Rewire - Privacy Policy
Introduction
Welcome to Rewire, a platform for users to send money/remit funds abroad for various
purposes, such as cross- border remittances, money transfers and other financial services (the
“Service”).
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how information about you is
collected and used by the Service, which is developed and operated by Rewire (O.S.G) Research and Development Ltd.,
a company incorporated under the laws of the State of Israel (“Rewire Ltd.”) and Rewire EU B.V.
(“Rewire EU”), a Dutch company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Rewire Ltd. (together referred to
as “Rewire”, the “Company” or “we”, “us”,
“our”), available as web service on our website – https://www.rewire.co.il if you are located in Israel or https://hello.rewire.to if you are located in
Europe, and as an application on App Store and Play Store.
We are committed to complying with applicable data protection laws, including the EU and the
UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The Service is not directed to users under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect
information or data from children under the age of 18 or knowingly allow minors under the age of 18 to use the
Service.
This Policy may be amended from time to time. We will post any change to this Policy on our
Service at a reasonable time in advance of the effective date of the change, and we will also make efforts to
proactively notify you by email of the changes if we have your email address.
Contact us
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding this Policy or our processing of
your personal information, please contact us at as follows:
- For general requests and privacy matters – [email protected]
- For complaints – [email protected].
What we collect and why
| Scenario | Purposes | Categories of information processed |
| When you register to our Service or go through our KYC | Providing you with the functionality of the Service, contacting you regarding administrative issues related to the Services, this Policy, our Terms of Service, support and maintenance | Mobile phone number, email address, user’s address, full name, gender, Registering to the Service is mandatory, but you do not have a legal |
| When you provide us with access to your device components | We use your device components for the following purposes:
| Telephone, GPS, Camera, Contact list or address book, SMS or MMS, Unique device ID (UDID) or UUID, User photos or videos on-device storage. |
| When you choose to import your contact list and image information | Contact list or address book, including contact image – for allowing users to import their contacts into the Service and easily transfer money to those recipients | Contact list, addresses book of contacts, and image information, if included (Rewire does not request you to provide image information, but it may be included as part of the contact list information). |
| Subscribing to our newsletters or for receiving marketing communications | Providing you with the newsletter and marketing communications about our services, including updates about new services that we believe may be suitable to you, subject to your consent. | Registration Information (as defined above) |
| When you transfer funds on our Service | Providing you with the functionality of the Service you requested, such as the transfer of funds or finding the nearest deposit point for our Service. | Information regarding any transactions and money transfers you make, geolocation |
| When you choose to save your fingerprint to access the service and when you request to send funds home (involving facial recognition) | Providing you with the functionality of the Service you requested, such as accessing the service via your fingerprint or sending funds home via facial recognition verification | Fingerprints, facial recognition data. We refer to this as “Biometric Information”. |
Contacting us with an inquiry through our email, WhatsApp bot, a phone call | Responding to your inquiry, our business development | Your mobile phone number, full name, ID number / other unique identifier, the subject of your inquiry and the text of your message. We refer to this as “Inquiry Information”. |
| When you provide us with your feedback and reviews | Responding to your feedback and reviews, our business development | Mobile phone number, full name, ID number / other unique identifier and the feedback or review. |
| Use of cookies and internal analytics tools on the Service | Facilitate a Service feature that the user specifically requested, analyze the Service usage to evaluate and improve its performance, improve user experience on the Service, inform and serve personalized ads more relevant to user interests | IP address from which you access the Service, time and date of access, type of device and browser used, language used, links clicked via a mouse or a touch screen, and actions taken while using the Service. |
You do not have a legal obligation to provide us with the abovementioned information;
however, if you choose to not share this information with us, we may not be able to handle or respond to your
inquiry, fulfill your request to register or to use our Service functionalities, or to send you our newsletter and
marketing communications with information about our business and offers.
You may ‘opt-out’ of using your Information for marketing communications and newsletters by
sending an email to: [email protected], or as
otherwise provided in our marketing communications or newsletters. By doing so,
Rewire will only delete the Information which is required to contact you for marketing
communications, while the rest of the Information you submitted to us which is necessary to provide you with the
Service will continue to be processed and used.
Methods and sources for collecting your personal information
We collect the personal information from several sources:
- Directly from you when you register to our Service or when provided to us through the Service, our email,
WhatsApp Bot, Facebook Messenger or via a phone call. - From our service providers helping us to operate the Service.
- Through the device you use to access our Service, including through third party cookies and analytics tools,
such as Internal analytics services, Facebook Ads, Google Analytics, Woopra, Heap, Appsflyer, Vimeo and Big For
further information regarding cookies and how we use them, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
Sharing your personal information
We will not share your information with third parties, except in the events listed below or
when you provide us your explicit and informed consent.
| Scenario | Purposes | Third parties involved |
| We will share your information with our service providers who assist us with the internal operations of the Service. These companies are authorized to use your personal information in this context only as necessary to provide these services to us and not for their own promotional purposes | Operating the Service and our business | Examples include GCP, Onfido and Salv Subject to the following additional Policies: GCP – https://policies.google.com/privacy Onfido – https://onfido.com/privacy/ Additional Service Providers who we may share your information with: Newxel |
If you abused your rights to use the Service or violated any business with us. | Responding to, handling, and mitigating suspected violations of law in connection with our business. | Competent authorities, legal counsels, and advisors |
If a judicial, governmental, or regulatory authority requires to disclose your information. | Complying with a binding request from a competent authority. | Competent authorities. |
If the operation of the Service or our business is organized another legal structure or entity. | Enabling a structural change in the operation of the Service and our business. | The target entity of the merger or acquisition, legal counsels, and advisors. |
Use of third-party platforms
Our Service enables you to interact with third party platforms, such as Facebook, Viber,
WhatsApp or your email account provider. This feature of the Service is used to integrate a Facebook “Like” button
within our Service, to invite your friends and contacts to use the Service and for various other purposes. Your use
of such third-party platforms and the platforms’ use of your Information and the content you post, share or email
through them, are governed by their respective terms of use and privacy policy, not this Policy.
Data retention and security
We retain your information for as long as needed to operate the Service, and
thereafter as needed for record- keeping matters.
We will retain your information for as long as needed to operate the Service. Thereafter, we
will still retain your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes,
establish, and defend legal claims and enforce our agreements. The overall period of retention is approximately 7
years.
We implement measures to secure your information.
We implement measures to reduce the risks of damage, loss of information and unauthorized
access or use of information. However, these measures do not provide absolute information security. Therefore,
although efforts are made to secure your personal information, there is no guarantee that it will be immune from
information security risks. The measures we implement include:
- Data Encryption At-Rest: Stored data is encrypted using strong encryption algorithms. In-Transit: SSL/TLS is
used to secure the data when it’s being transferred over a network. - Authentication & Authorization Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Firewalls & Intrusion Detection Systems Stateful inspection
- Regular Security Audits & Penetration Testing Vulnerability assessments
- Data Backups Regular backups of critical
- Security Policies & Training Employee training and awareness programs Incident Response Plans (IRP)
- Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Security is considered at each phase of software
- Data Masking & Anonymization Sensitive data is masked or anonymized before use in non-production
- Network Segmentation Sensitive data and services are isolated in secure network
- Monitoring and Logging Continuous monitoring of the systems for suspicious
- Contractual obligations with our third party service providers, as required under the applicable law, such as
(1) keeping personal information secure at all times; (2) informing Rewire if the thid party
service provider discovers that any unauthorized use or acsses that has been made of the personal information; (3)
In relation to personal information, comply with the provisions of the Israeli Protection of privacy regulations
(data security) 5777-2017, including the appointment of an information security officer, formulation and
implementation of an information security procedure, personnel management, management of access privileges,
Identification and verification, control and documentation of access, documentation of information security events,
restriction of connection of mobile devices, outsourcing communication security, conducting periodic audits and
saving security data.
Controller, GDPR
representative
Rewire Ltd. And Rewire EU are joint controllers of your Information collected via the
Service.
| Name | Address | EU GDPR Representative |
| Rewire Ltd. | 1 Walter Moses, Tel Aviv. 6789903, Israel | Rewire EU B.V., Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 296, 1012RT, Amsterdam, the Neatherlands |
International data transfers
To facilitate processing your information through the Service and by our service providers,
we may transfer your information to countries outside the EEA or the UK. If we do so, it will be under the terms of
a data transfer agreement which contain standard data protection contract clauses with adequate safeguards
determined by the EU Commission and UK Information Commissioner’s Office. Similar safeguards are applied by our
third party service providers, fraud prevention agencies and other parties where they have had access to
your data in accordance with this privacy policy, where they transfer your personal data outside of the
EEA.
Legal basis for processing your personal data
| Purpose or Scenario | Legal Basis |
| Registering to our Service | The performance of a contract for the provision of the Service. |
| Accessing to your device components | · The performance of the contract for the provision of the Service. · Our legitimate interest in improving our Service, when we collect your |
| Importing your contact list and image information | Consent |
Subscribing to our newsletters or marketing communications | Consent |
| When you transfer funds on our Service | · The performance of a contract for the provision of the Service. · Geolocation data – Consent |
| When you choose to save your fingerprint to access the service and when you request to send funds home (involving facial recognition) | · Fingerprints – Our legitimate interests in providing you with the · Facial Recognition Data – the necessity of the processing for reasons of Union and Dutch law. |
| Responding to your inquiry | Responding to your inquiry, our business development |
| When you provide us with your feedback and reviews | Our legitimate interest in developing and enhancing our business and the Service, responding to your feedback or reviews |
| Use of cookies that facilitate a Service feature you specifically requested | Our legitimate interests in providing you with the Service you specifically requested |
| Use of Internal analytics tools on the Service | Our legitimate interests in gaining insights for product development and in using aggregated data to inform business decisions and optimize strategies |
Use of cookies on the Service for performance, marketing, analytics etc. | Consent |
| Responding to, handling, and mitigating suspected violations of law in connection with our business | Legitimate interests in defending and enforcing against violations and breaches that are harmful to our business |
| Complying with a binding request from a competent authority | Legitimate interests in complying with mandatory legal requirements imposed on us |
| Enabling a structural change in the operation of the Service and our business | Legitimate interests in our business continuity |
As part of the processing of your personal data, decisions may be made by automated means.
This means we may automatically decide that you pose a fraud or money laundering risk if our processing reveals your
behavior to be consistent with money laundering or known fraudulent conduct, or is inconsistent with other data
held, or you appear to have deliberately hidden your true identity. You have rights in relation to automated
decision making and if you want to know more please contact us using the details below.
If we, our third-party service providers or a fraud prevention agency, determine that you
pose a fraud or money laundering risk, we may refuse to provide the services you have requested, or to employ you,
or we may stop providing existing services to you.
A record of any fraud or money laundering risk will be retained by fraud prevention agencies
and may result in others refusing to provide services, financing or employment to you. If you have any questions
about this, please contact us on the details below.
Data subject rights
You have the following rights:
Right to Access and receive a copy of your personal information that we
process.
Right to Rectify inaccurate personal information we have concerning you and
to have incomplete personal information completed.
Right to easily and at any time withdraw your consent to us processing your
personal data to email you our newsletters. The withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing
based on consent before its withdrawal
Right to easily and at any time withdraw your consent to the use of
non-essential cookies on our Service. The withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based
on consent before its withdrawal.
Right to Data Portability, that is, to receive the personal information that
you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You have the right to transmit this
data to another person or entity. Where technically feasible, you have the right to have your personal information
transmitted directly from us to the person or entity you designate.
Right to Object to our processing of your personal information based on our
legitimate interest. However, we may override the objection if we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds, or if
we need to process such personal information for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
Right to Restrict us from processing your personal information (except for
storing it): (a) if you contest the accuracy of the personal information (in which case the restriction applies only
for a period enabling us to determine the accuracy of the personal information); (b) if the processing is unlawful
and you prefer to restrict the processing of the personal information rather than requiring the deletion of such
data by us; (c) if we no longer need the personal information for the purposes outlined in this Policy, but you
require the personal information to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) if you object to our
processing based on our legitimate interest (in which case the restriction applies only for the period enabling us
to determine whether our legitimate grounds for processing override yours).
Right to be Forgotten. Under certain circumstances, such as when you object
to our processing of your personal information based on our legitimate interest and there are no overriding
legitimate grounds for the processing, you have the right to ask us to erase your personal information. However,
notwithstanding such request, we may still process your personal information if it is necessary to comply with our
legal obligations, or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims. If you wish to exercise any of
these rights, please contact us through the channels listed in this Policy.
When you contact us, we reserve the right to ask for reasonable evidence to verify your
identity before we provide you with information. Where we are not able to provide you with information that you have
asked for, we will explain the reason.
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data
protection authority. If you are in the EU, then according to Article 77 of the GDPR, you can lodge a complaint to
the supervisory authority, in the Member State of your residence, place of work or place of alleged infringement of
the GDPR. For a list of supervisory authorities in the EU, click here.
If you are in the UK, you can lodge a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office
(ICO) pursuant to the instructions provided here