Your Personal Information 

This Data Protection and Privacy Statement relates solely to information supplied by you on this Web Site. Finance Bank, the Data Controller ("Finance Bank"), respects the privacy of your personal information. Any personal information provided by you to Finance Bank through this Web Site will be used solely for the purpose of providing you with the services you have requested at this Web Site and for other related purposes including updating and enhancing Finance Bank's records, understanding your financial needs, advising you of other products and services which may be of interest to you and for fraud prevention purposes.

The information collected from you by Finance Bank will be valuable in improving the design and marketing of our range of services and related products for customer use. Finance Bank 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 Finance Bank to provide and to continually monitor and improve its services to our customers and keeping you informed about our products, services and other opportunities within Finance Bank.

It is your responsibility to maintain the secrecy of any user ID and login password you hold.

Other than to those individuals and entities listed below who are under a duty of confidentiality to Finance Bank, your details will not be revealed by Finance Bank to any external body, unless Finance Bank 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 Finance Bank to:

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

• 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.);

   

• 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. (You 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.);

   

• allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter that information;

   

• allow you access to stored information if you register for any of our on-line services;

   

• enable us to produce statistical information (anonymous) which helps us to improve the structure and content of our web site;

   

• enable us to evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising and promotions.

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/

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