Privacy Notes
Website Statement
New Reinsurance Company Ltd. in Zurich, incorporated under the laws of Switzerland (hereinafter: “NewRe”) knows that it is important to you to maintain your privacy while visiting our website. It is in our mutual interests that we take our responsibility to guarantee the privacy of your data very seriously in compliance with the applicable provisions of data protection law. We use state-of-the-art technology to communicate with you while keeping your data secure.
1 Scope of Application
The following data protection notice applies to NewRe’s internet presence.
This website may contain links to third-party websites (external links). These websites are the responsibility of the respective operators. Should you notice that our website contains a link to a site whose content violates applicable law, please let us know at legalcompliance@newre.com. If necessary, we will remove such link from our website without delay. NewRe assumes no responsibility as to the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided.
2 Use of your data
This section details how your personal data will be processed when you visit NewRe’s website, and informs you of your rights under data protection law.
“Personal data” refers to information relating to an identified or identifiable person.
2.1 Who is responsible for processing your data?
New Reinsurance Company Ltd.
Zollikerstrasse 226
8008 Zurich
Switzerland
Telephone +41 (0)58 226 65 00
If you have any questions pertaining this information, please contact our Legal & Compliance department at the above mentioned address (with the addressee “Legal & Compliance”), or by sending an email to dataprotection@newre.com.
2.2 What categories of data will we use, and for what purposes do we process personal data?
You are generally free to visit our website anonymously. Only if you have agreed to the evaluation of your usage behaviour for statistical purposes, (date, time, pages viewed, navigation, software used) data will be collected by us via an external service provider when you visit our website. Then your complete IP address will be transmitted to the service provider, where it will be shortened and thus made anonymous before being saved, so that even then it is no longer possible to draw conclusions about you.
If you send us an e-mail, we will use any personal data you provide (such as your name or e-mail address) only to correspond with you, to send you the information you requested, or for the other purpose(s) stipulated on the particular form.
For legal or technical reasons, personal data may also be collected and communicated to us in an encrypted form from areas on our website that are accessible only to users with special authorisation (for example, the job application portal). The amount of data collected depends on the application used.
For every application or process with which we collect your personal data (e.g. via cookies for statistical evaluations), we will provide an individualised privacy statement to inform you about the processing of your data.
2.3 What is the legal basis for our processing of your personal data?
We process your data on the basis of the provisions of the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), the Ordinance to the Federal Act on Data Protection and all other laws applicable to the processing of personal data. The substantive legal grounds for the processing depend on the context and the purpose for which we collect your data.
As a rule, we collect and process your personal data to communicate with you and send you the information that you request. This may be necessary, in the context of a user/contractual relationship, to fulfil a contract or during the pre-contractual process (for example, job application process), or at your request. Where an application or process requires restricted-access (for example the job applicant portal), the user or data subject’s consent may constitute the legal grounds. You may revoke such consent at any time. Any processing done before the revocation would remain valid, however.
2.4 Who receives your data?
Within NewRe, only those staff and departments who are responsible for the respective process will receive your data. The data may also be disclosed to service providers for the purposes set out above. Using service providers is necessary, for example, for the administration and maintenance of our IT systems. We also use external service providers for support when managing job applicants, for example. If we process any of your personal data for certain purposes, you will receive a separate notice about how exactly your data is being used.
You will find a list of the categories of service providers here.
2.5 Where and how will we send your data to countries outside of Switzerland?
We may process and transfer your data to anywhere in the world where Munich Re, its Group companies, our service providers or other recipients are located.
An overview over Munich Re’s worldwide offices can be found here. Service providers or other recipients may be located in Switzerland, the EU or in other countries worldwide, particularly in Asia (e.g. India) or the US. An overview over subcontractors that are used by NewRe’s service provider Munich Re can be found here.
We only share your personal information on a basis that guarantees adequate data protection in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Should we pass on personal data to service providers or Group companies outside Switzerland, we will do so only if the Swiss Federal Council has confirmed that the respective third country’s level of data protection is sufficient or if data protection is otherwise sufficiently guaranteed. The level of data protection in certain third countries (particularly the US) does not correspond to the Swiss data protection level and there is a risk that your data may be processed by authorities, possibly without the possibility of legal recourse. For data transfers into such countries, we ensure that the necessary data protection measures are implemented (e.g. binding corporate rules on data protection or standard contract clauses that have been recognised by the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner). In some rare cases, an appropriate level of data protection may be unnecessary if for example you have explicitly agreed to the disclosure.
The companies in the Munich Reinsurance Group have adopted binding corporate rules (BCRs). Appropriate data protection guarantees are therefore in place worldwide at these Group companies.
You can request detailed information on this, as well as on the level of data protection of our service providers in third countries, from the points of contact mentioned above.
2.6 What measures do we have in place to protect your data?
We have state-of-the-art technical and organisational security measures to protect data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction, and access by unauthorised parties. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to protect any information you enter in dialogue forms on our web pages. SSL encryption protects your data against unauthorised third-party access during transfer. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the change in your browser address line from “http://” to “https://”, and the padlock symbol appearing in your browser window.
If you send us unencrypted data in a regular, unprotected e-mail, it is possible that unauthorised parties may gain knowledge of or modify your data during transmission via the internet.
2.7 What data protection rights can you claim as a data subject?
You may request information at the address indicated above about the personal data we have stored under your name. In addition, under certain conditions, you may request that your data be deleted or corrected. You may also have a right to restrict the processing of your data and a right to have the data you have made available disclosed in a standard electronic format.
If we process your data for the purpose of safeguarding legitimate (Group) interests, you may lodge an objection to such processing at the above address, provided your particular situation presents grounds for opposing such data processing. We will then stop the processing, unless we have compelling legitimate grounds not to do so that override your interests, or if processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
If you wish to complain, you can contact the Legal & Compliance department mentioned above.
2.8 How long will your data be stored?
We will delete your personal data as soon as it is no longer required for the purposes set out above, and no legal documentation or retention requirements apply, for example in the Swiss commercial or tax law. Further details can be found, where applicable, under the respective types of data processing.
2.9 Are you required to provide us with your data?
You are not required to provide personal data when accessing NewRe’s website. However, there are services for which we require personal data from you – for example, to send you information, a newsletter you have requested, details about a contract, or to take your application into account for a job opening. Without this data, NewRe cannot carry out the services you request. We collect only the data that is required in a particular case. Where we do process your personal data, we will inform you separately about the purposes, recipients, legal basis and any other rights you may have.
3 Cookies and log files
3.1 Use of cookies
During an online session, cookies are stored on your computer. These are small files that control the display and operation of our website. Cookies will not damage your computer and do not contain viruses.
When you visit our website, and wish to make use of the functions we offer, we use one group of cookies that are required for technical reasons. These cookies are so-called "session cookies". They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit.
Furthermore we use a consent management platform (i.e. an approval management service), with which we document and implement your decisions regarding the data processing on our website. The Consent Management Platform used at our website was developed and is managed by Usercentrics GmbH, Sendlinger Straße 7, 80331 Munich, Germany. In order to do that, small files (analog cookies) are stored locally in the cache of your browser. This happens regardless of whether you agree or reject certain cookies. They continue to exist and can be read out even after the browser window has been closed or the program has been closed - provided that you don't delete the cache.
If you agreed to this, we also employ other cookies to carry out statistical evaluations of the range of our websites. We perform anonymised statistical evaluations of these websites. We do not establish any personal link to you. Our service provider Munich Re who is responsible for maintaining our website, has commissioned a third party service provider (Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Ireland) to carry out the statistical evaluations, and these are performed exclusively for us and on our behalf. For this reason, when you visit our websites, cookies from this service provider are also stored on your device. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit and remain on your terminal device until you delete them.
The data for carrying out statistical evaluations of our website is stored and processed in Europe (Ireland, France). For supporting reasons there might be access to the data by Adobe employees in other countries outside Switzerland or the EU (Canada, United Kingdom, India or USA). While the United Kingdom and Canada have a level of data protection appropriate to that of Switzerland, the level of data protection in India and USA, does not correspond to the Swiss data protection level. In these countries, there is a risk that your data may be processed by authorities, possibly without the possibility of legal recourse.
On our website we use following cookies
Technical necessary cookies:
JSESSIONID, www.munichre.com, the session ID for internal use on the server, specifically used for load distribution, is removed at the end of your browser session.
ApplicationGatewayAffinity, used for maintaining user sessions. This cookie is set by this website as it runs on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It enables web browser traffic to be kept assigned to single server during certain sections of website.
ApplicationGatewayAffinityCORS is used by the Windows Azure Application Gateway in addition to ApplicationGatewayAffinity to maintain sticky session even on cross-origin requests (information received from a resource with a different domain name).
Cookies for statistical evaluations:
s_ecid, contains a copy of the Adobe Experience Cloud ID for visitor identification using Adobe Analytics, duration 24 months.
AMCV_###AdobeOrg, contains the unique Adobe Experience Cloud user ID for visitor identification using Adobe Analytics, duration 24 months.
s_cc, Session-Cookie, detects whether cookies are permitted, and is removed at the end of the browser session.
s_sq, Session-Cookie, registers the last link clicked, and is removed at the end of the browser session.
s_vi, contains a unique visitor ID for visitor identification using Adobe Analytics, duration 24 months.
s_fid, contains a copy of the unique visitor ID for visitor identification using Adobe Analytics, duration 24 months.
You can manage, change or revoke your cookie preferences at any time in the "Cookie Settings" You can find the "Cookie Settings" as a link on each of our pages.
3.2 Server log files
The information that your browser automatically sends us is collected automatically and saved in server log files. They contain:
- Browser type and version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL (the URL that the user comes from)
- Host name (network name) of the accessing computer
- Time of server request
This data cannot be traced to individual people. We do not merge this data with other data sources. We reserve the right to review the information subsequently, and report it to authorities (such as the police or public prosecutor’s office), if there are concrete indications that our internet presence is being used illegally (for example, a hacking attack on our network).
4 Use of social networks
Social media functions and social plug-ins are embedded in our website in the form of small icons. We currently embed the following social network on our websites with an icon: , LinkedIn
The button becomes active and creates a connection only if you deliberately click the icon, thus indicating your consent to communicating with such providers. By entering your personal login data to these networks, you create a connection to your identity.
You thus leave NewRe’s internet presence and our sphere of influence. NewRe does not record which external network you activate. The next time you visit NewRe’s website, the social media plug-ins return to their inactive modus, ensuring that no data is automatically communicated to social media upon such return visit.
When you interact with the social plug-ins – for example, by entering a comment – a corresponding notification is sent to the social network and saved in accordance with the respective network’s policy. Please consult the respect social network’s data protection statement with regard to the scope and purpose of the data collected, its use and processing, as well as your respective rights and options in protecting your privacy.
5 E-mail
The personal data (e.g. name, e-mail address) you provide will be used by NewRe to reply to you with the information you request. Any sensitive confidential information will be encrypted or, if this is not possible, sent to you by regular mail. If the contents of the e-mail refer to a contractual relationship, NewRe will save the e-mail. The e-mail address will be saved exclusively for corresponding with you, and not disclosed to third parties. You will never receive an unsolicited e-mail from us. As a result, should you nevertheless receive any unsolicited e-mail that purports to be from us, it is fraudulent and should be deleted. Before you send NewRe an unencrypted e-mail, please remember that its contents are not protected against unauthorised access or manipulation
Use of your data in specific processes
NewRe will inform you when it collects your data while you use its website (job applications, subscribing to newsletters, responding to surveys, etc.) You will find information on the processing of your personal data – outside of our website as well – here.
We use external service providers to operate some parts of our website. The categories of service providers can be found here.
6 Amendments to this data protection notice
The continual improvement of our website, and the use of new technology, make it necessary to amend our data protection notice from time to time. When visiting our website, please read the current version of our data protection notice (current version: 2023).
Server log files
The information that your browser automatically sends us is collected automatically and saved in server log files. They contain:
- Browser type and version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL (the URL that the user comes from)
- Host name (network name) of the accessing computer
- Time of server request
This data cannot be traced to individual people. We do not merge this data with other data sources. We reserve the right to review the information subsequently, and report it to authorities (such as the police or public prosecutor’s office), if there are concrete indications that our internet presence is being used illegally (for example, a hacking attack on our network).
Use of personal data
New Reinsurance Company Ltd., incorporated under the laws of Switzerland, is responsible as data controller for the processing of your personal data on this Site. We will treat any personal details sent when you access our home page in strictest confidence in accordance with the prevailing provisions governing data protection at the company’s home office. If you send us an e-mail or complete and submit an on-line form on our website, your personal data (e.g. name or e-mail address) will be used only for our correspondence with you in order to send you the requested documents or information or for any other purpose explicitly stipulated on the individual form.
Within New Reinsurance Company Ltd., only those staff and departments who are responsible for the respective process will receive your data. The data may also be disclosed to group internal or external service providers for the purposes set out above. Using service providers is necessary, for example, for the administration and maintenance of our IT systems. We also use external service providers for support when managing job applicants, for example. If we process any of your personal data for certain purposes, you will receive a notice about how exactly your data is being used. You may also request the information from our Legal & Compliance team at LegalCompliance@newre.com.
If personal data needs to be transferred to service providers or Group companies outside Switzerland or the European Economic Area (EEA), this will be done only if the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner has confirmed that the respective country’s level of data protection is sufficient, or if data protection is otherwise sufficiently guaranteed (for example through standard EU contractual clauses).