Privacy
Nationwide International will only collect, process and store information about you that:
- we have openly collected from you; or
- we have openly collected from you with your consent.
In addition to this we do log your IP address which is automatically
recognised by our Web Server.
We will only collect information that is relevant to providing our online
service.
We will keep your information while you have a relationship with us and
for any retention period that we are legally required to meet.
If, to provide this service, we need to transfer your information to another
company, we will tell you.
When you sign on to our internet banking service, all information, including
messages, are protected by encryption while in transit across the Internet.
If you use standard e-mail for communication with Nationwide International,
information will not be protected in the same way and you should be aware
that Nationwide International cannot guarantee that it remains confidential
whilst in transit.
All e-mail sent to Nationwide International will be monitored and checked
to ensure our systems operate effectively.
This privacy policy only covers the Nationwide International branded
web sites. Links within this site to external web sites are not covered
by this policy. Please note that any changes that Nationwide International
makes to this policy will be communicated electronically on the home-page
of this site and not by individual written communication.
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How Nationwide International uses your information. |
Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data sent by our computer to yours so that
information can be recalled.
A cookie is stored by your web browser in a text file on your computer
with the word 'cookie' in its name. Each time your web browser requests
a page from our web server, the cookie's message is sent back. Only Nationwide
International's Web Server may read the contents of a cookie you accept
from us.
Nationwide International use cookies in the following ways:
- to store your Customer Number so that you don't have to type it in
each time you sign on to our internet bank
You are offered this cookie on the Internet Banking sign on page.
- to track how users reach our site and the path they take through
it to help us to improve our service to you
When we use a cookie for this purpose, we do not record any information that will uniquely identify you. We put together the information from a very large number of users of our website to give us an overall picture of how people visit our site.
- from time to time we use a third party company to monitor and analyse
traffic to, from and within our website. Cookies may be used as part
of this process
Again no information will be recorded that uniquely identifies you.
- from time to time we may wish to record personal information about you using cookies.
Find out more about how Nationwide International keeps your account secure in our Security and Access Centre.
Definitions
Browser or web browser
There are many web browsers but the most common ones are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari.
web browsers are used to locate and display web pages.
IP (Internet Protocol)
All networks connected to the internet speak IP, the technical standard
which allows data to be transmitted between two devices. TCP/IP (Transmission
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is responsible for making sure messages
get from one computer to another and that the messages are understood.
IP Address
When you are connected to the Internet you have an IP address. It may
look something like this - 198.184.98.9
If you are a dial-up customer using an analogue modem or ISDN, your IP
address will usually change each time you connect to the Internet. This
means that you cannot be uniquely identified by your IP address.
Web Server
The computer which sends web pages to your computer.