This Privacy Policy was reviewed and updated in August 2015.BNP Paribas takes data privacy seriously. It is committed to protecting your personal data and respects your privacy.
In the course of providing various services to you, or in the course of your employment/ work with BNP Paribas, we may process your personal data. Your personal data may include information like your name, email address or telephone number and processing could mean collecting, storing, using or disclosing your personal data. BNP Paribas is bound to comply with EU data protection law, along with other similar applicable laws in other countries around the world. This Privacy Policy forms part of BNP Paribas's obligation to be open and fair with all individuals whose personal data we process and to provide full information on how we process such personal data and what we do with it.
This Privacy Policy relates to the processing of your personal data by BNP Paribas Corporate Institutional Banking. Unless otherwise stated, all references to "BNP Paribas", "we" or "our" in this statement shall include all BNP Paribas Corporate Institutional Banking entities that process personal data.
If you receive other services or products from BNP Paribas, or use any of our specific websites or applications, such as our recruitment website or internal HR websites, you may be provided with further privacy notices or statements which may be contained in a separate supplemental policy or within our website/application terms and conditions. These additional privacy notices or statements shall supplement this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy only relates to processing carried out by companies within the BNP Paribas Group. BNP Paribas is not responsible for the processing of any personal data which you may provide directly to third parties. Third party websites accessed via a BNP Paribas website or applications are not covered by this Privacy Policy and any links to other websites have been provided merely for convenience.
Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. Please note that none of the lists or examples below is exhaustive, nor will they be fully representative for every individual.
If you deal with BNP Paribas in your private capacity (which does not include employees, contractors, temporary workers or other personnel of BNP Paribas), for example if you take part in BNP Paribas recruitment, we typically process the following types of personal data about you:
If you deal with BNP Paribas in the capacity of an officer, representative, employee or director of one of our clients, we typically process the following types of personal data about you:
If you deal with BNP Paribas in your capacity as an employee, contractor, temporary worker or other personnel, we typically process the following types of personal data about you:
These types of personal data may include sensitive personal data.
We may also record telephone calls and store emails, applications and internet logs in connection with your dealings with us. See section below 'When we record communications with you'.
In certain circumstances it may be mandatory for you to provide us with your personal data, to enable us to provide services to you or to comply with our legal obligations, for example. In other circumstances, it will be at your discretion whether you provide us with personal data or not. However, failure to supply any of the personal data we may request may mean that we are unable to maintain or provide services or products to you or your employer and/or you may be unable to take part in any of our recruitment campaigns, or fully access and use our internal systems and resources.
BNP Paribas makes every effort to maintain the accuracy and completeness of your personal data which it stores and to ensure all of your personal data is up to date.
However, you can assist us with this considerably by promptly contacting us if there are any changes to your personal data or if you become aware that we have inaccurate personal data relating to you (see section below 'Your rights in relation to the personal information data we collect'). BNP Paribas shall not be responsible for any losses arising from any inaccurate, inauthentic, deficient or incomplete personal data or sensitive personal data that you provide to us.
BNP Paribas usually collects your personal data from the information you submit during the course of your, or your employer's, relationship with us. This will typically be through the forms and documents used when you sign up to our marketing or market data news lists, are named as an authorized person to trade on behalf of your employer, sign up to access any of our products or services either on your own behalf or on behalf of your employer, take part in a recruitment campaign, or when you become an employee, contractor, temporary worker or other personnel. We will also collect personal data when we monitor or record communications and/or through use of technology, please see further information set out below.
BNP Paribas and/or persons acting on our behalf may process your personal data for any of the following purposes, depending on the capacity in which you deal with BNP Paribas:
We may also use automated decision making processes in some circumstances.
BNP Paribas and persons acting on our behalf may record and/or monitor communications (including telephone conversations over landlines and mobile phones, emails, instant messaging, chat rooms, fax and other electronic communications) between our employees, agents, consultants, contractors or other personnel and non-BNP Paribas personnel/ individuals (such as employees of our clients). BNP Paribas only does this to the extent permitted by applicable law for legitimate business purposes or other purposes permitted by law. BNP Paribas collects this type of personal data for several reasons including but not limited to:
We may collect information about your computer or mobile device, as applicable, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration purposes. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. We may also collect information about your general internet and application usage, and about your access to and use of any BNP Paribas services made available to you/ your employer. This may be done through the use of cookies or any other similar technology, including technology that tracks and monitors your activities on some of our sites and systems. For more information on cookies generally and what cookies BNP Paribas uses, please see our Cookies Policy
BNP Paribas does not and will not sell, rent or trade your personal data. We will only disclose your personal data in the ways set out in this Privacy Policy and in the following circumstances:
BNP Paribas is committed to safeguarding and protecting your personal data and maintains appropriate security to protect any personal data you provide us with from improper or accidental disclosure, use, access, loss, modification or damage. Occasionally, the personal data we collect from you may be processed in (including accessed in or stored in) a country or territory outside your home country, including outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") which does not offer the same level of protection of personal data as may be enjoyed within your home country. By submitting your personal data to us, you agree to this processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and in accordance with applicable law and regulation and with BNP Paribas's policies and standards.
If you wish to update or modify any of your personal data we store, access a copy of this personal data, or you would like us to stop processing any of your personal data which we hold, subject to applicable law, you can make such a request by writing to the address set out below. We will process your request within the time prescribed by applicable law. If you request access to the personal data we store on you, we reserve the right to charge an appropriate fee, if applicable.
In any of the situations listed above, in order for us to comply with our security obligations and to prevent unauthorised disclosure of data, we may request that you prove your identity by providing us with a copy of a valid means of identification.
If you currently receive marketing material from us but would prefer not to please contact us by e-mail or letter at the address listed below. You can unsubscribe from any mailing lists to which you have previously subscribed by sending an email with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.
If you an employee, contractor, temporary worker or other personnel of BNP Paribas, you may also be able to view, update or modify certain of your personal data via the HR portal, accessible on the intranet.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with legal, regulatory or internal policy requirements. However, if you wish to have your personal data removed from our databases, you can make such a request by writing to the address set out below. Subject to any legal or regulatory requirements, we will then delete this information. If you an employee, contractor, temporary worker or other personnel of BNP Paribas, you may also be able to remove certain of your personal data via the HR portal, accessible on the intranet (subject to any legal, regulatory, or internal policy requirements).
We may change or update parts of this Privacy Policy in order to maintain our compliance with applicable law and regulation or following an update to our internal practices. We will do this by updating the wording on this webpage and updating the publication date at the top of this page, although, please be aware, you will not necessarily be directly notified of such a change. Therefore, please ensure that you regularly check this Privacy Policy so you are fully aware of any changes or updates.
If you would like to contact us in relation to this Privacy Policy, our Cookie Policy or anything else in connection with the personal data we collect on you, including, without limitation, where you would like to update your personal data, would like a copy of the data we collect on you or would like to raise a complaint or comment, please contact us using the details set out below.
Email: data.protection@uk.bnpparibas.com
The Data Protection Officer, IT Security, BNP Paribas London Branch, 10 Harewood Avenue, London NW1 6AA.
Please contact your normal BNP Paribas representative, explaining that your communication is in relation to data protection.