Last updated on June 20, 2020

Introduction to Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (" Privacy Policy") applies to your use of the aamarPay website located at aamarpay.com (" aamarPay" or " Website"), and aamarPay applications on mobile platforms (Android,  iOS etc) (collectively, the " Platform"), but does not apply to any third party websites that may be linked to them, or any relationships you may have with the businesses listed on aamarPay.

The terms " we", " our" and " us" refer to aamarPay and the terms " you", " your" and " User" refer to you, as a user of aamarPay . The term " Personal Information" means information that you provide to us which personally identifies you to be contacted or identified, such as your name, phone number, email address, and any other data that is tied to such information including the heads outlined below. Our practices and procedures in relation to the collection and use of Personal Information have been set-out below in order to ensure safe usage of the Website for you. An indicative list of the Personal Information being collected from you is set out below. Please note that the list above is only indicative, and as such, we may collect more information and data points from you, including as detailed in this Privacy Policy:

• Your full name;
• Contact details including phone numbers, physical address (along with the postal code) and email addresses;
• Details of your family and relatives / partners;
• University / college details;
• Government documents and identification numbers including your Permanent Account Number;
• Academic records and certificates;
• Financial information such as transaction histories, bank accounts, credit and debit card details or other payment instrument details;
• Information from your email accounts (as permitted);
• Information from your device (as permitted);

The Personal Information enlisted above is not a mandatory requirement to register and use our Platform. You always have the option to not provide your Personal Information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature on the Platform. In general, you can browse the Platform without revealing any Personal Information about yourself. However, to create an account on the Platform, you must provide us with certain basic Personal Information required to provide customized services.

The Platform shall clearly display the Personal Information (including NID) it is collecting from you, and you have the option to not provide such Personal Information. However, this may limit the services provided to you on the Platform. As such, the specifics of certain Information collected from you is detailed in this Privacy Policy.

Protection of your information

We have implemented reasonable security practices and procedures that are commensurate with the information assets being protected and with the nature of our business. While we try our best to provide security that is better than the industry standards, because of the inherent vulnerabilities of the internet, we cannot ensure or warrant complete security of all information that is being transmitted to us by you. By visiting this Website, you agree and acknowledge to be bound by this Privacy Policy and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, process and share your Personal Information in the manner set out herein below. If you do not agree with these terms, you may choose to not use aamarPay.

It is clarified that the terms and conditions that are provided separately, form an integral part of your use of this Website and should be read in conjunction with this Privacy Policy.

While we are committed to maintaining confidentiality of all Personal Information, we shall not be responsible for any breach of security or for any action of any third parties that receive users' personal data or events that are beyond our reasonable control including, acts of government, computer hacking, unauthorised access to computer data and storage device, computer crashes, breach of security and encryption, etc. All Personal Information collected from the users by us is maintained in electronic form on servers and/or cloud systems located in Bangladesh . The Personal Information may also be converted to physical form from time to time. Regardless of the manner of storage, we will make commercially reasonable endeavors to ensure that the Personal Information is rendered confidential and will disclose Personal Information only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information we collect and how we use it

We access, collect, receive and store your Personal Information. If you provide your third-party account credentials (" Third Party Account Information") to us, you understand that some content and information in those accounts may be transmitted to your account with us if you authorize such transmissions and that Third Party Account Information transmitted to us shall be covered by this Privacy Policy. You may opt to not provide us with certain information, however that will restrict you from registering with us or availing some of our features.

We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the collection of Personal Information is limited to that which is necessary to fulfill the purposes identified below. If we use your information in a manner different than the purpose for which it is collected, then we will ask you for your consent prior to such use.The Information collected by us is used for, among others, the following purposes:

• To identify and verify you;
• To identify and understand your needs and requirements;
• To set up, manage, facilitate, offer, enhance and improve the products and services to meet your requirements including those offered by third party service providers on our Platform;
• To monitor, administer and improve the Platform;
• To provide ongoing services and products;
• To meet legal and regulatory requirements;
• To resolve disputes, technical issues and troubleshoot problems;
• To enforce terms and conditions as agreed with you;
• To detect and protect you and ourselves from any error, fraud or other suspicious / illegal activities;
• To send communications notifications, Information regarding the products or services requested by you or process queries and applications that you have made on the Platform;
• To perform credit profiling for the purpose of facilitating loans to you (if any service offered by aamarPay);
• To conduct 'know your customer' verification for our third-party lending partners based on the Information shared by you;
• For any analysis and information;
• To manage our relationship with you;
• To understand and analyze consumer interest and satisfaction in our products and services;
• To provide Information to you in relation to services and products being offered to you and other potential online and offline offers, products, services, and updates;
• To use the information as permitted under applicable laws in order to enable you to receive financial services from our lending partners and third party service providers; and
• Other reasons which, prior to being put into effect, shall be communicated to you through an update carried out to this Privacy Policy.

All Personal Information collected may be retained with us for such periods as may be necessary and to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

In respect of Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Data or Information of Users who are nationals of the European Union, we respect such Users' rights to data privacy and protection and as such we have revised our internal policies, procedures, working practices in order to meet the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (" GDPR"). aamarPayis be committed to compliance with the GDPR as both a processor and controller of personal data.

aamarPay is committed to be in compliance with the Digital ICT act as both a processor and controller of personal data as and when the same is enacted and notified by the concerned governmental authority.

We regularly review this Privacy Policy and make sure that we process your Information in ways that comply with applicable laws and regulations.

Account information

If you create an account to take advantage of the full range of services offered on aamarPay, we ask for and record Personal Information such as your name, email address and mobile number. We may collect and store your Sensitive Personal Data or Information (such as any financial information including inter alia credit card, debit card details, bank account and know your customer (" KYC") documents as per BB (Central Bank) regulations and any other information as may be applicable) that the User may opt to save in the User account created with aamarPay. We use your email address to send you updates, news, and newsletters (if you willingly subscribe to the newsletter during signup, or anytime after signup) and contact you on behalf of other Users (such other Users who send you friend requests, personal messages, or other social collaboration based events). If you do not want to receive communications from us that are not relevant to you or your use of our services, please click on the unsubscribe link provided at the bottom of such e-mails sent to you by us. We use your mobile numbers to send you transaction alerts and SMS alerts based on your preferences. If you do not wish to receive such SMSes from us, please notify us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to stop receiving SMSs from us. aamarPay assures that your Personal Information will not be made public or sold to any third party.

The User shall have an option of erasure of any information provided by the User including Personal Information. If a User opts for the said option of erasure, aamarPay shall delete all stored information of the User from its servers.

We also store customer information of customers making payments through aamarPay. However, only when customer chooses to share the information on the businesses powered with aamarPay applications we share the information to respective businesses. However, aamarPay is not liable in any way for any misuse of this information by the business or people related to the businesses to whom the information is shared by the customer.

Feedback

If you contact us to provide feedback, register a complaint, or ask a question, we will record any Personal Information and other content that you provide in your communication so that we can effectively respond to your communication.

Activity

We record information relating to your use of aamarPay, such as the searches you undertake, the pages you view, your browser type, IP address, location, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp information. We use this type of information to administer aamarPay and provide the highest possible level of security and service to you. We also use this information in the aggregate to perform statistical analyses of User behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of aamarPay. However, you cannot be identified from this aggregate information.

We own all the intellectual property rights associated with the Website and its contents. No right, title or interest in any downloaded material is transferred to you as a result of any such downloading or copying. The Website is protected by copyright as a collective work and/ or compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement, and assembly) of all the content on this Website, pursuant to applicable law.

Our logos, product and service marks and/ or names, trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual property, whether registered or not (" Our IP") are exclusively owned by us. Without our prior written permission, you agree to not display and/ or use Our IP in any manner. Nothing contained in this Website or the content, should be construed as granting, in any way to the User, any license or right or interest whatsoever, in and/ or to Our IP, without our express written permission.

Cookies

We send cookies to your computer in order to uniquely identify your browser and improve the quality of our service. The term "cookies" refers to small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer's hard drive while you are viewing the site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them).

Persistent cookies can be removed by following your browser help file directions. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of aamarPay may not work properly or at all. aamarPay uses third party tools, who may collect anonymous information about your visits to aamarPay using cookies, and interaction with aamarPay products and services.

Such third parties may also use information about your visits to aamarPay products and services and other web sites to target advertisements for aamarPay 's products and services. No Personal Information is collected or used in this process. These third parties do not know or have access to the name, phone number, address, email address, or any Personal Information about aamarPay's Users. aamarPay Users can opt-out of sharing this information with third parties by deactivating cookies, the process of which varies from browser to browser. Please refer to the help file of your browser to understand the process of deactivating cookies on your browser.

Camera Permissions

We require access to your camera and permissions thereof to ensure that the process of uploading pictures and graphics from your camera on your devices through which you access the Platform is a smooth process. For instance, you may need to click pictures of your government identity cards for the purposes of KYC obligations.

User access of Personal Information

At any point of time users can choose to edit/modify or delete/withdraw any Personal Information shared for use of the Platform. This can be done by accessing the "Account" section of this Website / 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 the purpose of verification by the Platform. As such, Users have the option of restricting our access to their Information by means of implementing suitable device settings and/or deletion of their account. In order to remove any Personal Information from our servers, you may contact us, and seek deletion of such data. Notwithstanding the same, we are not under an obligation to delete this data if we are required to retain it under applicable law or require such Personal Information for the purposes of operating and/or improving the Platform.

Security

Your account is password protected. We use industry standard measures to protect the Personal Information that is stored in our database. We will occasionally reset or ask users to change account passwords as a precautionary measure.

We limit the access to your Personal Information to those employees and contractors who need access to perform their job function, such as our customer service personnel. All employees and data processors, who have access to and are associated with the processing of Personal Information provided by users are obliged to respect the confidentiality of every user's Personal Information. If you have any questions about the security on aamarPay, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

You hereby acknowledge that aamarPay is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the internet, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.

Applicable law

Your use of this Website will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Bangladesh.

The Users agree that any legal action or proceedings arising out of your use may be brought exclusively in the competent courts/ tribunals having jurisdiction in Dhaka in Bangladesh and irrevocably submit themselves to the jurisdiction of such courts/ tribunals.

Consent and Binding Agreement

By using the Platform and by providing your Information, you:

• consent to the collection, use, sharing and disclosure of your Personal Information on the terms and conditions, and in the manner contained in this Privacy Policy; and
• agree that this Privacy Policy will form a binding legal agreement of between you and us.

We will publish any changes to this Privacy Policy on the Platform.

Complaints and Grievance Redressal

Any complaints or concerns in relation to your Personal Information or content of this Website / Platform or comment or breach of use of the Website / Platform or any intellectual property of any User shall be immediately informed to the designated Grievance / Compliance Officer as mentioned below in writing or through email signed with the electronic signature.

Address: Plot 11, Road 2, Sector 3, Paradise Tower, Level-9, Jashimuddin Avenue, Uttara Dhaka-1230

Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Phone: 09643250250