Privacy Policy

DigiMoney takes your Privacy seriously.

Privacy Policy

DigiMoney takes your Privacy seriously.

Privacy Policy

This is the Privacy Policy (“Policy”) of DigiMoney Finance private Limited, a company incorporated with registered office at 4th Floor Salzburg Square, 107, Harrington Road, Chetpet, Chennai – 600031.

By visiting this DigiMoney mobile application (“App”) (collectively, the “Platform”) and availing the services provided by us (“Services”) you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

By mere access to the Platform or any part thereof, you expressly consent to DigiMoney (“we” or “our” or “us” or “[DigiMoney]”) use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the Terms of Use of the Platform.

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, the users of the Services may be customer/consumers, or any other persons using Services or accessing our Platform (“user” or “you” or “your”).

If you do not agree to this Policy or any part thereof, please do not use or access our Platform or any part thereof.

COLLECTION OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

When you use our Platform, our App, we collect and store your information (personal information) which is provided by you from time to time by explicitly seeking permissions from YOU to get the required information.

Our primary goal in doing so is to provide you a safe, efficient, smooth and customized experience and services. This allows us to provide services and features that meet your needs, and to customize our Platform to make your experience safer and easier and to improve the services provided by us.

More importantly, we collect personal information from you that we consider necessary for achieving the aforementioned purpose.

In general, you can browse the App without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. However, to create an account on the App, you must provide us with certain basic information required to provide customized services.

The information we collect from you, inter alia, including:

  1. Your full name.
  2. Mailing address.
  3. Postal code.
  4. Phone number.
  5. Permanent Account Number (PAN).
  6. Aadhar Number.

Where possible, we indicate the mandatory and the optional fields. You always have the option to not provide your personal information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature on the Platform.

We also collect other identifiable information (your bank account details and transaction histories on the Platform) from you when you set up a free account with us as further detailed below.

While you can browse some sections of our Platform without being a registered member as mentioned above, certain activities (such as availing of loans on the Platform) requires registration and for you to provide the above details.

The Platform shall clearly display the personal information it is collecting from you, and you have the option to not provide such personal information. However, this will limit the services provided to you on the Platform.

COLLECTION OF FINANCIAL SMS INFORMATION

We don’t collect or store your personal SMS from your inbox.

We only collect financial SMS sent by 6-digit alphanumeric senders from your inbox which helps us in identifying the various accounts that you are holding, and the cash flow patterns.

It helps us perform a credit risk assessment to determine your risk profile and to provide you with the appropriate credit analysis to enable you to take financial facilities from the regulated financial entities and other service providers available on the platform.

While using the app, it periodically sends the financial SMS information to our affiliate server and to us.

COLLECTION OF MOBILE NUMBER AND EMAIL ADDRESS

When you sign up with us, we collect your mobile number and email address to uniquely identify you. This helps us ensure that no unauthorised device or person is acting on your behalf.

We collect mobile number and email address for KYC verification purpose to avail loan. This ensures that you are provided with a seamless experience while using the application.

COLLECTION OF LOCATION

We collect location information from your device to reduce the risk associated with your account.

We collect location information of your device to facilitate address verification, credit risk analysis and know your customer (KYC) process. This helps us to understand the customers better and fulfil their needs.

COLLECTION OF CONTACT

As a part of our loan journey, we require references from the Loan applicant. In this regard, while filing the form on our App, we collect your contact information to detect close contacts to enable you to autofill the data during the loan application process.

We collect contact information from your device for risk analysis by enabling us to detect credible references. The more credible the references are, the lower the risk associated with a User.

STORAGE

We require storage permission, so the App enables you to upload photos and/or documents to complete the application form during your loan application journey.

You can then easily upload all KYC-related documents for a faster loan application and disbursal process.

CAMERA

We require the camera information permission to provide you with an easy/smooth experience and to enable you to click photos/video of your KYC documents along with other requisite documents and upload the same on the App during your loan application journey.

COLLECTION OF OTHER NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

We automatically track certain Information about you based on your behavior on our Platform. We use this information to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior to understand better, protect and serve our users and improve our services. This information is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis.

Internet Protocol: We also collect your Internet Protocol (IP) address and the URL used by you to connect your computer to the internet, etc. This information may include the URL you just came from (whether this URL is on our Website or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our Website or not), your computer browser information, and your IP address.

Cookies: Cookies are small data files that a Website stores on Your computer. We will use cookies on our Website similar to other lending websites/apps and online marketplace websites/apps. Use of this information helps us identify You to make our Website more User friendly. Most browsers will permit You to decline cookies, but if You choose to do this, it might affect service on some parts of Our Website.

We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Website, we collect such information into a file specific to you.

COLLECTION OF DEVICE INFORMATION

The Information the App collects and how that Information is used depends on how you manage your privacy controls on your device.

When you install the App, we store the Information we collect with unique identifiers tied to the device you’re using.

We collect information from the device when you download and install the App and explicitly seek permissions from YOU to get the required Information from the device.

The information we collect from your device includes the unique ID, i.e. IMEI number, Information on the operating system, SDK version and mobile network information, including carrier name, SIM Serial and SIM Slot, your profile information, list of installed apps, and Wi-Fi information.

We collect information about your device to provide automatic updates and additional security so that your account is not used on other people’s devices. In addition, the Information gives us valuable feedback on your identity as a device holder and your device behavior, thereby allowing us to improve our services and provide an enhanced customized user experience to you.

USE AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL AND OTHER INFORMATION

We use personal Information to provide the services you request, customize your user experience and improve our services. We also offer you the ability to opt out of such uses.

We use your personal information to:

  1. Resolve disputes
  2. Troubleshoot problems
  3. Help promote a safe service
  4. Analytical analysis
  5. Measure consumer interest and satisfaction in our products and services
  6. Customize your experience
  7. Detect and protect us against suspicious or illegal activity, fraud and other criminal activity
  8. Enforce our terms and conditions
  9. Improvement of our services and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection

In our efforts to continually improve our product and service offerings, we collect and analyze demographic and profile data about our users’ activity on our Website.

USE OF YOUR DEVICE INFORMATION

We use the Information provided by You in the following ways:

  1. To establish identity and verify the same.
  2. Monitor, improve and administer our App.
  3. Provide our service, i.e., perform credit profiling to facilitate loans to You.
  4. Analyze how the App is used, diagnose service or technical problems and maintain security
  5. Send communications notifications, Information regarding the products or services requested by You or process queries and applications that You have made on the Website.
  6. Manage Our relationship with You and inform You about other products or services. We think You might find of some use
  7. Conduct data analysis to improve the Services / Products provided to the User
  8. Use the User information to comply with country laws and regulations.
  9. To conduct KYC for our third party lending partners based on the Information shared by the User

We will use and retain Your Information for such periods as necessary to provide You with the Services on our Website, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES

We will share Your Information with only our registered third parties, including our regulated financial partners, for the provision of services on the Website and/or for the facilitation of a loan/facility to a User. We will share Your Information with third parties only in such manner as described below:

  1. We disclose and share Your Information with the financial service providers, banks or NBFCs and Our third party partners for the facilitation of a loan or facility or line of credit or purchase of a product.
  2. We share Your Information with our third party partners Equifax and Think Analytics, to conduct data analysis to serve You better and provide services or Products on our Website.
  3. We may disclose Your Information without prior notice if We are under a duty to do so to comply with any legal obligation or an order from the government and/or statutory authority, or to enforce or apply Our terms of use or assign such Information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Us, Our users, or others. This includes exchanging Information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
  4. We will disclose the data/information provided by a User with other technology partners to track how the User interacts with the website/app on Our behalf.
  5. We and our affiliates may share Your Information with another business entity should we (or our assets) merge with, or be acquired by that business entity, or re-organization, amalgamate, restructure business for continuity. Should such a transaction occur, any business entity (or the new combined entity) receiving any such information from Us shall be bound by this Policy concerning your information.
  6. We will disclose the Information to our third party technology and credit partners to perform credit checks and credit analysis like Credit Bureaus or third party data source providers;
  7. We will share Your Information under a confidentiality agreement with the third parties and restrict the use of the said Information by third parties only for the purposes detailed herein. We warrant that there will be no unauthorized disclosure of your Information shared with third parties.
  8. By using the Platform, you as a result of this grant your consent to the Company to share/disclose your Personal Information (i) To the concerned third parties in connection with the Services; and (ii) With the governmental authorities, quasi-governmental authorities, judicial authorities and quasi-judicial authorities, in accordance with applicable laws of India.

If we use or disclose your Information for any purpose not specified above, we will take your explicit consent.

LINK TO THIRD-PARTY SDK

Our application has a link to a registered third party SDK which collects data on our behalf, and data is stored on a secured server to perform a credit risk assessment. We ensure that our third party service provider takes extensive security measures to protect your Personal Information against loss, misuse or alteration of the data.

Our third-party service provider employs separation of environments and segregation of duties and has strict role-based access control on a documented, authorized, need-to-use basis. The stored data is protected and held by application-level encryption. They enforce key management services to limit access to information.

Furthermore, our registered third party service provider provides hosting security – they use industry-leading anti-virus, anti-malware, intrusion prevention systems, intrusion detection systems, file integrity monitoring, and application control solutions.

CHANGES IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY

DigiMoney Finance Pvt Ltd reserves the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time for any reason. In case any changes are made in the Privacy Policy; we shall update the same on the Website. Once posted, those changes are effective immediately unless stated otherwise.

We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Continued access or use of the Services constitutes Your acceptance of the changes and the amended Privacy Policy.

ACCESSING YOUR INFORMATION / CONTACTING US

At any point in time Users can choose to edit/modify or delete/withdraw any Personal Information shared for the use of the Platform. Please note that deleting or withdrawing Information may affect the Services we provide to you.

In case of modification of Personal Information, Users will be required to furnish supporting documents relating to change in Personal Information for verification by the Company.

YOUR PRIVACY CONTROLS

You have confident choices regarding the Information we collect and how it is used:

  1. Device-level settings: Your device may have controls that determine what Information we collect. For example, you can modify permissions on your Android device to access Camera or Audio permissions.
  2. Delete your entire App account.
  3. You can also request to remove content from our servers based on applicable law or write to our Grievance Officer.

SECURITY PRECAUTIONS

The App intends to protect your Personal Information and maintain its accuracy as confirmed by you. We implement reasonable physical, administrative and technical safeguards to help us protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use and disclosure.

For example, we encrypt all sensitive personal information when we transmit such information over the internet. We also require that our registered third party service providers protect such Information from unauthorized access, use and disclosure.

Our Platform has stringent security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of Information under control. We endeavour to safeguard and ensure the security of the Information provided by you. We use Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) based encryption for transmitting the information, which is currently the required level of encryption in India as per the law.

We blend security at multiple steps within our products with state-of-the-art technology to ensure our systems maintain strong security measures, and the overall data and privacy security design allow us to defend our systems from low hanging issue to sophisticated attacks.

We work hard to protect from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of Information we hold, including:

  1. We use encryption to keep your data private while in transit.
  2. We offer security features like an OTP verification to help you protect your account.
  3. We review our information collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to prevent unauthorized access to our systems.
  4. We restrict access to personal Information to our employees, contractors, and agents who need that Information to process it. Anyone with this access is subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet them.
  5. Compliance & Cooperation with Regulations and applicable laws.
  6. We regularly review this Privacy Policy and make sure that we process your Information in ways that comply with it.
  7. Data transfers.

We or our affiliates maintain your Information on servers located in India. Data protection laws vary, with some providing more protection than others. We also comply with specific legal frameworks relating to data transfer as mentioned and required under the Information Technology Act, 2000.

When we receive formal written complaints, we respond by contacting the person who made the complaint. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding transferring your data that we cannot resolve with you directly.

We will ask our registered Credit Bureaus, TransUnion, Experian, Equifax, and CIRF Highmark to provide you with your loan amount.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our Website links to other websites that may collect personally identifiable Information about you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those linked websites. With this Policy, we’re only addressing the disclosure and use of data collected by Us.

If You visit any websites through the links on the Website, please ensure You go through the privacy policies of each of those websites. Their data collection practices and policies might differ from this Policy, and We do not have control over any of their policies, nor do we have any liability in this regard.

YOUR CONSENT

By using the Website/App and/ or by providing your Information, you consent to the collection and use of the Information you disclose on the Website in accordance with this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to Your consent for collecting, using, sharing and disclosing your Information as per this privacy policy.

 

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what Information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

GRIEVANCE OFFICER

In accordance with Information Technology Act 2000 and rules made there under, the name and contact details of the Grievance Officer are provided below:

Name: GAURAV GUPTA

Address: 107, 4th Floor, Salzburg Square, Harrington Road, Chetpet, Chennai – 600031

Phone: +91 98416 63644

Email: goravgupta@digimoneyfinance.com

Any Questions? Get in touch with us