DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY POLICY
This Data Protection and Privacy Policy relates solely to information supplied by you on this Web Site. Standard Chartered Bank ("SCB") respects the privacy of your personal information. Any personal information provided by you to SCB through this Web Site will be used solely for the purpose of providing you with the services you have requested at this Web Site, to update and enhance SCB's records, to advise you of other products and services which may be of interest to you and where applicable to consider your application for employment. This Policy will not alter or affect any information otherwise provided by you to SCB.
The details which you are requested to provide on this Web Site may be
transferred within the SCB Group which may include transfer to other parts
of the Group in different jurisdictions and by using this web site you
consent to such transfer. In providing your telephone and facsimile number
you are agreeing that SCB may contact you by telephone and facsimile.
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. The information provided by you at this Web Site may be disclosed
by SCB to:
- Other Companies in the same Group
- Regulators
- Lawyers
- Auditors
- Third Party Service Providers
- Any Agent acting on our behalf
- Any referee whose details are provided to us by you
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. SCB wishes to assure you that your private information
will be treated as confidential and with high standards of security. The
use of your information will be kept to the minimum required in order
for SCB to continually monitor and improve its services to our customers
and keeping you informed about our products, services and other opportunities
within SCB.
SCB pledges its intention to meet fully internationally recognised standards
of personal data privacy protection and to comply with the requirements
of applicable data protection/privacy laws. In doing so, we will ensure
compliance by our staff with the strictest standards of security and confidentiality.
In addition SCB Group has implemented a mandatory IT security policy,
which it is intended will achieve a level of security compliance similar
to the relevant elements of British Standard 7799.
However, it is your responsibility to maintain the secrecy of your user
ID and login password.
Data provided by you is retained as long as the purpose for which the data was collected continues; data is then destroyed unless its retention is required to satisfy legal, regulatory or accounting requirements or to protect SCB's interests. As a general rule the maximum retention period is 7 years.
In order to improve
our Internet service to you, we will occasionally use a "cookie".
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 and the use of which
is intended to assist our understanding of your interest in our Web Site.
SCB reserves the right
to amend its prevailing Data Protection and Privacy Policy at any time
and will place any such amendments on this Web Site. This Data Protection
and Privacy Policy 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.
You may have the right on payment of a fee to request access to and correction of personal information about you held by us. If you have that right and you wish to access or have the right to ask for correct or deletion of any of your personal data held by us, or if you have any questions concerning our Data Protection and Privacy Policy please contact the relevant SCB Data Protection Officer:
| In UK: | Please
write to The Regional Head of Legal & Compliance UK/Europe, 22
Billiter Street, London EC3M 2RY (Fax number: (+44) (0)171 280 7478) |
Other local SCB sites may have details
of local Data Protection Officers on their local web pages.
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