Terms & Privacy

Our privacy policy describes how we hold and process your personal information

Built on family values, we see every customer as one of our own and respect protecting your privacy. We want you to understand how we use your personal information to give you the solutions and services you need. If you have any questions, speak to us through our app, over the phone by calling + (962) 6 560 0444, or email us at info@bankaletihad.com.

If we change the way we process and use your personal information, we’ll let you know right away by email and by updating our website.

What we hold about you

We gather and process personal information throughout our journey together to keep your account safe and secure. Here’s what we hold about you:

  • Information you submit through our app, website or at any of our branches. This may include:
    – Your name, address, date of birth, contact details
    – A photo of you; whether passport photo or selfie on the app!
    – Your education and employment history
  • Your account details and transaction history with us
  • Information about your financial status, like your personal wealth, assets and liabilities, proof of income and expenditure, credit and borrowing history, and needs and goals
  • Information on how you use your phone and what you give us permission to access on it
    – Your IP address or operating system
    – Your smart device’s information
    – Your geolocation coordinates
    – Your security authentication
    – Your mobile network
    – Web site visits
    – Spending behaviour
    – Biometric data like your physical, physiological, or behavioural characteristics (For example, we use voice recognition or similar technologies to help us prevent fraud and money laundering)
  • Information from social networks or online accounts, this means your online profile and social media activity
How and why we get this information from you

Besides the information you share with us, we gather and hold personal information about you, your business, and transactions from:

  • When you sign a contract
  • When you open an account with us, and apply for a product or service
  • When we are required by law to collect and process certain personal information about you
  • Where it is in our legitimate interests do so as an organisation, without harming your interests, fundamental rights, and freedom
  • To keep our services up and running, manage our business and financial affairs, and to protect our customers, employees and property. This may include processing your information to:
    • Give you the best products and services
    • Make responsible decisions, perform data analysis, data matching, and profiling
  • Other parties who provide services to you or us
  • Channels you use to bank with us such as ATMs, online banking, and our mobile app
  • Public sources such as the press and online search engines
Your rights

You have a number of rights over personal data that we hold about you. You have the right to:

  • Ask us to stop processing your personal information if you don’t agree with the way we’re using it. We’ll stop processing your information unless it overrides with our legal obligations (Just to let you know that if we stop processing your information, we may no longer be able to operate your account and provide you with our products and services)
  • Make us correct your personal information if it’s inaccurate
  • Access the personal data we hold about you, or get a copy of it
  • Withdraw consent you’ve given us for your personal information at any time
  • If we’re processing your personal data based on your consent or to fulfill a contract, you can request a copy in a machine-readable format to transfer it to another provider
  • If we’re processing your personal data based on your consent or legitimate interest, you can ask us to erase it, subject to local laws
  • You have the right to be notified if a data breach puts your rights or freedoms at high risk
  • You can request that we temporarily stop using your information if you believe it is being used unlawfully
  • In certain cases, you can ask us not to make decisions about you using automated processing or profiling
Who we share your personal information with

We promise not to share your personal information with anyone unless:

  • You’ve given us the green light to do so
  • It’s needed for our services and offerings
  • We’re required by law and by law enforcement agencies, judicial bodies, government entities, tax authorities, or regulatory bodies worldwide
  • With other banks and third parties, where it’s required by law to recover funds that entered your account because of misdirected payments
  • With third parties providing services to us like:
    – Market analysis and benchmarking organisations
    – Correspondent banks
    – Agents and sub-contractors
  • With debt collection agencies
  • With credit reference and fraud prevention agencies
  • With third party organisations that provide you with benefits or services like:
    – Insurance services
    – Credit cards
    – Cybersecurity services
  • It’s required for a proposed sale, reorganisation, transfer, financial arrangement, asset disposal, or other transaction relating to our business and/or assets held by our business
  • It’s through an anonymous form as part of statistics or other aggregated data shared with third parties
  • We’re permitted by law, or is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party
  • The information is incorrect, or we suspect any fraud, then we’ll have to pass this on to fraud prevention and law enforcement agencies
How long we keep your information

We will keep your data for as long as you bank with us, and for 10 years after that required by the law.

The saved records we hold about you helps us serve you better. We’ll be able to get back to you with answers to your questions or complaints, provide you with the services you need, and protect you against fraud.

Holding your data is in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. They’re kept as evidence for our business activities and help us demonstrate that we’re meeting our responsibilities.

We may keep your information for a longer period of time, particularly if it’s an order from the court or an investigation by law enforcement agencies or our regulators. This is to make sure that we’re able to produce records as evidence, whenever they’re needed.

How we keep your data safe

We’ll make sure that your account and personal information are always safe and secure, especially with third parties that act on our behalf.

We use technical, physical, and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, or changes while it is stored, processed, or transmitted. Our systems are regularly updated and tested, and only authorized staff who need the information to provide our services can access it.

We’re always investing in new technologies to protect your money against fraud. We also want you to be safe and alert when it comes to scams and tricks.

Cookie policy

When you use our website to browse our products and services or view the information we share, we use cookies, and some third parties do as well. Cookies help the website work properly, collect useful information about visitors, and improve your overall experience.

Some cookies are required for our website to work. Because they are essential, we don’t ask for your consent to place them on your computer. These cookies are listed below.

 

Cookie namePurposeMore information
AWSALBLoad balancing – ensures that requests from the same user are routed to the same backend server so that the website remains stable and responsive.First-party technical cookie created by Amazon Web Services (Application Load Balancer). It is strictly necessary for the operation of the website and does not store personally identifying information.
AWSALBCORSWorks together with AWSALB to maintain load balancing where cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is used.First-party technical cookie created by Amazon Web Services (Application Load Balancer). It is strictly necessary to route traffic correctly and does not store personally identifying information

Some third parties also place cookies on your computer, with your consent. These are listed below.

 

 

 

Cookie namePurposeMore information
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Used by Google to provide security, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and, in some cases, to personalise content and advertising.These are secure cookies set by Google on domains such as google.com. They help protect user accounts and may also be used to deliver personalised ads.
_fbpUsed by Meta (Facebook) to deliver advertising to users who have previously visited the website and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.Third-party marketing cookie set via the Meta Pixel. It stores a unique identifier that allows Facebook to recognise users across websites that use Facebook services.
AECHelps ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, not by malicious sites, and protects against abuse.Security cookie set by Google to prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without their knowledge. It helps protect against attacks such as cross-site request forgery.
AECHelps ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, not by malicious sites, and protects against abuse.Security cookie set by Google to prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without their knowledge. It helps protect against attacks such as cross-site request forgery.
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Stores a unique anonymous identifier for the user or session to help analyse how the website and embedded services are used over time.Analytics cookie set by our monitoring/analytics provider. It helps understand usage patterns and performance of the site. It does not store personally identifying information.
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Used by Google to provide security, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and, in some cases, to personalise content and advertising.These are secure cookies set by Google on domains such as google.com. They help protect user accounts and may also be used to deliver personalised ads.
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Used to distinguish unique users and understand how visitors use the website, so we can measure and improve performance.Analytics cookie provided by Google Analytics. It collects aggregated statistics such as pages visited and interactions with the site.
_gcl_auUsed to store and track ad click information so that we can measure conversions from our advertising campaigns.Marketing cookie provided by Google Ads / Google Tag. It helps attribute conversions to ad campaigns.
APISIDUsed by Google to authenticate users, protect user data and prevent fraudulent use of login credentials.Security cookies set by Google. They help verify the user, protect login sessions and guard against malicious activity.
ar_debugUsed by Google DoubleClick for testing and debugging advertisement delivery.Technical cookie used by DoubleClick when debugging ads. It is generally only present in test or troubleshooting scenarios.
HSIDUsed by Google to authenticate users, protect user data and prevent fraudulent use of login credentials.Security cookies set by Google. They help verify the user, protect login sessions and guard against malicious activity.
IDEUsed by Google DoubleClick to register and report the user’s actions after viewing or clicking an ad, in order to measure ad effectiveness and deliver targeted advertising.Third-party marketing cookie set by DoubleClick (a Google service). It helps build an anonymous profile of user interests so that more relevant ads can be shown.
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SAPISID
Used by Google to remember user preferences and, in some cases, to deliver more relevant search results and advertising.Preference and advertising cookies set by Google. They may store information such as your preferred language or an anonymous identifier used to tailor content and ads.
sentry-scUsed to associate browser sessions with error and performance reports so that we can detect, debug and fix technical issues on the website.Functional cookie set by Sentry, our error-monitoring provider. It helps improve the stability and security of the website and is not used for advertising purposes.
SEARCH_SAMESITEUsed by Google to enforce SameSite behaviour for cookies and reduce the risk of cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.Security cookie from Google that helps ensure cookies are only sent in appropriate contexts and improves protection against CSRF-type attacks.
sessionUsed to associate browser sessions with error and performance reports so that we can detect, debug and fix technical issues on the website.Functional cookie set by Sentry, our error-monitoring provider. It helps improve the stability and security of the website and is not used for advertising purposes.
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Used by Google to authenticate users, protect user data and prevent fraudulent use of login credentials.Security cookies set by Google. They help verify the user, protect login sessions and guard against malicious activity.
UULEUsed by Google to remember user preferences and, in some cases, to deliver more relevant search results and advertising.Preference and advertising cookies set by Google. They may store information such as your preferred language or an anonymous identifier used to tailor content and ads.

 

Updates to this privacy policy

We regularly review our privacy policy and update it as our services and use of personal data change over time. If we want to use your personal data in a way that hasn’t been identified before, we’ll contact you to explain this and, if required, ask for your consent.