Goin legal
Privacy Policy
Goin is a mobile and/or tablet application that allows you to build a savings habit, invest easily without prior knowledge, and get rewards for your purchases. We want to be transparent with you and for you to clearly know what we do with your personal data when you register and use the services of the Goin app.
Access and use of the Goin app is regulated by the General T&Cs and this Privacy Policy in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation 679/2016 (GDPR) and the Organic Law 3/2018 on Personal Data Protection and guarantee of digital rights (LOPDGDD). We inform you that the use of the Goin application requires the acceptance of this company's Privacy Policy, and if you do not agree with the content of these legal texts, you should not use the Goin app.
1. DATA CONTROLLER
Prakma Innovation, S.L.U. (hereinafter, "Prakma" or the "Controller"), with address at Joan d'Àustria, 126, 5-2, Sant Martí, 08018 Barcelona. You can contact us through the email gdpr@goin.app.
2. PURPOSES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PROCESSING
You have the right to know what personal data we have about you, why we collect it, how long we keep it, and what we use it for. To this end, we explain step by step the process of collecting your information, subsequent processing that we carry out on it, and the applicable retention periods for each of our purposes.
a) Registration on the Goin app
It is necessary for you to have a personal account in the Goin app to access the services it offers, among other reasons, based on the legal basis of the execution of the contractual relationship you maintain with Prakma for the access and use of the Goin app. Furthermore, this information is necessary to comply with our regulatory obligations and guarantee the security of your information as we inform you later. Therefore, during the registration process, we will ask you to provide us with:
i. Mobile phone number to link with your personal account and to which we will send a verification code during your registration. ii. Name and surname. iii. Contact email to link your personal account to. iv. Date of birth. v. Access PIN that you must enter during registration and that will be linked to your user account for greater security when accessing the Goin app.
This information is necessary to (a) generate your personal Goin user account based on the contractual relationship between you and Prakma for the use of the Goin app, in accordance with our General T&Cs; (b) guarantee the security of your future accesses and prevent any misuse of your personal account and the services of the Goin app, based on our legitimate interest in guaranteeing our users a safe and quality service; (c) verify your identity to comply with our regulatory obligations regarding the prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism; (d) communicate with you when necessary for the execution of the contracted services, including by electronic means (limited to service communications, not commercial, unless you give your express consent for it).
b) Use of the Goin app services
To be able to use the investment and rewards systems that we make available to users through the Goin app, based on the execution of the contractual relationship you maintain with Prakma and to comply with our regulatory obligations, we will need you to add your bank and card details so that they are synchronized to your personal account and we can provide you with the services you request through the Goin app.
i. Card number, expiration date and CVV.
This information is necessary to (a) make crypto asset purchases; (b) set up automatic contribution methods; (c) purchase cashback cards and (d) contract a subscription plan. Therefore, if we do not have this information, we will not be able to execute the investment and rewards services that you contract through the use of the Goin app.
ii. Personal identification document (i.e., passport, driver's license, residence card)
At the time of entering your first contribution or making your first purchase, we will ask you to provide us with a photograph of your DNI, NIE, passport, or driver's license to verify your identity and to comply with the regulations on the prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism. At the same time, we will ask you to grant us access to your mobile or device camera that you are using to perform a video-selfie. We will also ask for your DNI or similar document that identifies you to verify your identity when you request a withdrawal of money to your bank account.
iii. Bank entity and online banking access credentials
This information is necessary to execute the investment services that you contract through the use of the Goin app and provide you with the best advantages and commercial discounts on your purchases, such as (a) reading your bank account movements to automatically apply discounts and refunds on your purchases, as well as the automatic contribution methods of retention and/or rounding that you configure yourself from the Goin app thanks to the linking of your card; (b) verifying your identity when you wish to withdraw the money saved in your personal account, to comply with our legal obligations and guarantee the security of your money.
With these credentials, we can request access to your bank account from your bank in accordance with PSD2 Regulations. The access credentials you provide us are read-only, so no operations can be carried out on your account that you have not previously ordered us to do.
iv. Data on your banking operations.
This information is necessary (a) to be able to apply automatic contribution and investment methods, monitoring your bank movements is necessary, since they are based on your expenses, income, risk profile for investment operations, etc.; (b) we apply "cashback" programs in which you will receive refunds for a percentage of the price you have paid when making purchases at one of our partners' establishments, so we need to know the transaction details for validation and to offer you the benefits of the offer (visit our General T&Cs to learn about the "Cashback" method); (c) we also help you monitor your expenses to be able to offer you insights or advice so that you can achieve your goals optimally.
v. Data of your contacts for the referral programme
The referral code, in the General T&C, can be shared with third parties and thus you can obtain different benefits, as long as you comply with the requirements defined in said General T&C. To do so, we need to access the contacts on your device and thus make it easier for you to send the code. When you open the Goin app for the first time on your device, we will ask you to give us access to your contacts. If you accept, we inform you that said access is only for the purposes detailed herein and that these data are not stored or shared with third parties.
vi. Data on your use of the Goin app and its services.
In accordance with the previous points, to improve the execution of the services that we offer you through the Goin app, and in accordance with the applicable laws, we need to collect information on your bank accounts and payment cards, savings goals linked to your Goin account, and your position relative to the financial and investment products that you have procured through the Goin app. We may use this information to (a) send you alerts on movements, annotations, accumulated savings and/or liquidity needs as part of the execution of the Goin app's services; (b) develop a profile of financial behavior according to your level of income and expenses. We will not use your profile for automated decision-making that may affect you legally or in any other significant way, unless you have given us your express consent for a specific purpose (i.e., procurement of an automated investment service). However, you will always be informed of the status of the services you procure through the Goin app, being able to take control at any time; (c) inspire other Goin users through the visibility of certain actions in the social feed as also indicated in the General T&C.
c) Processing for advertising purposes
Provided you give us your consent, we can keep you informed of the new products and services that we offer in the Goin app, including through electronic means, or present you with offers from our partners for the purchase of products and services that you incorporate as savings goals, in addition to providing you with periodic information through our Newsletter service. You can withdraw your consent at any time and we will unsubscribe you from our mailing list.
In addition, in the event that you are a customer, Law 34/2002, of July 11, 2002, on information society services and electronic commerce allows us to send you information related to the services you have previously contracted with the Goin app. In any case, we will only send you information about our services when it is clearly interesting and truly beneficial to you, offering you the possibility to oppose it in each communication or communicating with Prakma through the contact means indicated in this Policy, in accordance with the regulations of services of the information society.
d) Other compatible purposes
Based on our legitimate interest, we may anonymize personal data to obtain information about which products and services work best on the Goin app and are most interesting to our users, in order to enhance or improve them, as well as to conduct statistical and research studies on the consumer and financial sector, directly or through our partners.
For these purposes we have implemented protection measures to ensure the confidentiality of your information and privacy of your identity, such as selection of relevant and strictly necessary information for each of the studies that we will perform, aggregate data processing, as well as the irreversible anonymization of data through encryption and unlinking of any information with your identification data and blurring of accurate data by applying rounding techniques, avoiding any form of re-identification and linking such data with your identity. This processing is based on Prakma's legitimate interest in improving the services provided to its customers and does not prejudice the data protection rights of the data subjects. If you would like to object to such processing or to know more details about the weighting test of the legitimate interest carried out by Prakma, you can request it via email: gdpr@goin.app.
In cases where we have to share such information with third party partners Parkma for these purposes, we will strengthen the implementation of these measures, in order to ensure that no third party can access your personal information, preventing to know details about your spending habits, banking information or your cards or any form of identification or linking of information with your person. We are aware of the technical difficulty involved in guaranteeing anonymization in the long term, so, in any case, as a sign of our commitment to provide you with transparent information and respect your data protection rights, we periodically review the anonymization processes to identify risks, implement measures to mitigate them and thus constantly reinforce your privacy.
3. RECIPIENTS OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Your personal data may be communicated to the following third parties, with whom we have signed collaboration agreements in order to offer the services of the Goin app. In addition, we have contracts that regulate the communication and processing of personal data of Goin users, in order to ensure an adequate level of protection, even when these partners are located outside the European Economic Area (EEA), by signing the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission to legitimize international data transfers. In particular, we will communicate your data with the following entities:
a) Prisma Payments EP SA, as a payment institution authorized by the Bank of Spain (no. 6849) for the provision of all types of payment services. Prisma Payments EP SA. acts as the data controller for your personal data for the payment services associated with the use of the Goin app, so they have access to all the necessary data for identity verification (know your client), banking and operational data, whose processing is necessary to comply with the obligations of prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism.
b) Kernel Labs, S.L., as a provider of payment gateway technology services. Kernel Labs, S.L., is an entity linked to the same business group of Prakma that has developed a technology that allows Prakma to manage the money movements between your bank account and the Goin app accounts.
c) Prakma Finance, S.L., as a provider of Fintech, technology and intermediation services. Prakma Finance, S.L., is an entity linked to the same business group of Prakma that facilitating various in-app activities, including intermediation services like cryptocurrency exchange, instant SEPA transfers, inactivity, and subscription fees.
d) Bitstamp Europe SA., a company authorized and regulated in Luxembourg that provides the cryptocurrency exchange platform services used by the Goin app for investment services in cryptocurrencies. Prakma will execute your buy and sell orders that you place from your Goin account through Bitstamp, which may have your data for the fulfillment of its legal obligations in financial regulatory matters, prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing and, in particular, to execute the service linked to your order to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. You can find more information in Bitstamp's Terms and Conditions and Bitstamp's Privacy Policy.
e) Bitcoinforme, S.L., a company authorized and regulated in Spain that offers the Trading Platform services used by the Goin app for cryptocurrency investment services. Prakma will execute your buy and sell orders that you place from your Goin account through Bitcoinforme, which may have your data for the fulfillment of its legal obligations in financial regulatory matters, prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism and, in particular, to execute the service linked to your cryptocurrency buy and sell order.
f) Paylead, SAS., Partner of the Cashback program, which consists in receiving remuneration for purchases you make at the merchants that publish their offers within the Cashback program. In this case, Paylead may securely process your banking data (previously pseudonymized by Prakma) as data controller in relation to the management services of the Cashback program and for the performance of aggregate statistical studies of various commercial sectors in order to provide the user with personalized Cashback offers (based on consumption habits), identify transactions eligible for cashback and generate and pay the user's cashback amounts. For more details, please consult Paylead's Privacy Policy.
g) OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research platform, which provides an advanced language model, ChatGPT technology, to power the personal assistant chatbot within the app in order to prepare personalized assistance and address user-requested inquiries. In this case, OpenAI may process your data (previously pseudonymized by Prakma) as a data controller in relation to the analysis of your account-related matters such as transaction history to detect user preferences and financial patterns. Prakma reinforces its use of in-house encryption techniques and breaks any connection between encrypted data and your identifying information, aiming to achieve irreversible anonymization of your personal data. For more information, you can consult OpenAI's Terms and Conditions and their Privacy Policy.
h) Google, an international technology company, which provides an advanced language model, Bart technology, to power the personal assistant chatbot within the app in order to prepare personalized assistance and address user-requested inquiries. In this case, OpenAI may process your data (previously pseudonymized by Prakma) as a data controller in relation to the analysis of your account-related matters such as transaction history to detect user preferences and financial patterns. Prakma reinforces its use of in-house encryption techniques and breaks any connection between encrypted data and your identifying information, aiming to achieve irreversible anonymization of your personal data. For more information, you can consult Google's Terms and Conditions and their Privacy Policy.
i) Profielectra S.L., hereinafter referred to as Selectra, a partner providing advice on electricity, gas, internet, and mobile tariffs. In this case, Selectra may process your data (previously pseudonymized by Prakma) as the data controller in relation to tariff advisory services and for the conduct of aggregated statistical studies in different commercial sectors. For more information, you can consult Selectra's Terms and Conditions and their Privacy Policy or you will be provided with all the information about the processing of your personal data at the moment Selectra gets in touch with you.
j) Make Opinion GmbH, hereinafter referred to as CPX Research, a partner providing paid surveys from reputable brands within the Goin app. In this case, Goin acts as an intermediate platform between the user and CPX Research where the user deliberately signs up to answer surveys in exchange for in-app rewards. In order to use this service, the user must first accept CPX Research's Terms and Conditions and their Privacy Policy. Throughout the survey answering process the user will insert information to answer questions which will be kept and stored by CPX Research. Even if the user deletes their Goin account, they should always contact CPX Research directly to manage the processing of their data. Goin does not and will never share any user personal data with CPX Research.
k) Adjoe GmbH, hereinafter referred to as Adjoe, a partner providing rewarded microtasks through different games and goals. In this case, Goin acts as an intermediate platform between the user and Adjoe where the user deliberately signs up to play and complete microtasks in exchange for in-app rewards. In order to use this service, the user must activate 'Application Tracking' in their mobile device and then accept Adjoe's Terms and Conditions and their Privacy Policy. If throughout the playing process Adjoe requests information, it will be the user who will insert it which will be kept and stored by Adjoe. Even if the user deletes their Goin account, they should always contact Adjoe directly to manage the processing of their data. Goin does not and will never share any user personal data with Adjoe.
l) Analytical partners with whom we collaborate to carry out statistical studies and market research in order to generate internal knowledge in Prakma by applying R&D processes. Our collaborations for these purposes are based on the aggregation of data and the application of in-house encryption techniques and the breaking of any connection between the encrypted data and your identification data, in order to achieve an irreversible anonymization of your personal data.
m) Banking aggregation partners who will be in charge of guarding the banking credentials and will function as a technological channel in the interaction with your bank for the connection of your account and the recurrent reading of banking transactions. See Morpheus Aiolos S.L's Terms and Conditions, Tink's Terms and Conditions.
n) Other service providers, such as hosting and cloud storage services (Google cloud servers in Belgium), email services, user validation service providers (Veriff, Twilio, etc.), gift card providers, business management tool providers, such as ERP, CRM, analytical tools, email marketing and contact solutions, as well as Prakma auditing firms or potential investors in the context of due diligence activities prior to investment processes or corporate structuring.
o) Successor entities in changes of control: In the event that Prakma participates in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets or bankruptcy, your personal data may be transferred as part of such transaction to the successor entity. In such case, we will inform users before the information is transferred and become subject to a different privacy policy, guaranteeing at all times your rights of access, rectification and deletion.
p) Public authorities, fraud prevention agencies, credit reference agencies, Security Forces and Corps, Judges and Courts, Bank of Spain or any other entity to which we are obliged to provide your data by law.
Prakma reserves the right to change suppliers and partners when it deems appropriate, and to use for the provision of the services of the Goin app any other collaborations or services of third parties available on the market at any time.
4. DATA RETENTION PERIOD
We will retain your data for as long as your personal account in the Goin app remains active. In any case, if you wish to cancel your personal account, once you have withdrawn your funds deposited in your Goin account, both savings and investment, we will proceed to block your data through encryption and, in accordance with data protection regulations, limiting any access to the minimum necessary for the case that we are required by public authorities, judges and courts, as well as regulatory control authorities and data protection as the Spanish Data Protection Agency during the prescriptive period of legal responsibilities for the processing of data reported here.
In particular, such retention periods shall be:
In any case, such data retention periods in blocked status will be subject to the 10-year retention period established in art. 25 of Law 10/2010, of April 28, 2010, on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing.
5. YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS
Prakma guarantees in any case the exercise of your rights of access, rectification, deletion, opposition, limitation of processing and portability of data, as well as not to be subject to automated decisions, putting at your disposal an email address (gdpr@goin.app) to which you can send your requests for the exercise of rights, indicating in the subject "ARCOPOL" (Access, Rectification, Cancellation, Portability, Opposition and Limitation of Processing).
In accordance with the applicable regulations on data protection, such request must contain the following data of the applicant: name and surname, address for notification purposes, and a photocopy of the National Identity Card or any other valid document that proves your identity, as well as a description of the request in which your request is specified. Any request that does not include the aforementioned data will not be processed by Prakma.
Prakma may ask you for additional information to verify your identity before proceeding to respond to your request.
You may withdraw your consent at any time for those processing operations and purposes set out above that have a lawful basis in consent. This withdrawal of consent will stop any future processing for that purpose, but will not render unlawful any previous processing carried out while your consent was in force.
You also have the right to complain to the Spanish Data Protection Agency if you consider that the processing of your personal data by Prakma has not been adequate or does not comply with the applicable regulations.