Introduction
The Internet technology and electronic data processing can give individuals the impression of losing track where and why their data are stored. In particular in the financial area, trust in the careful and secure handling of customer data is crucial. Therefore, we would like to explain to you as a visitor to our web pages in which way R+V Re ensures the confidential treatment of your personal data and respects your rights of personality. By visiting the R+V Re websites, you are accepting the practices and terms described in this Privacy Policy.
Privacy Statement applies to the R+V Re websites and services offered by R+V Re
This Privacy Statement applies to the websites and the services for which R+V Re is responsible. R+V Re websites may contain links to third party companies for which our Privacy Statement does not apply.
R+V Re guarantees the confidential treatment of your personal data by
- obliging our employees to observe secrecy,
- ensuring that our security measures are state of the art.
- employing an internal data protection officer and the internal audit department to ensure the observance of the "Privacy Statement".
Data transmitted by the browser/Internet technology
Your visit to our websites is recorded. The IP address currently used by your PC, the date and time, the type of browser and the operating system of your PC as well as the webpages at R+V Re websites viewed by you are included in this record. In general, we cannot identify the person using the PC. These data are collected only for data security purposes, any other statistical evaluation takes place in an anonymized form. We do not create or process personal browsing profiles.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files which are stored on the PC of the Internet user. They serve to control the Internet connection during your visit to our websites. At the same time, we receive information from these cookies allowing us to optimise our websites according to our visitors needs. Partially, we use cookies only for the duration of the stay on our websites. The Advertisement Management Partner commissioned by us partially uses cookies which are stored for a longer period. Persistent cookies which collect information on the activities on this website in log files are only used to better understand how the website is used and to solve technical problems. They exclusively serve to analyse the use of the websites. All cookies on our websites contain merely technical information, no personal data.
R+V Re also uses 1x1 pixel tags (also called web beacons), if required, to support online advertising. 1x1 pixel tags are small code strings included in a website which act like cookies. They are also collected in log files, but are not linked to other cookies. Our Advertisement Management Partner DoubleClick provides these pixel tags. DoubleClick uses these files to identify a specific cookie on your web browser which allows us to identify the advertisements which have led you to our website. The data used and collected by the technologies above are anonymous and do not allow personal identification. As far as it is technically feasible to identify a specific person in an individual case (e.g. in cases where you enter personal data such as your e-mail address, your name or address via our websites), this theoretical possibility will not be used. The cookies used by our Advertisement Management Partner neither contain your name, nor your address, telephone number or e-mail address. Further information on DoubleClick and more details how to deactivate such technologies are available under
http://emea.doubleclick.com/de/privacy/ link to the privacy policy of the website DoubleClick www.emea.doubleclick.com.
Use of your personal data
The personal data you disclose to us through the R+V Re websites, email, or any other electronic communications (e.g. your name and your address or your e-mail address) are only processed for the correspondence with you and only for the purposes for which you have provided us with the data. Moreover, we will use these data for occasional offers to you to inform you about new products or services and other offers which might interest you. Within the scope legally required we will, as a matter or course, ask you for your prior consent. In the case of a promotional address, we will advise you of your legal right of objection. We assure tha