In the course of using this website or availing the products and services vide the
online application forms and questionnaires, ICICI Securities and its Affiliates
may become privy to the personal information of its customers, including information
that is of a confidential nature.
ICICI Securities is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its customers
and has taken all necessary and reasonable measures to protect the confidentiality
of the customer information and its transmission through the world wide web and
it shall not be held liable for disclosure of the confidential information when
in accordance with this Privacy Commitment or in terms of the agreements, if any,
with the Customers.
ICICI Securities endeavours to safeguard and ensure the security of the information
provided by the Customer. ICICI Securities uses 256-bit encryption, for the transmission
of the information, which is currently the permitted level of encryption in India.
When the information provided by the Customers is not transmitted through this encryption,
the Customers' system (if configured accordingly) will display an appropriate message
ensuring the best level of secrecy for the Customer's information.
The Customer would be required to cooperate with ICICI Securities in order to ensure
the security of the information, and it is recommended that the Customers necessarily
choose their passwords carefully such that no unauthorised access is made by a third
party. To make the password complex and difficult for others to guess, the Customers
should use combination of alphabets, numbers and special characters (like !, @,#,
$ etc.). The Customers should undertake not to disclose their password to anyone
or keep any written or other record of the password such that a third party could
access it.
ICICI Securities undertakes not to disclose the information provided by the Customers
to any person, unless such action is necessary to:
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- Conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process;
- Protect and
defend ICICI Securities' or its Affiliates' rights, interests or property;
- Enforce
the terms and conditions of the products or services; or
- Act to protect the
interests of ICICI Securities, its Affiliates, or its members, constituents or of
other persons.
The Customers shall not disclose to any other person, in any manner whatsoever,
any information relating to ICICI Securities or its Affiliates of a confidential
nature obtained in the course of availing the services through the website. Failure
to comply with this obligation shall be deemed a serious breach of the terms herein
and shall entitle ICICI Securities or its Affiliates to terminate the services,
without prejudice to any damages, to which the customer may be entitled otherwise.
ICICI Securities will limit the collection and use of customer information only
on a need-to-know basis to deliver better service to the customers. ICICI Securities
may use and share the information provided by the Customers with its Affiliates
and third parties for providing services and any service-related activities such
as collecting subscription fees for such services, and notifying or contacting the
Customers regarding any problem with, or the expiration of, such services. In this
regard, it may be necessary to disclose the customer information to one or more
agents and contractors of ICICI Securities and their sub-contractors, but such agents,
contractors, and sub-contractors will be required to agree to use the information
obtained from ICICI Securities only for these purposes.
The Customer authorises ICICI Securities to exchange, share, part with all information
related to the details and transaction history of the Customers to its Affiliates
/ banks / financial institutions / credit bureaus / agencies/participation in any
telecommunication or electronic clearing network as may be required by law, customary
practice, credit reporting, statistical analysis and credit scoring, verification
or risk management and shall not hold ICICI Securities liable for use or disclosure
of this information.