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General

At Bank of Ireland Group we are committed to ensuring the privacy of your information.

We understand that as a customer or visitor using a Bank of Ireland Group Website, the privacy and the security of your information is very important to you. The purpose of our Privacy Policy is to outline Bank of Ireland Group's practices in this area.

PLEASE NOTE that this Privacy Policy is subject to the Terms and Conditions of use laid out on the site. You can read a copy of the Terms and Conditions of use by clicking here. We recommend that you read the Terms and Conditions of Use. If there is a conflict between the Terms and Conditions of Use and this Privacy Policy, the Terms and Conditions of Use shall prevail. Except as otherwise provided, terms used herein and defined in the Terms and Conditions of Use shall have the same meaning that is given to them in the Terms and Conditions of Use.

The contents of this Privacy Policy are subject to change and to being updated without notice from time to time.

The information we collect

As you browse through our Website, our web server collects information about your visit, not about you personally. We gather and monitor statistics such as, for example:

- the number of people who visit the Website;
- the date and time of visits;
- the number of pages viewed;
- the amount of time spent on the Website;
- the most popular sections of the Website

This information is anonymous and no attempt is or will be made to identify visitors. So, for example, on a specific day we can identify that our site has forty thousand visitors. However, we know nothing about these visitors in terms of e-mail addresses or any other personal information.

Use of 'Cookies'

The Bank of Ireland Global Markets Website does not use cookies. This is to further protect your confidentiality, anonymity and security of your personal information.

(A cookie is a small piece of information that a website stores through your web browser on your PC that it can later retrieve when you log back onto that website. This means that the site will remember your preferences and possibly even your name).

Security of information

At Bank of Ireland Group, we understand how important the security and confidentiality of information is to you. Keeping customer information secure is a top priority for Bank of Ireland Group. Our goal is to protect your information on the Internet in the same way as we would over the phone, in a branch or at an ATM.

Even so, Bank of Ireland Group cannot guarantee the privacy or confidentiality of information relating to you passing over the Internet. In accessing this Website and in availing of any of the services/information available on or via this Website, you accept and are deemed to accept that electronic mail messaging and Internet communication may not be free from interference by third parties and may not remain confidential. The use by you of this Website is at your sole risk.

Internet Fraud

A number of banking organisations and their customers have recently been the target of hoax e-mails that are aimed at gathering Internet/account details of the customers. Some of these hoax e-mails have encouraged or facilitated contact with hoax websites that purport to be (but are not) the website of the relevant banking organisation. To date the occurrence of such online fraud has not been extensive. However, we would always advise you to be cautious as regards disclosing your personal details. In particular, you should note that we will only ever request your personal details if: (i) you are seeking to initiate e-mail contact with us via this Website; or (ii) you initiate a request for a particular service via this Website and we require certain of your personal details to provide you with the requested service. We do not currently permit online applications via this website and as such you should not be asked for personal information electronically. he only exception would be if you initiated email contact with us via this site.

Hyperlinks

Some of the pages on this Website contain hypertext links to websites maintained by other areas of Bank of Ireland Group. You are reminded that different terms and conditions of use will apply to you as a user of such websites.

No liability

No member of the Bank of Ireland Group or any of its agents or employees accepts any liability for any loss or damage of any nature, including but not limited to loss of profits, goodwill, or any other type of financial or other pecuniary or direct or special indirect or consequential loss howsoever arising whether in negligence or for breach of contract or other duty, arising out of or in relation to the use and/or dissemination of personal information relating to you where such use and/or dissemination of information is done in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Use (in the event of conflict the Terms and Conditions of Use shall prevail).