Privacy Policy

Welcome to Icarus Wealth Ltd. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your data when you use our website, mobile application, and financial services.

Effective Date: 31 March 2025. This policy applies to all users of the Icarus Wealth platform and services.

We may collect the following types of information:

  • Personal Information: Name, email address, phone number, postal address, date of birth, and other identification details.
  • Financial Information: Bank account details, investment history, transaction details, and payment information.
  • Technical Information: IP address, browser type, device information, and usage data collected through cookies and analytics tools.
  • Communication Data: Emails, chat messages, customer support interactions, and feedback.

Your information is used for the following purposes:

  • To provide and manage investment and financial services.
  • To verify your identity and ensure compliance with legal regulations.
  • To improve our products, services, and customer experience.
  • To process transactions, withdrawals, and account-related activities.
  • To send important notifications, account updates, and marketing communications.
  • To prevent fraud, unauthorized access, and security breaches.

We do not sell or rent your personal data. However, we may share your information in the following cases:

  • With regulatory authorities: To comply with legal obligations, including tax reporting and financial regulations.
  • With financial institutions and payment processors: To facilitate transactions and investment operations.
  • With service providers: Who assist us in analytics, marketing, and IT support.
  • With affiliates and partners: To offer better investment opportunities, subject to your consent.
  • In case of business transfers: If the company undergoes a merger, acquisition, or restructuring.
We never sell or rent your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. However, no online platform can guarantee absolute security, and we encourage users to take necessary precautions when sharing sensitive information.

Your financial data is encrypted in transit and at rest. We use secure, industry-standard protocols to safeguard all sensitive information.

You have the right to:

  • Access, update, or correct your personal information.
  • Opt out of marketing communications.
  • Request deletion of your data, subject to legal and regulatory constraints.
  • Withdraw consent where applicable.

To exercise your rights, please contact us at support@icaruswealth.co.nz

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience, analyze website traffic, and personalize content. You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings.

Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of certain features on our platform. We recommend keeping essential cookies enabled for the best experience.

Our website may contain links to third-party sites. We are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices, and we encourage you to review their terms before providing any information.

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect legal and operational changes. Any modifications will be posted on this page with the updated effective date.

For material changes we will notify you via email or an in-app notification at least 14 days before the update takes effect.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please reach out to us at:

Icarus Wealth Limited
Email: support@icaruswealth.co.nz

This privacy statement explains how Icarus Wealth Limited (we, us) collects and uses your personal information.

Information we collect

We collect personal information from you, including information about your:

  • name
  • contact information
  • identity information and documents
  • bank account details (account name and number) and payment details (amount, reference and status), when you fund your wallet by bank payment

Why we collect it

We collect your personal information in order to:

  • comply with the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009
  • process payments from your bank account to fund your wallet, and confirm and record those payments
  • provide our investment service, including verifying your identity, holding and settling your investments, and meeting Indian regulatory requirements

Who we share it with

Besides our staff, we share this information with:

  • Inland Revenue Department, to comply with the Income Tax Act 2007.
  • Akahu, New Zealand's open finance platform, which we use to start payments from your bank account. Akahu receives the details needed to start the payment and tells us the payment status. Akahu looks after your information in line with its own privacy policy.
  • your bank, which receives the payment instruction and processes the payment.
  • Aply ID, which verifies your identity for us.
  • Axis Bank in India, which provides custody and clearing services for your investments.
  • the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the Indian regulator, where required by Indian law.
We use Akahu for one-off payments only. You approve each payment with your bank. We do not get ongoing access to your bank account, and we cannot make further payments from it without your approval.

Identity verification

We need your identity information and documents to open your account, because we are required to verify your identity under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009. If you do not provide them, we cannot open your account.

How long we keep it

We keep your information safe by storing in encrypted files and only allow certain staff to access it.

We keep your information for five years at which point we securely destroy it by securely deleting all digital information.

Your rights

You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you'd like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at info@icaruswealth.co.nz, or +64 226 118 192, or Level 1, 44 Victoria Street, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand.