Cookies Fair Processing Notice to Allianz Website Users

Allianz is committed to protecting your privacy.

About this Cookie Fair Processing Notice: Allianz p.l.c. is referred to in this document as “Allianz”, “we”, and “us” or “our”. Allianz is the Data Controller for Data Protection purposes, with the individual Allianz customer/policy holder being the Data Subject. 

This Cookie Fair Processing Notice is supplemental to the Fair Processing Notice provided to you in our general website Fair Processing Notice in the “Data Protection” section of the Allianz Ireland website. 

It gives you (the user) more detailed information about how we handle, manage and respect any personal information that we are accountable for as Data Controller in the context of the use of cookies on our website. 

What data do we collect? We collect the following data directly or through the third parties below in their role as both Data Processors or as autonomous Data Controllers. As Data Controllers, we are providing the user with a breakdown of the providers used, to enable the individual to grant specific and informed consent. At a granular level, the types of personal data that may be collected by Allianz is Online identifiers, including cookie identifiers, internet protocol addresses and device identifiers, client identifiers, location data.

What are Cookies? Cookies are small piece of data (text file) stored in your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. We set those cookies to make our website work well for you and so we can continually improve it, and to support our advertising and marketing efforts. 

You can find out more about cookies (such as how to manage them, delete them and switch them off) at www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

What Cookies do we collect and what are their purpose? Our website uses the following of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies, which are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
• Performance cookies, which allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Under the performance category, there is the analytics cookies. These cookies allow us to employ data analytics so we can measure and improve the performance of our site and provide more relevant content to you. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a user down to an individual level that is available to us. These cookies are not passing personally identifiable information to any external third party other than in limited cases when we engage a service provider to act on our behalf but who is then unable to use the data for their own purposes. These include, e.g. Adobe’s Analytic.
• Functionality cookies, enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly; and
• Advertising/targeting cookies, which we use to track user activity and sessions in order to deliver a more personalized service. Marketing cookies are set by third parties with whom we execute marketing campaigns and allow us to provide marketing relevant to you. 

Lawful Basis for Processing and Consent Lifespan (Cookie Expiration Time): The relevant Article 6 of the GDPR ground for processing your personal data for the deployment of our non-strictly necessary cookies consent. You may withdraw this consent at any time in respect of various non- strictly necessary cookies, by accessing our Cookie Settings button., Your consent for Cookies will have a validity lifespan of 6 months.  except in cases where it is justified to have a longer lifespan. After the lifespan period has expired, you will be asked for refreshed consent for Cookies. 

Categories of recipients of Allianz Website User Data: To consult the recipients of the cookies please refer to the Cookie Settings:

Purpose of collecting your Personal Data via First Party Cookies: The purpose of Allianz personnel deploying Cookies on our Website is to help our relevant business areas to analyse the user data, which is important for targeting website visitors in advertising, marketing and improving user’s website experience. For additional clarifications on the purposes of the cookies used please refer to our Cookies footer.

Purpose of collecting your Personal Data via Third-Party Cookie Providers: The purpose of Allianz personnel deploying Cookies on our Website is to help our relevant business areas to analyse the user data, which is important for targeting website visitors in advertising and marketing. For additional clarifications on the purposes of the cookies used please refer to our Cookies footer.

Protecting Information Accessed/ Transferred Outside the European Economic Area (EEA): Your personal data may be transferred to and/or accessed from a country outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). We will always take steps to ensure that any transfer of information outside the EEA is carefully managed to protect your privacy rights. Where we transfer your data to a non-Allianz Group member or other companies providing us with a service, we will obtain contractual commitments and assurances from them to protect your personal information. Theses assurances are well-recognised certification schemes like Standard Contractual Clauses. We will only transfer your personal information to countries, which are recognised as providing an adequate level of legal protection or where we can be satisfied that alternative arrangements are in place to protect your privacy rights. Any requests for information we receive from law enforcement or regulators will be carefully validated before personal information is disclosed. 

How to control and delete Cookies: 

Allianz Consent Tool: The Allianz Cookie Consent tool can be utilized to customize your cookie preferences. The tool will record when you have consented to our Cookie Fair Processing Notice and will ask for consent once every 6 months to ensure users stay up to date with changes to our Cookie Fair Processing Notice and Data Protection Fair Processing Notice. The Allianz Consent tool specifically controls the marketing cookies and performance cookies set by using our primary public website (allianz.ie).  Strictly necessary cookies cannot be disabled, nor can the tool be used to block cookies on third party websites linked from our website.

You can change your Cookie preferences at any time from our Cookies setting tool. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking “Confirm my choice”. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

Contacting Us: If you have any questions about how we use personal information, or if you want to exercise your rights stated above, please contact our Data Protection Officer by either emailing,  DataProtectionOfficer@allianz.ie or please write to The Data Protection Officer, Allianz p.l.c., Allianz House, Elm Park, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04 Y6Y6.

Supervisory Authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission (DPC), which is the complaints handling authority in Ireland. Information about how to contact the DPC can be found here-  https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/contact/how-contact-us

This statement was last updated in May, 2024.