Privacy Policy
Doha Bank recognizes the importance of protecting your personal
information and financial transactions. We understand the need to safeguard
sensitive information that you have entrusted to us. We maintain standards and
procedures designed to prevent misuse of this information. Therefore, we have
put together a Privacy Policy and approach that respect and address your needs.
Personal Information
Personal Information is defined as any and all information concerning you that
you provide to us over the Internet or any other online channel. This includes
personal data such as email correspondence, financial or non-financial
transaction or any banking data transmitted through the online banking service.
1.
At the inception, you will apply to
us to access DBank Online. Any information
contained in the Application Form or its annexes shall be treated as personal
information and shall be retained by the Bank so that we can provide you with
the service you request.
2.
After you become a valued
Subscriber, our electronic banking system records your online sessions,
including the financial and non-financial transactions you conduct online. This
data enables us to process and confirm your transactions. It also enables the
banking application to provide you with automatic online reports.
3.
E-mails sent by you are also
retained by the Bank and are considered as personal and confidential
correspondence data.
Protection of Personal Information and account data
Doha Bank will use personal information as
appropriate in the normal course of our business to provide the service you
have requested. We also send account statements, e-mail updates on services,
transactions and other materials we believe will be of importance or interest
to you.
We have procedures to assure that your financial information is accurate,
current and complete. We also have procedures to respond to your requests to
correct inaccurate information in a timely manner.
Should you have any doubts or inquiries with regard to the accuracy of your
personal information or of any transaction occurring on the net, please contact
us at +974 445 6000.
For any change in policy or account critical information, we will be contacting
you through the agreed correspondence channels.
We request that you keep your information as up to date as possible so that you
may get the maximum benefit from DBank Online
.
Restrictions on disclosing information to third parties
Doha Bank does not and will not sell or provide personal information to third
parties for independent use. We may, however, share personal information with
official bodies if that information is required by the authorities. We shall
provide the information to the appropriate official body only, and not to any
other quarters.
Limiting Employee access to personal information or security protection
Some of this information may be handled by our employees. The employees abide
by the Bank’s policy and are educated about the importance of confidentiality
and customer privacy through standard operating procedures (SOP), special
training programs and our policies on ethics.