Effective date October 1st, 2024
We're committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
We will:
The GBHF Company providing you with a product or service under the trade name of Global Ukraine will be responsible for processing your personal data for that product or service. The GBHF company is known as the 'controller' of your personal data.
This Privacy Policy has been developed for purposes of compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations 2017 («GDPR») and shall serve as part of your initial customer relationship with us and our ongoing commitments to you.
In this Privacy Policy, our GBHF Company (hereinafter: «Company», «Global Ukraine App», «we», «our») shall inform you about the collection, use and processing of personal data when using our website https://global-ukraine.gbhs.fr/en/fintech-global-ukraine-card (hereinafter: «Website») and our mobile app (hereinafter: «App»; jointly called: «Services»).
We will explicitly point out in case any information of this Privacy Policy refers exclusively to our Website or App. For information related to the usage of cookies or similar technologies on our Website or Apps, please refer to the respective website and app cookie policies in the legal documents section of your app or on our websites.
In this context, personal data means all detailed information about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person, such as name, telephone number or address. We process your personal data either within our business relation if you are a Global Ukraine App customer or when you are visiting our website for informative purposes.
Furthermore, we process personal data coming from publicly accessible sources (e.g. records of debtors, trade registers, registers of associations, media, press, internet) whenever we have a legal ground that allows us to do so.
When using additional Global Ukraine App products or products of our business partners additional personal data might be collected, processed and stored. Please find details concerning the processing of additional data in the respective product category below.
This notice explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your rights over your personal data, and
Sometimes, we may also provide you with 'just in time' privacy explanations in the Global Ukraine app. When you use a new product or service for the first time:
We may provide privacy notices and explanations 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 office@global-ukraine.org.
We collect information you provide when you:
We will collect the following information:
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.
Whenever you use our website or the Global Ukraine App, we collect the following information:
If you turn location services on in the Global Ukraine app, we track your location using GPS technology.
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.
Sometimes other Global Ukraine customers may give us information about you. For example, a Global Ukraine customer may tell us that you have behaved inappropriately and provide us with evidence to support their claim.
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).
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.
We must have a legal basis (a valid legal reason) for using your personal data. Our legal basis will be one of the following:
We need certain personal data to provide our services and cannot provide them without this personal data.
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).
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.
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 prevent fraud or support you if you are or become a vulnerable customer.
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.
Whenever you sign up with Global Ukraine, we'll use your personal data to check your identity or the identity of joint account holders (as part of our KYC process).
This may include facial scan data extracted from any photo or video you submit (known as 'biometric data').
Our legal basis for using your personal data
Whenever you sign up with Global Ukraine App, apply for or use a product or service, we'll use your personal data to:
Our legal basis for using your personal data
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 Global Ukraine account.
Our legal basis for using your personal data
We use your personal data to do the following:
Our legal basis for using your personal data
We use your personal data to manage our website and the Global Ukraine 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:
Our legal basis for using your personal data
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 Global Ukraine App.
Our legal basis for using your personal data
If you turn location services on in the Global Ukraine App, we use your personal data to:
Our legal basis for using your personal data
We prepare anonymous statistical datasets about our customers' spending patterns:
These datasets may be shared internally or externally with others, including non-Global Ukraine 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 anonymized statistical information that explains the broad categories of merchants that Global Ukraine customers in that country spend their money with.
We'll also provide information about how Global Ukraine 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 Global Ukraine customer.
Our legal basis for using your personal data
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.
Our legal basis for using your personal data
We use your personal data:
Our legal basis for using 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 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 if:
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 Global Ukraine 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 tell us to stop using your personal data, including profiling you, for marketing.
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 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 suspend using your personal data if:
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.
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 Global Ukraine app or sending an email to office@global-ukraine.org.
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).
To help protect the Global Ukraine system and to assist you in filing your tax returns, we also share your tax information number and the description of your sub accounts with the Tax Authorities.
We process and store your data as long as you remain a Global Ukraine App user. We only keep your data for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose of collection. You may request us to close your account at any time and delete your data after account closure. We may retain certain data after account closure due to legal or regulatory requirements. We are legally obliged to retain certain data for a minimum of 5 to 7 years after ending the customer relationship and in other cases up to 10 years, as in the case of accounting obligations.
We are able to store personal data for longer periods with a valid legal ground, or when the data is sufficiently pseudonymized or anonymized.
We recognize 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:
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.
If you use a password for the Global Ukraine App you will need to keep this password confidential.
Please do not share it with anyone.
We are always improving and expanding our products and services. This might cause our data processing to change. When we change something, we will adjust our Privacy & Cookies Statements accordingly. You can always find the latest version on our website and in the app.
If you would like more information, please contact us by sending an email to office@global-ukraine.org.