COINPAL, UAB
PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: September 11, 2024
1. Introduction
COINPAL, UAB (hereafter also referred to as “the Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is authorized as a virtual currency exchange operator. The Company is incorporated under the laws of Lithuania, with legal entity code 306106732 and registered address at 2nd Floor, T.Narbuto str. 5, Vilnius LT 08105, Lithuania. The Company owns and operates the domain https://coinon.io/ (hereafter the “Website”).
CoinOn is the brand name for our onramp service, operated by CoinPal, UAB. Throughout this privacy policy, any reference to 'CoinOn' or 'we' refers to CoinPal, UAB, the legal entity responsible for operating the CoinOn service.
UAB Coinpal operates two distinct modes of onramp service: Referral Mode, where third-party partners such as Simplex and Transak manage all data and KYC processes, and Self-operated Mode, where UAB Coinpal directly collects and processes personal data, including KYC and transaction information.
In Self-operated mode, UAB Coinpal acts as the data controller, responsible for the collection, processing, and storage of your personal data as described herein. In contrast, for Referral mode, third-party providers such as Simplex and Transak handle data processing and are the controllers of personal data, as described under their respective privacy policies.
Privacy Policy of Simplex:https://www.simplex.com/privacy-policy
Privacy Policy of transak:https://transak.com/privacy-policy
This policy is based on the practices and procedures applicable in the Self-operated mode. In Referral mode, data processing is managed by third-party providers, and their respective privacy policies apply.The Company is the controller of your personal data collected via the means described herein and any process of your personal data is performed in accordance with this Privacy Policy (hereafter “the Policy”) and the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27th April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (hereafter “GDPR”), Law on the Legal Protection of Personal Data of the Republic of Lithuania and other applicable legal acts.
Data Subject (hereinafter “you” or “your”) stands for an identified or identifiable natural person, whose personal data the Company processes in course of conducting business, regardless the personal data were obtained from this person directly or from third parties. At the Company, we treat all former, existing, or prospective clients, individual visitors that enter our Website, all private individuals that represent our corporate clients (i.e. authorized representatives, proxies, etc.), and all our private individual clients as Data Subjects in the sense of the GDPR.
Personal data means any information relating to an identifiable natural person (i.e. using information and data in order to directly or indirectly identify a specific person).
Processing means any operation(s) which is performed on personal data (or on sets of personal data) whether or not by automated means such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment, combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
2. Scope and Applicability
As part of the Company’s daily operations, it is necessary for us to collect personal data from you to be able to provide you with our products and services. This Policy describes how the Company processes your personal data.
Any personal data the Company collects about you will only be used for the purposes we have collected it for, or as allowed under the applicable legislation, and to perform our contractual obligations concerning the products and services offered. This Policy covers the Company’s Website https://coinon.io all its related sub-domains that are registered and operated by the Company, as well as the payment gateways and any other software solutions used by the Company.
This Policy applies to the processing of personal data regardless of the form/environment in which the personal data is provided (e.g. on paper, electronically, by phone or otherwise) and whether or not the Company process it by automated means or manually.
The Company strives to protect the privacy, confidentiality and security of all personal data obtained from you during the course of your business relationship and dealings with the Company, including information obtained during your visits to our Website.
3. Our Commitment to You
The Company fully understands the importance of maintaining the confidentiality and privacy of your personal data. We respect your privacy, and to this end, we are committed to taking all reasonable steps to protect and safeguard the privacy, confidentiality, security, and integrity of your personal data.
4. How do we collect your Personal Data?
The Company may collect personal data in several ways, including but not limited to the following:
The Company may occasionally request further information from you to help us improve our services & products under the Client Agreement or to comply with the applicable laws and regulations.
5. What Personal Data do we collect?
The list of personal data that we may collect from you is not exhaustive. The list below specifies the main categories of personal data, which the Company collects and processes:
(a) verify your identity (i.e. passport or national identity card copy and its details (e.g. type, number, issuance place and date, expiry date, MRZ code, signature), national identification number, date of birth, country of birth, citizenship, gender);
(b) verify your permanent residence (i.e. utility bills, banks statements, address).
Please note: At this stage, when you use fiat to purchase Virtual Currency on the Company website, your transaction will be processed by the actual service provider Simplex (owned by an electronic money institution UAB “Nuvei”). During this process, Simplex may ask you to provide personal data based on regulatory and legal requirements. The Company will not access, store or process this data.
6. How do we process your Personal Data?
The Company will only process your personal based on one or more of the following purposes:
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If it is necessary to use your personal data and data for any other reason which is not outlined above and if there are any additional terms and conditions which will apply, then you will be duly informed (i.e. via a pop-up message, push notification, email or otherwise). You will be asked to confirm whether you agree to these additional terms and conditions before we can proceed.
7. Contacting You
The Company or its affiliates, business partners, associates or other agents may, from time to time, contact you by telephone, email, or otherwise, for the purposes of offering you further information about the Company’s products and services, or to inform you of promotional offerings, or for marketing purposes, or to conduct market research, with your prior consent.
In case you do not agree to receive these marketing messages or calls, this will not have any impact on the provision of our services to you.
If you wish to opt-out of any further contact at any time and for whatever reason, you are entitled to do so by contacting the Company’s back-office department via email [email protected] and requesting in writing that you wish no further contact in relation to the above reasons.
8. Disclosure and Transfer of your Personal Data
Any personal data or other confidential information (including recordings, documents of a confidential nature, payment details and personal details) that you provide to the Company will be treated as confidential and it will not be disclosed to any third parties, except when necessary to provide you with our services & products, fulfil our contractual obligations and conduct our business operations as described herein.
Below are the cases under which we may disclose your personal data and why:
Entities and employees within the Group, third-party service providers, business partners, associates, affiliates, agents and business introducers are duly informed about the confidential nature of such information and we require that organizations to acknowledge and commit to the confidentiality of your personal data by means of contractual clauses, undertake to respect your right to privacy, safeguard your personal data and to comply with all the relevant data protections laws and this Policy.
9. Safeguard Measures
The Company has implemented physical, technical & organizational measures to secure and protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure, unlawful breach or from accidental destruction, loss, or damage. The personal data you provide to us is protected in many ways as follows:
While we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal data, you acknowledge that the transmission of information via the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot ensure or guarantee the confidentiality, security or integrity of any personal data transferred from you to us, or from us to you via the internet.
This Company shall not be responsible or liable (whether in civil, criminal or otherwise) under any circumstances for any amount or kind of loss or damage (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any anticipated loss of profit, loss of profit, loss of opportunity, loss of data, costs and fines and/or any special or incidental damages of any kind) that may result to you or arising from or connected in any way to cyber-attacks, computer viruses, system failures or malfunctions which may occur in connection with your use of the Company’s products, services, websites, devices, mobile applications, payment channels or any other method.
10. Our identification tools
In order to perform your identity verification, we use the services provided by our partner ”Finchekcer,SIA” (hereinafter “Finchecker”). The service provider takes the photo images or video recordings of your face and your ID document that you provide through a mobile application or a dedicated website using the camera. For more information on “Finchecker” please visit their official website:https://finchecker.eu/.
“Finchecker” solution is used for comparing live photographic data or video record of you and your ID document, to comply with legal obligations (e.g., implementation of the obligations under the Law on Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing of the Republic of Lithuania and other fraud and crime prevention purposes) and risk management obligations.
The result of the face similarity (match or mismatch) will be retained for as long as it is necessary to carry out verification and for the period required by anti-money laundering laws.
We ensure that your face similarity check is a process of comparing data acquired at the time of verification, i.e., this is a one-time user authorization by comparing person's photos to each other. Your facial template is not created, recorded, or stored. It is not possible to regenerate the raw data from retained information.
Using “Finchecker” services, personal data is used for your identification, since “insert” verifies the identity of the person in the identity document and the person captured in the photo. This process shall allow us to verify your identity more precisely and make the process quicker and easier to execute. If you do not feel comfortable with this identification method, you may contact us by e-mail at [email protected] for an alternative way to identify you.
In some cases, we may use automated decision-making which refers to a decision taken solely based on automated processing of your personal data.
Automated decision-making refers to the processing using, for example, a software code or an algorithm, which does not require human intervention.
We may use forms of automated decision making on processing your personal data for some services and products. You can request a manual review of the accuracy of an automated decision in case you are not satisfied with it.
For more information about your rights please see the section Your Rights regarding your Personal Data.
12. Storage and Retention Period of your Personal Data
Retention periods will be determined taking into account the type of information that is collected and the purpose for which it is collected, bearing in mind the requirements applicable to the situation and the need to destroy outdated, unused information at the earliest reasonable time. When personal data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, we will securely destroy the records. This means that we store your data for as long as it is necessary for provision of our services and as required by the retention requirements in laws and regulations. If the legislation of the Republic of Lithuania does not provide any applicable data retention period, it shall be determined by us, taking into account the legitimate purpose of the data retention, the legal basis and the principles of lawful processing of personal data.
The terms of data retention of the personal data for the purposes of the processing of the personal data as specified in this Policy are as follows:
In the cases when the terms of data keeping are indicated in the legislative regulations, the legislative regulations are applied.
We may retain your personal data for a longer period when:
Upon expiration of the retention period, we will delete and/or reliably and irrevocably depersonalize your data as soon as possible, within a reasonable time required to perform such action.
13. Transfer of Personal Data outside the EEA
European Union (EU) data protection rules apply to the European Economic Area (EEA) which includes all the EU countries and non-EU countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. If necessary, the Company may transfer your personal data to a country outside the EEA, for storage and/or for processing by staff operating outside the EEA who work for the Company and/or to our suppliers, business partners, associates, affiliates, agents, business introducers or service providers who are engaged on our behalf to fulfil our contractual obligations under the Client Agreement. Moreover, personal data we collect from you may be stored or processed in a jurisdiction that is different to the country in which the specific entity of the group you are dealing with is registered and established. Therefore, by entering into the Client Agreement with the Company and submitting your personal data, you agree to the transmittal, storing and processing of your personal data outside the EEA.
Nonetheless, when your personal data is transferred outside the EEA, the Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that the transfer is lawful, that the organization to whom your data are send provides data protection at an adequate level, or provided that receiving Company undertakes sufficient guarantees in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR to ensure that your personal data are treated securely.
Where this is not possible and we are required to disclose your personal data (i.e. because we are required by law or by virtue of a court order in place) we will do this as per the applicable legal and regulatory obligations.
The Company will only send personal data outside the EU/EEA to a country, in relation to which the European Commission has not made a decision regarding the adequacy of its security level and which does not provide the corresponding guarantees, if:
14. Cookies and Links
The Company’s data collection procedures include the placement of cookies for the purpose of gathering information and data about the manner in which you interact with the Company’s Website in order to provide you with a better experience and present our services and products according to your needs and preferences. Cookies are small pieces of data files send from our Website to your browser that is stored on your computer when using our Website and may include a unique identification number. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any other information about you, other than the information you choose to share with us.
The Company uses cookies on its Website. The Company does not link the information that it stores in cookies to any personally identifiable information that you submit while on the Company’s Website. You can choose if and how a cookie will be accepted by changing your preferences and options in the browser. If you choose to disable the cookies, you may still use the Company’s Website, but you will not be able to access some parts of the Company’s Website or fully use your customer account. We strongly advise you to read our Cookies Policy in order to fully understand how we use cookies and other web tracking technology via our Website.
Moreover, it should be noted that some of the Company’s business partners, agents, associates, business introducers or affiliates also use cookies on the Company’s Website. The Company has no access to, or control over these cookies therefore it will not be liable for misuse of loss of personal data resulting from these cookies. When you use the Company’s Website you may be able to link to other websites. This Policy does not apply to those other sites. The Company encourages you to read and understand the privacy policies on these other sites.
15. Your Rights regarding your Personal Data
In line with the provisions and requirements of the GDPR, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
This will not stop us however from storing your personal data and may have an effect on the provision of our services rendered to you and/or may result in account closure.
You can submit your request to make use of the above rights to your personal data by contacting our Data Protection Officer (DPO) through email at the following address: [email protected] . Your request shall be fulfilled, or fulfilment of your requests shall be refused by specifying the reasons for such refusal, within thirty (30) days from the date of your request free of charge. Taking into account the complexity or number of requests, the Company may extend the response time to two (2) months. If you require additional copies, we may charge a reasonable administrative fee based on actual costs incurred. The Company may decline your request if it is clearly unjustified or excessive, particularly because of their repetition on a regular basis.
The Company is not liable for the use, misuse, or loss of personal data (or otherwise) on the Company’s Website or from the content of websites to which the Company’s Website links to and the Company has no access or control over the use or protection of information provided by you or collected by those sites. Whenever you elect to link to a co-branded website or to a linked website, you may be asked to provide registration or other personal data. Please note that such information is recorded by the third party and will be governed by the Privacy Policy of that third party.
You are responsible for keeping their login credential confidential and not to disclose it to any unauthorized third party. If any person gains access to your account and/or personal data, the Company will not be held responsible or liable for any damage that occurs, or any unlawful or unauthorized use of your personal data due to misuse or misplacement of your login credentials, negligent or malicious intervention (or otherwise) by you or due to your acts or omissions or by a person authorized by you (whether or to that authorization is permitted by the terms of our legal relationship with you).
17. Consent
The collection, use and storage of your personal data is based on your consent. By entering into an agreement with the Company, establishing a customer account and accessing the Company’s Website, portals or payment gateways, you agree and consent to the collection, use and storage of all the personal data that you supply to the Company by the means described herein. In addition, please note that by downloading the Company’s platform(s) and allowing cookie settings in your web browser also constitutes consent of this Policy. You may revoke your consent at any time however, any personal data processed before the receipt of your revocation will not be affected.
18. Data Protection Officer (DPO)
If you have any questions regarding this Policy, wish to make a complaint or exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data you may contact our DPO as follows:
Via email at: dpo@coinon.io
With registered post at: 2nd Floor, T.Narbuto str. 5, Vilnius LT 08105, Lithuania
19. Amendments to this Policy
The Company will review this Policy at least annually, or whenever a material change occurs in the law, or in the Company’s internal procedures/arrangements, or whenever the Company deems it necessary for any reason and will duly notify you of such changes by posting an updated version of this Policy on its Website. If, however, we make material changes or significant we will notify you promptly by other means.
You hereby accept that the posting of an updated Policy on the Company’s Website will serve as the actual notice of the Company to you. The Company encourages you to periodically review this Policy so that you are always aware of what information the Company collects, how it uses it and to whom it may disclose it, in accordance with the provisions of this Policy.