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Data Protection and Privacy Statement

Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited ("Anglo" or "we") respects your right to privacy in relation to your interactions with this Site. Any information which is provided by you will be treated in accordance with the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.

You agree that we may also use and update personal details given to us by you or others during your relationship with us in the following manner and for the following purpose:

for credit and credit related services and to manage your accounts;
for research and statistical analysis with the aim of improving our service;
to identify other products and services which might be suitable for you and send you information about them;
to recover debts and to assist in debtor tracing;
to prevent and detect fraud;
to update our records about you;
to prevent money laundering; and
to check your identity and address

You agree that we may use your personal information to make a credit check on you and/or a check with Fraud Prevention Agencies before we provide you with any services. These searches will be recorded by the credit reference and Fraud Prevention Agencies. It is very important that you provide us with accurate information. We may disclose information about how you run your accounts to the credit reference agencies.

You acknowledge and agree that in certain circumstances we may be obliged to disclose personal information relating to you to third parties, for example, in order to conform to any requirements of law or to comply with any legal process, as well as to protect and defend the rights of property of Anglo, our licensors and/or our other customers. Subject to the provisions of the preceding sentence we confirm that we will not disclose any such information outside the Anglo Group except:

to credit reference and fraud prevention agencies and other organisations which record, use and give out information to other lenders and insurers. The information may be used to make assessments for credit and all types of insurance and, for due diligence to prevent fraud and money laundering;
to persons acting as our agents under a strict code of confidentiality;
to anyone to whom we transfer or may transfer our rights and duties under any applicable customer documentation which you have entered into with us;
as required by law or regulation;
where we have your consent.

Otherwise we will keep information about you strictly confidential.

This Site uses cookies. Cookies collect information about your use of the website, for example your connection speed, details of your operating system, the time and duration of your visit and your IP address. You should be aware that Anglo is unable to control the use of cookies or the resulting information by other third parties such as advertisers or parties hosting data for Anglo.

The information collected by cookies enables us to understand the use of our site, including the number of visitors we have, the pages viewed per session, time exposed to particular pages etc. This in turn helps us to provide you with a better service, since we can evaluate the level of interest in the content of our website and tailor it accordingly. We will not attempt to personally identify you from your IP address unless required to as a matter of law or regulation or in order to protect our, or our other customers' rights.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can set your browser options so that you will not receive cookies and you can also delete existing cookies from your browser. However, you may find that some parts of the Site will not function properly if you refuse cookies.

You should also be aware that when you link to another website from this Website, Anglo has no control over that other website. Accordingly, Anglo cannot guarantee that the controller of that website will respect your privacy in the same manner as Anglo.

Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you have a right to request a copy of the information we hold about you for which we may charge a small fee and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected. If you wish to request a copy of the information which we hold or to advise us of any change in your name or address details please write to the Data Protection Officer, Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited, 10 Old Jewry, London EC2R 8DN.

Anglo may also use the information that you have provided for the purposes of providing you with additional information relating to the goods and services of Anglo, and/or its associated and affiliated companies. Anglo may also share this information with its associated and affiliated companies to enable those associated and affiliated companies to contact you directly in relation to their goods and services. If you do not wish to receive such information from Anglo or its associated or affiliated companies please write to the Data Protection Officer, Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited, 10 Old Jewry, London EC2R 8DN.