Privacy statement

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    Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in München (hereinafter: “Munich Re”) knows that it is important to you to be able to maintain your privacy while visiting our website. It is in our mutual interests that we take our responsibility to guarantee the privacy of your data very seriously, in compliance with the applicable provisions of data protection law. We use state-of-the-art technology to communicate with you while keeping your data secure.

    1. Scope of application

    The following data protection notice applies to Munich Re’s internet presence. This website contains links to third-party websites (external links). These websites are the responsibility of the respective operators. Should you notice that our website contains a link to a site whose content violates applicable law, please let us know at contact@munichre.com.
    We will then remove such link from our website without delay. Munich Re assumes no responsibility as to the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided.

    2. Use of your data

    We would hereby like to explain how your personal data will be processed when you visit Munich Re’s website, and to inform you of your rights under data protection law.
    2.1. Who will be responsible for processing your data, and how can you reach the Data Protection Officer?

    Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in Munich
    Königinstrasse 107
    80802 München, Germany
    Telefon:+49(89)3891-0
    Telefax:+49(89)399056
    E-Mail: contact@munichre.com

    You may contact our Data Protection Officer at “Data Protection Officer” at the aforementioned address, or via the e-mail address datenschutz@munichre.com.

    2.2 What categories of data will we use, and for what purposes do we process personal data?

    You are generally free to visit our website anonymously. Munich Re does not save any personal or traceable data (e.g. IP addresses) of visitors to its website. We collect impersonal data about visits to our website (date, time, pages visited, navigation, software used) to have user habits anonymously analysed by an external service provider. The data is rendered anonymous before it is saved by the service provider.

    If you disclose your personal data to us in specific circumstances (for example, by filling out a contact form), we handle such data confidentially, in accordance with the data protection regulations in effect at our Company’s registered office. If you send us an e-mail, or if you complete and submit an on-line form on our website, we will use any personal data you provide (such as your name or e-mail address) only to correspond with you, to send you the information you requested, or for the other purpose(s) stipulated on the particular form.

    For legal or technical reasons, personal data may also be collected and communicated to us in an encrypted form from areas on our website that are accessible only to users with special authorisation (for example, the shareholder portal or job application portal). The amount of data collected depends on the application used.

    For every application or process with which we collect your personal data, we will provide an individualised privacy statement to inform you about the processing of your data.

    2.3 What is the legal basis for our processing of your personal data?

    We process your data on the basis of the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), the Telemedia Act (TMG) and all other laws applicable to the processing of personal data.

    The substantive legal grounds for the processing depend on the context and the purpose for which we collect your data.

    As a rule, we collect and process your personal data to communicate with you and send you the information that you request. This may be necessary, in the context of a contractual relationship, to fulfil a contract or during the pre-contractual process (for example, job application process), or at your request. Where the applications are restricted-access (for example the job applicant portal), the user or data subject’s consent may constitute the legal grounds. You may revoke such consent at any time. Any processing done before the revocation would remain valid, however.

    2.4 Who receives your data?

    Within Munich Re, only those staff and departments who are responsible for the respective process will receive your data. The data may also be disclosed to service providers for the purposes set out above. Using service providers is necessary, for example, for the administration and maintenance of our IT systems. We also use external service providers for support when managing job applicants, for example. If we process any of your personal data for certain purposes, you will receive a notice about how exactly your data is being used.

    Service providers that we use to send you the requested information (such as brochures by mail, issuing newsletters) will receive your required personal data (e.g. postal services receive your name and address).

    A list of all service providers that we use for data processing can be found under Section 6, and also is available for downloading.

    2.5. Will we send your data to third countries?

    If personal data needs to be transferred to service providers or Group companies outside the European Economic Area (EEA), this will be done only if the European Commission has confirmed that the respective country’s level of data protection is sufficient, or if data protection is otherwise sufficiently guaranteed (for example through standard EU contractual clauses, Privacy Shield). You may also request the information from the aforementioned contact person.

    2.6 What measures do we have in place to protect your data?

    We have state-of-the-art technical and organisational security measures to protect data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction, and access by unauthorised parties. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to protect any information you enter in dialogue forms on our web pages. SSL encryption protects your data against unauthorised third-party access during transfer. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the change in your browser address line from “http://” to “https://”, and the padlock symbol appearing in your browser window.

    For your own security, please always use our contact forms. If you send us unencrypted data in a normal, unprotected e-mail, it is possible that unauthorised parties may gain knowledge of or modify your data during transmission via the internet.

    2.7 What data protection rights can you claim as a data subject?

    At the address indicated above, you may request information about the personal data we have stored under your name. In addition, under certain conditions you may request that your data be deleted or corrected. Furthermore, you may also have a right to restrict the processing of your data and a right to disclosure of the data you have made available in a structured, common and machine-readable format.

    2.8 Right to object

    If we process your data for the purposes of safeguarding legitimate interests, you may object to this processing on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

    2.9 Who can you contact if you have a complaint?

    If you have a complaint, you may contact the aforementioned Data Protection Officer, or the state data protection authority. The authority responsible for us is:

    Data Protection Authority of Bavaria for the Private Sector (Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht)
    Promenade 27
    91522 Ansbach, Germany:
    https://www.lda.bayern.de/en/contact.html
    poststelle@lda.bayern.de

    2.10 How long will your data be stored?

    We will delete your personal data as soon as it is no longer required for the purposes set out above, and no legal documentation or retention requirements apply, for example in the German Commercial Code (HGB), fiscal laws or the General Tax Code (AO). Further details can be found, where applicable, under the respective types of data processing.

    2.11 Are you required to provide us with your data?

    You are not required to provide personal data when accessing Munich Re’s website. However, there are services for which we require personal data from you – for example, to send you information, a newsletter you have requested, details about a contract, or to take your application into account for a job opening. Without this data, Munich Re cannot carry out the services you request. We collect only the data that is required in a particular case. Where we do process your personal data, we will inform you separately about the purposes, recipients, legal basis and any other rights you may have.

    3. Cookies and log files

    3.1 Use of cookies

    While you are on-line, your computer saves so-called cookies. These are small files that control how our website is displayed and operates. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our internet presence more user-friendly, effective and secure.

    Most of the cookies we use are “session cookies” which are automatically deleted as soon as you leave the site. Other cookies remain on your computer until you delete them. Such cookies allow us to recognise your browser the next time you visit and the browser settings let previously viewed pages load faster, for example. We use cookies to offer you the best possible experience on our website.

    We therefore save them and analyse their data – although they do not identify you personally. This improves the usefulness of our website. We perform anonymous statistical analyses of our internet presence, and do not identify you personally.

    You can change your browser settings so that you are notified when cookies are being used, and you can allow them only once, or refuse them in certain cases or completely. You may also activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser. Deactivating cookies may restrict website functionality.

    3.2 Server log files

    The information that your browser automatically sends us is collected automatically and saved in server log files. They contain:

    • Browser type and version
    • Operating system used
    • Referrer URL (the URL that the user comes from)
    • Host name (network name) of the accessing computer
    • Time of server request

    This data cannot be traced to individual people. We do not merge this data with other data sources. We reserve the right to review the information subsequently, and report it to authorities (such as the police or public prosecutor’s office), if there are concrete indications that our internet presence is being used illegally (for example, a hacking attack on our network).

    4. Use of social networks

    Social media functions and social plug-ins are embedded in our website in the form of small icons. We currently embed the following social networks on our websites as icons: Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Facebook and XING.

    By default, Munich Re exclusively embeds deactivated icons, which do not contact the servers of these external networks when Munich Re’s website is accessed. The buttons become active and create a connection only if you deliberately click an icon, thus indicating your consent to communicating with such providers. By entering your personal login data to these networks, you create a connection to your identity.

    You thus leave Munich Re’s internet presence and our sphere of influence. Munich Re does not record which external network you activate. The next time you visit Munich Re’s website, the social media plug-ins return to their inactive modus, ensuring that no data is automatically communicated to social media upon such return visit.

    When you interact with the social plug-ins – for example, by entering a comment – a corresponding notification is sent to the social network and saved in accordance with the respective network’s policy. Please consult the respect social network’s data protection statement with regard to the scope and purpose of the data collected, its use and processing, as well as your respective rights and options in protecting your privacy.

    5. E-mail

    The e-mail address you provide will be used by Munich Re to reply to you with the information you request. Any confidential information will be encrypted or, if this is not possible, sent to you by regular mail. If the contents of the e-mail refer to a contractual relationship, Munich Re will save the e-mail. The e-mail address will be saved exclusively for corresponding with you, and not disclosed to third parties. You will never receive an unsolicited e-mail from us. As a result, should you nevertheless receive any unsolicited e-mail that purports to be from us, it is fraudulent and should be deleted. Before you send Munich Re an unencrypted e-mail, please remember that its contents are not protected against unauthorised access or manipulation. For this reason, we recommend using our contact form to send any messages to Munich Re.

    6. Use of your data in specific processes

    Munich Re will inform you when it collects your data while you use its website (job applications, subscribing to newsletters, responding to surveys, etc.) You will find information on the processing of your personal data – outside of our website as well – here.

    We use external service providers to operate some parts of our website. The categories of service providers can be found in the Download section.

    7. Amendments to this data protection notice

    The continual improvement of our website, and the use of new technology, make it necessary to amend our data protection notice from time to time. When visiting our website, please read the current version of our data protection notice (current version: May 2018).