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Privacy and security statement
Your right to privacy and security is very important to us. We, The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited ("the bank"),
treat personal or proprietary information ("personal information") obtained through the use of this website as private and
confidential and are committed to providing you with secure access to our online services.
How we use the personal information we collect
We need to collect personal or other information if we are to meet our obligations to you, to follow your
instructions, to inform you of new services and to ensure that our business is geared towards your needs.
Use of technology to monitor your use of our website
We gather and analyse information on our visitors' routine use of this website. We use this
information to monitor which areas of the website are most frequently visited, to assist
us to continue developing a value-added service. This information is pooled so individual
personal information, behaviour or patterns cannot be identified.
Cookies
On some parts of our website we use so-called "cookie" technology. Cookie technology consists
of small pieces of data or a small text file which is given to your browser by our webserver
when you visit our website. This data is stored on your browser. The cookie is sent back to
our webserver each time you visit our website. Cookies are not computer programs and do not
run on a computer like programs do. They cannot gather information or function on their own.
They cannot collect any personal information about you or your machine and cannot gather data
or information about what you do on the Internet. Cookies merely enable us to provide a more
valuable online experience to you. While you can set up your Internet browser to disable cookie
technology, we do not recommend that you do this since some parts of this website and our online
services may not function properly, or at all.
Mail, email or SMS promotions
Provided that you have agreed to this, we may use your personal or other information to send you
information on new services or products that may be of interest to you and from time to time will
mail, email or SMS information to you about us, our products and services, or our partners and
their products or services. If you do not wish to continue receiving this information you may
contact us and we will remove you from our mailing list.
Third parties
Whenever we commission other organisations to provide support services to us, we will bind them to
our privacy policies as far as they may be required to have access to our customers' personal
information to perform such services.
Our website may contain links to or from other sites. While we try to link only to sites that share
our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content or the security or
privacy practices employed by other sites. We recommend that you always read the privacy and security
statements on such sites.
When we will disclose personal Information without consent
We will not disclose personal information to anyone outside the bank without your permission unless:
we are compelled to do so by law or in terms of a court order;
it is in the public interest to do so;
it is necessary to protect our rights.
Storing personal information
Personal information we collect via the website is stored in a secure environment and is not available to any person outside the bank.
Our security practices
We are committed to providing secure online services. As such, all interactions with our transactional
sites are protected through encryption that complies with international standards. Encryption is used
to protect the transmission of your personal information when completing online application forms. Our
Internet servers are protected by firewalls and intrusion detection systems. Access to information on
these servers is restricted to authorized personnel only.
We have also employed the services of independent security experts to test and advise us on the security
of our systems.
To ensure that you benefit from our security you should read the security tips we post on our site from
time to time.
Privacy and security statements applying to specific online services
Different online services and Standard Bank entities may have their own privacy and security policies because
the nature of their service or products demand a deviation from our general policy. These specific policies
will apply to and exclusively govern your use of the particular online service.
Right to amend this privacy and security statement
We reserve the right to amend this privacy and security statement at any time. All amendments to this privacy
and security statement will be posted on the website. Unless otherwise stated, the current version shall supersede
and replace all previous versions of this privacy and security statement.
