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DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY POLICY

This Data Protection and Privacy Policy relates solely to personal information supplied by you on this Web Site. It is necessary for you to supply Standard Chartered with personal information on this Web Site in connection with the provision of the services you have requested or are about to request at this Web Site. Failure to supply such information may result in Standard Chartered being unable to provide these services.

Standard Chartered respects the privacy of your personal information. The purposes for which any personal information provided by you to Standard Chartered through this Web Site may be used will vary depending on the nature of the relationship, providing you with the services which you have requested at this Web site, to enhance Standard Chartered's records and to advise you of other products and services which may be of interest to you This Policy will not alter or affect any information otherwise provided by you to Standard Chartered.

The details, which you are requested to provide on this Web Site may be transferred within the Standard Chartered Group. This may include transfer to other parts of the Standard Chartered Group in different jurisdictions and by using this Web Site you consent to such transfer. In providing your email address, telephone and facsimile numbers you are agreeing that Standard Chartered may contact you by email, telephone or facsimile. Other than to those individuals and entities listed below, Standard Chartered will not reveal your details to any external body, unless Standard Chartered either has your permission, or is under a legal obligation or any other duty to do so. The information provided by you at this Web Site may be disclosed by Standard Chartered to the following parties:

  • Regulators;
  • Other Companies in the same Group
  • Lawyers;
  • Auditors;
  • Third party service providers
  • Any Agent acting on our behalf
  • Any referee whose details are provided to us by you

Standard Chartered wishes to assure you that your personal information will be treated as confidential and with high standards of security. Standard Chartered pledges its intention fully to meet 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 Standard Chartered Group has implemented a mandatory IT security policy. Despite taking all efforts and maintaining / exercising all care and caution, any information passed to any person though not due to a fault on the part of Standard Chartered, Standard Chartered will not be in any ways liable.

However, it is your responsibility at all times to maintain the secrecy of your user ID and login password.

Personal data provided by you are retained for as long as the purposes for which such data were collected continue. Data are then destroyed unless their retention is required to satisfy legal, regulatory or accounting requirements or to protect Standard Chartered 's interests.

Standard Chartered 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 Standard Chartered in respect of any other party or on behalf of any party.


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