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These Terms and Conditions set out your legal rights and obligations in using the MyRemit Money Transfer Service, the MyRemit Digital Money Account and Airtime Top Up. We recommend you read these carefully.
If you use the Digital Money Account, your right to redeem E-money is explained in clause 9.10. Any fees payable on redemption are explained in our Portal or on our Website.
In these Terms and Conditions:
"Airtime Top Up" means the service which allows you to credit a mobile phone account with credit which can be used by the mobile phone account holder to make calls, send text or picture messages and use data. It is credited to the Payee's mobile phone account typically within a few seconds.
"Business Day" means any day on which we are open for business for the execution of Payment Instructions and/or Payment Requests.
"Destination Country" means the country in which:
"Digital Money Account" means a function in the Portal which stores E-money in a non-interest bearing account maintained by us for you, and which provides such features as we may make available from time to time. These features may include (without limitation) the ability to:
The Digital Money Account is held and administered in the United Kingdom.
"E-money" means electronically stored monetary value.
"Instruction" means a Payment Request or a Payment Instruction, as the case may be.
"Local Taxes" means any taxes or charges payable in the Destination Country.
"Money Transfer" means an electronic money transfer using our Services, either within the same country or to another country. "Payee" means either:
"Payment Instrument" includes a payment device such as a debit card, credit card, or Digital Money Account.
"Payment Request" means a specific instruction from you (or a Third Party Provider on your behalf) to a Sender, asking them to send you money, or to send E-money to your Digital Money Account.
"Payout Amount" means the amount paid, after any foreign exchange conversion, to you or to a Payee, exclusive of the Service Fee and/or any other fees, charges or costs we reasonably incur.
"Payment Instruction" means a specific instruction from you (or a Third Party Provider on your behalf), using the Portal, to send:
"Portal" means any app, website, interface or other digital portal we provide from time to time to enable you to use our Services under the Agreement.
"Prohibited" means activities which involve narcotics, steroids, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, drug paraphernalia, tobacco, seeds, plants, animals, military or semi-military goods or services, weapons (including dual-use goods), adult services or content, bitcoin or other cryptocurrency, binary options or gambling services or any other activities that are prohibited by our policies as amended from time to time.
"Sender" means either:
"Services" means any or all of the following services:
"Service Fee" means our fee described as such on our Website from time to time. Other taxes (for example, Local Taxes) and costs may exist that are not paid through us or imposed by us.
"Service Provider" means a local bank, money exchange house, or other third party service provider (e.g. mobile network operator) in the Destination Country who we work with to provide services to you.
"Third Party Provider" means any online provider that you authorise to access your Digital Money Account, or to give us a Payment Instruction on your behalf. Depending on the authorisations you give them, Third Party Providers will have access to your Transaction History and will be able to send us Payment Instructions, as if they were you. Many Third Party Providers will be authorised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority, or by the equivalent regulatory body in another country in the European Economic Area (which includes the member states of the European Union plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway). If you are thinking of using a Third Party Provider, then you should ask for details of its authorisation and check these yourself. You should also make sure you are comfortable giving the Third Party Provider the right to give Payment Instructions on your behalf and/or to access your Digital Money Account.
"Transaction" means the transfer of money, E-money or Airtime Top Up using our Services, as the case may be.
"Transaction Amount" means:
In each case, the Transaction Amount excludes any applicable Service Fee and is the amount displayed by us in the Portal prior to any foreign exchange conversion.
"Transaction History" means the record of your Transactions which are accessible through our Portal.
"Website" means our public website.
Type of payment | Information we need |
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Bank Transfer MyRemit | Bank Name, Branch Name, Account Number, Bank Code, Branch Code, IBAN, BIC (or SWIFT), Account Type |
Digital Money Account to Digital Money Account Transfer | Payee full name, Mobile number of the Payee, Country of residence of the Payee, |
Cash Pick Up | Payee Full Name |
Mobile Money | Mobile Money Account Number |
Airtime Top Up | Mobile Number of Payee |
Door to Door | Payee Full Name, Payee Address |
Bill Pay | Biller Name, Biller Account Number |
We take security very seriously at MyRemit and we work hard, using state-of-the-art security measures, to make sure that your information remains secure. The MyRemit service is a safe and convenient way to send money, E-money and/or Airtime Top Up to friends and family and to other people that you trust. You should not send money, E-money and/or Airtime Top Up to people you do not know, for example sellers of goods and/or services, whether private or retail.
However, we do advise you to consider very carefully before sending money to anyone that you do not know well. In particular, you should be very cautious of deals or offers that seem too good to be true - they may be scams. If you are aware of anyone or any entity that is using the Portal, a Digital Money Account or our Website inappropriately, please email us. Similarly, if you receive any emails, purporting to be from MyRemit, which you suspect may be "phishing" (fake) emails, please forward the email to us https://myremituk.com/en/contact-us.
Questions, notices, and requests for refunds or further information should be sent to MyRemit, as follows:
Trust and security are a big part of what makes MyRemit the best way to send money internationally.
Your privacy is very important to us, so we'd like to tell you what we do to keep your data safe and secure.
In this policy, we explain how MYREMIT collects, manages, uses and protects your data.
MYREMIT is an online money transfer service with the mission to make international money transfer easier, faster and cheaper. In this Privacy Policy, terms such as "we", "us" and "MYREMIT" refer to MyRemit Ltd. Company Number 11270324 with its registered office located at 107 Cricklewood Broadway, London, NW2 3JG, United Kingdom, and where relevant to its subsidiaries, branches and/or representative offices. The term "Service" refers to money transfers enabled from our website or mobile app.In the language of data protection regulation, MYREMIT is the "data controller" of your personal data and you, our customer, are the "data subject". This means that MYREMIT determines the purposes and means of processing your personal data, while respecting rights concerning your privacy.
Like most companies, we collect various types of data about our customers. Some of it may be considered personal data, which means data that make you identifiable as an individual. We may collect and use the following data:Basic personal data, such as (but not limited to):
This data is necessary for MYREMIT to provide the Service to you. We will request this data when you sign up, before the Service is provided.
Data for 'Know Your Customer' (KYC) regulations, such as (but not limited to):
As a regulated financial institution, we are bound by the legal requirement to collect, verify and record certain data about you or recipients of your transactions. Any personal data received from the customer for the purpose of preventing money laundering or terrorist financing will be used only for that purpose and nothing more.
This data will be needed to conduct Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and security checks, as required by local and international regulations. This helps us keep your money safe, and we will only request these details when necessary.
Data about your recipient, such as (but not limited to):
As a regulated financial institution, we are bound by the legal requirement to collect, verify and record certain data about you or recipients of your transactions. Any personal data received from the customer for the purpose of preventing money laundering or terrorist financing will be used only for that purpose and nothing more.
This data will be needed to conduct Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and security checks, as required by local and international regulations. This helps us keep your money safe, and we will only request these details when necessary.
Data from other third party sources, such as (but not limited to):
Technical data, such as (but not limited to):
This data is used to help us to understand how you use our Service, so that we can improve it.
We record all incoming and outgoing calls that are handled by MYREMIT Ltd.
Before establishing the connection with us, you will hear a pre-recorded welcome message. Part of this message states:
“Please note that your call may be recorded and monitored for training and quality purposes.”
If we have called you, our customer service agent will inform you about call monitoring and recording.
We usually record conversations with our customers to help improve our service. For a full list of reasons why we record calls and how we process data, please review section 3 in our privacy policy.
We collect your data to personalise and improve our Service for you. The specific purposes for which we collect your data include: Transactional purposes We need to collect data in order to process your transactions. Without data such as you and your beneficiaries bank account details or full name and address, we would be unable to transfer money for you. Regulatory purposes As regulated financial institutions, both MYREMIT and our partners are required to conduct Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) checks to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements.
These include our requirements under Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF) legislation. All of this helps us keep our Service safe and secure. Any personal data received from the customer for the purpose of preventing money laundering or terrorist financing will be used only for that purpose and nothing more.
We may process your personal data to provide you with certain types of marketing communication that we believe will be relevant and of interest to you. This helps us provide you with a more personalised Service. This kind of activity is permitted by our 'legitimate interest' (for more information on legitimate interest, please see Section 8 of this Policy). We will always endeavour to make these communications relevant and unintrusive, and you are able to object to marketing communication from us at any time.
We may collect and analyse data such as website or app visit logs in order to improve the quality of our Service.
You do not have to disclose any of the above data to us. However, if you choose to withhold certain data, we may not be able to provide you with our Service.
All the data that you provide to us is encrypted on our secure servers. We restrict access to your data to specific employees of MYREMIT who have an important business-related reason for handling it. Our communications are encrypted using the TLS (Transport Layer Security) technology protocol.All of the data we collect from you or from other sources will always be stored in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Depending on what purpose your data is used for, the length of time we keep it may vary. Either way, we will only hold your data as long as necessary to serve the purpose it is used for. Regulatory We are legally required to keep the data obtained for Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and security purposes (including transaction records and our communications with you) for at least five years after the most recent transaction. Legitimate Interest When the five years retention period and/or legitimate interest no on MyRemit apply, we will remove your data from our system. For more information on legitimate interest, please see Section 8 of this Policy. Consent In situations where you give us specific consent to process certain kinds of data, you are able to withdraw that consent at any time. We will then stop processing your data and, if the five years retention period and/or legitimate interest retention period does not apply, we will also erase your data from our system.We may retain any data mentioned above for a on MyRemit period, if required to protect the rights, property or safety of MYREMIT or of the Service provided by us or our partners.
We share your personal data with third parties only when it is necessary for the fulfilment of the Service or to comply with applicable laws.We will never sell your personal data to other organisations.We work with partners who help us to complete your transactions. If they are based outside the UK, we will share your personal data with them only when they apply essential safeguards, or if it has been established by UK institutions that the relevant country has an appropriate data protection regime in place, or when we otherwise ensure that the appropriate level of protection is applied for data processing.The following are some purposes for which we may share your data with third parties:To fulfil the contract between you and MYREMITWe may share your data with third parties, such as our partners and intermediaries, when they are necessary for the fulfilment of the Service. When required by law We may share your data when required by law, for example for the purposes of security, taxation and criminal investigations.
We may share your data with third parties such as providers of customer service tools, marketing campaign tools, email communication tools, analytics software (for marketing purposes) and data visualisation tools (for analytical purposes).
If we sell or buy any business or assets, we may be obliged to share your personal data with the prospective seller or buyer.
The law gives you a number of important rights in relation to your personal data, which are listed below. There are certain exceptions where these rights may be superseded by laws and other requirements applicable to regulated financial institutions like MYREMIT. An example of this would be the obligatory retention period (seen Section 5), which supersedes the right to data erasure.Your rights are:
Legitimate interest is a specific legal justification for the collection and processing of your personal data. It applies when we have reasonable grounds to collect and/or process your personal data to improve our Service, as long as this does not infringe on your rights.We believe that if you are an active customer of MYREMIT, it is in your interest to receive occasional information about our Service. We may therefore send you communications about offers or promotions that we believe are relevant for you based on your previous use of the Service. If we notice that you are having problems using our Service, we may on our own initiative decide to contact you, in some cases by phone, to offer help.We may also process your data to help develop new product features that we believe will improve the Service. We may contact you occasionally to assess your satisfaction with the Service. We may also use your data to determine the effectiveness of marketing or promotional campaigns. We may also contact you with information about any changes in the Service, and/ or other important updates.We will only share anonymised or encrypted data with the third parties. We may also provide our partners with anonymous aggregated data about our customers for marketing and analytical purposes, to help optimise our marketing communications.You can object to data processing based on our legitimate interest at any time by contacting us at privacy@my-remit.com or by changing the settings on your MYREMIT account.
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Blocking or deleting cookies may mean that some features of the Service may not be available to you.