Contact Us United States | Institutional Investor Login Our Firm Strategies and Solutions Sustainable Investing Insights SEARCH Privacy Policy Last updated: July 2020 Allianz Global Investors U.S. and its U.S. affiliates ("AllianzGI US," "we" or "us", 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019-7585, USA) would like to thank you for visiting our website (“website”) and for your interest in our services and products. Your privacy is important to us and we want you to feel comfortable when visiting our site. We take steps to ensure that your personal data collected, processed and used in connection with your visit to our website will be protected. Unless you have received a personal email from us we permit the anonymous use of the website, or the use of the site under a pseudonym as far as technically possible and reasonable. This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in related practices and / or applicable laws and regulations. We therefore ask you to consult it regularly. Our Privacy Notice related to Residents of California can be found here. What is the purpose and scope of this Privacy Policy? We have created this Privacy Policy to explain how and why specific types of personal data are collected from users of this website, are processed and used. This Privacy Policy also provides an overview of the use of data that is publicly available on other websites and sources and of the appropriate protection measures taken to safeguard your personal data. This Privacy Policy applies to all personal data collected, processed and used by AllianzGI US when you visit the website and for the use of data that is publicly available on other websites and sources. It does not apply to websites controlled by third parties to which the website may contain links (“third-party websites"). Please check the data protection policies of third-party sites, as AllianzGI US is not responsible for the content or privacy measures of third-party sites and has no control over them. The content of this Privacy Policy may also be subject to any additional conditions or disclaimers or other contractual terms that you have entered with AllianzGI US, as well as any applicable and binding laws and regulations. What information do we collect from you and for what purposes? When you visit the website, our web server automatically records details of your visit, so-called "Usage Data” (for example your IP address, the website from which you linked to our website, the type of browser software used, the individual sub-pages of the website that you actually accessed, the date and duration of your visit). We also collect, process and use personal data that you provide through the website, such as personal details (i.e. name, gender, address, email address, telephone/fax number) that you enter on a login page or when you subscribe to an email newsletter or when you apply for a job at AllianzGl US online ("User Data"). We also collect certain data that stems from publicly available sources (e.g. freely available on the Internet) ("Analytical Data"), inter alia to evaluate and prepare investment decisions as well as client meetings. Analytical Data regularly do not contain personal data, but this cannot be excluded for all Analysis Data. AllianzGI US collects, processes and uses Usage Data and User Data for: the purposes of technical administration and research and development of the website; customer and user management; marketing, to inform you about our services and products; online application processes. On what basis do we process the data, and for how long do we store your personal data? Your Usage Data and User Data is processed in accordance with the above-mentioned purposes for the completion of (pre-)contractual measures and to pursue our legitimate interests, such as the further development of the website or marketing. As far as Analysis Data contain personal data, we process such data to enhance our service offerings. We want to better prepare investment decisions as well as client meetings and can carry out more precise assessments in advance of these decisions/meetings based on the Analysis Data to improve our services provided to you. If we intend to process Analysis Data for other purposes, in particular for the performance of a contractual relationship, we will inform the data subjects separately if necessary. We store your personal data for as long as we need it to achieve these objectives. As soon as we no longer need your personal data for the purposes mentioned, we will delete the data from our systems, unless we are legally obliged to store it. How do we use tracking technologies? AllianzGI US uses tracking technologies such as cookies and tags. For details on how we use cookies and similar technologies, especially for the purposes of marketing, market and opinion research, please refer to our AllianzGI US Cookie Policy. Who do we share your information with? AllianzGI US may share your information with affiliates and representatives of AllianzGI US, and third parties such as marketing agencies or web analytics service providers within and outside of the US. Who do we share your information with? AllianzGI US may share your information with affiliates and representatives of AllianzGI US, and third parties such as marketing agencies or web analytics service providers within and outside of the US. Our affiliates (see https://www.allianzgi.com/en/our-firm/contact-us), representatives and third parties who have access to the personal data collected, processed and used via the website are obliged to observe applicable data protection regulations. Your personal data may be transferred to recipients in countries outside the US. We ensure that the recipients of your personal data comply with such an appropriate level. Whenever we transfer your Personal Data within the Allianz Group to an OE, we will do so on the basis of Allianz’ approved binding corporate rules known as the Allianz Privacy Standard (“Allianz’ BCR”) which establish adequate protection for Personal Data and are legally binding on all Allianz Group companies. Allianz’ BCR and the list of Allianz Group companies that comply with them can be accessed here: https://www.allianz.com/en/info/privacy-statement/. We may also share your information with government agencies and institutions, regulators, etc. in accordance with the applicable laws, regulations, a court order or an official request, or in accordance with and for the purposes of official (regulatory) policies or similar procedures as required or permitted by applicable law. What security measures have we implemented to protect your information we collected through our website? AllianzGI US has implemented appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data that AllianzGI US has collected from unauthorised access, misuse, loss and destruction. How do we handle electronic messages sent to and from AllianzGI US? All electronic messages sent to and from AllianzGI US are protected by appropriate technical and organisational measures within our systems, and may only be accessed by individuals not directly involved in the communication in specific, justified cases according to the applicable laws and regulations (e.g. a court ruling, suspected criminal behaviour, breach of supervisory obligations); they are only accessed by certain individuals in defined functions (e.g. legal, compliance, risk). Each part of the procedure and the search criteria used are logged. What should you bear in mind when sending data over the internet? The internet is generally not considered to be a secure environment, and information sent via the internet (such as to or from the website, or as an electronic message) may be intercepted by unauthorised third parties, which may lead to divulging information, changes to content or technical failure. Even if both the sender and the recipient are located in the same country, data sent via the internet may be transmitted across international borders and forwarded to a country where the level of privacy is lower than in your country of residence. Please note that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for the security of your data while it is being transmitted via the internet to AllianzGI US. To protect your privacy, we remind you that you can use other means of communication with AllianzGl US where appropriate. How can you exercise your rights as a user? Where permitted by law, you have the right to: Request information about your personal data, including information such as the source and categories of data, reasons for processing, recipients (or categories of recipients) and the retention period; Update or correct your personal data so that it is always correct; Request that your personal data be deleted from our systems, once it is no longer required for the above-mentioned purposes; Withdraw your consent at any time, if your personal data is being processed with your consent, without this affecting the lawfulness of the processing that took place before your consent was withdrawn. How can I receive more information? Please contact us if you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or exercising your aforementioned rights. You may reach us by mail at: Allianz Global Investors US LLC Data Protection Officer Legal & Compliance 1633 Broadway New York, NY 10019-7585 USA or send an email to: PrivacyUS@allianzgi.com Use of Social Media plugins: Our Site uses the following Social Media Plugins ("Plugins") Facebook Share Button operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Tweet Button operated by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA LinkedIn Share Button operated by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA YouTube is operated by YouTube LLC, headquartered at 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube is represented by Google Inc., based in 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Soundcloud is operated by SoundCloud Limited, headquartered at 33 St James Square, London SW1Y 4JS, UK. All plug-ins are labelled with the brand of the respective operator (the “operators”): Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Soundcloud. When you visit the web page that contains a social network plug-in (e.g. social sharing), your browser creates a direct connection to the operator’s servers. The operator submits the content of the plug-in directly to your browser, which embeds it in the web page, thereby enabling the operator to obtain the information that you have accessed the corresponding sub-page of our website. AllianzGl US therefore has no control over the data collected by the plug-in and we inform you to the best of our knowledge that: The embedded plug-ins inform the operator that you have accessed the corresponding sub-page of our website. If you do not want this information to be transmitted to the operators, you must log out of your respective account with them before visiting our website. For more information on the purpose and scope of collection, processing and use of data, please refer to the data protection policies of these operators: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy Allianz Global Investors Cookie Policy Last Updated: July 2020 Through this Cookie Policy we, AllianzGl US inform you about how we use cookies and similar technologies on our website (“website”). Cookies and Similar Technologies We use cookies to make our website function smoothly and optimally for our users and to continuously improve its operation. Cookies are small text files that contain a sequence of alphanumeric characters, which are stored on your device. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie is deleted when you close your internet browser. 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