This is the Financial Intelligence Unit Privacy Policy regarding the nature, purpose and use of sharing any personally identifiable information collected via this website. It discloses information gathering and dissemination practices for the official website of the Financial Intelligence Unit. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
What Information the website collects
We collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information are collected from people visiting this website:
• Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation)
• Information relating to any transactions carried out on the website
• Information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us
• Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and or newsletters
• Feedback (through visitors emailing or completing online forms)
• Queries and Customer satisfaction surveys via the website
Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Except as stated herein, as a general rule, the Financial Intelligence Unit does not collect PII about you when you visit the website unless you choose to provide such information to us. Submitting PII through the website is voluntary and by doing so, you are giving us permission to use the information for the stated purpose. If you choose to provide the Financial Intelligence Unit with PII on our website by completing a web form or sending us an email, we will use that information to help us provide you with the information or service you have requested or to respond to your message. The information we may receive varies based on what you do when you are visiting our site.
Intrusion Detection
We collect and temporarily store certain information about your visit for use in site management and security purposes only. The information is collected and analyzed to help us better design our website to suit your needs. We may also automatically collect information about the web content you view in the event of a known security or virus threat.
This information includes:
• Internet domain from which you access our website (for example, “yourfirmname.com”, or “yourgroup.org”);
• Internet Protocol (IP) address (a unique number for each computer connected to the internet) from which you access our website;
• Date and time you access our site;
• Universal Resource Locators (URLs), or addresses, of the pages you visit;
• Your login credentials (username and password), if used to log in the website; and
• If you visited this website from another website, the URL of the forwarding site.
We may share the above information with our employees or representatives with a “need-to-know” in the performance of their official duties, other GOSKN Ministries, Departments or Agencies or other representatives as needed to quickly process your request or transaction. This information is used to help us make our site more useful for you. Raw data logs are retained temporarily as required for security and site management purposes only. You may also contact us at webmaster@gov.kn.
Security – Methods to Safeguard the Website
Financial Intelligence Unit takes precautions to maintain the security, confidentiality and integrity of the information we collect from the website. Such measures include access controls designed to limit access to the information to the extent necessary to accomplish our mission. We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data. Various security technologies will be employed to protect the information stored on our systems. This includes but is not limited to:
• Employ internal access controls to ensure that the only personnel who have access to your information are those with a need to do so to perform their official duties
• Firewalls
• Password protections
• Employ external access safeguards to identify and prevent unauthorized access by outsiders that attempt to hack into or cause harm to the information contained in our systems
• All electronic transactions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted (using SSL technology)
Note that you are responsible for keeping your password and user credentials confidential. We will not ask for your password (expect when you login to the website).
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small text files that reports user and page activity. Cookies do not pose a threat to your computer, or any software installed on your system. They do not contain viruses and your computer will only share the information in the cookie with the website that provided it, and no other website can request it. There are two types of cookies: session cookies which last only as long as your web browser is open and persistent cookies which are saved on the user’s hard drive in order to determine which users are new to the site or are returning.
Information gathered through the use of cookies is not sold or provided to vendors, direct mail concerns, email list services, and so on. Financial Intelligence Unit cannot control the use of cookies by sites linked to our site. Financial Intelligence Unit is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.
If you do not wish to have session or persistent cookies stored on your computer, you can turn cookies off in your browser. You may not have access to all information and resources at the Financial Intelligence Unit website. However turning off cookies may affect the functioning of other Saint Kitts and Nevis Government (“GOSKN”) websites. Further, disabling cookies will affect cookie usage at all other websites you visit.
External Link Policy, Third Party Websites
Hyperlinks to external websites are allowed only if the website is sponsored, supported or partnered by the Financial Intelligence Unit or the Government of Saint Kitts & Nevis (“GOSKN”) or the Nevis Island Administration (“NIA”); is educational in nature, or is another GOSKN website, including those sites sponsored by other Ministries, Departments or Agencies of GOSKN, statutory bodies or the NIA. Our website may contain links to international agencies, private organisations, and some commercial entities. These websites are not within our control and may not follow the same privacy, security or accessibility policies. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the policies of that site. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.
Policy Amendments
We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. Therefore, you should check this page occasionally for any changes.