Last updated: 01 October 2020
In this policy, “we”, “us”, “our” or “MBL” means Mercantile Bank Limited, “you”, “your” or “yours” means the persons to whom this policy applies means the customer or the users of the Digital Banking Platform (MBL Rainbow) by Mercantile Bank Limited, its related corporations, affiliates and branches.
The security of your personal data is important to us. MBL has in place safeguards to protect the personal data of the customers stored with us. This policy describes how we may collect, use, disclose, process and manage your personal data.
This policy applies to any individual’s personal data which is in our possession or under our control.
In the event of any inconsistency between different versions of this policy, the English version shall prevail.
We define “Personal data” as data that can be used to uniquely identify a natural person. Personal data can be collected from various sources and processed by us. Some examples of data which on its own or jointly, can be used to identify a natural person are:
We may use your personal data for our core business purposes, such as:
In addition to the above purposes, we may also use personal data for purposes set out in the terms and conditions that govern our relationship with you or our customer.
We may use your personal data to offer you products or services, including special offers, promotions, contests or entitlements that may be of interest to you or for which you may be eligible. Such marketing messages may be sent to you in various modes including but not limited to electronic mail, direct mailers, short message service, telephone calls, emails and other mobile messaging services. In doing so, we will comply with the Personal Data Protection policy and other applicable data protection and privacy laws.
In respect of sending telemarketing messages to your Bangladeshi mobile number via short message service, phone calls (voice or video), email and other mobile messaging services, please be assured that we shall only do so if
We may, as part of our ongoing relationship with you, send marketing messages to you. You may at any time request that we stop contacting you for marketing purposes via selected or all modes.
To find out more on how you can change the way we use your personal data for marketing purposes, please contact us (please see the “How to contact us” section below).
Nothing in this section shall vary or supersede the terms and conditions that govern our relationship with you.
We may from time to time and in compliance with all applicable laws on data privacy, disclose your personal data to any personnel of MBL or to third parties, in order to carry out the purposes set out above. Please be assured that when we disclose your personal data to such parties, we require them to ensure that any personal data disclosed to them are kept confidential and secure.
An example of such sharing would be for the purposes of providing or offering products or services that might be of interest to you based on your collected information or other data relating to your interactions with MBL Group, our partners or vendors.
For more information about the third parties with whom we share your personal data, you may, where appropriate, wish to refer to the agreement(s) and/or terms and conditions that govern our relationship with you or our customer. You may also contact us for more information (please see the “How to contact us” section below).
We wish to emphasize that MBL does not sell personal data to any third parties and we shall remain fully compliant of any duty or obligation of confidentiality imposed on us under the applicable agreement(s) and/or terms and conditions that govern our relationship with you or our customer or any applicable law.
We may transfer, store, process and/or deal with your personal data outside Bangladesh. In doing so, we will comply with the laws of Bangladesh and other applicable data protection and privacy laws.
Our web sites and mobile applications (“apps” or an “app”) use cookies. A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a web site or use an app. Cookies collect information about users and their visit to the web site or use of the app, such as their Internet protocol (IP) address, how they arrived at the web site (for example, through a search engine or a link from another web site) and how they navigate within the web site or app. We use cookies and other technologies to facilitate your internet sessions and use of our apps, offer you products and/or services according to your preferred settings, track use of our web sites and apps and to compile statistics about activities carried out on our web sites and/or through our apps.
A pixel tag, also known as a web beacon, is an invisible tag placed on certain pages of our web site but not on your computer. Pixel tags are usually used in conjunction with cookies and are used to monitor the behavior of users visiting the web site.
You may set up your web browser to block cookies which will in turn disable the pixel tags from monitoring your web site visit. You may also remove cookies stored from your computer or mobile device. However, do note that if you enable blocking of cookies and pixel tags, it may limit certain features and functions in your use of our web sites.
Our web sites may contain links to other web sites which are not maintained by MBL. This privacy policy only applies to the web sites of MBL. When visiting these third party web sites, you should read their privacy policies which will apply to your use of the web sites.
Your personal data is retained as long as the purpose for which it was collected remains and until it is no longer necessary for any other legal or business purposes.
You may request access or make corrections to your personal data held by MBL. MBL may charge a fee for processing your request for access. Such a fee depends on the nature and complexity of your access request. Information on the processing fee will be made available to you.
Please contact us (please see the “How to contact us” section below) for details on how you may request access, correct or exercise your rights with respect to the processing of your personal data.
To contact us on any aspect of this policy or your personal data or to provide any feedback that you may have, please visit any of our branches or get in touch with our customer contact center executive in the following ways:
If you are our personal banking customer or a non-customer, you may contact our customer contact center executive at our 24 hour hotline at 16225 or email us at dataprivacy@mblbd.com.
Amendments and Updates of MBL Privacy Policy
We may amend this policy from time to time to ensure that this policy is consistent with any developments to the way MBL uses your personal data or any changes to the laws and regulations applicable to MBL. We will make available the updated policy on our web site (www.mblbd.com/digital_banking/privacy) and at our branches. All communications, transactions and dealings with us shall be subject to the latest version of this policy in force at the time.
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