Privacy statement
The protection and security of your personal data are important to us. Therefore, any personal data collected by us will be with your knowledge and/or consent. Here we wish to outline what information we record and for what purposes this information is used.
What information do we record and for what purposes?
When you access this website, certain information (e.g. IP address, date, time) is automatically kept on our server for a period of two months for data security purposes only (e.g. in order to identify and trace any persons gaining or attempting to gain unauthorised access to the web server).
Munich Re will treat with strictest confidence any personal details sent when you access our homepage in accordance with the ruling provisions governing data protection at the Company's head office. If you send us an e-mail or complete and submit the online forms on our website, your personal data (e.g. name or e-mail address) will be used only for our correspondence with you in order to send you the requested documents or information or for any other purpose stipulated on the individual form and will not be passed on to third parties.
In order to steadily enhance the attractiveness, content and functionality of our internet pages, we also keep statistical information (e.g. the number of visitors to each website and how long they stayed there, internet provider, browser type). The information is used for internal purposes only and does not allow individuals to be identified, thus precluding the creation of personal user profiles.
We do not use so-called cookies on our freely accessible internet website.Access to certain sections of our website is reserved for users with special authorisation rights (e.g. the shareholder portal). If in these areas for technical reasons or on legal grounds additional personal data are kept, or cookies are stored on the hard disk for the duration of the link (so-called session cookies), we expressly point this out there.
Protective measures
We take suitable technical and organisational security measures to protect data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, or destruction or against access by unauthorised persons.
We use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption for the dialog forms provided on our web pages. SSL protects the data you send us against unauthorised third-party access. For your own security, therefore, please always use these dialog forms. If you send us unencrypted data in a standard e-mail, it is possible that unauthorised persons may gain access to or alter the data when it is transferred via the internet.
Do you have any other questions?
If you have any further questions relating to data protection in connection with Munich Re's Internet presence or regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact Munich Re's Data Protection Officer:
Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft
Data Protection Officer
80791 München
Germany
or by e-mail: datenschutz@munichre.com
Changes to this privacy statement
The updating of our internet pages requires us to make periodical adjustments to our privacy statement. Please note the latest version of our privacy statement (current status: 1 January 2006).