Bank Alfalah Limited (“BAFL”) respects the privacy of its customers, visitors and surfers (“you”) to its Merchant Registration Portal and advises all of its customers, visitors and surfers to read and understand its privacy policy, and to check it periodically for any updates or revisions. This privacy statement sets out BAFL’s current policies and demonstrates BALF’s commitment to privacy of its customers, visitors and surfers.
When you visit this Merchant Registration Portal, BAFL may collect personal data about you, either directly (where you are asked to provide the data) or un-directly. BAFL will, however, only use such personal data for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Statement and BAFL is committed to safeguard such personal data. This statement sets out the purposes of BAFL’s data processing in respect of this Merchant Registration Portal.
BAFL may gather and analyze information regarding usage of this Merchant Registration Portal, including domain name, the number of hits, the pages visited, previous/subsequent sites visited and length of user session.
Purposes of Processing
BAFL collects and processes information of its customers, visitors and surfers to its Merchant Registration Portal to conduct its business, to inform and make available products and services offered by BAFL that may be of interest to you and for the development of web statistics. The information provided by you can be used to contact you when necessary, e.g. to notify you about functionality changes to the Merchant Registration Portal and to offer services that you may find helpful (provided you have not opted out of receiving such services). We may also use information collected through our Merchant Registration Portal for research regarding the effectiveness of the Merchant Registration Portal and the marketing, advertising and sales efforts of BAFL and its Partner/ Associates/ subsidiary Companies.
Sensitive Data/Information
BAFL does not seek to collect sensitive personal information (such as information revealing political opinions, religious beliefs, health or other matters) through this Merchant Registration Portal. If BAFL does seek to collect such data, your prior consent thereto will be sought. Please note that, by providing BAFL with unsolicited sensitive personal information you consent to our using such personal information as described hereinabove.
Disclosure of Information
BAFL may disclose information that it has collected from customers, visitors and surfers to affiliates, independent contractors and business partners who may use the information for the purposes outlined above. We may also disclose aggregate, individual or anonymous data, based on information collected from customers, visitors and surfers, to investors and potential partners or if required under the law. Finally, we may transfer information collected in connection with a sale of our product and services.
Maintenance of Information
Information about customers, visitors and surfers is maintained on our systems is protected using industry standard security measures. However, we cannot guarantee that the information submitted to, maintained on, or transmitted from our systems will be completely secure.
Third Party Merchant Registration Portals
Please note that this Privacy Statement does not extend to third party Merchant Registration Portals linked to our Merchant Registration Portal.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for customers, visitors and surfers to our Merchant Registration Portal and regarding information shared and/or collected there. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this Merchant Registration Portal.
Amendments
BAFL reserves the right to modify this Privacy Statement or any part thereof at any time and from time to time. Please check this statement from time to time for any changes.
Consent
By using our Merchant Registration Portal, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.
Terms of Use
Bank Alfalah Limited (“BAFL") provides this Merchant Registration Portal as a service to its customers, internet subscribers, online readers and the community using the World Wide Web. The information contained in this Merchant Registration Portal is not intended as legal advice. None of the information on this site should be construed to reflect the opinion of BAFL or any of its employees or clients for any particular matter of whatsoever nature. While the information on this Merchant Registration Portal may be updated periodically, additional facts or future developments may affect the content of the Merchant Registration Portal and no guarantee is given that the information provided is correct, complete, or up-to-date. BAFL assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of this Merchant Registration Portal. Information located on website may not reflect the current legal or factual position in respect of any particular matter.
The use and access of this Merchant Registration Portal is subject to the Terms & Conditions of BAFL and the local laws of the country in which the user resides. By accessing, browsing and otherwise using this Merchant Registration Portal, you accept, without limitation or qualification all Terms and Conditions of BAFL.
This Merchant Registration Portal may contain links to other areas of interest and does not imply that BAFL is affiliated or associated with, or endorses, or is legally authorized to use any trade name, registered trademark, logo, seal, or copyrighted symbol so used. BAFL is not responsible for third party content accessed through or linked to our Merchant Registration Portal. Visitors may visit, access, download or print materials on the Merchant Registration Portal only for personal use. All commercial or other use is prohibited, unless otherwise provided by BAFL. BAFL may point to other sites that may of be of interest to the Merchant Registration Portal visitor but for which BAFL has no responsibility and only provides this as a service to the Merchant Registration Portal visitor.
Neither BAFL nor any of its agents, affiliate, or their respective suppliers, agents, members, officers, directors, employees, representatives or subcontractors shall be liable in any event for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, punitive, exemplary or other damages, losses, costs, charges or expenses of whatsoever nature and howsoever arising, including but not limited to financial losses, lost profits, costs of funding or breach of brand image arising in any way from your access to or use of this Merchant Registration Portal, including but not limited to,
Any defects, viruses, or other malfunctions caused to any equipment and other software in connection with access or use of this Merchant Registration Portal, including without limitation any technical, hardware or software failure of any kind, interruption, error, omission, delay in operation, corruption, all computer viruses, malicious codes or otherwise
The information provided on or via this Merchant Registration Portal
The interception, modification or misuse of any information transmitted to BAFL or transmitted to you due to any reason, including but not limited to Merchant Registration Portal spoofing, phishing attacks and man-in-the-middle attacks
The functioning or non-availability of this Merchant Registration Portal
The misuse of this Merchant Registration Portal
The loss of data
Downloading or use of any software made available by this Merchant Registration Portal, and/or
Claims of third parties in connection with the use of this Merchant Registration Portal
The Merchant Registration Portal visitor agrees not to alter the presentation, reproduce, retransmit, disseminate, sell, distribute, publish, broadcast, circulate or commercially exploit the information in any manner without the express written consent of BAFL; nor to use the Information for any unlawful purpose. The Merchant Registration Portal visitor must access the information manually by request and not programmatically by macro or other automated means.
If you want specific, comprehensive, and up-to-date information or help with a particular factual situation, you should seek assistance from any of BAFL’s Branches or representatives.
If you contact BAFL by e-mail regarding any matter in which BAFL has no nexus with you (as a customer or otherwise), any information you communicate may not be treated as privileged and/or confidential.
Further, e-mail transmission is not guaranteed as error-free. BAFL therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of any messages that arise out of e-mail transmission.