Allianz Global Investors Cookies Policy

Last Updated: 09/2023

Through this Cookies Policy we, Allianz Global Investors Asia Pacific Limited, 32/F, Two Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong ("Allianz Global Investors" or "We"), inform you about how we use cookies and similar technologies on our website (“Website”).  For more information on how we collect, process and use personal data, please see our Data Protection Policy on this Website. 

Cookies and Similar Technologies 
Cookies.  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 cookies is deleted when you close your internet browser. A persistent cookies remains stored even after the internet browser has been closed, and can be used by your internet browser on subsequent visits to our Website. Your internet browser may well offer settings for cookies. Please note that you may not be able to make full use of the features in the services offered on our Website if you either delete cookies or choose not to allow them. We also use third-party cookies in connection with the services provided through our Website. For example, we use Google Analytics to collect and process certain analytical data. We may not process or react to “Do not track” signals from internet browsers or similar processes that indicate that a user visiting our website or using the services provided through our Website does not want to be tracked online. A list of the cookies used on our Website, including their purpose and the data stored in each case, can be found in the table below. Your consent to the intended use is required before placing and using cookies on your device. This consent can also be given by adjusting your browser settings accordingly.

Clear GIFs/Web Beacons.  Clear GIFs (also known as web beacons) are typically very small transparent graphics (typically 1 pixel x 1 pixel) used on a website which can be used within the scope of the services we offer on our Website and are typically used in conjunction with cookies to track our users and their usage patterns. 

How We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies 
We use cookies and we automatically collect information in order to: (1) personalise our Website and the services we offer on our Website, e.g. to save data related to you so that you do not need to re-enter this data while using our Website, or on your next visit to our Website or when you use services provided on the Website; (2) provide you with customised advertising, content and information; (3) monitor and analyse the effectiveness of our Website and the services provided on our Website, as well as third party promotional activities; (4) produce aggregate usage statistics, such as total number of visitors and page views; and (5) track your entries and the status of promotions or other activities and services offered via our Website. Tracking technologies also help us to maintain and improve the usability of the Website (1) by determining whether there has been any contact between your computer and us in the past, and (2) by identifying the most popular areas of our Website.

Further details can be found in the table below:

Name File(s) Description  Period of Validity  Opt-out  Cookies Type / Other Technology
Facebook Pixel Facebook Pixel This Website uses Facebook Pixel, an Advertising and Analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”). Facebook Pixel uses “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer, to help analyse how you use the Website after visiting our Hong Kong Facebook fan page at https://www.facebook.com/AllianzGIHK/. Facebook Pixel also uses cookies to advertise for audiences, conversions, targeting and optimisation in Facebook and Instagram, and store advertising and analytics data in the Company’s Hong Kong Facebook fan page account.  365 days You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Third party cookies
PageDisclaimerCookie PageDisclaimerCookie This cookies stores information about when (what time) a visitor accepted the Terms and Conditions on the Website.  30 days No Application cookies
Google Analytics _ga
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This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer, to help analyse how you use the Website. Information generated by the cookies about your use of this Website is transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. In the event of activated IP anonymisation on this Website, your IP address is initially truncated within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this Website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Website in order to compile reports about website activities and provide further services to the website operator related to website and Internet usage. The IP address transferred from your browser by Google Analytics will not be linked with any other data held by Google. IP anonymisation is enabled on this website.  Up to two years You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. However, please note that you might not be able to fully use all functions offered by this website. You can also prevent Google Analytics from collecting this data by refusing to give your consent to the use of the technology, or by downloading and installing the browser plug-in for your internet browser available at the following link, thereby withdrawing your consent for the future. http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.  Third party cookies
 AllianzGIRoleCookie  AllianzGIRoleCookie When visiting the Website, a visitor must select a “role” (e.g.: financial advisor, individual investor). This individual role ID is stored in the cookies.  30 days No Application cookies 
AllianzGIRoleLevelTnCCookie AllianzGIRoleLevelTnCCookie This cookies stores information about the role ID, the Terms and Conditions page ID for the respective web page, and the exact time at which the role was accepted.  30 days No Application cookies 
PageTermsAndConditionCookie PageTermsAndConditionCookie This cookies stores information about whether a visitor accepted the Terms and Conditions on the website. This includes the web page ID to which the Terms and Conditions apply. 30 days
No Application cookies
Disclaimer_cookie  Disclaimer_cookie  This cookies stores information about whether a visitor accepted the Cookies Policy Information.
30 days
No Application cookies
recentSearch  recentSearch 
This cookies stores the search words used in searches (during a browser session).
Browser session 
No
Application cookies
germany#lang
germany#lang This cookies stores information about the language preferences for a website. 
Browser session  No Application cookies
FundsInMyWatchList FundsInMyWatchList
This cookies stores the respective Fund IDs from a watch list.
30 days   No
Application cookies 
Sitecore  • ASP.NET_SessionId 

• SC_ANALYTICS_ 

• GLOBAL_COOKIE 

• BIGipServerEU_ EXT_WEB_prod_ allianzgi_com_443 .app~EU_EXT_ WEB_prod_allianzgi _com_443_pool 

• BIGipServer~ WEB~EU_WEB_ prod_allianzgi_com_ 443.app~EU_WEB_ prod_allianzgi_com _443_pool 

The information collected by Allianz Global Investors through the Sitecore cookies allows us to analyse the browsing behaviour of users on the Allianz Global Investors Website, and in particular allows us to provide you with a better experience over time when using the web pages on the Sitecore-based website. The aim is to improve the content and facilitate the use of the Website. For example, we use cookies to store the following information: 

1. Language and country
2. Browser settings and browser extensions (plug-ins)
3. Use of this Sitecore-based website
4. Role selected to browse this Website
5. Acceptance of the Terms and Conditions
6. Search terms used on this Website

The cookies allow the Allianz Global Investors Website (a Sitecore-based platform) to save your settings and avoid asking for the same information each time you visit the Allianz Global Investors Website.  It also allows data to be stored across multiple sessions (to ensure that the data is available even when the browser is closed and reopened).
Session


No
Application cookies  
AddThis
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AddThis is a third-party extension (plug-in) providing a number of technical processes on a website that allow website users to share, follow, view, recommend and interact with content, and which allows AddThis to collect information about the user of the website collected during the user’s visit to the website. 
255 days
You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Website. 
Third party cookies
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AddThis tools collect information on websites. They do not identify individuals directly, but instead they are designed to identify the device used by the website user to interact with the website. When a website user visits our Website, the AddThis tools collect data using cookies and pixels (Clear GIFs/Web Beacons). If a website user uses the AddThis tools on the website to share information or content (e.g. to share content on Facebook), the website user will be redirected through this Website before arriving at his or her destination website. The following information in particular is collected: 

• Internet protocol address (IP address), Mobile Ad ID (MAID), browser type, browser language, type of operating system, date and time of the website user’s visit to the website and his behavior on the website, such as the duration of the visit to the website;

• The internet search performed by the website user to find and access the website;

• Information about how many times a website user makes use of the AddThis tools;

• Geolocation data (position data) derived from the internet protocol address (IP address)

The following is a description of the types of cookies used by the AddThis tools on websites:

• Analysis Cookies – AddThis submits an analytic cookies to the website user when the website user visits a website that helps AddThis to gain insight into the website user’s activity on a website, for example how regularly the website user’s device accesses the website, or how the website user’s device interacts with the website.

• Market Research Cookies – AddThis places a market research cookies on the website user’s device when the website user visits a website, or enables AddThis partners to use such a cookies.  Market research cookies are similar to analytic cookies because they measure how regularly a website user visits a website.  These cookies also allow market research companies to measure the success of certain marketing campaigns by collecting aggregated data across multiple websites.  

• Targeted advertising cookies – if a website user visits a website that uses the AddThis tools, AddThis also stores a targeted advertising cookie on the website user’s device which helps AddThis to display individualised advertising for the website user, or to facilitate the display of such advertising and finally, to track how many advertising sites website users have 


255 days You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Website.  Third party cookies
Google Floodlight Tag Google Floodlight Tag Floodlight tag is used for conversion and event tracking across Google Marketing Platform to track conversions from both display and search advertising. 

Floodlight recognizes users by their cookie ID or device ID, which becomes the user ID. Floodlight records the user ID after any impression, click, or other activity that results in a call to our servers and this information can be used by Floodlight for conversion attribution. 
Up to two years You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Third party cookies
LinkedIn Insight Tag  LinkedIn Insight Tag The LinkedIn Insight Tag is a piece of lightweight JavaScript code that is added to the website to enable in-depth campaign reporting and unlock valuable insights about  website visitors. Allianz Global Investors can use the LinkedIn Insight Tag to track conversions, retarget website visitors, and unlock additional insights about LinkedIn members interacting with ads.

The LinkedIn Insight Tag enables the collection of data regarding members’ visits to Allianz Global Investors website, including the URL, referrer, IP address, device and browser characteristics (User Agent), and timestamp. The IP addresses are truncated or hashed (when used for reaching members across devices), and members’ direct identifiers are removed within seven days in order to make the data pseudonymous. This remaining pseudonymized data is then deleted within 180 days.

LinkedIn members can control the use of their personal data for advertising purposes through their account settings.
365 days You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Third party cookies
DoubleClick  DoubleClick Google Ad Manager use cookies to improve advertising, to target advertising based on what’s relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance, and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen.

The third-party cookies used by Google Ad Manager for advertising purposes may be associated with the doubleclick.net or country-specific Google domains such as google.com.
Up to two years You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Third party cookies
YouTube YouTube YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Up to two years You can control the use of cookies by opting in or opting out in the Privacy Preference Center. Third party cookies

 

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