Your Personal Information

This Privacy Statement relates solely to information supplied by you on this Web Site. JS Bank Ltd (JS BANK) respects the privacy of your personal information and will treat it confidentially and securely.

Any personal information provided by you to JS BANK 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 JS BANK’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 regulations, and to plan, conduct and monitor JS BANK’s business. The information collected from you by JS BANK will be valuable in improving the design and marketing of our range of services and related products for customers. If you are providing your details in connection with an application for employment, please refer to our Privacy Statement – HR Portal (Job Application) which will be displayed when you apply (Visit our ‘Careers’ page). This Policy will not alter or affect any information otherwise provided by you to JS BANK.

Other than to those individuals and entities listed below, your details will not be revealed by JS BANK to any external body, unless JS 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 JS BANK Group.
• Any regulatory, supervisory, governmental or quasi-governmental authority with jurisdiction over JS BANK.
• Any agent, contractor or third party service provider, professional adviser or any other person under a duty of confidentiality to the JS BANK.
• Credit reference agencies and, in the event of default, debt collection agencies.
• Any actual or potential participant or sub-participant in, assignee or transferee of, any of the JS BANK ‘s rights and/or obligations in relation to you.
• Any financial institution with which JS BANK has or proposes to have dealings.

JS BANK will ensure that parties to whom your details are transferred treat your information securely and confidentially. We may, if it is necessary to perform our contract with you, transfer your information to any of our Group or suppliers, and by providing details to JS BANK via this Web Site you are deemed to consent to all such transfers by us.

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 JS BANK’s interests.

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

Cookies

In order to improve our Internet service to you, we will occasionally use COOKIES and other similar files or programs which may place certain information on your computer’s hard drive when you visit JS BANK 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:

• Allow us to recognize 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. (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.)
• 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.

Internet Communications

In order to maintain the security of our systems, protect our staff, record transactions, and, in certain circumstances, to prevent and detect crime or unauthorized activities, JS BANK reserves the right to monitor all internet communications including web and email traffic into and out of its domains.

Contacting You

In providing your telephone, facsimile number, postal and e-mail address or similar details, you agree that JS BANK may contact you by these methods to keep you informed about JS BANK products and services or for any other reason. JS BANK 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 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 JS BANK in respect of any other party or on behalf of any party.