FinGoal Privacy StatementAt FinGoal, we pride ourselves on our commitment to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement describes in greater detail the privacy practices of FinGoal Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries, meaning companies related by common ownership or control (“us,” “we,” “our”) responsible for collecting and maintaining certain information collected about you.
If you have questions or complaints regarding our Privacy Statement or practices, please contact us as detailed under the How to Contact Us heading below.
1. WHEN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT APPLIES. If a Service you're using links to this Privacy Statement, this Statement applies to you.
This Privacy Statement (“Statement”) applies to our sites, products, and services (collectively, "Services") that link to this Statement. FinGoal Inc. is the responsible entity for all Personal Information subject to this Statement for our Services targeted to US customers. We do not currently provide our Services outside the US.
2. WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION. We want to be clear about what information we collect and how we use it to deliver our Services to you, improve your financial life, operate our business, and help make our Services useful, more intelligent, and work better for you. We do not sell or share your Personal Information with third parties for their own commercial uses without your consent.
a) Types of Information We Collect. In connection with accessing our Services, we may collect information from you which can be used to identify you ("Personal Information"), such as your name, shipping/billing address, email address, phone, username and password.
We collect information when you register or open an account, sign in, pay a bill, purchase a Service, call us for support, or give us feedback. We may also get information from other companies or third parties, such as when you sync a third party account or service with your FinGoal Service, or when we may use service providers to supplement the Personal Information you give us (e.g., validate your mailing address) to help us maintain the accuracy of your data and provide you with better service. Finally, we also collect content or other information that you may provide or create when you interact with our Services.
We may also automatically collect certain usage information when you access our Services ("Usage Data"), such as Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses, log files, unique device identifiers, pages viewed, browser type, any links you click on to leave or interact with our Services, and other usage information collected from cookies and other tracking technologies. For example, we collect IP addresses to track and aggregate non-personal information, such as using IP addresses to monitor the regions from which users navigate to our Services. We also collect IP addresses from users when they log into the Services as part of our log-in and security features. We may also, when you enable location-based Services, collect Global Positioning System (GPS) location data and/or motion data.
Our Services may change over time and we may introduce new features that may collect new or different types of information.
b) How We Use Your Information. Unless prohibited by law, regulation, or a contractual obligation, we may use your information, including your Personal Information, for the following purposes:
Account Registration. We may use your name, address, phone number, and email address to register your FinGoal Account for certain Services we provide and to communicate important information to you. We may obtain additional Personal Information about you, such as address change information, from commercially available sources, to keep our records current. If you set up an administrator account that may be accessed by people other than you, please note that they may see and have the ability to change or delete your Personal Information.
Communicate with You and Tell You About Other Services. We may use your information to communicate with you about our Services and to give you offers for third party products and services that we think may be of use to you. Please see below under "What You Can Do to Manage Your Privacy" for the choices you have regarding these communications.
To Improve Services and Develop New Services. We will use your information to personalize or customize your experience and the Service, develop new features or services, and to improve the overall quality of FinGoal's Services.
To Provide Our Services and Operate Our Business. We may use your information to operate our business, including providing Services you requested, provide you with support related to our Services, and to help us protect our Services, including to combat fraud and protect your information.
Customer Service and Technical Support. We may use your name, address, phone number, email address, how you interact with our Services, and information about your computer configuration to resolve questions you may have about our Services and to follow up with you about your experience. We also offer various Internet chat services, for example, to speak with an FinGoal support representative or tax advisor. Internet Chat transmissions are encrypted but you should not supply more Personal Information, including tax data, than is required to address your specific issue. A transcript of the session is retained to resolve questions or issues related to our Services.
Feedback. We may use any information you volunteer in surveys you answer for us and combine them with answers from other customers in order to better understand our Services and how we may improve them. Answering any survey is optional.
Research, Including Publishing or Sharing Combined Information from Many Users, But Only in a Way that Would Not Allow You or Any Other Person to be Identified. Only in a way that would not allow you or any other person to be identified, we may prepare and share information about our customers with third parties, such as advertisers or partners, for research, academic, marketing and/or promotional purposes. For example, we may share demographic data that describes the percentage of our customers who use mobile services or who use a particular operating system. We or our third party partners may publicly report the aggregated findings of the research or analysis, but only in a way that would not allow you or any other person to be identified.
c) FinGoal Single Sign-On (FinGoal Account). FinGoal Single Sign-on is a Service that allows you to sign-in to a variety of FinGoal Services with a single FinGoal Account. We will collect certain information for security purposes in order to verify your authorized access to an account or to reset your password if you cannot access your FinGoal account. Some Services may require added security and you may be asked to provide additional information. The email address and password that you use to sign up for an FinGoal account are your "credentials" that you will use to authenticate with our network. We assign a unique ID number to your credentials to track you and your associated information. FinGoal Services do not allow sharing of accounts between users or individuals.
d) How We Share Your Personal Information. From time to time, we may need to share your Personal Information with others.
Third Party Service Providers. We may share your information, including Personal Information and Usage Data, with third party service providers who perform various functions to enable us to provide our Services and help us operate our business, such as website design, sending email communications, fraud detection and prevention, customer care, or performing analytics. Our contracts with these third parties require them to maintain the confidentiality of the Personal Information we provide to them, only act on our behalf and under our instructions, and not use Personal Information for purposes other than the product or service they're providing to us or on our behalf.
Response to Subpoenas and Other Legal Requests. We may share your information with courts, law enforcement agencies, or other government bodies when we have a good faith belief we're required or permitted to do so by law, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, to protect our company, or to respond to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, or other law enforcement request.
Protection of FinGoal and Others. We may share account information, Personal Information and Usage Data when we believe it is appropriate to enforce or apply our products' Terms of Service and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of FinGoal, our Services, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. This does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing Personal Information of our customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Statement.
Reporting to Credit Bureaus. We may share your information with credit bureaus, consumer reporting agencies, and card associations. Late payments, missed payments, or other defaults on your account may be reflected in your credit report and consumer report. We may also share your information with other companies, lawyers, credit bureaus, agents, government agencies, and card associations in connection with issues related to fraud, credit, or debt collection.
Information Sharing Between FinGoal Entities. We share your information, including your Personal Information, with and among our affiliates and subsidiaries, except where prohibited by law, regulation, or a contractual obligation. The protections provided in this Privacy Statement apply across all FinGoal entities. Affiliates and subsidiaries means companies related by common ownership or control. The reasons why we share your information include for our everyday business purposes, such as to: process your transactions, maintain your accounts, operate our business, facilitate FinGoal Single Sign On to your FinGoal Account, etc. We will also share your information in order for us to be able to offer our products and services to you. We may also share information about your creditworthiness, your transactions and experience so that we can operate our business effectively, detect and prevent fraud, and improve our Services.
Sale of Our Business. If we sell, merge, or transfer any part of our business, we may be required to share your information. If so, you will be asked if you'd like to stop receiving promotional information following any change of control.
With your Consent. Other than as set out above, we will provide you with notice and the opportunity to choose when your Personal Information may be shared with other third parties.
e) Syncing, Linking, Connecting Your Bank Account or Other Third Party Services with Your FinGoal Service.
You may choose to sync certain FinGoal Services with information from other financial accounts. To sync your financial account information, we must access your online account with your financial institution. We will request your user name, password, and any other login bank data that you have set up with your financial institution to enable access. We use this information to update and maintain the account information you download, to assist with the download process, and to enhance the Services we may provide in the future.
We work with other companies or developers to offer you products and services and you may choose to sync, link or connect other third party services with your FinGoal Service. Sometimes FinGoal may let you know about the service or product, or another company may let you know about an FinGoal service or product. It will be clear who is referring the service or product, and who is providing the service or product. If you choose to accept these services, providing your consent to either the third party or to us, we may exchange your information, including your Personal Information, as well as information about how you interact with each company's service or product. This exchange of information is necessary to maintain business operations and to provide the ongoing service you've requested. By requesting or accepting these products or services, you are permitting us to provide your information, including your Personal Information, to the other party.
3. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO MANAGE YOUR PRIVACY. You can view and edit information that identifies you online through your FinGoal Service. How you can access and control information that identifies you will depend on which Services you use. You have a choice about the use of information that identifies you, marketing communications you receive from us, and our use of cookies and other tracking technologies.
a) Managing Marketing Communications From Us. We will honor your choices when it comes to receiving marketing communications from us.
You have the following choices if you have been receiving marketing communications from us that you no longer wish to receive:
Click the "unsubscribe" link in the email or newsletter you received.
Please contact the Customer Service team at support@fingoal.com
Adjust your preferences in your FinGoal account settings.
For SMS messages, reply "STOP" or follow the instructions in the message or settings to discontinue the Service.
Subject to your control, our mobile applications may send push notifications to your mobile device. If you are receiving push notifications and no longer wish to receive these types of communications, you may turn them off at the device level.
Remember that even if you choose not to receive marketing communications from us, we will continue to send you mandatory service or transactional communications.
b) Updating Your Personal Information. In connection with your right to manage your Personal Information you provide to us, you may access, update, change, correct or request deletion of your information either through the Service or through our customer support. You can reach our customer support by using the contact information provided in the "How to Contact Us" section of this statement.
c) Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies. The following is a high level summary of our practices and your controls for cookies and other tracking technologies.
In accordance with applicable law, FinGoal and our service providers may use commonly-used tools to recognize your visit and track your interactions with our Services such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, local shared objects, and similar technologies (collectively, "Cookies"). Sometimes this tracking is necessary in order for us to provide you the Service you requested. Other times, we combine Usage Data collected from Cookies with that of other customers to improve your and other customers' experience. You have control over some of the Usage Data we collect from Cookies and how we use it. Information on changing your browser settings to opt out of Cookies can be found in your browser settings.
In accordance with the
Digital Advertising Alliance Principles, FinGoal also uses advertising networks and other third parties to display advertising on our website or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partners may place Cookies on our Services and unaffiliated websites in order to serve advertisements that may be relevant to you based on your browsing activities and interests, and to determine the effectiveness of such advertisements. If you wish to opt out of interest-based advertising, click
here.
You also have the following additional choices to opt-out of certain tracking through Cookies for such purposes:
Visit the
Digital Advertising Alliance's or
Network Advertising Initiative'sopt-out page.
Clicking hereto opt out of targeted ads on Facebook.
Clicking hereto opt out of Google Analytics for display advertising or to
customize Google Display Network ads. Please note that even if you opt-out of such Cookies or otherwise opt-out of interest based advertising, you may still receive advertisements, they just won't be tailored to your interests. Also, if you opt-out and later delete your Cookies, use a different browser, or buy a new computer, you may need to renew your opt-out choices.
d) Do Not Track. Like most other companies, our Services are not currently configured to respond to browsers' "Do Not Track" signals because at this time no formal "Do Not Track" standard has been adopted. Click
herefor more information on "Do Not Track."
e) Social Media Features. Many of our Services may use social media features, such as Facebook sharing ("Social Media Features"). These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting within our Service, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social Media Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Services. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the company providing the relevant Social Media Features.
4. DATA RETENTION AND YOUR ACCESS RIGHTSa) Data Retention. In accordance with and as permitted by applicable law and regulations, we will retain your information as long as necessary to serve you, to maintain your account for as long as your account is active, or as otherwise needed to operate our business. When you close your account, we may continue to communicate with you about our Services, give you important business updates that may affect you, and let you know about products and services that may interest you, unless you have opted out of receiving marketing communications. We may also continue to use some of your information for business purposes and to improve our offerings or in some cases to develop new ones. We will retain and use your information as required by applicable regulations and FinGoal's records and information management policies to comply with our legal and reporting obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, complete any outstanding transactions and for the detection and prevention of fraud.
b) Your Access Rights.
If you have created an online account with us and would like to update the Personal Information you have provided to us, you can access your account to view and make changes or corrections to your Personal Information.
EU individuals and Swiss individuals have certain rights to access Personal Information about them, and to limit use and disclosure of their Personal Information. With our Privacy Shield certification (discussed below in Section 8), FinGoal has committed to respect those rights. If you wish to request access, to limit use, or to limit disclosure, please contact us at
privacy@FinGoal.com. or the mailing address provided under "How to Contact Us" and please provide the name of the FinGoal customer who submitted your Personal Information to our services. We will refer your requests to that customer, and will support them as needed in responding to your request.
5. SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION. Keeping your Information safe is important to us.
We provide reasonable and appropriate security measures in connection with securing Personal Information we collect.
For example, we:
Constantly work to update our security practices to implement accepted best methods to protect your Personal Information, and review our security procedures carefully.
Comply with applicable laws and security standards.
Securely transmit your sensitive Personal Information.
Train our staff and require them to safeguard your data.
Transmit, store, protect, and access all cardholder information in compliance with the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standards.
6. FOR OUR GLOBAL CUSTOMERS. We currently only provide services to customers inside the United States for accounts.
7. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS. In accordance with and as permitted by applicable law and regulations, we reserve the right to transfer your information, process and store it outside your country of residence to wherever we or our third party service providers operate.
8. EU-US PRIVACY SHIELD. FinGoal does not operate outside of the United States right now.
9. HOW TO CONTACT US. If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Statement, please contact us. We want your feedback and comments.
Via Email. If you have questions or complaints regarding our Privacy Statement or practices, please contact us by email at
privacy@FinGoal.com. .
10. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY STATEMENTS. From time to time we may change or update our Privacy Statements. We reserve the right to make changes or updates at any time. More information about how we will notify you is below.
If we make material changes to the way we process your Personal Information, we will provide you notice via our Service or by other communication channels, such as by email or community post. Please review any changes carefully. If you object to any of the changes and no longer wish to use our Services, you may close your account(s). All changes are effective immediately upon posting and your use of our Service after a notice of material change or posting of an updated Privacy Statement shall constitute your consent to all changes.
11. COLLECTION AND USE OF CHILDREN'S PERSONAL INFORMATION. We do not knowingly collect information from minors.
FinGoal Services are intended for and directed to adults. Our Services are not directed to minors and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from minors.
12. YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS.We do not share your Personal Information with third parties for their marketing purposes without your consent.
13. FINGOAL.FinGoal builds personal financial management services. In addition to what’s described here, the following is more detail about how we collect, share, and protect, the information, including Personal Information, you provide to us.
a) Information Collection. The types of personal information we collect and how we will collect your information will depend on the FinGoal products and services you use (e.g. FinSights, the mobile app.). The information we collect may include:
Identification info (e.g. name, phone and address);
Credit score and credit history;
Account balance and payment/transaction history;
Registration information;
Bill and payment information; and
Third party information and content (e.g. such as your bank and other financial account information when you sync your bank and other accounts into your FinGoal account).
We may obtain and share information about you from third parties, such as credit bureaus and identity and device identification services and compare this information for accuracy and verify it with third parties.
b) Information Sharing.
We need to use and share your information to run our everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons why we may share your Personal Information, and whether you can limit the sharing.
For our everyday business purposes – such as to process your bill transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, perform creditworthiness and solvency checks, combat fraud, or report to credit bureaus. We will use and share your Personal Information for our everyday business purposes. You may not limit this type of sharing.
For our marketing purposes – to offer you our products and services to you. We will share your information with our vendors to offer you FinGoal products and services. To learn more about how to opt-out of marketing from us, please see our
Privacy Statement.
For joint marketing with other partners and financial companies. From time to time we may partner with other partners and financial institutions to create or offer a product. We will not share your information unless you have told us it is okay. If you choose to share your information with another party, please note that these companies have their own privacy policies.
For our affiliates and subsidiaries everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness. We do not share your information for these purposes unless you tell us it is okay.
For our affiliates to market to you. We do not share your information with our affiliates or subsidiaries so they can directly market their services to you unless you have told us it is okay.
For non-affiliates to market to you. We do not share your information to third parties for them to directly market to you unless you have told us that it is okay. If you choose to share your information with another party, please note that these companies have their own privacy policies.
Limiting Data Sharing. Federal laws give you the right to limit data sharing for: our affiliates everyday business purposes where we provide information about your creditworthiness; affiliates and non-affiliates from using your information to market to you. State law and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.
c) Additional Important Information. Users with VT Mailing Address: We will not share your creditworthiness with our affiliates, except as permitted or required by applicable law. Users with CA Mailing Address: We will not share information we collect about you with non-affiliates, unless the law allows. Users with NV Mailing Addresses: We are providing you this notice pursuant to Nevada law. If you prefer not to receive marketing communications from us, you can email us at privacy@FinGoal.com
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