Privacy Policy

The Deposit Insurance Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (DIC) is strongly committed to maintaining the privacy of your personal information. This privacy policy covers how the DIC treats personal information that it collects and receives, including information related to your use of the DIC website (www.dictt.org). Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this site regarding:

• Personal Information Collected
• Information Collected About Your Visit to the website
• Use of Cookies
• Intrusion Detection Monitoring
• Notification of Changes to Policy

If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, they should contact the DIC at:

Internet

Email info@dictt.org

Telephone

Call 868-625-5020/1 or

Call toll free at 868-800-4342

Personal Information Collected

This information is only collected by the DIC if you supply it to us. Supply can take two forms, namely by you sending us an e-mail or completing and online web form on the DIC website. It must be noted that the DIC website does not automatically gather any specific personal information from you.

Any information sent to the DIC is maintained by the DIC namely for the following reasons,

• For the purpose of processing your request or inquiry;
• For use by the DIC in other ways to further its mission of promoting and maintaining stability, safety, integrity and public confidence in the financial system of Trinidad and Tobago; and
• To be shared by the DIC with third parties to advance the purpose for which you provide the information, including other government agencies.
• To disclose, if required by law, for example, to respond to a police investigation on subpoena.

In order to facilitate the website’s users with the option to e-mail URL references to pages on the website to another person we ask for the senders name and email as well as the recipients name and address. Upon the receipt of this information, the sender will receive a confirmation email message after the email is sent and the recipient will receive an email message with information on the sender on how to retrieve the page. At present, we do not store these names or email addresses submitted via this form.

Please note, if you decide to send e-mail to the DIC you are consenting to the DIC using the information provided therein, including personal identifying information, in accordance with this notice, unless you expressly state in the e-mail your objection to any use(s).

Information Collected About Your Visit to the website

The DIC automatically collects and stores the following information about you when you visit our website:

The date and time the request was received.

Your Internet Protocol (IP) address or the proxy address of your Internet Service Provider (e.g. AOL, CompuServe, and so on).

The name and IP address of the DIC web server that received and logged the request.

The resource on a DIC web server accessed as a result of the request, such as the web page, image, and so on.

The query in the request. This field captures any criteria or parameters issued with a query, such as a bank name or insurance certificate number.

The name and version of your Web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer 6.0 or Netscape 7.0).

The content of any sent or received cookie.

The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that was accessed before the user made a request for DIC's web server. The URL may be an outside address that is not related to the DIC server.

Other status codes and values resulting from the Web server responding to the request received: HTTP status code, Windows NT code, number of bytes sent, number of bytes received, duration (in seconds) to fulfill the request, server port number addressed, and protocol version.

Information on the screen resolution setting of your PC (e.g. 800 x 600, 1280 x 1024, etc.). This information will be used to adjust DIC design standards so the pages we produce will be as readable as possible on your computer display.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a piece of a file stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. At present this site does not use any cookies.

Intrusion Detection Monitoring

This computer system employs software security programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Such attempts are strictly prohibited. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.

Notification of Changes to Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Last Updated: September 2, 2005

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