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1. Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you'd expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising)
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do).
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
2. Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
3. More about our Cookies
3.1. Website Function Cookies
3.1.1 Our Own Cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
Our Bank website (https://www.bbacbank.com) uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
- Remembering your search settings
- Showing you which pages you have recently visited
- Allowing you to add comments to our site
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
3.2 Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
3.3. Advertising Cookies
Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers nor our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies.
3.4. Banner Adverts
We fund our site by showing adverts as you browse our site. These adverts are usually managed by a partner specializing in providing adverts for multiple sites. Invariably these partners place cookies to collect anonymous data about the websites you visits so they can personalize the adverts to you, ensure that you don't see the same adverts too frequently and ultimately report to advertisers on which adverts are working. Our partners include:
3.5 Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how, Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of ours and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
4. Contact us
For any request concerning this disclaimer, please contact our assigned Data protection officer on the following address: BBAC_DPO@bbac.com.lb
How to ban cookies (but do you really want to?)
Looking for a way to get rid of cookies? Before you do, think about this. Blocking all cookies may adversely affect your internet browsing experience. That is because many cookies are good cookies, used to save your settings and preferences for the sites you visit. That is why using software to get rid of bad cookies while keeping the good ones is our recommended option. Antivirus programs from manufacturers such as Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro, Kaspersky and others will help you to manage cookies while still enjoying surfing the web. If you are still determined to get rid of cookies, however, it is as simple as fixing your browser settings. Here is how to do it from some of the most used browsers.
Mozilla Firefox
To block cookies or change cookie settings in Firefox, select ‘Options’ then choose ‘Privacy’. Since Firefox accepts cookies by default, select ‘Use Custom Settings for History’. This will bring up additional options where you can uncheck ‘Accept Cookies From Sites’ or set exceptions; ‘Accept Third Party Cookies’ and decide how long cookies will be stored (until they expire, until you close the browser, or ask you every time). You can also see the list of stored cookies and manually delete those you do not want. You also have the option of deleting all cookies, either from the history window or the privacy window. Permissions for blocking or allowing cookies for single sites can also be set via the Permissions tab.
Google Chrome
To block cookies or change cookie settings in Google Chrome, click on the wrench (spanner) on the browser toolbar. Choose ‘Settings’, then ‘Under the Hood’. Find the ‘Privacy’ section and click on ‘Content Settings’. Then click on ‘Cookies’ and you will get four options allowing you to delete cookies, allow or block all cookies by default, or set cookie preferences for particular sites or domains.
Internet Explorer
To block cookies or change cookie settings in Internet Explorer, select Tools (or the gear icon), ‘Internet Options’, ‘Privacy’. You can choose from a number of security settings including ‘Accept All Cookies’, ‘Block All Cookies’, or intermediate settings that affect cookie storage based on privacy and whether the cookies set allow third parties to contact you without your explicit consent.
Safari
To block cookies or change cookie settings in Safari 5.0 and earlier, go to ‘Preferences’, ‘Security’ and then ‘Accept Cookies’. You can choose from ‘Always’, ‘Only From Sites You Navigate To’, or ‘Never’. In Safari 5.1 and later go to ‘Preferences’, ‘Privacy’. In the ‘Block Cookies’ section choose ‘Always’, ‘Never’ or ‘From Third Parties and Advertisers’.
Now that you have all the information you need to manage and delete cookies in your chosen browser, you can go forth and surf in the pleasure of knowing you have control. Do not forget, though, that doing so might mean that the web does not look the way you expect.
