Welcome! Thanks for visiting GS Fintech UAB (“GS20”), a virtual currency exchange platform. Use of the words “GS20,” “we,” “us,” or “our” refer to GS20 and their affiliates. This Privacy Policy explains what Personal Information (as defined below) we collect, why we collect it, how we use and disclose it, your choices, any rights you may have, and how you can contact us about our privacy practices. By continuing to use GS20, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites, products, or services, even if we provide links to them or they link to us.
Your privacy matters to us so whether you are new to GS20 or a long-time customer, please do take the time to get to know and familiarize yourself with our policies and practices. Feel free to print and keep a copy of this Privacy Policy, but please understand that we reserve the right to change any of our policies and practices at any time. But don’t worry, you can always find the latest version of this Privacy Policy here on this page.
1. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Personal information typically means information that identifies or is reasonably capable of identifying an individual, directly or indirectly, and information that relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with or could reasonably be linked to an identified or reasonably identifiable individual. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, only the definition of personal information from the applicable law of your legal residence will apply to you and be deemed your “Personal Information.”
A. Personal Information we collect from you
We may collect the following categories of Personal Information directly from you:
B. Personal Information we collect automatically
We may collect the following categories of Personal Information automatically through your use of our services:
Our automatic collection of Personal Information may involve the use of Cookies, described in greater detail below.
C. Personal Information we collect from third parties
We may collect and/or verify the following categories of Personal Information about you from Third Parties:
· We, and any others who can match your public Virtual Currency address to other Personal Information about you, may be able to identify you from a blockchain transaction because, in some circumstances, Personal Information published on a blockchain (such as your Virtual Currency address and IP address) can be correlated with Personal Information that we and others may have. Furthermore, by using data analysis techniques on a given blockchain, it may be possible to identify other Personal Information about you);
Personal Information you provide during the registration process may be retained, even if your registration is left incomplete or abandoned.
2. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Personal Information we collect and the practices described above are done in an effort to provide you with the best experience possible, protect you from risks related to improper use and fraud, and help us maintain and improve GS20. We may use your Personal Information to:
A. Provide you with our services. We use your Personal Information to provide you with our services pursuant to the terms of our User Agreement. For example, in order to facilitate fiat transfers into and out of your account, we need to know your financial information.
B.Comply with legal and regulatory requirements. We process your Personal Information as required by applicable laws and regulations. For example, we have identity verification requirements to fulfill our obligations under the anti-money laundering laws of numerous jurisdictions and, as such, we may use an image of an identity document that you provide to help us verify that you are the true owner of the identity document and that the document does not show signs of fraud.
C. Detect and prevent fraud. We process your Personal Information to detect and prevent fraud on your account, which is especially important given the irreversible nature of cryptocurrency transactions.
D. Protect the security and integrity of our services. We use your Personal Information to further our security-first mentality. Maintaining the security of your account and the Exchange requires us to process your Personal Information, including information about your device and your activity on the Exchange, and other relevant information.
E. Provide you with customer support. We process your Personal Information anytime that you reach out to our Customer Support team, such as when there are issues arising from your account.
F. Optimize and enhance our services. We use your Personal Information to understand how our products and Services are being used to help us improve our Services and develop new products.
G. Market our products to you. We may contact you with information about our products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. You may use tools that we provide to opt out of marketing communications from us at any time.
H. With your consent. We may use your Personal Information for additional purposes with your consent.
I. Other business purposes. We may use your Personal Information for additional purposes in the operation of our business, that would be reasonably expected based on context, and as permitted by law or required to comply with our legal obligations.
3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will not share your Personal Information with third parties, except as described below:
A. Service Providers. We may share your Personal Information with third-party service providers for business or commercial purposes. Your Personal Information may be shared so that they can provide us with services, including identity verification, fraud detection and prevention, credit verification, security threat detection, payment processing, customer support, data analytics, Information Technology, advertising, marketing, data processing, network infrastructure, storage, transaction monitoring, and tax reporting. We share your Personal Information with these service providers only so that they can provide us with services, and we prohibit our service providers from using or disclosing your Personal Information for any other purpose. Our third-party service providers are subject to strict confidentiality obligations.
B. Affiliates. We may share your Personal Information with our affiliates, for the purposes outlined above, and as it is necessary to provide you with our Services.
C. Legal Obligations. We may be required to share your Personal Information with law enforcement, government agencies, regulators or third parties to comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
D. Corporate Transactions. We may disclose Personal Information in the event of a proposed or consummated merger, acquisition, reorganization, asset sale, or similar corporate transaction, or in the event of a bankruptcy or dissolution.
E. Professional Advisors. We may share your Personal Information with our professional advisors, including legal, accounting, or other consulting services for purposes of audits or to comply with our legal obligations.
F. Consent. We may share or disclose your information with your consent.
G. Other business purposes. We may share or disclose your Personal Information for other business purposes as permitted by law or required to comply with legal obligations.
If we decide to modify the purposes for which your Personal Information is collected, used, or shared, or our practices relating to your Personal Information, we will amend this Privacy Policy as described below.
4. COOKIES
When you access GS20, we may make use of the standard practice of placing tiny data files called cookies, flash cookies, pixel tags, or other tracking tools (herein, “Cookies”) on your computer or other devices used to visit GS20. We use Cookies to help us recognize you as a customer, collect information about your use of GS20 to better customize our services and content for you, and collect information about your computer or other access devices to: (i) ensure compliance with our Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) and anti-money laundering (“AML”) program (“BSA/AML Program”) (ii) ensure that your account security has not been compromised by detecting irregular, suspicious, or potentially fraudulent account activities; (iii) assess and improve our services and advertising campaigns.
We may make use of third-party Cookies or analytics services, including but not limited to Google Analytics, and Facebook.
Please note that if you reject cookies, you will not be able to use some or all of GS20. If you do not consent to the placing of Cookies on your device, please do not visit, access, or use GS20.
5. DIRECT MARKETING
Subject to applicable laws and regulations, we may from time to time send direct marketing materials promoting services, products, facilities, or activities to you using information collected from or about you. You may opt-out of such marketing communications at any time by visiting the Exchange tab of your Account Settings page. You may also opt-out of such communications by following the directions provided in any marketing communication. It is our policy to not provide your Personal Information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes without your consent. If you opt out of marketing communications, please note that we may still send you necessary information about transactions or our business relationship.
6. CHILDREN’S PERSONAL INFORMATION
GS20 is not intended for children under the age of 18 and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information of children under the age of 18. If we learn that we have collected any Personal Information from a child under the age of 18, we will promptly delete it from our systems.
7. INFORMATION SECURITY
We take reasonable measures, including administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, to protect your Personal Information from loss, theft, or misuse, and from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Nevertheless, no security is foolproof, and the Internet is an insecure medium. We cannot guarantee absolute security, but we work hard to protect GS20 and you from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of Personal Information we collect and store. Measures we take may include encryption of the GS20 website communications with SSL; required two-factor authentication for all sessions; periodic review of our Personal Information collection, storage, and processing practices; and restricted access to your Personal Information on a need-to-know basis for our employees, contractors and agents who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
8. RETENTION
We retain your Personal Information for as long as is reasonably necessary to provide services to you, for our legitimate business purposes, and to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. If you close your account with us, we will continue to retain your Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including for fraud monitoring, detection and prevention; and for our tax, accounting, and financial reporting obligations.
9. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
GS20 is a global business. As a result, Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have operations or where we engage service providers. We may transfer Personal Information that we maintain about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the Personal Information was originally collected. Those other countries may have data protection or privacy rules that are different from those of your country. However, we will take measures to ensure that any such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws and that your Personal Information remains protected to the standards described in this Privacy Policy. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and are provided services by GS Fintech UAB we comply with applicable law to provide an adequate level of data protection for the transfer of your Personal Information to the US or other third countries. GS20 enters into the appropriate data processing agreements and, if required, standard contractual clauses for the transfer of data which have been approved by the applicable data protection regulatory authority.
European privacy rights
European Residents have the following rights under GDPR, subject to certain exceptions provided under the law, with respect to their personal data:
When handling requests to exercise European privacy rights, we check the identity of the requesting party to ensure that he or she is the person legally entitled to make such request. While we maintain a policy to respond to these requests free of charge, should your request be repetitive or unduly onerous, we reserve the right to charge you a reasonable fee for compliance with your request.
Automated decision-making
We may engage in automated decision-making for purposes of fraud detection and prevention. When we do, we implement suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, including the right to obtain human intervention, to express your point of view and to contest the decision.
10. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our privacy practices, enhance user experience, or comply with relevant laws. The “Last updated” legend at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes are effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy. Your continued use of GS20 after our posting of changes to this Privacy Policy means that you understand and agree to such changes.
11. CONTACT US
If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy or our processing of your Personal Information, please feel free to email us at: support@GS20.dashglobal.biz .