This document lays out the Terms & Conditions and Rules for the Services (hereinafter called "T&Cs") which shall be applicable to all Current, Savings and Fixed Deposit Account(s)* which are existing, may be opened now or any time in future with Equity Bank Retail Branches in Kenya (hereinafter called the 'Bank'). These Conditions are in addition to Your Account Terms. The word 'Customer' refers to the person or person(s) in whose name the Account(s) with the Bank are existing, may be opened (changed) now/any time in future.
The word Customer shall include both singular and plural. The word 'Account' refers to the Account either held single and/or jointly with the Bank which are existing, may be opened (Changed) now/any time in future. The word Customer shall include both singular and plural and both the genders as well as juristic persons, though for the sake of convenience is referred to in the masculine gender.
The Customer agrees to comply with and be bound by the T&Cs for the time being and from time to time in force governing operation of Account and recognizes that the T&Cs herein are without prejudice to any right that the Bank may have with respect to the Account in law or otherwise.
In these Conditions:
"Account" means any account that you hold with us (including any Account that You hold jointly with somebody else) and which We allow You to register for or access for use of any Service;
"Account Terms" means the terms and conditions applicable to Your Account;
"Agreement" means the agreement you enter into with Us which comprises these Conditions, Your Account Terms, the website Legal details and online Legal details;
"Conditions" means these Conditions;
"Helpline" means a telephone helpdesk service We provide to assist You with Your use of the Service details of which can be found on Our Website; "Instruction" means any instruction which is given to Us through any of the Services using Your Security Details;
"Online Banking Service" means the online banking service which We provide to enable You to access information and give Us Instructions relating to Your Account by logging on at Our Website and includes any additional facility We add from time to time;
"Our Website" means the website address at https://online.equitybankgroup.com;
"Security Details" means the security information which you will need to access on any one or all of the Online Banking service;
"We", "Our" and "Us" means Equity Bank (Kenya) Limited;
"Working Day" means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or Kenyan public holiday;
"You" and "Your" means the person who registers for or activates any of the Services;
"Your Equipment" means all such compatible equipment and devices, software (including any necessary app downloads), used and required by you to properly access any of the Services.
Online Banking is brought to you by Equity Bank (Kenya) Limited ("us", "we", "the Bank" “Equity Bank”), an authorized Financial Services Provider.
These terms and conditions ("the Terms") govern our respective rights and obligations when you use Online Banking and come into effect when you register for Online Banking or once you access Online Banking, whichever occurs first.
By making use of Online Banking, you admit that you have read, understood and agreed to these terms and conditions, and that you have consented to us sharing certain of your personal information within the Bank in the ordinary course of our business of providing the Services to you.
All products and services provided by the Bank are subject to their own terms and conditions ("product agreements") such as your Auto Branch ATM card, credit and debit card terms and conditions ("bank card terms") as well as account or facility terms and conditions ("other terms").
Where bank card terms or other terms require amendments or additions to be made to such agreements to be reduced to writing and/or signed, your acceptance of this agreement will be deemed to satisfy such requirements.
These Terms (governing the use of Online Banking) must be read together with and form part of each.
We may amend these Terms from time to time. If you use Online Banking after we have posted an amended version of these Terms on the Online Banking website ("the website"), we will be entitled to assume that you have agreed to be bound to the amended version of the Agreement.
For security, identification and verification purposes, when using Online Banking, you will make use of a variety of access codes for different purposes, such as your access number, Personal Identification Number ("PIN"), card number, account number, User ID and Password. These are all called your "access codes".
You must take care to keep your access codes secret. Only you may use them. Do not disclose your access codes to any other person and do not keep together with other Online Banking documents. If you call the Online Banking helpline, we may ask you for certain information such as your account or card number. However, there will never be a reason for anybody, including our staff, to know your Password or PIN. You must keep any reference number they give you as proof of the fact that you have notified us of your security risk.
If you believe your access codes have been compromised, you must immediately contact the Online Banking helpline on +254(0)2711440 / +254(0)723786736 / +254(0)735999012 and request that they deactivate your access codes or you can reset your access codes on the website with your bank card and PIN.
Until you notify us to deactivate your access codes we will not be responsible for any transactions that are performed without your knowledge or consent or any loss you suffer as a result.
We are committed to ensuring the security of your use of Online Banking and are entitled to investigate any loss suffered by you which is alleged to have occurred as a result of fraud via the website.
Where you have been a victim of an Online Banking fraud, you must inform us immediately as soon as you become aware that a suspicious transaction has occurred on your accounts and open a case at your nearest Equity Branch. You will also be required to co-operate with us and the police in any investigation conducted into losses you suffer. We will investigate all reported cases of Online Banking frauds and provide feedback on the Action to be taken provided that you have complied with the safety measures listed in the Security Policy, will reimburse you after the investigation for any losses suffered due to fraud committed via this website.
Before you can use Online Banking, you must first have a User ID and PIN. Once you have these and your User ID has been activated, visit the homepage of the website, click on the "Online Banking Link" and proceed to login for Online Banking. For more information visit our website or call the Online Banking helpline on +254(0)2711440 / +254(0)723786736 / +254(0)735999012.
Please refer to Equity Bank Tariff Guide for details regarding Charges for the service.
Because we communicate through the Internet, you agree that we are entitled to assume that you have authorized all transactions once your access codes have been entered. This will not apply if you have notified us to disable access to your accounts because your access codes have been misplaced, lost or stolen and you have a reference number to prove that. Our records of your transactions will be proof of any instruction you have given us, unless you can prove to the contrary.
You are responsible for giving correct information and instructions when registering for Online Banking and when conducting transactions via the website.
We will try to assist if you make a mistake when giving us an instruction, but we will not be responsible for any loss or damage caused by your error. We will also not be liable for payments made by you to unintended recipients due to the input of incorrect information, nor are we responsible for the verification of the identity of recipients. We cannot reverse duplicate or erroneous payments you make to other accounts without the specific consent of the accountholder. Our role is simply to pass your instructions on to where the account is held and we will not be liable for any act or omission on the part of such institution.
Certain transactions may not be terminated, such as the purchase of pre-paid products made available via Online Banking. Unless otherwise stated in a product agreement, all transactions will be subject to the same turnaround times that apply to the same transactions, accounts and customer profile, if done at an Equity Bank Branch.
An instruction will only be deemed to have been received by us once we have confirmed receipt. If you are unsure as to whether a transaction has been processed you should contact us before you re-submit the instruction. This is because re-submitting an instruction may cause us to process the same transaction twice, for which we will not be liable.
You must log off the website once you have finished using Online Banking. If you do not do this, unauthorised transactions may result, for which we will not be liable.
We may end your use of Online Banking at any time, for any reason whatsoever, on reasonable notice to you. Such termination will not affect instructions given to us and not yet carried out.
We will, however, terminate your use of Online Banking immediately and without any notice to you if:
In the event of us terminated your access to Online Banking, we will not be liable for any damages, of any nature, suffered by you or a third party.
You may however, terminate your use of Online Banking by contacting the Online Banking helpline on +254(0)2711440 / +254(0)723786736 / +254(0)735999012.
We respect your privacy and your personal information. For this reason, we have prepared a Privacy Policy to let you know how we will treat any personal information that we may have about you. We will take all reasonable measures, in accordance with our Privacy Policy, to protect your personal information and to keep it confidential, even when you are no longer our customer.
If you call our helpline you permit us to record your calls for security reasons, customer care and to comply with various laws.
Information that is transmitted over the Internet or via other networks (wireless or otherwise) may be subject to interception. While we will take all reasonable precautions to ensure that Online Banking is secure, we cannot be liable for any loss or damage you suffer as a result of your negligence.
You should regularly read the security tips which we publish on the website and take the precautions mentioned therein. If you want to prevent others from reading email we send you, you must set up your own password protection on your system at home or work. Please read our Security Policy for more information.
No warranties, whether express or implied, are made of any kind in respect of Online Banking including in respect of the performance, quality, security, content, information, availability, accuracy, safety or reliability of Online Banking.
Although we have taken reasonable care to prevent harm or loss to you, we are not liable for any harm or loss whatsoever arising as a result of your use of Online Banking unless such loss or damage arises from our gross negligence or intentional misconduct. This includes your inability to use Online Banking including, without limitation, any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages, whether arising out of contract, statute, depict.
Without derogating from the generality of the foregoing, we are not liable for:
You furthermore indemnify us against any claims by third parties or loss suffered by us arising from your use of Online Banking.
Your Account Terms shall also apply in addition to these Conditions. Your Account Terms contain terms and conditions which relate to responsibility for transactions on Your Account and which detail your and our obligations in respect of unauthorised, incorrect and failed payments. We have the right not to refund any unauthorised transaction on Your Account in the circumstances listed in Your Account Terms and these Conditions. Please refer to Your Account Terms. If you dispute that you have carried out a transaction using any of the Services We will investigate and shall expect you to co-operate with us and the Police in any investigations.
You will be liable for all transactions or payments requested from Your Account using any of the Services and/or any charges or interest incurred on the Account as a result of any of those transactions or payments or payment requests in the following cases:
For your convenience, this website may contain links to the websites of other parties ("third party websites"). By making the hyperlinks available we are not endorsing third party websites, their content, products or services they offer or the owners of these third party websites.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you obtain all information relevant to making a decision and that you read the privacy and security policy on such third party websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage you suffer, whether directly or indirectly, as a result of your use of third party websites.
The content on Online Banking, including all registered and unregistered trade marks, constitutes our intellectual property rights. You may not establish a hyperlink, frame, meta tag or similar reference, whether electronically or otherwise ("linking") to this website or any other subsidiary pages without our prior written consent, which consent is at our sole discretion.
You may apply to establish such a link by submitting your request to ebankinghelpdesk@equitybank.co.ke. In the event that you have not heard from us within 5 (five) working days, please consider your request as having been rejected.
You agree that publishing a notice on our website or sending you a notice once you log into Online Banking, email, SMS or post will constitute sufficient notice to you.
Should you fail to raise an objection with us within 5 (five) hours after we sent you a notice (including by SMS) confirming a transaction or the changing of any setting on your accounts, you will be deemed to have accepted the transactions or new setting as being valid and binding in all respects.
We respect your privacy and your personal information. For this reason, we have prepared a Privacy Policy to let you know how we will treat any personal information that we may have about you. We will take all reasonable measures, in accordance with our Privacy Policy, to protect your personal information and to keep it confidential, even when you are no longer our customer.
If you call our helpline you permit us to record your calls for security reasons, customer care and to comply with various laws.
We may discontinue providing Online Banking or any of the products or services offered via the website at any time at our sole discretion. We will however, notify you of this within a reasonable time of these changes being made.
We subscribe to the code of Banking practice which will apply to our relationship with our customers who fall within the ambit of the Code. This is governed by Central Bank of Kenya.
If you wish to lodge a complaint, please notify us in writing by lodging a complaint using this e-mail address; ebankinghelpdesk@equitybank.co.ke.
In the alternative, you can lodge a formal complaint at the nearest Branch by filling the requisite Form.
We will respond to your complaint as soon as possible. If you do not hear from us within 5 (five) working days from sending your complaint, we request that you contact us at +254(0)2711440 / +254(0)723786736 / +254(0)735999012 to check whether your complaint has been received.
All legal notices relating to products must be delivered as provided for in the product agreements. Where such address is not specified, such notices must be sent to our Registered Address. We may send you legal notices to any of the addresses you have specified on any of your application/registration forms with us or at the address you actually work or live.
These terms are subject to the laws of the Republic of Kenya. Accessing Online Banking from another country may be an offence in that country. You agree that use of Online Banking outside Kenya will be at your own risk.
The headings appearing in these Terms are inserted for convenience only and will not be taken into account when interpreting these Terms.
Where dates and times need to be calculated in terms of these Terms, the international standard time (GMT) plus 3 (three) hours (Nairobi) will be used.
This is a legally binding agreement between you and Equity Bank (Kenya) Limited (Equity Bank) establishing the terms and conditions under which this web site may be used. use of the online service implies that you accept these terms and conditions. if you do not accept these terms and conditions do not access this web site and do not use the online services.
Copyright in the pages and in the screens displaying the pages, and in the information and material therein and in their arrangement, is owned by Equity Bank (Kenya) Limited unless otherwise indicated. Equity Bank, EB and the Equity Bank logo are trademarks and service marks of Equity Bank (Kenya) Limited.
The information and materials contained in these pages, and the terms, conditions, and descriptions that appear, are subject to change. unauthorized use of Equity Bank's web sites and systems including but not limited to unauthorized entry into Equity Bank's systems, misuse of passwords, or misuse of any information posted on a site is strictly prohibited. Your eligibility for particular services is subject to final determination by Equity Bank.
The distribution of this web site's material may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions. it is your responsibility to find out what those restrictions are and observe them.
The Bank makes no representation or warranty of any kind, express, implied or statutory regarding this web site or the materials and information contained or referred to on each page associated with this web site. the material and information contained on this web site is provided for general information only and should not be used as a basis for making business decisions. any advice or information received via this web site should not be relied upon without consulting primary or more accurate or more up-to-date sources of information or specific professional advice. you are recommended to obtain such professional advice where appropriate.
Geographic, political, economic, statistical, financial and exchange rate data is presented in certain cases in approximate or summary or simplified form and may change over time. Reliance has been placed by the editors on certain external statistical data which, though believed to be correct, may not in fact be accurate.
Equity Bank accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising directly or indirectly from action taken, or not taken, in reliance on material or information contained on this web site. in particular, no warranty is given that economic reporting information material or data is accurate reliable or up to date.
Equity Bank accepts no liability and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising directly or indirectly (including special, incidental or consequential loss or damage) from your use of this web site, howsoever arising, and including any loss, damage or expense arising from, but not limited to, any defect, error, imperfection, fault, mistake or inaccuracy with this web site, its contents or associated services, or due to any unavailability of the web site or any part thereof or any contents or associated services.
Any hyperlinks from this web site exist for information purposes and are for your convenience only and Equity Bank accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising directly or indirectly (including consequential loss) from the accuracy or otherwise of materials or information contained on the pages of such sites or loss arising directly or indirectly from defects with such sites. Equity Bank's inclusion of hyperlinks does not imply any endorsement of the material on such sites.
Equity Bank does not guarantee that any e-mails from the web site will be sent to you or received by Equity Bank nor does the Bank warrant the privacy and/or security of e-mails during internet transmission.
Please note that any software downloaded from this web site is at your own risk and Equity Bank neither assumes nor accepts liability for any loss or damage, (whether direct or indirect), howsoever caused, as a result of any computer viruses, trojan horses, worms, software bombs or similar items or processes arising from your use of this web site.
All information submitted to Equity Bank via this site shall be deemed and remain the property of Equity Bank. Equity Bank shall be free to use, for any purpose, any idea, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in information a visitor to this site provides Equity Bank through this site. Equity Bank shall not be subject to any obligations of confidentiality regarding submitted information except specifically agreed or required by law. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as limiting or reducing Equity Bank's responsibilities and obligations to customers in accordance with the Equity Bank privacy promise for consumers.
This site is not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation. by offering this site and information, or any products or services via this site, no distribution or solicitation is made by the Bank to any person to use this site, or such information, products or services in jurisdictions where the provision of this site and such information, products and services is prohibited by law.
Certain sections or pages on this site may contain separate terms and conditions, which are in addition to these terms and conditions. in the event of a conflict, the additional terms and conditions will govern for those sections or pages.
Use of this site shall be governed by all applicable laws of the Republic of Kenya.
In the course of using this website or availing the products and services vide the online application forms and questionnaires, Equity Bank and its Affiliates may become privy to the personal information of its customers, including information that is of a confidential nature.
Equity Bank is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its customers and has taken all necessary and reasonable measures to protect the confidentiality of the customer information and its transmission through the world wide web and it shall not be held liable for disclosure of the confidential information when in accordance with this Privacy Commitment or in terms of the agreements, if any, with the Customers.
Equity Bank endeavours to safeguard and ensure the security of the information provided by the Customer. Equity Bank uses 128-bit encryption, for the transmission of the information, which is currently the permitted level of encryption in Kenya. When the information provided by the Customers is not transmitted through this encryption, the Customers' system (if configured accordingly) will display an appropriate message ensuring the best level of secrecy for the Customers' information.
The Customer would be required to cooperate with Equity Bank in order to ensure the security of the information, and it is recommended that the Customers necessarily choose their passwords carefully such that no unauthorised access is made by a third party.
To make the password complex and difficult for others to guess, the Customers should use combination of alphabets, numbers and special characters (like !, @, #, $ etc.). The Customers should undertake not to disclose their password to anyone or keep any written or other record of the password such that a third party could access it.
The Bank may use information that is held about you for assessment and analysis (including behavior scoring, market and product analysis and market research), to develop and improve the Bank’s services for you and other customers and protect the Bank’s interests. The Bank may also use your information for market and product analysis in order to generate statistical reports. These reports are aggregated and will not contain any information that identifies you.
The Bank may use information held about you for the purposes of providing the Services and to provide you with information directly related to the Services and Your registration for use of any of the Services.
Equity Bank undertakes not to disclose the information provided by the Customers to any person, unless such action is necessary to:
The Customers shall not disclose to any other person, in any manner whatsoever, any information relating to Equity Bank or its Affiliates of a confidential nature obtained in the course of availing the services through the website.
Failure to comply with this obligation shall be deemed a serious breach of the terms herein and shall entitle Equity Bank or its Affiliates to terminate the services, without prejudice to any damages, to which the customer may be entitled otherwise.
Equity Bank will limit the collection and use of customer information only on a need-to-know basis to deliver better service to the customers.
Equity Bank may use and share the information provided by the Customers with its Affiliates and third parties for providing services and any service-related activities such as collecting subscription fees for such services, and notifying or contacting the Customers regarding any problem with, or the expiration of, such services.
In this regard, it may be necessary to disclose the customer information to one or more agents and contractors of Equity Bank and their sub-contractors, but such agents, contractors, and sub-contractors will be required to agree to use the information obtained from Equity Bank only for these purposes.
The Customer authorises Equity Bank to exchange, share, part with all information related to the details and transaction history of the Customers to its Affiliates / banks / financial institutions / credit bureaus / agencies/participation in any telecommunication or electronic clearing network as may be required by law, customary practice, credit reporting, statistical analysis and credit scoring, verification or risk management and shall not hold Equity Bank liable for use or disclosure of this information.
We will retain any information We hold about You after Your registration for use of any of the Services is deactivated or closed , or if Your registration/activation request is declined or abandoned for so long as permitted for legal, regulatory, fraud and other crime prevention and legitimate business purposes.
In this Privacy Notice:
Equity Group Holdings Plc (
For the purpose of the Data Protection Regulation Equity Group and its subsidiaries is the data controller of your information. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use your personal data. We are required under Data Protection Legislation to notify you of the information contained in this Privacy Notice.
Equity Group and its Subsidiaries will collect and process your personal data you provide us through application forms, our website, face-to-face and electronic communication (including telephone conversations) in order to provide our services to you.
We may collect, store, and use the following categories of personal data about you:
In addition we may collect, store and use following information about you while you access your bank account with us through the imobile app or any electronic device:
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| To provide and manage your account(s) and our relationship with you |
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| To give you statements and other information about your account or our relationship |
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| To handle enquiries and complaints |
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| To provide our services to you |
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For assessment, testing (including systems tests) and analysis (including credit and/ or behaviour scoring), statistical, market and product analysis and market research. [We may use this information to prepare statistical reports to be shared internally or with our group companies. We compile these reports from information about you and our other customers. The information in these reports is never personal and you will never be identifiable from them]. |
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To evaluate, develop and improve our services to you and other customers |
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| To protect our business interests and to develop our business strategies |
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To contact you, by post, phone, text, email and other digital methods. This may be:
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| To collect any debts owing to us |
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| To meet our regulatory compliance and reporting obligations and to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute fraud and alleged fraud, money laundering and other crimes. We may record your image on CCTV when you visit our premises. |
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| To assess any application you make, including carrying out fraud, money laundering, identity,sanctions screening and any other regulatory checks. |
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| To monitor, record and analyse any communications between you and us, including phone calls |
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| To transfer your information to or share it with any third party to whom your account has been or may be transferred following a restructure, sale or acquisition of any group company |
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| To share your information with UK or other relevant tax authorities, credit reference agencies, fraud prevention agencies, and UK and overseas regulators and authorities |
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| To share your information with our partners and service providers |
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Please note, however, that in certain circumstances it may be still lawful for us to continue processing this information even where consent has been withdrawn, if one of the other legal bases described below is applicable.
We are permitted to process your personal data in compliance with Data Protection Legislation by relying on one or more of the following lawful grounds:
Specifically, we and our other group companies may use your information for the following purposes and under the following legal bases:
If you apply to us for a product, your application may be processed by an automated decision-making process which may carry out credit and affordability assessment checks to determine whether your application will be accepted. Where these automated processes suggest that your application should be rejected, we will manually review your application before making a final decision. We may also use automated processes to decide credit limits.
We may also carry out automated anti-money laundering and sanctions checks. This means that we may automatically decide that you pose a fraud or money laundering risk if the processing reveals your behaviour to be consistent with that of known fraudsters or money launderers, is inconsistent with your previous submissions, or you appear to have deliberately hidden your true identity.
If we, or a fraud prevention agency, determine that you pose a fraud or money laundering risk: (i) we may refuse to provide the services you have requested, or we may stop providing existing services to you; and (ii) a record of any fraud or money laundering risk will be retained by the fraud prevention agencies, and may result in others refusing to provide services or employment to you.
If you have any questions about this, please contact us on the details set out below.
We keep all your personal data confidential. However, in order to be able to service your needs to the best of our ability, we may share any information you provide to us with our group companies and their agents, counterparties and support service or data providers, wherever located. If you have provided information to other members of our group, those entities may also share that information with us. We will ensure that if we share such information with third parties, any such disclosure is at all times in compliance with Data Protection Legislation.
To help us provide services, your data will be processed internally and externally by other third parties. We use third parties for [administrative, servicing, monitoring and storage of your data]. We will outsource some services to third parties whom we consider capable of performing the required processing activities so that there is no reduction in the service standard provided to you by us.
The recipients or categories of recipients, of your information may be:
Fraud prevention agencies can hold your personal data for different periods of time. If they’re concerned about a possible fraud or money laundering risk, your data can be held by them for up to six years.
Information about you in our possession may be transferred to other countries outside the European Economic Area and Kenya (particularly to our parent company in Kenya) for any of the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.
You and they understand and accept that these countries may have differing (and potentially less stringent) laws relating to the degree of confidentiality afforded to the information it holds and that such information can become subject to the laws and disclosure requirements of such countries, including disclosure to governmental bodies, regulatory agencies and private persons, as a result of applicable governmental or regulatory inquiry, court order or other similar process. In addition, a number of countries have agreements with other countries providing for exchange of information for law enforcement, tax and other purposes.
When we, or our permitted third parties, transfer information outside the European Economic Area and Kenya, we or they will impose contractual obligations on the recipients of that data to protect such information to the standard required in the European Economic Area and Kenya . We or they may require the recipient to subscribe to international frameworks intended to enable secure data sharing. In the case of transfers by us, we may also transfer your information where the transfer is to a country deemed to provide adequate protection of your information by the European Commission or Data Commissioner or you have consented to the transfer.
If we transfer your information outside the European Economic Area and Kenya in other circumstances (for example because we have to provide such information by law), we will use best endeavours to put in place appropriate safeguards to ensure that your information remains adequately protected.
We will only keep the information we collect about you on our systems or with third parties for as long as required for the purposes set out above or as required to comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject. This will involve us regularly reviewing our files to check that information is accurate and up-to-date and still required.
We will normally destroy or erase data after statutory timelines lapse. However, we may retain your information, or information relating to your account after you cease to be a customer for longer than this, provided it is necessary for a legal, regulatory, fraud prevention or other legitimate business purpose.
All information you provide to us is stored in our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know basis. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
Please read the section on our website relating to online security which can be accessed here visiting EquityGroup.africa/privacy
We may communicate with you via electronic mail (e-mail). We will never ask you for your password or account number.
When you contact us through any of our communication channels including visiting a local branch or calling the telephone banking service, we will verify your identity by asking you a number of questions based on information known to us about you and the transactions on your account. We may record your calls for training, quality and security purposes.
We and other members of our group may use your information from time to time to inform you by letter, telephone, text (or similar) messages, email or other electronic means, about similar services which may be of interest to you or them.
You, your may, at any time, request that we cease or do not send such information by one, some or all channels, by contacting us using the contact details set out below.
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:
Any request for access to or a copy of your personal data must be in writing and we will endeavour to respond within a reasonable period and in any event within one month in compliance with Data Protection Legislation. We will provide this information free of charge unless the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. We will comply with our legal obligations as regards any individual’s rights as a data subject.
If you would like to contact us in relation to any of the rights set out above please contact us using the following contact details. To protect your privacy and security, we may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before providing you with the details.
You can contact the DC if you have any concerns about how the Equity Group and its Subsidiaries has handled your personal data and you also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Data Commissioner (DC), the Kenya supervisory authority for data protection issues. You can find out more information about your rights as a data subjects, their regulatory powers and actions they can take on their website.
The content or services mentioned on our website may be changed in future and consequently this Privacy Notice may also change. Any changes we may make to this Privacy Notice in the future will be posted on this page and where appropriate, notified to you by email. We recommend that you re-visit this page regularly and inform us if you do not agree to any term mentioned here.