We are committed to protecting your privacy during your visits to our websites,
and we recognise our responsibility to keep the information you provide to
us confidential at all times.
We protect the personal information you provide on our websites to as high
a standard as when you communicate with us in any other way, for example at
our offices or on the telephone.
We will only use or disclose your personal information in circumstances advised
to you when you provide the information or when you apply for a product or
service, or as described in the terms and conditions of your existing agreement
with us.
2. Security
Strict security procedures are followed in the storage and disclosure of your
personal information.
When you provide personal information to us on our websites, we ensure that
your browser encrypts it. We use the strongest commercially available
encryption technology, called Secure Sockets Layer or SSL, to achieve this.
We use the same technology when sending personal information back to your
browser.
3. Cookies
A 'Cookie' is information that a website stores on your computer so that it
can remember something about you at a later time. Cookies are commonly
used on the Internet and do not harm your computer. You can find out
more about the way cookies work by going to www.cookiecentral.com.
The cookies used on our websites do not collect any personal information that
others could read and understand about you, such as your name.
Both of our websites currently use cookies for the purpose of collating general,
non-personal management information that is used to plan enhancements to our
websites. For example, cookies help us to understand the popular paths
that users take through our websites and how often they visit.
4. Disabling Cookies
If you do not want us to use cookies when you visit our public website at
www.bancoequador.st,
you can configure your browser not to accept them. Disabling the use
of cookies should not adversely affect your use of this website. To
find out how to disable the use of cookies, please refer to your browserís
'help' facility or the manufacturer's instruction manual.