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This
Data Protection and Privacy Statement
relates solely to information supplied
by you on this Web Site. Standard
Chartered Bank, the Data Controller
("SCB") respects the privacy of your
personal information and will treat
it confidentially and securely.
Any personal information provided
by you to SCB through this Web Site
will be used for the purpose of providing
and operating the products and services
you have requested at this Web Site
and for other related purposes which
may include updating and enhancing
SCB's records, understanding your
financial needs, conducting credit
checks, reviewing credit worthiness
and assisting other financial institutions
to conduct credit checks, advising
you of other products and services
which may be of interest to you, for
crime/fraud prevention and debt collection
purposes, for purposes required by
law or regulation, and to plan, conduct
and monitor SCB's business. The information
collected from you by SCB will be
valuable in improving the design and
marketing of our range of services
and related products for customer
use. This Policy will not alter or
affect any information otherwise provided
by you to SCB.
Other than to those individuals and
entities listed below your details
will not be revealed by SCB to any
external body, unless SCB has your
permission, or is under either a legal
obligation or any other duty to do
so. For the purposes detailed above,
your information may be disclosed
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other Branches or Companies in
the SCB Group (ie. SCB, its subsidiaries
and affiliates); |
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any regulatory,
supervisory, governmental or quasi-governmental
authority with jurisdiction over
SCB Group members; |
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any agent, contractor
or third party service provider,
professional adviser or any other
person under a duty of confidentiality
to the SCB Group; |
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credit reference
agencies and, in the event of
default, debt collection agencies;
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any actual
or potential participant or sub-participant
in, assignee, novatee or transferee
of, any of the SCB Group's rights
and/or obligations in relation
to you; |
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any financial
institution with which SCB has
or proposes to have dealings.
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| In order to improve
our Internet service to you, we will
occasionally use a "cookie" and/or other
similar files or programs which may
place certain information on your computer's
hard drive when you visit an SCB web
site. A cookie is a small amount of
data that our web server sends to your
web browser when you visit certain parts
of our site. We may use cookies to:
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allow
us to recognise the PC you are
using when you return to our web
site so that we can understand
your interest in our web site
and tailor its content and advertisements
to match your interests (This
type of cookie may be stored permanently
on your PC but does not contain
any information that can identify
you personally.); |
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identify you
after you have logged in by storing
a temporary reference number in
the cookie so that our web server
can conduct a dialogue with you
while simultaneously dealing with
other customers. (Your browser
keeps this type of cookie until
you log off or close down your
browser when these types of cookie
are normally deleted. No other
information is stored in this
type of cookie.); |
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allow you to
carry information across pages
of our site and avoid having to
re-enter that information; |
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allow you access
to stored information if you register
for any of our on-line services;
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enable us to
produce statistical information
(anonymous) which helps us to
improve the structure and content
of our web site; |
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enable us to
evaluate the effectiveness of
our advertising and promotions.
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| Cookies do not enable
us to gather personal information about
you unless you give the information
to our server. Most Internet browser
software allows the blocking of all
cookies or enables you to receive a
warning before a cookie is stored. For
further information, please refer to
your Internet browser software instructions
or help screen. Alternatively, information
on deleting or controlling cookies is
available at www.aboutcookies.org
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the security of our systems, protect
our staff, record transactions, and,
in certain circumstances, to prevent
and detect crime or unauthorised activities,
SCB reserves the right to monitor all
internet communications including web
and email traffic into and out of its
domains. |
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| You may have the right
under data protection legislation on
payment of a fee to request access to
personal information about you held
by us and to have it corrected where
appropriate. If you have that right
and you wish to access, correct or delete
any of your personal data held by us,
or if you have any questions concerning
our Data Protection and Privacy Statement
please contact the relevant SCB Data
Protection representative. You may also
have the right to access details held
by credit reference agencies and SCB
will supply details of the relevant
agencies upon request. For the UK please
write to: The Regional Head of Legal
& Compliance UK/Europe, 1 Basinghall
Avenue, London EC2V 5DD, Fax 020 7885
1871. Other local SCB web sites may
have details of local Data Protection
Officers. |
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In providing your
telephone, facsimile number, postal
and e-mail address or similar details,
you agree that SCB may contact you by
these methods to keep you informed about
SCB products and services or for any
other reason. If you prefer not to be
kept informed of SCB products and services,
please contact SCB by E-mail.
SCB reserves the right to amend its
prevailing Data Protection and Privacy
Statement at any time and will place
any such amendments on this Web Site.
This Data Protection and Privacy Statement
is not intended to, nor does it, create
any contractual rights whatsoever or
any other legal rights, nor does it
create any obligations on SCB in respect
of any other party or on behalf of any
party.
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