This Privacy Policy page is created to explain how we at SumoTrust collects, use, disclose and protect your information, including any non-public personal information you have with us.
This Privacy Policy applies to you (our consumer) as a user of our websites, mobile applications, and other online services to which this Privacy Policy is posted.
Also know that SumoTrust is a personal finance platform owned by Sumo Tech Global Limited in Partnership with Entrepreneur Nigeria, a business publishing platform of Gudtalent & Co Nigeria Limited, we may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you either by Email, adding a statement to the homepages of our website or notification on our mobile application.
We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. This privacy policy applies to the Services provided by SumoTrust. (“we” or “us”).
This Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use. By accessing or using our Services, you agree to comply with every conditions of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. The conditions given in this Privacy Policy supersede all previous notices and statements regarding our privacy practices with respect to our Services. If you do not agree to every provision of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, you may not use or stop accessing or our Services.
Application of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to your use of our website or App. You may access or use our platform through a desktop, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, or other consumer electronic device that allows you to use out platform.
Information We Collect - Information You Provide Us
In general, you can visit www.sumotrust.com without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. When you submit an inquiry on our platform or register for a Sumoobank.com account, we may collect personal information from you, which may include your name, email address, mobile phone number, banking information, and other information that identifies you (collectively, "Personal Information"). By providing your Personal Information to us, you expressly agree to our collection, use, storage, and disclosure of such information as described in this Privacy Policy.
We may also ask you to create login information for your SumoTrust account, such as a username and password. When you provide your mobile phone number, we may ask for your consent to receive text messages relating to our Services at that number.
Information About Your Transactions
We collect Personal Information about your transactions with us and others.
Information From Third Parties as regards your account with us to enable us keep history of your saving and personal finance activity for your own use.
We also collect Personal Information about you from other companies. For instance, we may receive Personal Information about you from a consumer reporting agency.
Information Automatically Collected
We may collect information about your use of our Services. This information may include Personal Information as well as statistical information that does not identify you ("Analytics"). Some Analytics may be correlated with Personal Information. When Analytics are, directly or indirectly, associated or combined with Personal Information, such Analytics will be considered Personal Information for purposes of this Privacy Policy.
Information that we automatically collect in connection with your access or use of our Services may include:
Device Information: We may collect Device-specific information (such as hardware model, operating system version, unique Device identifiers, and mobile network Information, including your mobile phone number). We may associate your Device identifiers or mobile phone number with your SumoTrust.ng account.
Log Information: We may record or log information from your Devices, their software, and your activity accessing or using our Services. This information may include:
The Device's Internet Protocol ("IP") address.
Identification numbers associated with your Devices.
Device event information, such as crashes, system activity, and hardware settings
Location preferences
Date and time stamps of transactions
System configuration information
Other interactions with our Services
Information Collected Through Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies to personalize our Services for you and to collect aggregate information about usage of our Services. A cookie is a text file or other local storage identifier provided by your browser or associated applications. We use cookies for record-keeping purposes and to enhance the quality of your use of our Services. The cookies assign random, unique numbers to your Devices to enable our systems to recognize your Devices and to allow us to see how you use our Services. Additional general information about cookies and how they work is available here. The cookies we use in connection with our Services include:
Session cookies: Session cookies are temporary cookies that expire and are automatically erased whenever you close your browser window. We use session cookies to grant users access to content and to enable actions they must be logged into their Sumoobank.com account to perform.
Third-party cookies: We permit certain third parties to place cookies through our Services to provide us with better insights into the use of our Services and user demographics and to advertise our Services to you. These third parties may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you access or use our Services. For example, we utilize Google Analytics to analyze usage patterns for our Services. Google Analytics generates a cookie to capture information about your use of our Services, which Google uses to compile reports on website activity for us and to provide other related services. Google may use a portion of your IP address to identify its cookie, but this will not be associated with any other data held by Google. We may also permit third-party service providers to place cookies for our Services, as indicated above, to perform analytic or marketing functions where you are notified of them and you have consented to the usage. We do not control the use of such third-party cookies or the resulting information, and we are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
By accessing or using our Services, you consent to the placement of cookies on your Devices as described in this Privacy Policy. If you prefer not to receive cookies through our Services, you may control how your browser responds to cookies by adjusting the privacy and security settings of your web browser. Unless you set your browser settings to refuse all cookies, our system may issue cookies when you access or use our Services. If you set your browser settings to refuse all cookies, the performance of certain features of our Services may be limited or not work at all.
Do-Not-Track Signals
Do Not Track ("DNT") is an optional browser setting that allows you to express your preferences regarding tracking by advertisers and other third parties. We do not use technology that recognizes DNT signals from your web browser.
How We Use Your Information
We may use Analytics as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy and for research and commercial purposes, such as to improve our Services.
We may use Personal Information for the purposes described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy and internally for our general commercial purposes, including, among other things, to offer our products and services and products and services of third parties that we think you might find of interest, but only SumoTrust.ng and our third-party service providers involved in distributing the offers or providing the products or services will have access to your Personal Information. Our third-party service providers will only be permitted to use Personal Information for that intended purpose.
We may use your email address to respond to your inquiries and to provide you information about our Services. You may select not to receive promotional emails from us either by "unsubscribing" to an email you receive from us or by contacting us as indicated below. If you unsubscribe from receiving emails from us, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as emails about your www.sumotrust.com account or our ongoing business relations, unless you withdraw your consent to receive electronic communications as provided in our Terms of Use.
How We Share Information
We may share your Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties:
Other financial companies for joint marketing purposes;
Affiliated companies for their everyday business purposes; or
Any third parties so they can market to you.
We may share your Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties:
If you request or authorize it;
If the information is provided to help complete a transaction for you;
If the information is provided to:
comply with applicable laws, rules, regulations, governmental and quasi-governmental requests, court orders, or subpoenas;
enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements; or
protect our rights, property, or safety or the rights, property, or safety of our users or others (e.g., to a consumer reporting agency for fraud protection, etc.);
If the disclosure is done as part of a purchase, transfer, or sale of services or assets (e.g., in the event that substantially all of our assets are acquired by another party,
your Personal Information may be one of the transferred assets);
If the information is provided to our third-party service providers to perform functions on our behalf
(e.g., analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing customer service, processing orders, etc.);
For our everyday business purposes; or
As permitted by applicable law or otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
We may disclose Analytics with third parties as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy and for our commercial purposes.
Opt-Out Rights
If you do not wish to receive offers or other notices from us in the future, you can "opt out" by contacting us as indicated at
the end of this Privacy Policy or by following the "unsubscribe" instructions in any communication you receive from us. Please be aware that you are not
ble to opt out of receiving communications about your SumoTrust.ng account or related transactions with us.
Accessing Your Information
You must notify us of any change in your Personal Information by updating your Sumoobank.com account profile through our website or app. Any changes will affect only future uses of your Personal Information.
Subject to applicable law, which might, from time to time, oblige us to store your Personal Information for a certain period of time, we will respect your wishes to correct inaccurate information. Otherwise, we will hold your Personal Information for as long as we believe it will help us achieve our objectives as detailed in this Privacy Policy.
You can ask us whether we are storing your Personal Information and you can ask to receive a copy of that Personal Information. Before sending you any Personal Information, we will ask you to provide proof of your identity. If you are not able to provide proof of your identity, we reserve the right to refuse to send you any Personal Information. We will respond as quickly as we can to your requests for details of Personal Information we hold about you.
Information You Share Socially
Our Services may allow you to connect and share your actions, comments, content, and information publicly or with friends. We are not responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any information you share publicly or with friends.
Our Services may also allow you to connect with us on, share on, and use third-party websites, applications, and services. Please be mindful of your personal privacy needs and the privacy needs of others, as you choose whom to connect with and what to share and make public. We cannot control the privacy or security of information you choose to make public or share with others. We also do not control the privacy practices of third parties. Please contact those sites and services directly if you want to learn about their privacy practices.
Security
We have and require our third-party service providers that receive Personal Information from us to have, a comprehensive written information security program that contains administrative, technical, and physical safeguards for our respective physical facilities and in our respective computer systems, databases, and communications networks that are reasonably designed to protect information contained within such systems from loss, misuse, or alteration. When your bank account information is transmitted via our Services, it will be protected by encryption technology, such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
No method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security of your Personal Information. You also play a role in protecting your Personal Information. Please safeguard your username and password for your SumoTrust.ng account and do not share them with others. If we receive instructions using your SumoTrust.ng account login information, we will consider that you have authorized the instructions. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your SumoTrust.ng account or any other breach of security. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to refuse to provide our Services, terminate SumoTrust.ng accounts, and to remove or edit content.
Protecting Children's Privacy
Our Services are not directed, or intended to be attractive, to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information
from children under the age of 16. If you are under the age of 16, do not use our Services or submit any information to us.
Links to Third-Party Websites
When you use our Services, you may be directed to other websites that are beyond our control.
We may also allow third-party websites or applications to link to our Services. We are not responsible for the privacy
practices of any third parties or the content of linked websites, but we do encourage you to read the applicable privacy policies
and terms and conditions of such parties and websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to our Services.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Subject to applicable law, we may revise this Privacy Policy at any time and in our sole discretion.
When we revise this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised version via our Services and will update the date at the top
of this Privacy Policy. The revised Privacy Policy will be effective upon posting via our Services, unless otherwise set forth
therein or as otherwise required by applicable law. You are free to decide whether or not to accept a revised version of this
Privacy Policy, but accepting this Privacy Policy, as revised, is required for you to continue accessing or using our Services.
If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised version of this Privacy Policy, your sole recourse is to
terminate your access and use of our Services. Except as otherwise expressly stated by us, your access and use of our Services is
subject to the version of this Privacy Policy in effect at the time of access or use.
How can I contact SumoTrust?
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding these Terms or the Services, please contact us at
contact@sumotrust.com, or call our hot line +234-(0)-8148008091.
Pay us a Visit at our Office: House 4, Suite 1, Ifeanyi Okowa street, River Park Estate, Lugbe, Abuja, FCT, Nigeria.
