Wero seems promising. But I am confused as it appears they have acess to my bank account’s balance and transaction history. The privacy policy (Archive.org) states on page 4

Purpose: Displaying your account information (performance of a contract – art. 6.1.b of GDPR)

Categories of data processed: Balance and transaction history of your payment account

Retention period: Duration of the contract (the Wero General Terms & Conditions)

The term “payment account” is not properly defined in the document, but I would infer from the first line on page 4 that it is the connected bank account.

This would be significantly more invasive than PayPal. Would be a dealbreaker for me, as I don’t even see a plausible reason for doing this.

Their FAQ states the contrary:

Wero does not have access to your transactions or any other account activity beyond the information we need to complete a Wero payment.

Again, “information we need” is quite vague…

  • Technikus5@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I would assume payment account in this case would be similar to eg a Paypal account. As in, they can obviously see the transactions you’ve done with them, and they will keep them saved, but I don’t see any reason why they would gather all of your bank account history

    • PhilLab@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      But the document states that this type of data is also stored:

      Information about your payment source (account holder name, type of payment account, technical identifier of the payment source)

      So I would understand “type of payment account” to be the type of your bank account. Hence, payment account == bank account. But it is unclear.

      • Technikus5@feddit.orgEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Honestly, I understand that the opposite way. The payment account is still your wero account, that obviously has every transaction you’ve done with them saved, and not much else. Meanwhile the payment source would be your bank account, and they clearly state that they only save the account holder name (your name), type of payment source (presumably bank account, credit card, debit card, … in case they ever want to reach feature parity with PayPal) and a technical identifier, which would be your account number, card number, …, possibly (hopefully) hashed and secured in some way. I still in no way see any I dictation that they’d extract your previous transactions, or any transactions done directly from your bank account

        • PhilLab@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Thank you for diving deeper into this topic. I see how you come to your conclusion - that would be a relief. However, if payment account is the Wero account, why do they need to store the “type of payment account” (they are not stating “type of payment source”).

          I also found an FAQ answer of a German bank, Postbank

          Hat Wero Zugang zu Informationen über mich und meine Bank­verbindung?

          We­ro kann le­dig­lich Ih­ren Kon­to­stand und Ih­re We­ro Zah­lun­gen an­zei­gen […]

          Archive.org link, in German only , translates to

          Does Wero have access to information about me and my bank details?

          Wero is only able to display your account balance and your Wero payments […]

          Again, it is not 100% certain, but answering about “account balance” when being asked about bank access does sound like my bank account balance. But it could also be the Wero account balance (if there is such a thing?)

          Maybe I am hearing the grass growing here. I do wish Wero to be a success, but it does feel more intermingled with the internals of my bank account than I’d like it to be

  • Kornblumenratte@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Why don’t you use your standard banking app to access Wero? Your bank has already access to your bank account data, so nothing is lost here.