1. Cookie Notice and your privacy

This Notice explains how State Bank of India (Antwerp branch) uses cookies to recognise you when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

Our privacy notice for clients contains more information about your privacy, including your rights when State Bank of India (Antwerp branch) processes your personal data.

2. What are cookies and why do we use them?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

The tables in Section 3 below explain the cookies we use.

3. Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies to guarantee the proper functioning of our website, to render our website easier for you to use and to provide you with a more personalised functionality based on your interests and needs. Our cookies may also be used to offer you services or to invite you for certain events. We also use cookies to collect anonymous statistics that enable us to understand how and how frequent you use our website and to help us provide better customer service.

The tables in Section 3 below further explain why we use cookies.

3.1 Categories of cookies used by State Bank of India (Antwerp branch)

The cookies used by State Bank of India (Antwerp branch) can be classified by their function, lifespan and the domain to which they belong.

By function, a cookie is either:

• strictly necessary: this cookie is strictly required for the proper functioning of our website. It enables you to move around our website and to use its features such as accessing secure areas.
• functional: this cookie allows the website to remember the choices that users make (e.g. user name, language or the region the user is currently in) to provide enhanced and personalised features.
• performance: this cookie collects information about how visitors use our website, e.g. which pages visitors go to most often, the time spent on these pages, any problems they would face. This cookie thus keeps record of certain of your preferences and allows us to enhance the performance of our website.
• targeting: such cookie is used to deliver content that best suits you and your interests and enables us to deliver more personalised content to you or to limit the number of times you see a banner or survey.
• analytical: this cookie allows us to recognise and count the number of visitors of our website. The result thereof are anonymous statistics that enable us to know how frequently you use our website.

By lifespan, a cookie is either a:

• session cookie which is erased when you close the browser; or
• persistent cookie which remains on your computer/device for a pre-defined period of time.

As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:

• first-party cookies which are set by our web server (i.e. State Bank of India) and share the same domain; or
• third-party cookies stored by a different domain to the visited page's domain. This can happen when the webpage references a file, such as JavaScript, located outside its domain.

3.2 First-party cookies

3.3 Third-party cookies

We are not storing any third party cookies.

4 How do you consent to the use of cookies?

Upon visiting our website you will immediately be introduced to the cookie notice of State Bank of India (Antwerp branch). We also explain you how you can consent to the use of cookies, as you have the right to accept or reject the cookies we use. Please be aware that refusing the use of cookies may have an impact on the functionality of our website. If you do not accept strictly necessary cookies, your session on our website might even be rendered impossible.

5 How can you manage cookies in your browser?

You always have the possibility to adjust your browser settings to accept or block cookies, or to notify you before you receive a cookie. Each browser has a different procedure for disabling the use of cookies. The Help function within your browser tells you how you can modify your settings. Alternatively, you may wish to visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/ which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on this site on how to erase cookies from your computer or mobile device as well as more general information about cookies.

6 Updates to this Cookie Notice

We may update this Notice from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we update our Notice, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.

7 Questions or concerns?

If you want to request information about this Notice, you can contact our Data Protection Officer (BDO) by e-mailing to dposbi@bdo.be or writing to:

BDO - DPO SBI Antwerp
The Corporate Village
Da Vincilaan 9 - Box E.6
1930 Zaventem – BELGIUM
Tel: +32 2 778 01 00