Privacy statement

This document sets out the privacy statement of this website (the "Site"). This Site is operated by HSBC Private Bank (UK) Limited, which is part of a world-wide group of businesses within the HSBC Group known as HSBC Private Bank and is ultimately owned by HSBC Holdings plc.

HSBC Private Bank (UK) Limited is incorporated as a limited company in England, under Company Register Number 499482, with its Registered Office at 78, St James’s Street, London, SW1A 1E5; and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority being listed with the Registration Number 124781.

This Site provides a portal, or gateway, to the financial services offered by HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, authorised and regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority ("FINMA"). HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA is part of the worldwide group of businesses within the HSBC Group known as HSBC Private Bank which is ultimately owned by HSBC Holdings plc. HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA is incorporated as a limited company in Switzerland, under Company Register Number CH-660-0074001-4, with its Registered Office at quai du Général-Guisan 2, PO Box 3580, 1211 Geneva 3.

We know that you are concerned with how your personal and financial information is dealt with. This privacy statement sets out our current policies and demonstrates our commitment to your financial privacy. We may change the content or services found on our Site at any time without notice, and consequently our privacy policy may change at any time in the future.

Internet privacy policy statement and personal information collection
We will not collect any personal information that identifies a visitor to this site individually unless specified otherwise.

Relevant information may be exchanged with members of the HSBC Group and others to provide you with services. We may use other members of the HSBC Group and/or third parties (in jurisdictions inside or outside the European Economic Area where there may be less stringent data protection laws) to process information on our behalf. Wherever it is processed, your information will be protected by a strict code of secrecy and security which all members of the HSBC Group, their staff and any third parties are subject to and will only be used in accordance with our instructions.

We will not disclose or transfer data to third parties for the purposes of marketing.

COOKIES
This Site, along with most other major websites, uses cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to the cookie file on your computer’s hard disk. Cookies enable users to navigate around the site and (where appropriate) enable us to tailor the content to fit the needs of visitors who have accessed the site.

We use two types of cookie on this site:

Cookies cannot look into your computer and obtain information about you or your family or read any material kept on your hard drive and, unless you have logged onto an authenticated page, cookies cannot be used to identify who you are.

Cookies cannot be used by anyone else who has access to the computer to find out anything about you, other than the fact that someone using the computer has visited a certain website. Cookies do not in any way compromise the security of your computer.

Cookies will not be used to contact you for marketing purposes other than by means of advertisements offered within this Site.

Cookies may be used to record details of pages relating to particular products and services that you have visited on this Site. This is to provide us with generic usage statistics to allow us to improve this Site and to provide you with information that may interest you.

In order to develop this Site in line with customer needs we are working with WebTrends to track usage on this Site. WebTrends provide us with statistics to show which pages on this Site are visited most frequently and how long visitors spend on this Site.

WebTrends uses a cookie to track the number of unique users of this Site. It basically tells us whether the Site has a small number of regular visitors or a large number of infrequent visitors. None of the information can be traced to an individual – we do not know who you are as a unique user, merely that there are a certain number of people using this Site. The cookie only relates to what goes on in this Site and the information cannot be used for marketing on an individual basis.

For more information about how WebTrends collects data, please read their privacy policy on the WebTrends website.

The web browsers of most computers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your web browser to disable cookies or to inform you when a website is attempting to add a cookie. You can also delete cookies that have previously been added to your computer’s cookie file.

You can set your browser to disable persistent cookies and/or session cookies but if you disable session cookies, although you will be able to view this Site’s unsecured pages, you may not be able to log onto any authenticated pages.

Please visit the Managing Cookies website to find out how to disable and delete cookies.

Web beacons and spotlight tags
This Site may contain electronic images, known as web beacons or spotlight tags. These enable us to count users who have visited certain pages on the Site. Web beacons and spotlight tags are simply tools used to obtain generic information about the web pages visited. They are not used to obtain information about specific users.