DATA PROTECTION & PRIVACY POLICY

This Data Protection and Privacy Policy relates solely to information supplied by you on www.zimabank.com and www.zima-bank.com (hereinafter referred as Web Sites).

ZIMA BANK respects the privacy of your personal information. Any personal information provided by you to the ZIMA BANK through this Web Site will be used solely for the purpose of providing you with the services you have requested at this Web Site, to update and enhance the ZIMA BANK's records, to advise you of other products and services which may be of interest to you and where applicable to consider your application for employment. This Policy will not alter or affect any information otherwise provided by you to the ZIMA BANK. The details which you are requested to provide on this Web Site may be transferred within ZIMA BANK which may include transfer to other parts of the Foreign Finance Group in different jurisdictions and by using this web site you consent to such transfer. In providing your telephone number, e-mail and postal address you are agreeing that the ZIMA BANK may contact you by telephone, e-mail and post. Other than to those individuals and entities listed below, your details will not be revealed by the ZIMA BANK to any external body, unless the ZIMA BANK has your permission, or is under either a legal obligation or any other duty to do so. The information provided by you at this Web Site may be disclosed by the ZIMA BANK to:

  • Other Companies in the same Group

  • Regulators

  • Lawyers

  • Auditors

  • Third Party Service Providers

  • Any Agent acting on our behalf

  • Any referee whose details are provided to us by you

The information collected from you by the ZIMA BANK will be valuable in improving the design and marketing of our range of services and related products for customer use. The ZIMA BANK wishes to assure you that your private information will be treated as confidential and with high standards of security. The use of your information will be kept to the minimum required in order for the ZIMA BANK to continually monitor and improve its services to our customers and keeping you informed about our products, services and other opportunities within the ZIMA BANK.

The ZIMA BANK pledges its intention to meet fully, internationally recognized standards of personal data privacy protection and to comply with the requirements of applicable data protection/privacy laws. In doing so, we will ensure compliance by our staff with the strictest standards of security and confidentiality. In addition ZIMA BANK has implemented a mandatory IT security policy, which it is intended will achieve a level of security compliance. However, it is your responsibility to maintain the secrecy of your user ID and login password.

Data provided by you is retained as long as the purpose for which the data was collected continues; data is then destroyed unless its retention is required to satisfy legal, regulatory or accounting requirements or to protect the ZIMA BANK's interests. As a general rule the maximum retention period is 7 years.

In order to improve our Internet service to you, we will occasionally use a "cookie". A cookie is a small amount of data that our web server sends to your web browser when you visit certain parts of our site and the use of which is intended to assist our understanding of your interest in our Web Site.

The ZIMA BANK reserves the right to amend its prevailing Data Protection and Privacy Policy at any time and will place any such amendments on this Web Site. This Data Protection and Privacy Policy is not intended to, nor does it, create any contractual rights whatsoever or any other legal rights, nor does it create any obligations on the ZIMA BANK in respect of any other party or on behalf of any party.

The ZIMA BANK may be contacted via email through any of the "CONTACTS" icons on the ZIMA BANK’s web sites www.zimabank.com and www.zima-bank.com