RightCard Payment Services Ltd is regulated and authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) and a subsidiary of Pomelo Technology US Inc. which comprise a group of companies (“Pomelo Group” or “we”) and respects your right to privacy. This Privacy Notice explains who we are, how we collect, share and use personal information about you, and how you can exercise your privacy rights. This Privacy Notice applies to personal information that we and other third-party entities collect through your use of our app, LemFi Mobile Application (“LemFi App” or “Application” or “App”), and the LemFi Instant Access Savings Account accessible through the LemFi App.
Application users, clients, customers, account holders are referred to collectively as “Users” or "you". The LemFi Instant Access Savings Account together with the Services and all content contained therein are referred to collectively as the “Resources” or “Savings Accounts Services” as further described in our Terms & Conditions. Please read this Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices for collecting, processing, and storing your personal information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Savings Account Services.
We provide Savings Account Services in conjunction with ClearBank. If you do not accept our and or ClearBank’s policies and practices then you are choosing to decline the use of our Savings Account Services. Please read ClearBank’s privacy conditions https://clear.bank/legal/privacy-notice and their Terms & Conditions of Service.
Savings Account Services means your current or future use of our Savings Account Services, including, but not limited to the delivery, management, marketing and processing of such Services, whether through us or third-party Service providers.
Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at the following email address: dataprivacycounsel@lemfi.com
RightCard Payment Services Ltd with its registered seat at The Jellicoe 5 Beaconsfield Street, London N1C 4EW, United Kingdom. For the purposes of how we use your personal information across our brands and platforms (e.g. our websites and apps) in the ways described in this Privacy Notice, RightCard Payment Services Ltd is the main Data Controller.
Personal information provided, or collected by us when you use or apply for the Savings Account Services is controlled by RightCard Payment Services Ltd. The associated processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of an Independent Controller arrangement between ClearBank and RightCard Payment Services Ltd. Under this arrangement, RightCard Payment Services Ltd will at all times be available for data subjects (customers) to address any concerns or questions and/or allow them to exercise their rights under domestic applicable data protection laws regarding their personal information.
We are committed to safeguarding the personal information of our customers, users, employees and other stakeholders, while helping our customers, employees, investors and society create a deeper impact and make the right decisions.
CLEARBANK is an independent, regulated and authorised financial institution which may process your use of the Savings Account linked to your personal and financial information that it collects from us, as provided by you through the LemFi App, Open Banking Services or information obtained in any other manner. This includes but is not limited to the following:
We collect personal data about you in the following ways:
The information we may collect about you will vary depending on how you interact and engage with us. It may include the following:
We may use your information:
We may monitor and record calls, emails, SMS and other communications to ensure transactions are executed correctly, detecting any vulnerabilities you may have, and for security, quality control, training and fraud prevention purposes.
Any other purposes associated with your use of the Savings Account Services or any other services associated with the use of Savings Account.
We collect and use your personal information where it is necessary for us to carry out our lawful business activities. Our grounds for processing your data are as follows:
Contractual necessity
We may process your information where it is necessary to enter into a contract with you or to perform our obligations under that contract. This may include processing to:
Legal obligation
We may process your data where it is a legal or statutory obligation on us. This may include processing to:
Legitimate interest
We may process your information when we have a business or commercial reason to do so. If we do, it must not unfairly go against what is right and best for you. If we rely on our legitimate interest, we will tell you what that is. This may include processing to:
Who do we share your personal information with?
We may use third-party companies to provide services on our behalf. This may require these organisations to access and process your personal data. These may include:
We use Amazon Cloud Services based in the United States of America to provide storage, retrieval and access associated to your account, transactions and personal data in continuing to offer our services used by you; and
ClearBank.
Share your personal information amongst Pomelo Group Entities to provide or offer additional services to you.
How do we use Credit Reference Agencies?
To process your application, we will perform credit and identity checks on you with one or more credit reference agencies ("CRAs"). Where you take services from us we may also make periodic searches at CRAs to manage your account with us. To do this, we will supply your personal information to CRAs and they will give us information about you. This will include information from your credit application and about your financial situation and financial history. CRAs will supply to us both public (including the electoral register) and shared credit, financial situation and financial history information and fraud prevention information.
We will use this information to:
We will continue to exchange information about you with CRAs while you have a relationship with us. We will also inform the CRAs about your accounts including settled accounts. If you borrow and do not repay in full and on time, CRAs will record the outstanding debt and payment performance. This information may be supplied to other organisations by CRAs.
When CRAs receive a search from us they will place a search footprint on your credit file that may be seen by other lenders or financial services providers.
Where you have a financial association with someone your records may be linked, so you should discuss your application with them before you make it. CRAs will also link your records together and these links will remain on your and their files until such time as you or your partner successfully file for a disassociation with the CRAs to break that link.
How do we work with Fraud Prevention Agencies?
The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with fraud prevention agencies who will use it to prevent fraud and money laundering and to verify your identity. If fraud is detected, you could be refused certain services, finance.
The Fair Processing Notices for Cifas provides further details on how your information will be used by us and these fraud prevention agencies, and your data protection rights.
How do we use Account Information Service Providers?
We use a tool provided by TrueLayer Limited (www.truelayer.com) ("TrueLayer") that allows you to send information on your payment accounts to us and other service providers.
In order to use this service, you will be asked to agree to their Terms of Service and enter your payment account details with TrueLayer or, for Open Banking connections, you will be redirected to your bank by TrueLayer in order to authenticate yourself. The Terms of Service set out the terms on which you agree to TrueLayer accessing information on your payment accounts for the purposes of transmitting that information to us.
If we, or a fraud prevention agency, determine that you pose a fraud or money laundering risk, we may refuse to provide the services or financing you have requested, or we may stop providing existing services to you.
A record of any fraud or money laundering risk will be retained by the fraud prevention agencies and may result in others refusing to provide financing to you. If you have any questions about this, or believe that your information has been processed inaccurately, please contact us at the address above.
When we first collect your data, we will give you the opportunity to confirm your preferences. Any electronic marketing communications we send you will include clear instructions to follow should you wish to unsubscribe at any time. You may also amend your contact preferences in the following ways:
As a data subject, you have a number of rights:
In certain circumstances, we may need to get your consent before we can access or process your personal data. If this happens, we will always ask for your consent first. If you have given us consent in the past but subsequently change your mind, you can withdraw your consent at any time.
Your data protection rights are subject to certain restrictions and conditions and financial organisations are required to retain a range of your information for legal and regulatory reasons including responsible lending and the prevention of financial crime. LemFi or ClearBank is required to keep a record of all the relevant information reported to the Credit Reference Agencies about you and any additional information which is retained by LemFi and ClearBank for their sole record keeping for any regulatory compliance for six years from the date that the loan is settled/closed. If your account is recorded as defaulted, the data is kept for six years from the date of the default. This may be extended where we require this to bring or defend legal claims.
If you think that any of the personal data we hold about you is wrong or incomplete you have the right to challenge it.
We will not make a charge for handling your rights request, unless we consider it to be manifestly unfounded or excessive involving a disproportionate effort (particularly if this is a repeated request).
We will assess your request and if we decide not to act upon it or place certain restrictions on it, we will inform you of our reasons for this.
You have the right to complain to us and to the data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office. Their address is:
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
They can be contacted by phone on 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545745 (national rate).
You can find details on how to report a concern at: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
We will not typically ask you for any 'special categories' of personal data. This is also referred to as 'sensitive personal data' and includes information revealing an individual's political opinions, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning an individual's sex life or sexual orientation.
We may process personal data about your health or medical conditions, where we need to understand this to provide you with support, or to make adjustments in how we provide you with information or provide you with additional services that you may need. Companies acting on our behalf specialising in identifying vulnerable customers or customer reconnection and information gathering visits may also process personal data about your health or medical conditions for this purpose. If we process such data, we will do so to comply with our legal obligations to support you if you are, or become a vulnerable customer, and to establish, take or defend any legal action.
We will retain your personal data for as long as we are required to under relevant legislation and regulation, and where no specific rules apply, for no longer than it is necessary for our lawful purposes. This will usually be no more than six years from the end of our relationship with you. The retention period of your personal data may need to be extended where we require this to bring or defend legal claims.
We may also retain data for longer periods for statistical purposes, and if so we will anonymise this.
We use leading cloud services such as AWS that have adopted industry security best practice frameworks to protect your data in transit and at rest. In addition, we comply with best practice security standards.
We may use your personal data in automated processes to make decisions about you. You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, if this will have a legal or other significant effect on you (certain exceptions apply).
We use automated decision making in:
You have the right to ask for this to be reconsidered manually.
Our Resources are not intended for persons under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Resources. We do not knowingly collect personal information from persons under 18.
If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Resource or through any of its features, register on the Resource, make any purchases through the Resource, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Resource, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.
If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a person under 18, we will reject the application or close the account and delete that information.
If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at dataprivacycounsel@lemfi.com.
We may undertake checks for the purposes of preventing fraud and money laundering, and to verify your identity. For example, we obtain data from companies providing fraud prevention and ‘KYC’ (know your client) information for AML (anti-money laundering), sanctions and credit reference agencies checks (we will also need to share data with these types of agencies).