Privacy Statement

We care about your personal data

Allianz Global Benefits (AGB) appreciates your visit to this website (AGB Website) and your interest in our services and products. Your privacy is important to us and we want you to feel comfortable visiting our site. This privacy notice explains how and what type of personal data will be collected, processed and used during and following your visits to the AGB Website, why it is collected, with whom it is shared and your rights in this regard. Please read this notice carefully.

This privacy notice applies to any information obtained by AGB through your use of the AGB Website. It does not apply to any websites controlled by third parties not affiliated with AGB that the AGB Website may link to ("Third Party Sites"). Please review the privacy statements of Third Party Sites as Allianz is not responsible for and has no influence on the content or the privacy practices of Third Party Sites.

The terms of this privacy notice are subjected to any additional terms, disclaimers or other contractual terms you have entered into with AGB such as client privacy statements or notices, and any applicable mandatory laws and regulations.

This privacy notice may be updated from time to time, please do check it on a regular basis.

Who is the data controller?

A data controller is the individual or legal person who controls and is responsible to keep and use personal data in paper or electronic files. Allianz Global Benefits GmbH is the data controller as defined by relevant data protection laws and regulations.

What personal data will be collected?

When you visit the AGB Website, our web server automatically records details about your visit including:

• IP address;
• the type of browser software used;
• the AGB Website pages that you visit; and
• the date and duration of your visit to the AGB Website.

We will also collect and process various types of personal data if users have accounts, including:

• Surname, First Name;
• Email;
• Company Name, Business.

How will we use your personal data?

AGB will use your personal data for the following purposes:

• for user administration of the AGB Website, such as setting up user accounts;
• to maintain business relationships;
• to inform you about our events, services, products and news when you visit the AGB Website;
• to facilitate compliance with securities law, public company listing requirements and related laws and regulations;
• for fraud prevention and detection;
• to comply with any legal obligations (e.g. tax, accounting and administrative obligations).

We will inform you where we require your consent to process your personal data. Otherwise, we will process your personal data to meet our legitimate business interests (including maintaining contact with clients, providing updates and information about AGB, organizing and hosting events, and conducting market research and analysis) or where it is needed to comply with a legal obligation. In addition, we may also process your personal data to enter into a contract with you, or to perform our obligations under an existing contract with you.

AGB respects applicable laws and regulations in its use of personal data.

Are cookies used on the AGB Website?

Tracking technology helps us manage and improve the usability of the AGB Website, for example by detecting whether there has been any contact between your computer and us in the past and to identify the most popular sections of the AGB Website.

Based on a more detailed description on the usage of cookies our Cookies Management Tool helps you to manage your cookies preferences including providing consent. The link to the respective Cookies Management Tool you can find below. You can withdraw your consent to the usage of certain cookies any time using the before mentioned tool.

When you save your cookie settings, they should also apply to your future visits to the AGB Website. However, for technical reasons beyond the control of AGB, this cannot be guaranteed. For example, if you reset your browser, delete your cookies or access the AGB Website from another browser or device, your cookie settings may be lost. To comply with applicable laws and regulations, in some countries you may be asked to confirm your cookie settings when you first visit the AGB Website. If you are in a country where you are automatically required to set your cookie settings, you may be asked to set them again on a future visit.

In many cases you can also control tracking technologies using your browser. Please ensure that your browser setting reflects whether you wish to be warned about and/or accept tracking technologies (such as cookies) where possible. The specific capabilities of your browser and instructions on how to use them can usually be found in the manual or help file of your browser.

Without tracking technologies the availability of the services provided by the AGB Website may be reduced, or parts of the AGB Website may no longer function correctly.

Social media plug-ins

The AGB Website does not use social media plug-ins ("plug-ins"). It only provides a link to LinkedIn page of AGB:

Who will have access to personal data collected through the AGB Website?

We will ensure that your personal data is processed in a manner that is compatible with the purposes specified above. For the specified purposes, your personal data may be disclosed to the following parties who operate as third party data controllers:

• Allianz Worldwide Partners;
• Other Allianz Group companies;
• Authorized agents and third party service providers.

For the stated purposes, we may also share your personal data with the following parties who operate as data processors under our instruction:

• Allianz Worldwide Partners;
• Other Allianz Group companies;
• Authorized agents, service providers; and
• Facilitators, consultants or experts managing communications and Allianz sponsored events.

Finally, we may share your personal data in the following instances:

With law enforcement agencies, government and regulatory bodies to meet applicable legal or regulatory obligations.

Where will collected personal data be processed?

Your personal data may be processed inside of the European Economic Area (EEA) by the parties specified above, subject always to contractual restrictions regarding confidentiality and security in line with applicable data protection laws and regulations. We will not disclose your personal data to parties who are not authorized to process them.

Whenever we transfer your personal data for processing outside of the EEA by another Allianz Group company, we will do so on the basis of the binding corporate rules (BCRs) of Allianz known as the Allianz Privacy Standard (APS) which establish adequate protection for personal data and are legally binding on Allianz Group companies. The public version of the APS and the list of Allianz Group companies that comply with them can be accessed here.

Where the Allianz Privacy Standard does not apply, we will instead take steps to ensure that the transfer of your personal data outside of the EEA receives an adequate level of protection as it does in the EEA. You can find out what safeguards we rely upon for such transfers (for example, Standard Contractual Clauses) by contacting us as detailed below.

What are your rights in respect of your personal data?

Where permitted by applicable law or regulation, you have the right to:

• Access your personal data held about you and to learn the origin of the data, the purposes and means of the processing, the details of the data controller(s), the data processor(s) and the parties to whom the data may be disclosed;
• Withdraw your consent at any time where your personal data is processed with your consent;
• Update and correct your personal data so that it is accurate;
• Delete your personal data from our records if it is no longer needed for the purposes indicated above;
• Restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances, e.g. where you have contested the accuracy of your personal data, for the period enabling us to verify its accuracy;
• Obtain your personal data in an electronic format;
• File a complaint with us and/or the relevant data protection authority; and
• Object to us processing your personal data, or tell us to stop processing it (including for purposes of direct marketing).

What security measures have we implemented to protect your information collected through the Allianz Website?

AGB has implemented reasonable technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data collected by AGB via the AGB Website against unauthorized access, misuse, loss or destruction.

How do we treat electronic messages sent to and from AGB?

All electronic messages sent to and from AGB are protected by reasonable technical and organizational measures and may only be accessed in justified cases in line with applicable laws and regulations (e.g. court order, suspicion of criminal conduct, violation of regulatory obligations) to specific persons in defined functions (e.g. Legal, Compliance, Risk). Every step of the process, as well as the search criteria used, are logged in an audit trail. All emails are disposed of after the applicable retention period has expired.

What should you consider when sending data over the Internet?

The Internet is generally not regarded as a secure environment, and information sent via the Internet (such as to or from the Allianz Website or via electronic message) may be accessed by unauthorized third parties, potentially leading to disclosures, changes in content or technical failures. Even if both sender and receiver are located in the same country, information sent via the Internet may be transmitted across international borders and be forwarded to a country with a lower data protection level than in your country of residence.

AGB does not accept responsibility or liability for the security of your information whilst in transit over the Internet to Allianz. In order to protect your privacy you may choose another means of communication with Allianz, where you deem it appropriate.

How long is personal data retained for?

We will retain your personal data for ten years from the date the contractual relationship ends unless a longer retention period is required or as permitted by law.

How can you contact us?

If you have any queries about how we use your personal data, you can contact us by post or email via the details specified below:

Allianz Global Benefits GmbH

Data Protection Officer
Reinsburgstr. 19
70178 Stuttgart
Germany
Email: [email protected]

How often is this notice updated?

We regularly review this privacy notice. We will ensure the most recent version is available on our website AGB Website and we will tell you directly when there’s an important change that may impact you. This privacy notice was last updated on June 22, 2023.