Banking Awareness & Client Protection
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS & DUTIES
As ‘Your Caring bank’, BBAC is aware of its ethical responsibility towards its customers, and therefore commits to act with integrity, honesty and transparency in managing its relationship with them at all levels, in accordance with the best banking practices and relevant regulations.
As a BBAC customer, you should be aware as well of your rights and duties that may arise out of your relationship with the bank. The Customer Rights and Duties list* below details not only what actions BBAC takes to protect its customers, but also what actions customers should take to protect themselves.
If you have any questions or require further clarification about the list, please contact your branch's customer service representatives who are ready to provide assistance.
* If you are already a BBAC customer, kindly visit your branch to sign the list and receive a copy.
As a BBAC customer, you have the right to:
- Take cognizance of the terms, conditions, and details of any product or service offered by the bank, and to request ample explanations to ensure that you have understood them and can abide by them
- Obtain from the concerned employee a clear, ample and simplified explanation about the financial services and products with different risk levels
- Obtain from the concerned employee a professional and clear answer to any question regarding an ambiguous clause or condition
- Request the use of Arabic in any document, correspondence or transaction with the bank
- Request to read and obtain in advance a copy of each document and text referred to in any contract to be signed with the bank
- Obtain and retain a copy of the contracts and documents signed by you, without bearing any additional cost
- Request the bank to determine the actual cost of the product or service, including the actual insurance cost and the computation method of the creditor or debtor interest rate
- Choose freely an insurance company among, at least, five companies that are accepted by the bank and mentioned in a written list, in case obtaining the product or service is contingent upon the submission of an insurance policy to the bank
- Obtain any product or service, provided it is suitable with your request, profile and perception of the likely financial risks associated to the product or service
- Obtain, for each product or service, a periodic detailed statement of account
- Refuse to sign a blank or incomplete form and make sure all the required fields and figures in the form to be signed by you are correct and complete
- Submit a claim on any service or product, and request from the bank an explanation on the claim submission procedure, the time limit needed to be notified of the claim outcome, and the mechanism applied for submitting the claim to other authorities whenever you are not convinced of the claim outcome
As a BBAC customer, you have the duty to:
- Provide true, complete and accurate information when filling out any form provided by the bank, and refrain from providing any false information
- Disclose all financial obligations and liabilities when applying for a product or service, knowing that the rights conferred to you by the Banking Secrecy Law will be preserved
- Update the personal information submitted to the bank, on a continuous basis and whenever required to do so
- Comply with the terms and conditions governing the chosen service or product
- Promptly notify the bank of any unknown transaction on your account
- Provide the bank with your home address, work address, email, ordinary mail, and telephone number, and report any change in this information to enable the bank to contact you personally and thus guarantee the privacy of personal information
As a BBAC customer, the bank would like to draw your attention to the following:
- Do not provide any third party, under any circumstances, with any details about your bank account or any other banking or personal information
- Whenever facing financial difficulties preventing you from meeting your obligations or paying your installments in due time, refer to the bank in order to find out the best options
- Be careful when granting a proxy or powers to a third party to complete your banking and financial transactions, by clearly determining the powers delegated under this proxy