Dear Client,

We, Allianz PNB Life Insurance, Inc. (“Allianz PNB Life”), are part of the Allianz Group, and are an authorized insurance company in the Republic of the Philippines providing insurance products and services. Protecting your privacy is a top priority for us. This privacy notice explains how and what type of personal information will be collected, why it is collected, to whom it is shared or disclosed, until when it will be stored, and how it will be disposed. Please read this notice carefully.

Your understanding of this notice will help prevent the risks involved in processing personal information, e.g., unauthorized processing of personal information, access of personal information due to negligence, improper disposal of personal information, processing of personal information for unauthorized purposes, unauthorized access or intentional reach, concealment of security breaches involving sensitive personal information, and malicious or unauthorized disclosure.

We may collect and process various types of personal information about you such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, social media accounts and photographs.

We may also collect and process sensitive personal information such as your nationality, marital status, age or birthday, health, education, account numbers and financial information, IDs and numbers issued by government agencies like SSS, TIN, Driver’s License and others.

As mentioned and for the purposes indicated above, we will process personal information we have received about you from public databases, third parties such as brokers and business partners, other insurers, credit reference and fraud prevention agencies, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, delegated authorities and lawyers.

In accordance with the Insurance Commission’s Circular Letter No. 2016-54, your information will be uploaded to a Medical Information Database, which include medical and non- medical information, accessible to life insurance companies to the purpose of enhancing risk Internal assessment and preventing fraud. Once uploaded, all life insurance companies will have limited access to your information in order to protect your right to privacy in accordance with law. A copy of the circular may be accessed through Insurance Commission's (IC) Circular Letter No. 2016-54.

For those purposes indicated above where we have indicated that we do not require your express consent or where we otherwise require your personal information to underwrite your insurance and/or process your claim, we will process your personal information based on our provision of insurance and related services and/or to comply with our legal obligations.

We will need your personal information if you would like to purchase our products and services. If you do not wish to provide this to us, we may not be able to provide the products and services you request, that you may be interested in, or to tailor our offerings to your particular requirements.

As part of our commitment to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data, we may need to migrate your data to new systems or platforms to ensure continued service delivery and improvement of our products and services. This data migration process is conducted in compliance with applicable data protection laws and regulations. During the data migration process, your personal data may be transferred, stored, and processed cross-border in accordance with the law.

We may use third-party service providers to assist with the data migration process. These service providers are carefully selected and are contractually obligated to adhere to the same high standards of data protection and security that we maintain.

Tracking technology helps us manage and improve the usability of the Allianz PNB Life Website, for example by detecting whether there has been any contact between your computer and us in the past and to identify the most popular sections of the Allianz PNB Life Website.

When you save your cookie settings, they should also apply to your future visits to the Allianz PNB Life Website. However, for technical reasons beyond the control of Allianz PNB Life, this cannot be guaranteed. For example, if you reset your browser, delete your cookies or access the Allianz Website from another browser or device, your cookie settings may be lost. To comply with applicable laws and regulations, in some countries you may be asked to confirm your cookie settings when you first visit the Allianz PNB Life Website. If you are in a country where you are automatically required to set your cookie settings, you may be asked to set them again on a future visit.

In many cases you can also control tracking technologies using your browser. Please ensure that your browser setting reflects whether you wish to be warned about and/or accept tracking technologies (such as cookies) where possible. The specific capabilities of your browser and instructions on ho­­w to use them can usually be found in the manual or help file of your browser.

Without tracking technologies the availability of the services provided by our website may be reduced, or parts of the Allianz PNB Life Website may no longer function correctly.

We will ensure that your personal information is processed in a manner that is compatible with the purposes indicated above.

For the stated purposes, your personal information may be disclosed to the following parties who operate as third party personal information controllers:

Public authorities, other Allianz Group companies, other insurers, co-insurers, re-insurers, insurance intermediaries/brokers, partner banks. For the stated purposes, we may also share your personal information with the following parties who operate as personal information processors under our instruction:

• Other Allianz Group companies, technical consultants, experts, lawyers, medical doctors; and service companies to discharge operations (claims, IT, postal, document management); and
• Advertisers and advertising networks to send you marketing communications, as permitted under local law and in accordance with your communication preferences. We do not share your personal information with non-affiliated third parties for their own marketing use without your permission.

Finally, we may share your personal information in the following instances:

• In the event of any contemplated or actual reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in any insolvency or similar proceedings);
• To meet any legal obligation, including to the relevant regulatory agency if you make a complaint about the product or service we have provided to you and;
• During data migration which may involve system upgrades or replacement to a more scalable systems, data center consolidation, data archiving and compliance, business intelligence and analytics, and risk mitigation and disaster recovery.

Where permitted by applicable law or regulation, you have the right to:

• Access your personal information held about you and to learn the origin of the information, the purposes and ends of the processing, the details of the personal information controller(s), the information processor(s) and the parties to whom the information may be disclosed;
• Withdraw your consent at any time where your personal information is processed with your consent;
• Update or correct your personal information so that it is always accurate;
• Delete your personal information from our records;
• Restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, for example where you have contested the accuracy of your personal information, for the period enabling us to verify its accuracy;
• Obtain your personal information in an electronic format for you or for your new insurer; and
• File a complaint with us and/or the relevant information protection authority.

You may exercise these rights by filling out this Form. 

We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary and we will hold it only for the purposes for which it was obtained.

When we no longer have a legitimate purpose in retaining your personal information, we will dispose of your personal information in a secure manner by physical destruction like shredding or burning, and automated and manual deletion for electronic files. We may also anonymize your personal information in which case, it will no longer be identifiable.

While we have implemented technical, operational, and physical security measures to ensure, personal information transmitted over the internet may still be exposed to certain risks.

The Internet is generally not regarded as a secure environment, and information sent via the Internet (such as to or from the Allianz PNB Website or via electronic message) may be accessed by unauthorized third parties, potentially leading to disclosures, changes in content or technical failures. Even if both sender and receiver are located in the same country, information sent via the Internet may be transmitted across international borders and be forwarded to a country with a lower data protection level than in your country of residence.

Allianz PNB does not accept responsibility or liability for the security of your information whilst in transit over the Internet to Allianz. In order to protect your privacy, you may choose another means of communication with Allianz PNB, where you deem it appropriate.

If you have any queries about how we use your personal information, you can contact us by dialing our customer service hotline, email or post as follows:

Allianz PNB Life Insurance, Inc.
Data Protection Officer
9th Floor, Allied Bank Center, 6754 Ayala Avenue corner Legaspi Street, Makati City, Philippines
Email: [email protected]
Customer Service Hotline: 8818-4357