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This privacy statement was created in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. We shall never sell your personal information to other companies for their independent marketing purposes. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to prevent unauthorized access to your personal information and to protect you against the criminal misuse of that information. We restrict access to your account(s) to only those employees involved in providing the services you've requested.
The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the NBK.com website.
IP Address and Cookies
Your IP address may be used to gather broad demographic information. In order to provide better service, we may use "cookies". Our site may use cookies for administrative purposes and to enhance your online experience by keeping track of your behavior within the site and to make sure you do not see the same special offers repeatedly.
Your contact information may be used by NBK to contact you when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the Choice section below.
Links to Third Party Sites
This site contains links to other sites. Third party web sites have different privacy policies and/or security standards governing their sites, we advise you to review the privacy policies and terms and conditions of these sites prior to providing any personal information. Links to non-NBK web sites are provided solely for information purposes. If you choose to access such sites NBK.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.
Security
While we have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control and while we have appropriate firewalls in place to block unauthorized access to any user data stored on our servers, we shall not be responsible for any loss, misuse, alternation, or unauthorized access to any such information or data.
Children’s Guidelines
This site is not intended to be used by children.
Choice
When we request information about you, you are given the choice not to receive communications from our partners. You may remove your information from our database; choose not to receive future communications, or terminate any of our services.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site, please contact webmaster@nbk.com
Special Offers and Promotions
Transactions and dealings you enter into with any merchant in respect of any of the special offers and promotions offered on NBK.com shall be effective only between you and the merchant, and NBK shall neither be a party thereto nor be responsible for any such transaction.. National Bank of Kuwait hereby disclaims any warranty, express or implied, connected with any of the content displayed on nbk.com or the information provided by the merchants and/or third parties.
National Bank of Kuwait
NBK.com welcomes your feedback and comments in order to provide its customers with better service.
For any questions or information related to NBK.com third party products, please contact the responsible merchant who holds full responsibility.
Customer Privacy Notice
National Bank of Kuwait SAKP - United Arab Emirates, "we", "us", and "ours" or "NBK UAE" is a Branch of a G.C.C. company registered at Department of Economic Development in Abu Dhabi with trade license number CN-1465548 and Department of Economic Development in Dubai with trade license number 608103, .
This Privacy Notice is prepared for customers of the bank explaining who we are, how we collect, share and use customers' personal information, and how you can exercise your privacy rights. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, then please contact us using the contact details provided at the bottom of this Privacy Notice.
What does NBK UAE do?
NBK UAE is a bank registered in the UAE which provides a comprehensive array of financial services which includes working Corporate Finance, Trade finance, Cash Management, Project Finance, Treasury products, Private banking and Retail services. Its parent, National Bank of Kuwait S.A.K.P., has branches, subsidiaries and representative offices in a number of countries, including most of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. A list of our group companies can be found at https://www.nbk.com/nbk-group/about-nbk-group/our-network.html.
For more information about NBK UAE, please see our website at https://www.nbk.com/uae.
What personal information does NBK UAE collect and why?
NBK UAE is the ‘data controller’ of your personal information it collects and processes as set out in this Privacy Notice. This means we are responsible for how we hold and use your personal information about you. We are required to notify you of the information in this privacy notice and why we process your data.
The personal information that we may collect about you broadly falls into the following categories:
Information that you provide directly
Types of Personal Information | Why We Collect it |
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Name, date of birth and contact details such as address, telephone number and email. Also, details of your nationality, marital and financial status (including bank statements) | For the purpose of processing applications for banking products and services and to provide and develop those products and services and to communicate with you in connection with those products and services. |
Personal data you may provide in communications | Where we are corresponding with you, you may provide personal data in that correspondence such as in connection with an enquiry or complaint. |
Age | To verify we are legally permitted to provide banking products and services to you. |
Employment information including your salary | To verify information provided as part of your application for banking products. |
Information such as copies of passports, driving licenses, or other government-issued IDs, passport numbers, signatures, tax identification numbers and utility bills, source of funds and source of wealth information, information about any high political, military or judicial or similar office you may hold that could make you a Politically Exposed Person | For identification purposes and to prevent fraud in connection with accounts, to comply with anti-money laundering requirements or similar legal obligations we have. |
We may also collect, when necessary death certificates, details of next of kin/executors and Probate | To attend to matters of Probate and closing of the account. |
Telephone calls/recording | We record telephone calls to monitor communications. It is also a regulatory/legal requirement. In addition, we have a legitimate interest to improve our systems and provide training to our staff. |
Information about your nominees, family members and associates | To provide the services to you. |
Payment data | To provide the services to you. |
In addition to the above, as a bank we are legally required to process all or some of information above to comply with any anti-money laundering regulations. If we ask you to provide any other personal information not described above, then the personal information we will ask you to provide, and the reasons why we ask you to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we collect your personal information for example in application forms or an agreement.
Information that we collect automatically
If you use our website or use electronic devices to access our products and services, we may also collect certain information automatically from your device, though we do this in a very limited way.
Some of this information may be collected online using cookies and similar tracking technology, as explained further in our Cookies Notice, which you can access in the same location as our Website Privacy Notice described above.
Information that we obtain from third party sources
From time to time, we may receive personal information about you from third party sources. These include credit reference agencies, World Checking services, other data bases of Politically Exposed Persons, open internet searches to see if there is adverse information in the public domain, information provided by external intelligence suppliers. These third parties either have your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your personal information to us.
We also collect personal information about you which is available in the public domain for example in press reports.
The types of information we collect from third parties includes:
Types of Personal Information | Why We Collect it |
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Criminal records and proceedings checks, immigration status checks and World Checking searches | To comply with anti-money laundering and other account opening and maintenance requirements. |
Account and loans information | To provide and/or develop our products and services to you, for internal analytics and credit portfolio management and for the purpose of detection and prevention of fraud. |
Information to check creditworthiness such as financial history, income and outgoings, credit history and court judgements | To carry out checks to assess creditworthiness for credit facilities you have applied for or for which you propose to stand as guarantor, for internal analytics and credit portfolio management. |
CCTV footage | If you visit our premises or any of our cash machines we may record CCTV footage for security purposes. |
Net worth assessments | To assess whether you are a high net worth individual as defined in AECB or other regulations, so that we can, if you wish, obtain from you a declaration to that effect, which will exempt us from having to comply with certain regulatory steps when offering certain products. |
Information in the public domain | We generally conduct open internet searches on potential and existing customers as part of ‘know your customer’. |
Information about claims and proceedings (or potential claims and proceedings) by or against you | To identify, exercise and defend contractual and other legal rights. |
How will we use your personal information?
In accordance with the UAE data protection laws we must ensure that we use your personal information as described in this privacy notice or for purposes that we explain to you at the time we collect your personal information. We will use your personal information upon one or more of the following conditions such as processing an application, providing a service or payment transaction.
Providing services under a contract: we use your personal information to the extent necessary for us to provide the products and services to you on the terms agreed between us. This also covers anything you ask us to do prior to providing a product or service, such as processing an application or payment transaction
Meeting a legal obligation: we use your personal information where necessary to comply with any legal obligation imposed upon us. For example, processing your personal information for “know your customer” checks or for tax reporting
Legitimate interests: for any other reasons described in this privacy notice, we use your personal information on the basis of legitimate interests. This means that, on balance, we consider that it is necessary to use your data in the described way for a legitimate reason. We are required to balance your interests, rights and freedoms as an individual against the legitimate interest we are trying to pursue. If we can achieve the same result without processing your personal information, we will adopt that approach. It is our intention to give full and proper consideration to your interests when relying upon this condition to process your personal information
Consent: In limited circumstances, we may use your personal information where you have provided your consent for us to do so. Where you are asked to provide consent, we will provide further details of the reason and use of your personal information when requesting such consent
If you fail to provide a personal information when requested, we may not be able to provide the service to you or perform the contract with you. We may also be prevented from performing our legal obligation such as know your customer checks. These circumstances may prevent us from being able to offer, or continue to offer, you the services or product.
If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.
Who does NBK UAE share my personal information with?
We may disclose your personal information to the following categories of recipients:
- to our group companies. A list of our current group companies is available here https://www.nbk.com/nbk-group/about-nbk-group/our-network.html. We benefit from a centralized IT systems, provided by our parent company, based in Kuwait. It allows us to access larger, more sophisticated systems to process your personal information. In order to protect your personal information in accordance with the UAE's data protection laws we have put in place an agreement with our parent company through a set of standard contractual clauses.
- to third party services providers and partners who provide data processing services to us, or who otherwise process personal information for purposes that are described in this Privacy Notice or notified to you when we collect your personal information. This may include IT providers, credit check providers, and payment companies.
- to any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation including anti-bribery and corruption regulations and anti-money laundering laws, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, (iii) for fraud prevention purposes (iv) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person;
- to a potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice;
- to any other person with your consent to the disclosure
How does NBK UAE keep my personal information secure?
We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information. Specific measures we use include:
- physical access control systems
- a physical security presence
- logical access controls (such as passwords)
- perimeter security systems (such as firewalls)
- vulnerability management
International Data Transfers
Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country (and, in some cases, may not be as protective).
Specifically, our servers are located in the UAE, and our group companies and third party service providers and partners operate around the world. This means that when we collect your personal information we may process it in any of these countries.
However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Notice. These include implementing the Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information between our group companies, which require all group companies to protect personal information they process in accordance with UAE data protection law.
We have implemented similar appropriate safeguards with our third party service providers and partners.
Data Retention
We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
We will keep transaction records for a minimum of five years from the date of the relevant transaction, other information may be held for at least five years after the termination of our services.
Your Data Protection Rights
You have the following data protection rights:
If you wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information, you can do so at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.
You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. However, please note that we do not currently engage in marketing communications. If we ever changed our practice and began issuing marketing communications you could exercise your opt-out right by contacting us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.
Similarly, if we have collected and process your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If you wish to exercise any of the above rights please contact the Data Protection Officer at the details listed below.
Updates to this Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our Privacy Notice, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make. This may be by posting a notice on the Website or notifying you. We encourage you to review this Notice to be informed of how NBK UAE is processing your personal information.
You can see when this Privacy Notice was last updated by checking the date displayed at the top of this Privacy Notice.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer using the following details: dataprivacyuae@nbk.com. OR
National Bank of Kuwait Dubai Branch (S.A.K.P) – Dubai branch
Unit 1 (Ground & Mezz)
Latifa Tower
Sheikh Zayed Road
P.O Box 9293 Dubai-UAE
Tel.: +971 4316 1667
Fax: +971 4388 8588
National Bank of Kuwait Dubai Branch (S.A.K.P) – Abu Dhabi branch
Sheikh Rashed Bin Saeed Al Maktoom Street (Old airport road)
P.O Box 113567 Abu Dhabi-UAE
Tel.: +971 2419 9555
Fax: +971 2222 2477
Cookie Notice
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, National Bank of Kuwait S.A.K.P.) are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies". Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use a limited number of cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track the use of our Website.