This section explains our policy regarding any personal information you might supply to us when you visit this site https://ib.qnb.com/. Our goal is to protect your information on the Internet in the same way that we protect it in all the other ways we interact with you: in branches, at ATMs.
QNB's Internet Privacy Policy
You can visit this Site and find out about our products and services, read our Corporate reports, check on career opportunities, or get a news update and other value-added services without giving us any information about yourself.
If you provide personal information, such as address, e-mail, telephone and fax numbers, as well as demographic and customer identification, we will use the information collected or provided for the relevant lawful purposes connected with various functions or activities of QNB in which the customer is interested and to help determine the eligibility of the customers for products / services requested and/or for verification, processing of applications, requests, transactions and / or maintenance of records as per our data retention policy and any other longer period as QNB may think fit for rendering the Services better and as per the legal / regulatory requirements.
The information shall not be shared with any external organisation unless the same is necessary to protect the interests of QNB or to enable QNB to provide you services or to enable the completion/compilation of a transaction, credit reporting, or the same is necessary or required pursuant to applicable banking norms or pursuant to the terms and conditions applicable to such information as agreed to with QNB or pursuant to any requirement of law/regulations or any Government/court/other relevant authority / directions/orders. If the information collected from customers for the purpose of opening of account shall be treated as confidential and details thereof shall not be divulged for the purpose of cross selling, or for any other purpose without the express permission of the customer.
We may also share your Information, without obtaining your prior written consent, with government agencies mandated under the law to obtain information for the purpose of verification of identity, or for prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, prosecution, and punishment of offences, or where disclosure is necessary for compliance of a legal obligation. Any Information may be required to be disclosed to any third party by us by an order under the law for the time being in force.
We will maintain this information, as well as your business activities and transactions, according to our usual strict security and confidentiality standards.
Where you provide information about others (for example, for joint accounts or if you are ‘recommending a friend’) you must ensure that you have their consent or are otherwise entitled to provide this information to us.
In order to provide better service or to address security hazards, we will use a "cookie". A cookie is a small piece of information which a Site stores on your Web browser on your PC and can later retrieve. The cookie cannot be read by a Site other than the one that set the cookie. We use cookies for a number of administrative purposes, for example, to store your preferences for certain kinds of information or to store a password so that you do not have to input it every time you visit our Site. Most cookies last only through a single session, or visit. None will contain information that will enable anyone to contact you via telephone, e-mail, or "snail mail." You can set up your Web browser to inform you when cookies are set or to prevent cookies from being set.
However, please remember that cookies are often used to enable and improve certain functions on our Site. If you choose to switch certain cookies off, it is likely to affect how our Site works and you may not be able to access all or parts of the Site.
