1. Scope of application and basic principles

We attach considerable importance to the protection of your personal data. You can learn more about the general and extensive measures that we take to protect your data in our Data Privacy Statement pursuant to Art. 13 and 14 EU General Data Protection Regulation. In the following we provide you with specific information in connection with your use of our websites.

2. Collection and processing of your data

We collect your data in various ways:

Access data and server log files

In order to technically optimise the utilisation of our Internet offerings, we require information about which technical tools are used to access which of our webpages. We save these data temporarily in so-called server log files. These are forwarded to the service provider New Relic for the purposes of analysis and, as appropriate, troubleshooting. The data do not include any personal data.

Subscription to our e-mail notification service

If you are a subscriber to our e-mail Notification Service, you receive e-mail notifications of current press releases that you can access under www.hannover-rueck.de or www.hannover-re.com. We use the data provided by you for this purpose solely for sending our notification e-mails. You may choose to stop receiving these notifications at any time because each notification e-mail contains a link via which you can cancel the receipt of these e-mails.

Direct inquiries using contact forms or via e-mail

Inquiries that we receive via the contact or order form or which you send directly to a contact person at the Hannover Re Group are forwarded as necessary by us internally within the Group to the relevant responsible area.

In view of our global presence, the responsible area within the Group may be located outside the European Economic Area (EEA). In this case too, however, your data are used solely to respond to your particular inquiry and in accordance with the relevant applicable statutory provisions. In this respect, our binding corporate rules safeguard the necessary level of data privacy also in connection with such data transfers.

3. Use of cookies, Web analysis

Cookies are small files that we send through your Web browser to your computer's hard drive and which we can read during your current visit to our webpages and upon subsequent visits. Our cookies enable us to make the use of special functionalities available to you.

You can prevent cookies being saved by setting your browser software accordingly; we would, however, point out to you that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to the full extent.

In addition to these technical cookies, we use the analytics tool Piwik for Web analytics purposes in order to optimise for you our Web offerings and in particular how they are presented. The analytics tool Piwik (further information at: http://piwik.org) uses cookies to analyse user behaviour. This analysis is, however, conducted on an anonymised basis because we use the "anonymizeIP" plugin to ensure that IP addresses are always logged anonymously (so-called IP masking). This step blanks the last two bytes of your IP address (e.g. 123.456.xxx.xxx).

You may, however, choose to systematically and completely prevent such logging of your visit to our website by Piwik. To make that choice, please click the following link.

You are currently opted in. Click here to opt out.

You are currently opted out. Click here to opt in.

Clicking the link will place an opt-out cookie on your computer that prevents logging of your data when visiting this website.

Please note: If you choose to delete all cookies on your computer through your browser, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted. In this case you will need to opt out again.

Finally, we make use of offerings from external service providers in connection with the HTML Annual Report and the Applicants' Portal. The tool etracker is additionally used for analytics purposes in the area of the HTML Annual Report. In the case of both offerings, further cookies are also placed on your computer when accessing the HTML Annual Report or upon registering with the Applicants' Portal. These areas are, however, subject to separate Data Privacy Statements of which you will be informed when making use of the respective offering.

4. Further information

Further information, particularly regarding the topics

• disclosure of your data,
• data security,
• your rights,
• our Data Protection Officer and/or
• responsibility,

can also be found in our Data Privacy Statement pursuant to Art. 13 and 14 EU General Data Protection Regulation.

5. Reservation of right of modification

We reserve the right to modify these data privacy rules at any time within the limits set by applicable laws.