Introduction
The First Iraqi Bank (FIB) offers financial services to private and business customers. „FIB“ or „we“ or „us“
refers to First Iraqi Bank Company and the FIB Corporate Family in this privacy policy. The FIB Corporate
Family means FIB´s subsidiaries, joint ventures and other corporate entities under common ownership and/or any
of their agents, consultants, employees, officers and directors.
This privacy policy applies whenever you use the banking mobile app or otherwise access any of our products,
services, content, first-iraqi-bank.com and/or the other domains provided by the FIB, together referred as
„services.“ This privacy policy describes:
- What information we collect and why
- How we use this information and with whom we share it
- How you can access that information
- The choices you can make about how we collect, use, and share that information
- How we protect the information we store about you
Information we collect
We collect the following types of information:
How we collect information
collect information directly from you, as well as automatically through the use of our service, in some cases,
from third parties. Information that you give us: Typically the information we collect directly from you are
the information given from you to us during the onboarding process, relationship information like the content
of customer service requests that you initiate, reviews you submit on our products, or responses to surveys.
You decide how much information you share with us in most cases, but not sharing required information may
limit your ability to engage in certain activities such as the information required to open an account.
Information collected automatically: When you use or interact with our services, we receive, and store
information generated by your activity. Like usage data and other information automatically collected from
your mobile device. This information may include your IP address; mobile device type and OS version; preferred
language; geographic location using IP address or the GPS, or wireless technology on your device. We also may
log the length of time of your visit and the number of times you visit and use the Service. In most cases this
information is automatically generated by various tracking technologies. Tracking technologies may include
„Cookies“, „flash LSOs,“ „web beacons“ or „web bugs“ and „clear GIFs“. If you don´t want the FIB to collect,
store, use or share your information in the ways described in this privacy policy, you may not use the FIB´s
services.
What we use your personal information for
We use your personal information to:
- Provide FIBs services to you
- Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments, or concerns
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Enable you to personalise FIB services and to select content you want to access or to share with a third
party
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Notify you about changes or updates to the FIBs and other products services, including those belonging to
related third parties
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Provide you special offers and other information about related events, products and services and to invite
you to participate in surveys, competitions and promotions, as determined by your choices and communication
preferences
- Evaluate and improve FIB and other products and services and to develop new products or services
- Identify and analyse usage trends and determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns
- Provide technical, product and other support and help keep FIB services working, safe and secure; and
- Comply with our legal obligations
Third Party Providers
The FIB uses certain trusted third parties to help us provide, improve, promote, and protect Services. For
example, we may use third parties to help us provide customer support, manage our ads on other sites or assist
with data storage. These third parties may access, process or store your information to perform tasks only for
the purposes we have authorised, and we required them to provide at least the same level of protection for
your information as described in this Privacy Policy. We also may share with third parties aggregated or
anonymised information that does not directly identify you.
Cookies and tracking technologies
We and our third-party partners may use various technologies to collect and store service usage data when you
use our service (as discussed above), and this may include using cookies and similar tracking technologies,
such as pixels, web beacons, and if you use our mobile apps, through our SDKs deployed on your mobile device.
For example, we may use web beacons in the messages we send, which enable us to track certain behavior, such
as whether the message sent was delivered and opened and whether links within the message were clicked. Both
web beacons and SDKs allow us to collect information such as the recipient’s IP address, browser, message
client type and other similar data as further described above details. We use this information to measure the
performance of our message campaigns, to provide analytics information, enhance the effectiveness of our
service, and for other purposes described above.
Data retention
The FIB will keep your personal data for the minimum period necessary for the purposes set out in this notice,
namely (i) for as long as you are a registered subscriber or user of our products or (ii) for as long as your
personal data are necessary in connection with the lawful purposes set out in this notice, for which we have a
valid legal basis or (iii) for as long as is reasonably necessary for business purposes related to provision
of the services, such as internal reporting and reconciliation purposes, warranties or to provide you with
feedback or information you might request. Where required by law, we will delete your biometric data within
three years of your last interaction with the services.
In addition, if any relevant legal claims are brought, we may continue to process your personal data for such
additional periods as are necessary in connection with that claim. Once the abovementioned periods, each to
the extent applicable, have concluded, we will either permanently delete, destroy, or de-identify the relevant
personal data so that it can no longer reasonably be tied to you.
Communications
When you send us a message asking for support or information via WhatsApp, we use your telephone number to
thank you for your comment and/or reply to your question, and we will store your communication and our reply
for any future correspondence. Beyond our initial reply, we will never use your telephone number to send you
any unsolicited message or information, nor will we share it with or sell it to anyone else for such use.
When you request information or other services from us, we use your telephone number and other information you
give us to provide you with the information or other services, until you ask us to stop, or until the
information service is no longer available.
We will never use your telephone number or any other information to provide you with any unsolicited messages
or information, nor will we share it with or sell, rent or lease it to any third party for such uses.
Business transfers
If you have registered to use the FIB services, we will not sell, rent, swap, or authorize any third party to
use your personal information without your permission. In the future, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with
other companies or businesses. In such transactions, we may include your information among the transferred
assets.
Children under the age of 18
Our mobile app is not intended for children under 18 years of age and you must be at least 18 years old to
have our permission to use this mobile app. We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personally
identifiable information from children under 18.
Contact list
FIB will ask for your permission to access your contact list in order to make transfers to other FIB users
using their phone numbers.
By allowing access to your contact list, FIB will cross check the phone numbers with already existing FIB
users and will display whether those users already own a FIB account and will facilitate the transfer.
Future changes to the privacy policy
We may update this policy as necessary to reflect changes we make and to satisfy legal requirements. We´ll
post a prominent notice of material changes in our mobile app. We´ll give you reasonable notice before any
material changes take effect.