Allied Irish Banks Plc ("AIB" or "we") respects your right to privacy in relation to your interactions with this web-site. Any information which is provided by you will be treated in accordance with the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998, Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of Such Data, and any implementing and/or amending legislation as may be adopted in England from time to time.
In every case, we will let you know what we intend doing with that information before collecting it, so that you can decide whether or not to furnish that information to us. If at any time after giving us this information you decide that you no longer wish us to hold or use this information, or in the case that the information becomes out of date, you are free to notify us, and we will remove or rectify the information within a reasonable time.
AIB, its servants and/or agents may need to verify and/or exchange certain information provided by you from time to time with financial institutions and/or other appropriate bodies. This may be because of the restrictions applicable to the use of certain facilities and/or services offered by way of this site, or to the extent otherwise necessary in connection with your use of facilities and/or services offered by way of this site. Therefore, you agree that AIB and/or any employee, representative or agent of AIB shall have the right to verify and/or exchange such information as provided by you and you hereby authorise any or all of such entities to contact you and/or financial institutions and/or other appropriate bodies as maybe necessary in order to verify and/or exchange the information which you have provided.
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 AIB, our licensors and/or our other customers.
Information and data relating to you may be collected through the standard operation of our internet servers and logs. You should be aware that AIB is unable to control the use of "cookies" or the resulting information by other third parties. One simple way to prevent the use of cookies it to activate the facility which is available in most web browsers that enables the user to deny or accept cookies. However, you should realise that certain cookies may be necessary in order to provide you with certain features such as the customised delivery of certain information.
You should also be aware that where you link to another website from the AIB website, that AIB has no control over that other website. Accordingly, AIB cannot guarantee that the controller of that website will respect your privacy in the same manner as AIB.
AIB, its directors, employees, servants and agents, affiliates or other representatives and their respective parent and subsidiary companies, shall not be liable in respect of any claims, emergencies, demands, causes of action, damages, losses, expenses, including without limitation, reasonable attorney fees and costs of proceedings arising out of or in connection with the use and/or dissemination of personal information relating to you in accordance with this privacy statement and your consents.
Telephone calls may be monitored or recorded to ensure that we carry out your instructions correctly and to help improve the quality of our service and in the interests of security.
AIB reserves the right in its sole discretion to amend this privacy statement at any time, and you should regularly check this privacy statement for any amendments.
