Nasco Qatar LLC (Nasco or We/Us) strongly believes in protecting the privacy of the visitors and users (Users or You) of our website www.nascoqatar.com (the Website). Nasco Qatar is part of Nasco Insurance Group.

Nasco Qatar operates under the supervision of the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority and is licensed to effect and carry out insurance mediation services, under its QFC no. 00057.

This Website is owned and operated by “Nasco Digital Ltd”, a member of Nasco Insurance Group, and affiliated entity to Nasco.

This privacy statement (the Statement) is intended to inform the Users of the ways in which Nasco collects personal information on the Website, the uses to which that information will be put, and the ways in which Nasco will protect any personal information the Users choose to provide via the Website. Generally, personal information (the Personal Information) is any information that can be used to identify the User, or his activity on the Website or through services offered thereon.

This Statement applies solely to data collected via the Website. There may be additional information that might be collected about the User or the User’s company, pursuant to other relationships or for other purposes; such collection will be subject to other agreements and rules.

Personal Information We collect 

The Personal Information collected from You will vary depending on which products or services You engage us to provide through the Website. The Personal Information We collect might include but would not be limited to the following:

• Personal data of the User and his/her family members, such as first and last name, marital status, proof of identification (passport or local ID), email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data, date and place of birth, gender, nationality, and family members related data;
• Business contact information such as employer name, job function, job title, department, employer size and locations and tax residency;
• Contractual information such as any information allowing us to perform our contractual duties and insurance brokerage services; and
• Technical information about your device for security purposes such as your IP address or operating system.

How we collect Personal Information

The Personal Information collected by Nasco through the Website falls into two categories: (1) information voluntarily supplied by the Users and (2) information gathered via automated means as the Users navigate through the Website.

1. Information voluntarily provided by the User

You may choose to provide us with information to help Us serve Your needs. Although it is optional for You to disclose the requested information, You must do so in order to engage in certain activities on the Website or in case You need to maintain a relationship with us. Any Personal Information You send us through the Website will be used only for the purpose indicated on the Website or in this Statement. If You send Us information, You explicitly consent to storage, destruction, processing, disclosure, and/or any other use of Your information by Nasco or its third-party service providers, which use is mentioned in the present Statement.

1. Information Collected by our Website and Cookies:

We may use the IP address information of your device, without collecting your Personal Information, to monitor and analyze how our Website is being used. 

We may also collect specific information when You navigate on the Website for the purpose of enhancing the Users experience and track Users activities, such as dialogue flow and google analytics. 

We may also acquire certain information about You from a "cookie" and/or from your IP/Internet address. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your web browser on your computer's hard drive that enable us to serve You faster and more efficiently. Please refer to our cookies policy below for further information on what cookies are being used for and for what purpose. 

Children

Nasco understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment.

Our Website is not intentionally designed for, or directed at children under the age of 18. It is our policy never to knowingly keep Personal Information about any User under the age of 18, except as part of an engagement to provide professional services (and provided appropriate consents from the concerned subject and his legal guardian are obtained).

You hereby confirm that by making use of the services We offer through the Website, You are 18 years old or above.

The use of the collected Personal Information

Nasco will use the information provided by You through the Website to serve Your needs and for the purposes stated here below. The Personal Information may be used for example to answer queries in relation to a quotation submitted through our Website (if that functionality is enabled) or to any service offered by Nasco, to help resolve a complaint or to share any information, written materials or updates in response to Your requests submitted through our Website or directly to our contact email.

The information You shared will not be used to conduct direct marketing to You, unless We have received your prior consent and provided that You may withdraw such consent at any time. 

Sharing of Personal Information 

We will not sell, exchange, or otherwise distribute Your Personal Information without Your consent, except to the extent required by law, or in accordance with your instructions, or as identified in this Statement. However, we may share your Personal Information with the following parties in order to serve Your needs and/or to enable us to comply with legal obligations:

• Any company part of the same corporate group;
• Providers for the supply, management, support or hosting of our IT systems who may have access to Personal Information, as needed to perform their functions, but are contractually restricted from sharing it externally or using it for purposes other than providing services for Nasco or on Our behalf.;
• Independent financial advisors and external consultants that provide ad-hoc audit or consultancy services;
• Reinsurance companies, other insurance brokers and agents for the purpose of placing Our portfolio of risks;
• Third party administrators or professional services companies where necessary that act as specialists for handling specific risks;
• Medical professionals, if we need to access health records or assessments for the purposes of arranging and underwriting certain products or facilitating and handling claims;
• Legal solicitors in case of a dispute, complaint, or claim and/or legal advisors to seek advice in a particular case;
• Competent authorities, that is, supervisors, judicial authorities, public authorities, regulators, commissions and tax authorities to comply with legal obligations of disclosures.

Retention of Personal Information 

We will collect and retain your Personal Information for as long as it is necessary for the purpose or purposes for which the collection was intended:

• For the purposes of performing or fulfilling a contractual obligation with You or the organization that You represent or in order to provide You with requested services, 
• To comply with our own legal requirements and for legitimate business purposes, under the framework provided by law; and
• For as long as required or permitted by law.

Keeping Your information up-to-date and accurate is important to Us. We commit to regularly review and correct where necessary, the information that We hold about You. If any of Your information changes, please email or write to Us, or call Us using the contact information noted below. You have the right to ask for a copy of the information We hold about You and/or ask for deletion of all Personal Information We hold (except that We may keep copies of such information if that is needed in order to meet Our retention requirements). 

Measures in place to protect your Personal Information

The confidentiality and security of your Personal Information is important to Us. We have implemented reasonable physical, technical and administrative security standards to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.

We protect your Personal Information against unauthorized access, use or disclosure, using security technologies and procedures. Only authorized individuals who are subject to continuous training on protection of Personal Information, will access your Personal Information. 

Our service providers and agents are contractually bound to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information and may not use the information for any unauthorized purpose.

Your Rights

You have the right to see or access the personal information we hold about you. To receive a copy, please send us an email at compliance@nascoqatar.com. 

In addition, you have certain rights regarding your personal information, subject to local law. These include the following rights to:

• Withdrawing consent to the processing of Your Personal Information, noting that this withdrawal shall not affect or have an impact on any of the services that We performed prior to such withdrawal;
• Rectify, add or update Your Personal Information;
• erase Your Personal Information;
• restrict our use of Your Personal Information;
• object to our use of Your Personal Information whenever the same is in violation of your fundamental rights and freedom;

and

• lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

If you would like to discuss or exercise such rights, please contact Us.

Please note that we will likely require additional information from You to honor your requests.

Privacy Complaints

If you have any concerns or complaints about our compliance with the present Statement, please send us an email at compliance@nascoqatar.com. We will endeavor to respond to your concerns as soon as possible.

Changes to Privacy Statement

The Statement is subject to change at any time. We will not notifying You of such changes.

Any changes we make to this Statement become effective immediately when we post the revised Statement on the Website. We recommend that You review this Statement regularly to be informed of any changes.

TERMS OF USE OF THE WEBSITE

We can only provide use of the Website in the condition that We make it available from time to time. Use of the Website is provided on an “as is” and “as available basis”.

All products and services featured on the Website are intended to be provided to Our customers or those benefiting from such services, and contractually bound by the terms and conditions of valid underwriting policies or programs issued by our licensed entities noting that any eligible customer would be approved by Us at our own discretion. 

With regard to the information, products and services offered on the Website, no distribution or solicitation is made or intended to be made by Us to any person in a jurisdiction where such information, products, services, or materials is prohibited by the laws of the country applicable to that person or the marketing activities. The information contained on the Portal is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase of any financial instrument nor does it constitute financial advice or promotion. 

You must not establish a link to the Website without our prior written consent. 

Where the Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the contents of those sites or resources.

We own or are the licensee of intellectual property rights of the Website and You agree that You will not do anything to infringe or prejudice those rights.

You must not without Our prior written consent:

1. attempt to copy, modify, duplicate, create derivative works from, frame, mirror, republish, the Website in any form of media or by any means; or
2. attempt to de-compile, reverse compile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise reduce to human perceivable form all or any part of the Website; or
3. access the Website in order to build a product or service which competes with the Website or use the Website to provide services to third parties; or
4. license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, display, disclose, or otherwise commercially exploit, or otherwise make available the Website to any third party; or
5. assist third parties in obtaining access to the Website or attempt to gain access to the Website in any way which is contrary to these Terms of Use; or
6. reproduce or store a part of the Website in any other website or in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service.

We are the owner of, or the licensee of the intellectual property rights in the trademarks, certain of which appear on this Website and documentation produced by the Website. Our trademarks may not be used without our prior written permission.

By using the Website, You explicitly consent to the abovementioned Terms of Use, and this Statement. 

If we change our Terms of Use in any way, the changes will be posted on the Website and You will be notified upon your next visit. 

December 22, 2022

NASCO QATAR LLC

Part of Nasco Insurance Group

www.nascoqatar.com 

West Bay, AL Reem Tower, 13th Floor, PO Box 22761, Doha, Qatar

QFC License 00057

Cookies Policy

Last Updated: December 22, 2022

Important Notice: this policy explains how cookies are used on our internet-facing applications. The policy may be amended from time to time. When we do, we will let you know by appropriate means such by posting the revised policy on the page with a new “Last Updated” date.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small, simple text files downloaded to your computer, tablet, smartphone or other device when a user visits an internet-facing application. Cookies are mainly used to identify users when they return back to a previously visited internet-facing application to remember their login information (if that features of login is enabled on the Website) and behavior. 

Our use of cookies 

We use cookies on our internet-facing applications to improve our users’ navigation experience. This can include which pages they have visited, choices they have made from menus, any specific information they have entered into forms and the time and date of their visit.

It is important to highlight that the cookies we use do not store sensitive or personal information. You can choose to refuse the cookies at any time; but in this case, our internet-facing application may not function properly.

Type of cookies   

There are different types of cookies that we use on our internet-facing applications: 

• Necessary cookies that are basic cookies that ensure the internet-facing application work properly, for example by controlling the way it is displayed on your computer or tablet, smartphone or other device. Our internet-facing applications don’t function properly without these cookies.
• Preferences cookies that are Personal cookies that save preferences such as the language you choose to use.
• Statistics cookies that are third party cookies, are set by other content providers outside of Nasco and are used to analyze your use of their content. Google Analytics is one example.

When all cookies are enabled, our Website will provide you the best user experience. 

Cookies Management

How can I refuse cookies and what happens if I switch cookies off?

Cookies can be turned off in your browser's ‘internet options’ which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. If you select this setting, we cannot save your settings (when that features is enabled on the Website); thereafter, you will be asked about cookies consent each time you visit our website.

What Specific cookies we use on our facing-internet applications and for what purposes?

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