and through transactions (for example, we will try to identify whether you are potentially vulnerable so we can provide you with enhanced support. Identifying and supporting vulnerable customers is a legal requirement for us in some countries)
– in connection with legal claims
– to help detect or prevent crime
You can find out more in the Do you share my personal data with anyone else? section below.
Sometimes, we’re legally required to ask you to provide information about other people. For example, we might ask you to explain:
– your relationship with a joint account holder or somebody who pays money into your MEX Money account
– how somebody got the money in the first place to pay it into your MEX Money account – Legitimate interests (for example, to protect MEX Money during a legal dispute)
– Substantial public interest (if we process your sensitive personal data to keep to legal requirements that apply to us)
– Legal obligations
Sometimes, we help you to provide services to customers. For example, we provide payment processing services to you if you use our MEX Money Pro product. Where this happens, you’re responsible for deciding if we collect your customers’ personal data and how we should process it on your behalf.
- Do you make automated decisions about me?
Depending on the MEX Money products or services you use, we may make automated decisions about you.
This means that we may use technology that can evaluate your personal circumstances and other factors to predict risks or outcomes. This is sometimes known as profiling. We do this for the efficient running of our services and to ensure decisions are fair, consistent and based on the right information.
Where we make an automated decision about you, you have the right to ask that it is manually reviewed by a person. You can find out more about this in the What are my rights? section below.
For example, we may make automated decisions about you that relate to:
Approving credit applications:
– credit and affordability checks to see whether we can accept your credit application
– setting credit limits
Monitoring credit agreements:
– assessing how you’re repaying any credit product you hold with us
– amending your credit limit
– terminating your credit agreement
Opening accounts:
– KYC, anti-money laundering and sanctions checks
– identity and address checks
Detecting fraud:
– monitoring your account to detect fraud and financial crime Our legal basis is one or more of the following:
– keeping to contracts and agreements between you and us
– legal obligations
– legitimate interests (to develop and improve how we deal with financial crime and meet our legal responsibilities)
- Do you run credit checks on me?
We, and our lending partners, use credit reference agencies (or other providers of credit information in some countries) to run credit checks if you apply (or tell us you want to apply) for a credit product through MEX Money.
If you give us access to other accounts you hold with other financial institutions, through Open Banking, where you agree, we’ll use available information to carry out credit checks on you.
We’ll also share your personal data with credit reference agencies (or other providers of credit information) to:
– confirm details you have provided when you apply for products or services
– make an assessment about whether to accept your credit application
– determine an appropriate credit limit for you
When you enter into a credit agreement with us, we may continue sharing information with credit reference agencies or other providers of credit information (for example, information about your repayments and whether you repay in full or on time).
We’ll carry out additional credit checks on you from time to time to make sure that your financial wellbeing hasn’t changed over the course of the year.
The personal data we share with, and receive from, credit reference agencies (or other providers of credit information) when you apply for or use a MEX Money credit product will vary depending on the country you live in. We’ll provide full details when you apply for a MEX Money credit product.
For details of credit information providers we engage with in each country, please check out this page. Our legal basis is one or more of the following:
– consent (where we are required to collect your consent by law)
– legal obligations
– keeping to contracts and agreements between you and us (where you take out a credit product with us)
– legitimate interests (to develop and, in the future, offer credit products to our customers).
- How do you use my personal data for marketing?
If you sign up to our services, and where national laws allow, we’ll assume you want us to contact you by post, push notification, email and text message with information about MEX Money products, services, offers.
and promotions. Where national laws require us to get your consent to send marketing messages, we’ll do so in advance.
We use your personal data to personalise marketing messages about our products and services so they are more relevant and interesting to you (where allowed by law). This may include analysing how you use our services and your transactions.
You can object to profiling for direct marketing purposes. You can also adjust your preferences or tell us you don’t want to hear from us at any time. Just use the privacy settings in the MEX Money app or tap the unsubscribe links in any marketing message we send you.
If you do not want to receive personalised marketing messages, and opt out from receiving them, you will not receive any marketing communications. However, you may still receive generic information about our products and services in the MEX Money app.
We won’t pass your details on to any organisations outside the MEX Money group of companies for their marketing purposes without your permission. You can find out more in the Do you share my personal data with anyone else? section below.
Our legal basis is:
– consent (where we are required by law to collect your consent); or
– legitimate interests (to send you marketing and to provide information relevant to your interests).
- What are my rights?
Your right What it means
You have the right to be told how we use your personal data We provide this privacy notice to explain how we use your personal data.
If you ask, we’ll provide a copy of the personal data we hold about you. We can’t give you any personal data about other people, personal data which is linked to an ongoing criminal or fraud investigation, or personal data which is linked to settlement negotiations with you. We also won’t provide you with any communication we’ve had with our legal advisers.
You can ask us to correct your personal data if you think it’s wrong You can have incomplete or inaccurate personal data corrected. Before we update your file, we may need to check the accuracy of the new personal data you have provided.
You can ask us to delete your personal data You can ask us to delete your personal data if:
✓ there’s no good reason for us to continue using it
✓ you gave us consent (permission) to use your personal data and you have now withdrawn that consent
✓ you have objected to us using your personal data
✓ we have used your personal data unlawfully
✓ the law requires us to delete your personal data
Just to let you know, we may not be able to agree to your request. As a regulated financial services provider, we must keep certain customer personal data even when you ask us to delete it (we’ve explained this in more detail below). If you’ve closed your MEX Money account, we may not be able to delete your entire file because these regulatory responsibilities take priority. We’ll always let you know if we can’t delete your personal data.
You can object to us processing your personal data for marketing purposes You can tell us to stop using your personal data, including profiling you, for marketing.
You can object to us processing other personal data (if we’re using it for legitimate interests) If our legal basis for using your personal data is ‘legitimate interests’ and you disagree with us using it, you can object.
However, if there is an overriding reason why we need to use your personal data, we will not accept your request.
If you object to us using personal data which we need in order to provide our services, we may need to close your account as we won’t be able to provide the services.
You can ask us to restrict how we use your personal data You can ask us to suspend using your personal data if:
✓ you want us to investigate whether it’s accurate
✓ our use of your personal data is unlawful but you don’t want us to delete it
✓ we no longer need your personal data, but you want us to continue holding it for you in connection with a legal claim
✓ you have objected to us using your personal data (see above), but we need to check whether we have an overriding reason to use it.
You can ask us to transfer personal data to you or another company If we can, and are allowed to do so under regulatory requirements, we’ll provide your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
You can withdraw your permission If you’ve given us the consent we need to use your personal data, you can withdraw it at any time by changing your privacy settings in the MEX Money app or sending an email
to support@MEX Money.com.
(Please note, it will have been lawful for us to use the personal data up to the point you withdraw your permission.)
You can ask us to carry out a human review of an automated decision we make about you If we make an automated decision about you that significantly affects you, you can ask us to carry out a manual review of this decision.
Your ability to exercise these rights will depend on a number of factors. Sometimes, we won’t be able to agree to your request (for example, if we have a legitimate reason for not doing so or the right does not apply to the particular information we hold about you).
- How do I exercise my rights?
To exercise any of your rights set out in the previous section, you can contact us through the MEX Money app or send us an email at dpo@MEX Money.com.
For security reasons, we can’t deal with your request if we’re not sure of your identity, so we may ask you for proof of ID.
If a third party exercises one of these rights on your behalf, we may need to ask for proof that they’ve been authorised to act on your behalf.
When you exercise one of your rights, or update your privacy settings in the MEX Money app, it may take us up to one month to respond or implement your changes.
MEX Money will usually not charge you a fee when you exercise your rights. However, we’re allowed by law to charge a reasonable fee or refuse to act on your request if it is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
If you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your request you can complain to your local data protection authority. In the United Kingdom, this is the ICO (website). In the European Economic Area, this is the Lithuanian State Data Protection Inspectorate (website).
- Do you share my personal data with anyone else?
MEX Money group companies
We share your personal data within the MEX Money group of companies to:
– provide you with the best service
– send you information about MEX Money products and services we think you’ll be interested in hearing about.
Other MEX Money customers
We’ll ask you to let us sync your mobile phone contacts. This will help you to identify which of your trusted mobile phone contacts are MEX Money customers. Your ‘trusted contacts’ will also be able to see if you’re a MEX Money customer through our ‘Payments with Friends’ functionality.
‘Payments with Friends’ gives you access to MEX Money features like requesting money from your friends, splitting bills, group Vaults, paying other MEX Money customers or chatting to your ‘trusted contacts’.
We use technological safeguards to ensure a ‘trusted contact’ is somebody you already know and who knows you (for example, you have each other saved in each other’s mobile phone contacts lists or have already received or given money through a peer-to-peer payment with them).
Both you and your trusted contact must have synced your mobile phone contacts lists with MEX Money to be viewable to each other in the MEX Money app.
We only show your basic contact details in the MEX Money app to your trusted contacts who are also MEX Money customers (for example, your name (as saved in your friend’s contacts list), mobile phone number, MEX Money username, and MEX Money profile photo (if you have one)).
You can, of course, choose not to sync your contacts list with MEX Money. This means that you won’t be able to identify which of your mobile phone contacts are MEX Money customers.
You can also turn off ‘Payments with Friends’ through the privacy settings in the MEX Money app.
People or companies that you transfer money to
Where you make a payment from your MEX Money account, we’ll provide the recipient with your details alongside your payment (for example, your name and IBAN). This is because, like all payment institutions, we’re required by law to include certain information with payments.
People or companies that transfer money to you
When you receive a payment to your MEX Money account, we’ll provide the payer with your details (for example, your name and IBAN). This is necessary to confirm that the payment has been made to the correct account.
Suppliers
The table below explains which suppliers we normally share your personal data with:
Type of supplier Why we share your personal data
Suppliers who provide us with IT, payment and delivery services To help us provide our services to you
Our banking and financial services partners and payments networks, including Visa and Mastercard To help us provide our services to you. This includes banking and lending partners, banking intermediaries and international payment service providers
Card manufacturing, personalisation and delivery companies To create and deliver your personalised MEX Money card
Analytics providers and search information providers To help us improve our website or app
Customer-service providers, survey providers and developers To help us to provide our services to you
Communications services providers To help us send you emails, push notifications and text messages
Debt collection agencies To manage and recover debts that you owe or may end up owing (including if you have a MEX Money credit product)
Partners who help to provide our services
We may share your personal data with our partners to provide certain services you’ve asked us for (for example, when we offer insurance as part of our Premium or Metal plans).
We’ll only share your personal data in this way if you’ve asked for the relevant service or if it’s provided as part of our membership plans.
From time to time, we may work with other partners to offer you co-branded services or promotional offers, and we’ll share some of your personal data with those partners. We will always make sure you understand how we and our partners process your personal data for these purposes.
Credit reference agencies
As set out in the Do you run credit checks on me? section above, if you apply for a credit product, we’ll share your personal data with credit reference agencies to check whether you are likely to make repayments when due.
If you are in the United Kingdom, we also share personal data with credit reference agencies, including Equifax and Experian, to verify your identity during onboarding. You can find out more about how Equifax and Experian handle your personal data here and here respectively.
Other financial institutions and MEX Money customers
We may share your personal data with other financial institutions, or MEX Money customers, if you ask us to. For example, if you have activated ‘Open Banking’ through an account you hold with another financial institution and given them permission, we’ll share data from your MEX Money account (such as your balance, payment transactions, account number and sort code) with that financial institution.
We may also share your personal data with other financial institutions, or MEX Money customers, where you do not ask us to. For example, if a payment is made to your account by mistake, we can share your information with the financial institution, or MEX Money customer, the payment came from. This will help the payer and the other financial institution to try and get the payment back themselves.
Other third parties
We may share your personal data with other third parties where necessary to facilitate you receiving payments to your MEX Money account.
For legal reasons
We also share your personal data with other financial institutions, government authorities, law enforcement authorities, tax authorities, companies and fraud prevention agencies to check your identity, protect against fraud, keep to tax laws, anti-money laundering laws, or any other laws and confirm that you’re eligible to use our products and services.
If fraud is detected, you could be refused certain services by MEX Money or other companies.
We may also need to share your personal data with other third party organisations or authorities:
– if we have to do so under any law or regulation
– if we sell our business or credit portfolio
– in connection with criminal or fraud investigations
– to enforce our rights (and those of customers or others)
– in connection with legal claims.
Social media and advertising companies
When we use social media for marketing purposes, your personal data (limited to only your name, email address and app events) may be shared with the social media platforms so that they can check if you also hold an account with them. If you do, we may ask the advertising partner or social media provider to:
– use your personal data to send our adverts to you, because we think that you might be interested in a new MEX Money product or service
– not send you our adverts, because the marketing relates to a service that you already use
– send our adverts to people who have a similar profile to you (for example, if one of our services is particularly useful to people with similar interests to the ones on your social media profile, we
may ask our advertising partner or social media partner to send our adverts for that service to those people)
An example of how we may use social media for marketing purposes is through Facebook’s ‘Custom Audience’ tool. Read more about these terms.
We may share your personal data with our advertising partners in the ways described above, but the personal data is hashed before we send it, and the social media platform we share it with is only allowed to use that hashed personal data in the ways described above.
Our legal basis is:
– legitimate interests (to ensure MEX Money’s advertising is as effective as possible)
You can contact us at any time, either through the MEX Money app or by emailing dpo@MEX Money.com, if you don’t want us to share your personal data for advertising purposes. You can also use the privacy settings in the MEX Money app to opt out from having your personal data shared in this way.
Remember you can also manage your marketing preferences directly with any social media provider that you have an account with.
Where you ask us to share your personal data
Where you direct us to share your personal data with a third party, we may do so. For example, you may authorise third parties to act on your behalf (such as a lawyer, accountant or family member or guardian under a power of attorney). We may need to ask for proof that a third party has been validly authorised to act on your behalf.
- Will my personal data go outside the United Kingdom or Europe?
As we provide an international service, we may need to transfer your personal data outside the United Kingdom or European Economic Area (EEA) to help us provide our services.
For example, if you make an international payment, we’ll send funds to banks outside of the United Kingdom or EEA. We might also send your personal data outside of the United Kingdom or EEA to keep to global legal and regulatory requirements, and to provide ongoing support services.
We may send your personal data outside of the United Kingdom or EEA to:
– keep to global legal and regulatory requirements
– provide ongoing support services
– credit reference agencies, fraud prevention agencies, law enforcement authorities
– enable us to provide you with products or services you have requested
If we transfer your personal data to another country that doesn’t offer a standard of data protection equivalent to the United Kingdom or EEA, we will make sure that your personal data is sufficiently protected. For example, we’ll make sure that a contract with strict data protection safeguards is in place before we transfer your personal data. In some cases, you may be entitled to ask us for a copy of this contract.
If you would like more information, please contact us by sending an email to support@mexmoney.com.
- How do you protect my personal data?
We recognise the importance of protecting and managing your personal data. Any personal data we process will be treated with the utmost care and security. This section sets out some of the security measures we have in place.
We use a variety of physical and technical measures to:
– keep your personal data safe
– prevent unauthorised access to your personal data
– make sure your personal data is not improperly used or disclosed
Electronic data and databases are stored on secure computer systems with control over access to information using both physical and electronic means. Our staff receives data protection and information security training. We have detailed security and data protection policies which staff are required to follow when they handle your personal data.
While we take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data will be kept secure from unauthorised access, we cannot guarantee it will be secure during transmission by you to our app, a website or other services. We use HTTPS (HTTP Secure), where the communication protocol is encrypted through Transport Layer Security for secure communication over networks, for all our app, web and payment-processing services.
If you use a password for the MEX Money app or our website, you will need to keep this password confidential. Please do not share it with anyone.
When you use our public services, which includes our social network accounts and the MEX Money Community forum, do not share any personal data that you don’t want to be seen, collected or used by other customers, as this personal data will become publicly available.
- How long will you keep my personal data for?
We’ll generally keep your personal data for six years after our business relationship with you ends, or such period as may be required by applicable local laws. However, if you receive services from our Lithuanian group companies, we will generally keep your personal data for eight years after our business relationship with you ends (unless applicable local laws require us to keep it for longer).
We’re required to keep your personal data for this long by anti-money laundering and e-money laws. We may keep your personal data for longer because of a potential or ongoing court claim, or for another legal reason.
- How will you keep me updated about how you use my personal data?
If we change the way we use your personal data, we’ll update this notice and, if appropriate, let you know by email, through the MEX Money app or through our website.
- Do you use cookies?
We use cookies to analyse how you use our website. Please read our Cookies Policy for more information about cookies.
We also use pixels or web beacons in the direct marketing emails that we send to you. These pixels track whether our email was delivered and opened, and whether links within the email were clicked. They also allow us to collect information such as your IP address, browser, email client type and other similar details. We use this information to measure the performance of our email campaigns, and for analytics. You can control whether you receive direct marketing emails through the privacy settings in the MEX Money app.