DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY STATEMENT

 

Your Personal Information

 

This Data Protection and Privacy Statement relates solely to information supplied by you on this AntiHIVirus website (“Website”). Standard Chartered Bank, the Data Controller ("Bank") respects the privacy of your personal information and will treat it confidentially and securely.

 

Any personal information provided by you to the Bank through this Website will be used for the purpose of accessing the Website, posting any content on the Website, promotion of awareness of the HIV virus and for purposes required by law or regulation. The information collected from you by the Bank will be valuable in its commitment to give back to the communities in which it operates and to raise awareness of the serious and worldwide problem of HIV infection.

 

Other than to those individuals and entities listed below your details will not be revealed by the Bank to any external body, unless the Bank 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 to:

 

other Branches or Companies in the Standard Chartered Group (ie. the Bank, its subsidiaries and affiliates);

 

any regulatory, supervisory, governmental or quasi-governmental authority with jurisdiction over the Standard Chartered Group members;

 

any agent, contractor or third party service provider, professional adviser or any other person under a duty of confidentiality to the Standard Chartered Group; and

 

any of the Bank’s partners and supporters of the Website to whom the Bank owes the obligation to disclose such details in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the Website to help educate and raise awareness about the HIV virus.

 

The above disclosures may require the transfer of your information to parties located in countries that do not offer the same level of data protection as your home country. However, the Bank will ensure that parties to whom your details are transferred treat your information securely and confidentially. The Bank also pledges its intention fully to meet any internationally recognised standards of personal data privacy protection and to comply with applicable data protection and privacy laws.

 

Information held about you is retained as long as the purpose for which the information was collected continues. The information is then destroyed unless its retention is required to satisfy legal, regulatory or accounting requirements or to protect the Bank's interests. As a general rule, the maximum retention period is 7 years.

 

Cookies

 

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 the Website. A cookie is a small amount of data that our web server sends to your web browser when you visit certain parts of the Website. We may use cookies to:

 

allow us to recognise the PC you are using when you return to the Website so that we can understand your interest in the Website and tailor the information contained in the Website 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.);

 

enable us to produce statistical information (anonymous) which helps us to improve the structure and  information contained in the Website;

 

enable us to evaluate the effectiveness of the Website to help educate and raise awareness about the HIV virus.

 

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 http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

 

Internet Communications

 

In order to maintain the security of our systems, protect our staff, and, in certain circumstances, to prevent and detect crime or unauthorised activities, the Bank reserves the right to monitor all internet communications including web and email traffic into and out of its domain.

 

Your Rights and How to Contact Us

 

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 Bank’s Data Protection representative. For the UK please write to: The Regional Head of Legal and Compliance UK/Europe, 1 Basinghall Avenue, London EC2V 5DD, England (Fax number: (+44) (0)20 7885 1871).  For the details of other local Bank Data Protection representatives please contact info@vir.us.

 

Contacting You

 

In providing your e-mail address or similar details, you agree that the Bank may contact you by these methods to keep you informed about the Bank’s activities and programmes to help educate and raise awareness of HIV. If you prefer not to be kept informed of such activities and programmes, please contact the Bank at info@vir.us.

 

The Bank reserves the right to amend its prevailing Data Protection and Privacy Statement at any time and will place any such amendments on the Website. 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 the Bank in respect of any other party or on behalf of any party.

 

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