Privacy Principles

How do we treat data collected from your visit on their sites?

Our business is asset management.  This is a confidential matter and we recognize your expectations regarding privacy.  We are committed to keeping your information confidential and secure and that is why we have designed procedures to ensure your privacy in all facets of our relationship. No matter if you are a consumer, a customer, a job applicant or a shareholder, you are protected, not only by the applicable privacy laws, but, more importantly, our commitment to safeguard your privacy and your right to decide how your personal information will be used.

Notice

You can surf all our public web-sites anonymously. If we want to collect, process and use personal data from your visit on these sites we will disclose this to you. When you complete an application form, be aware that you are giving personal information and you will not be informed separately. If you decide not to complete the application form or to leave the site altogether, we will not keep any data you have provided.

Choice

If we want to collect information about you, you decide which personal data we receive and how we use it. We will only collect and maintain personal data for the purposes you approve of and only to the extent necessary for that purpose. The types and categories of information we collect about you may include, without limitation to:

Information we receive from you to open an account and provide you with investment advice, including information you provide on applications or other forms (such information may include your name, address, telephone number, ID card number and certain financial information);

Information about your transactions; and

Information we generate to service your account (such as trade tickets and account statements).

We do not disclose non-public personal information to any other person, except as allowed by applicable law or regulation. However, to effect transactions that you request or authorise, we may disclose the information we collect, as described above, to companies that perform administrative services on our behalf, such as transfer agents, custodians and administrators. These companies will use this information only to provide the services for which we hired them, and are not permitted to use or share this information for any other purpose. If sensitive data (e.g. about health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, political opinion, religious or philosophical beliefs etc.) is collected on our web-sites at all, we will not transfer them to third parties or affiliates without your consent.  It is important that you read these privacy principles carefully to determine if a consent or an opt out is needed (as the case maybe).

Access

We respect your privacy rights, particularly your right to access your information. If you ask us, and to the extent provided by local law, we will share with you the personal information we collect and retain about you through our web-sites. We strive to keep your data accurate. Please provide us with any changes or corrections in your information.

Our employees have to comply with their obligations of secrecy.

Data Security

We strive to keep the level of security state-of-the-art at all times.

Enforcement

The laws of the country of your Allianz company provide for measures to enforce your privacy rights. In addition, compliance with these policies is ensured by the data protection officer as well as through an audit process.

Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance

Allianz Global Investors Asia Pacific Limited is fully committed to protecting the privacy interests of individuals who provide us with information about themselves and to ensuring compliance with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance.

You are entitled under the Ordinance to be informed by Allianz Global Investors Asia Pacific Limited whether it holds personal data about you and to request access to and / or correction of any such personal data. Any such request should be made to:

Data Protection Officer
c/o Allianz Global Investors Asia Pacific Limited 
32/F, Two Pacific Place,
88 Queensway, Admiralty,
Hong Kong

We will deal with a request as soon as possible but in any event within the 40 days maximum period required under the Ordinance.

Marketing Promotions

We may collect personal information from visitors to this website for newsletter / e-Alert subscription, event invitation, contests (online or telephone), and market research. Such information is collected from visitors who agree to provide us with their personal information. We may use this information to send them email promotions including, but not limited to, products, services, events online contests and surveys, which may be of interest to them.  If visitors do not want to receive our emails, they can always opt-out using the opt-out link in the emails, or contact our customer service hotlines as below:

Retail Investors

Tel : (852) 2238 8000
Email : hkenquiry@allianzgi.com

Retirement Services

Tel : (852) 2238 8238