Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy sets out how Allianz Partners* collects, stores, uses and discloses personal information.

This privacy policy is intended to provide transparency about our personal data processing activities for individuals (sometimes called ‘data subjects’) in respect of whom we collect, store, use, and disclose their personal information (activities collectively referred to as ‘processing’).  Privacy rights and obligations are mandated under the Australian Privacy Act 1988, as well as under certain European law for any processing activities that fall within the scope of the EU law, namely the General Data Protection Regulation (the ‘GDPR’).  GDPR requirements are outlined below under the heading ‘GDPR’.  Where we collect or process your personal information, we will provide you with a Privacy Notice or other privacy disclosure documentation which is a summary of the matters set out more fully in this Privacy Policy.

Personal information is information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable:

• whether the information or opinion is true or not; and
• whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.

The personal information collected and maintained by us (our registered trading names include Allianz Partners and Allianz Global Assistance) generally includes your name, address, date of birth, gender, contact details including telephone number and email address, as well as additional information specific to the product or service provided to you including (but not limited to) medical information, country of origin, residency status, visa type (for overseas visitors and students), motor vehicle details, and health and/or property information. For some products and services, we collect, use, and maintain personal information that is sensitive information. This includes information about your health and pre-existing medical conditions, genetics, membership of any professional associations or groups and racial or ethnic information where it is relevant to the product or service we provide.

For employment applications, we collect your name, address, contact details, current and past employment information, educational qualifications and professional associations. We also collect information about and proof of your residency status, the name and contact details of your referees and other information required for recruitment purposes. Where we seek your consent to conduct a background check, we also collect details of your proof of identity from you

Where it is possible, we collect your personal information directly from you in person, in writing, over the telephone, by facsimile, through our or our agents and partners online services and websites and/or by electronic messages including email and SMS. In some circumstances, we may also collect it from:

• your agents or representatives, for example your insurance broker, your legal advisers, your family members or travelling companions who act on your behalf or who apply for a travel policy or other services that cover or apply to you, or from other persons instructed by you to deal with us;
• third parties who you have asked or permitted to provide your personal information (including sensitive information) to us, including your referees, universities and other educational institutions that you attend, doctors, hospitals, and medical assistance providers;
• third parties from whom you purchase goods and services including motor vehicle manufacturers and distributors, ticketing organisations, insurers, and other entities who engage us to provide or offer additional products and services such as roadside assistance services, ticket insurance, extended warranty insurance for whitegoods and other household items, and motor vehicle reduction excess insurance;
• our agents (including travel agents) and service providers, some of whom are located in countries other than Australia;
• insurers (including Allianz^) and insurance reference bureaus;
• people who are involved in a claim or assist us in assessing, investigating, processing or settling claims, including third parties claiming under your policy, witnesses, medical service providers, external claims data collectors and verifiers, and your employer;
• third parties who may be arranging insurance cover for a group that you are a part of;
• law enforcement, dispute resolution, statutory and regulatory bodies;
• marketing organisations, including through the use of purchased lists;
• industry databases;
• publicly available sources such as the Internet and telephone directories; and/or
• the general public when it is unsolicited and may be relevant to a particular policy, service, or fraud investigation.

Unless we are required or permitted by law to collect sensitive information about you, we will only do so where you have consented.

If you nominate individuals to be covered by your insurance policy (including family members or partner or spouse) or under a group insurance policy, or in other circumstances provide us with personal information about other individuals, you should first obtain the individuals’ consent to do so and direct them to this Privacy Policy and make them aware of the content of any privacy notice we provide you.

If you decide to complete or partially complete an online application form, where permitted by law, the information that you enter into the online form may be used by us to contact you to see if you are interested in our products or services.

We record all telephone calls for administration, quality assurance, and dispute resolution purposes. If you do not want your call or personal information recorded, please advise us and we will attempt to make alternate arrangements suitable to you.

We may collect information about your visit to our site to assist us to measure and improve our website. Examples of information that we collect include: day and time of your visit, whether you have visited our website previously, whether you used a search engine to find us and some geographical information about what country and State you are in.

We use analytical web tools such as Google Analytics to collect visitor information so that we can better understand how to improve our products and services for you. One of the primary methods used by this tool is the placement of cookies. Cookies are small information files that an end user’s web browser places on their computer when a website is visited. For information on disabling these cookies, please go to the privacy settings section within your browser. In addition to the session cookie, Google Analytics uses other data collection methods such as appending query strings to an image request. We store the data generated by Google Analytics securely and do not share it with third parties.

We also use third party remarketing cookies e.g. through Google Adwords. These cookies allow us to display tailored advertising to you on different websites across the internet based on your prior visits to our site. We do not collect any identifiable information about you through this remarketing process. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads settings www.google.com/settings/ads.

We also use other external companies for the following purposes:

• for web hosting services for this website; and/or
• to gather non-personal information (using cookies) in order to evaluate the website’s effectiveness, for example online marketing activities.

We retain the content of any email that you send to us to enable us to provide our products and services, or if we believe we have a legal requirement to do so. Your email message content may be monitored by our employees for security issues including where email abuse is suspected, and our response to you may be monitored for quality assurance issues.

We may disclose your personal information to others for the purposes specified in the section above. This may include disclosure to:

• our related and group companies including Allianz^;
• our distributors and agents;
• other insurers and reinsurers;
• insurance reference bureaus;
• government, law enforcement, dispute resolution, statutory, regulatory or enforcement bodies and agencies;
• external data collection and verification agencies;
• loss adjusters and assessors;
• repairers, manufacturers, and suppliers;
• investigators and recovery agents;
• your travel agent and broker
• medical and health service providers, case managers and rehabilitation consultants;
• our advisers (including legal, actuarial, and accounting advisers) and service providers, including marketing organisations and debt collecting agents;
• professional and other organisations;
• your employer;
• parties that we have an insurance scheme or other arrangement in place with under which you purchased your policy or obtained a service, such as a financier or motor vehicle manufacturer or dealer;
• the agent and contractor of any of the third parties above; and/or
• other parties as required by law.

We may also disclose your personal information (but not sensitive information) to others we have business arrangements with to enable them to offer their products and services to you.

We will not disclose your sensitive information for any purpose, other than the purpose for which it was collected, or a directly related secondary purpose, unless you otherwise consent.

In some instances and in order to provide our products or services or to efficiently conduct our business activities, your personal information might be transferred overseas and disclosed to other companies and business units in the Allianz Partners Group and the Allianz SE Group, to our business partners, reinsurers and service providers that may be located overseas. The countries in which these recipients may be located will vary from time to time, but may include France, Singapore, India, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America, Thailand, and other countries where the Allianz Group has a presence (a list of which is available on the Allianz Group website www.allianz.com) or engages subcontractors.

Specifically, we disclose your personal (including sensitive) information to recipients outside of Australia when it is collected for travel or health insurance arranged or managed by us and you require our medical, travel, or related services.  We also transfer employee and contractor personal data overseas for processing including for paying wages, making payments to contractors, and generally for managing the employment or contractor relationship so we are compliant with any legal or statutory obligations arising from those relationships.

With the exception of credit card insurances and some other products and services that we offer or provide on behalf of certain clients, we may, where permitted by law or with your consent, contact you by telephone, normal mail, email, electronic messages such as SMS, and via other means with promotional material and offers of products or services from us, our related companies, as well as offers from our business partners that we consider may be relevant and of interest to you. Where we contact you as a result of obtaining your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time by calling us on +61 (0)7 3305 7000 or by contacting us as set out below.

In circumstances where we can lawfully send you offers and promotions, if you do not want to receive such offers from us (including product or service offerings from us on behalf of our agents, intermediaries and/or our business partners) or do not want us to disclose your personal information to our related and group companies and business partners for marketing purposes, you can opt out at any time by sending an email to DataPrivacyAU@allianz-assistance.com.au with your request,

or by writing to “Privacy Officer”, PO Box 162, Toowong, Qld 4066, or by calling us on telephone number +61 (0)7 3305 7000 and asking for our Quality Team.

We do not use or disclose sensitive information for the purposes of direct marketing.

We may hold your personal information in a number of ways, including:

• in our computer systems or databases, which may involve storing data on storage or computer systems provided by third party suppliers;
• in paper records; and/or
• in telephone recordings.

Where it has been collected from our or your agent or our service providers, they may also hold copies of your personal information.

We may combine personal information we receive about you with other information we hold about you. This includes information received from third parties and information collected for different products and services.

We may include links to external sites that we consider contain content relevant to the information that you were seeking from us. Where these links occur, we accept no responsibility for the accuracy of the content, the privacy or security of those sites or your reliance on any information contained within any such site.

Allianz Global Assistance aims to ensure that your personal information is accurate, up to date, complete and relevant. If you would like to seek access to, or revise, your personal information, or feel that the information we currently have on record is incorrect or incomplete or would like to request it be deleted, please contact us using the following contact details:

Mail to:   Privacy Officer, PO Box 162 Toowong, Qld, 4066

Telephone:  +61 (0)7 3305 7000

Email to:  DataPrivacyAU@allianz-assistance.com.au

If you have a complaint or dispute in relation to our insurance products, or our services, or our representatives, you may put your complaint in writing and send it to ‘The Dispute Resolution Department’ Locked Bag 3038, Toowong DC, QLD 4066, or phone us on +61 (0)7 3305 7000. We will attempt to resolve the matter in accordance with our Internal Dispute Resolution processes and any applicable code of practice such as the General Insurance Code of Practice (GICOP). To obtain an explanation of our procedures or a copy of the GICOP, please contact us.  A dispute about your insurance product including a declined claim can be referred to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (‘AFCA’), which has superseded the Financial Ombudsman Service. AFCA provides a free and independent dispute resolution service for consumers who have general insurance disputes falling within its terms.

The contact details for the AFCA are:

Australian Financial Complaints Authority
GPO Box 3, Melbourne Victoria 3001

Phone:	1800 931 678
Website:	www.afca.org.au
Email:	info@afca.org.au

For any requests or complaints about your privacy, please contact our Quality Team or Data Privacy Officer via email at DataPrivacyAU@allianz-assistance.com.au

You can also lodge a privacy complaint with the Privacy Commissioner as follows:-

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

Phone: 1300 363 992
Email: enquiries@oaic.gov.au

Website: www.oaic.gov.au     Fax: +61 2 9284 9666

Post:  GPO Box 5218
Sydney NSW 2001

With commencement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR) on 25 May 2018, any of our data processing activities that fall within the scope of that law are subject to its provisions which provide certain rights and protections to you as the ‘data subject’.   For example, the GDPR applies if you are a resident of an EU country when you purchase one of our products or we provide you with a service in the EU, or if we have an established office or operation located in the EU, or if we process your personal data in the EU.  Rights and obligations set out in the GDPR include in general terms those matters set out in the paragraphs above required under Australian Privacy law –  for instance, the requirement for openness and transparency about data processing activities including  the provision to you of a Privacy Notice explaining what we do with your personal data, the right of access to correct and update your personal data,  the requirement to have proper data security measures in place, and special measures for sensitive personal data such as medical data –   but with additional rights and protection such as the following:-

• As well as the right to request access to check and correct and update your personal data, you may also request information about its origin, how we hold it and where, the purposes of the processing, and details of the entity like Allianz Global Assistance as the data controller or data processor, and the parties to whom it may be disclosed;
• Request a copy of your personal data in an electronic format for yourself or for someone you nominate;
• You may in some circumstances restrict the processing of your personal data;
• You may request that it be deleted, subject to business requirements;
• Where your personal data is used or processed with your specific consent as the sole basis for processing (rather than on a contractual basis or legitimate interest basis), you may withdraw your consent at any time.

These points are just a brief summary of some of the protections and rights covered in the GDPR and are not meant to be exhaustive.

We retain your personal data for a period of time to enable us to provide our services, and manage any claims that may arise in connection with the provision of our products and services (or those we provide on behalf of our business partners) and to improve our product offerings and customer service. This retention period may vary depending upon the product or service offered by us as well as the particular law that may apply to the facts and circumstances.  For example, there is a statutory 6 year limitation period which applies to bringing actions on a contract.   Subject to any legal or business requirements, you can always request us to delete your personal data at any time.

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time for any reason. We will publish changes to this Privacy Policy on this website.

This Privacy Policy applies to the various products and services provided or arranged by us, trading as Allianz Global Assistance and Allianz Partners, either under our own brand names or those of our partners and including travel and other insurance products such as ticket insurance, extended warranty insurance, and motor vehicle excess reduction insurance, as well as roadside assistance services, Overseas Student Health Cover and Overseas Visitors Health Cover, together with health and property related services.

*Allianz Partners and Allianz Global Assistance are trading names of AWP Australia Pty Ltd ABN 52 097 227 177 of Level 16, 310 Ann Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000 AFS Licence No. 245631. Allianz Global Assistance is authorised to deal in and provide general advice on general insurance products. It has been authorised by the insurer, Allianz Australia Insurance Limited ('Allianz') to act on behalf of Allianz to deal in and provide general advice and handle and settle claims in relation to travel and other insurance products underwritten by Allianz. Allianz has its own privacy policy which can be found at www.allianz.com.au. Overseas companies in the global Allianz SE Group also have their own privacy policies where required by local privacy laws.

^Allianz means Allianz Australia Insurance Limited ABN 15 000 122 850, AFSL 234708 of 10 Carrington Street, Sydney 2000, New South Wales 2000 and is the licenced insurer of the general insurance products (including travel insurance) arranged and managed on its behalf by AWP Australia Pty Ltd.

Last updated 14/12/2018.