Privacy Notice

Effective: October 25, 2021

This Privacy Policy covers the information practices of websites that link to this Privacy Policy (each referred to as a “Site”).

You must be at least 18 years old and possess the legal authority to form legally binding contracts under applicable law to use this Site and the services provided on it.

To notify you about our practices, we have developed this Privacy Policy, and personal information collected on or through this Site on our behalf will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By using this Site you consent to the use, storage and processing of your personal information and other information stored on this Site or submitted by you on or through this Site in accordance with this Privacy Policy as set out in detail below.

This Privacy Policy is subject to the Site’s WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE (the “Terms”).

In some specific circumstances we do pass your personal information outside of Asia. Please see the section on transferring information overseas below for more information.

We use cookies on this Site. Cookies are pieces of information shared between your web browser and a website. For more information on how we use cookies, types of cookies that we use and how to opt out to cookies, please see the website navigational information and cookies sections below.

You have the right to access personal information held about you, and may do so by contacting us at privacycoordinator@marsh.com In accordance with the local applicable laws of your jurisdiction, any such access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the personal information that we hold about you. Subject to local applicable laws, you also have the right to object to any processing that is likely to cause you damage or distress and you also have the right to rectify, block, erase or destroy inaccurate data.

Provided that you have given your consent, we may use your personal information for marketing purposes. For more information on marketing and how to adjust your preferences, please see the section on marketing below.

Collection, use and disclosure of personal information

The information gathered by Marsh from this Site falls into two categories: (1) information voluntarily supplied by visitors to our Site and (2) tracking information gathered as visitors navigate through our Site.

(1) Information voluntarily provided by you

When using this Site, you may choose to provide us with information to help us serve your needs. The personal information that we collect will depend on how you choose to use this Site.

Where you request a brochure

If you request a brochure or further information from us, we require you to submit your name, e-mail address, the name of your organization, and the country in which you are based so we may send you the material you have requested, and to enable us to identify if you are an existing client of Marsh.

Where you register with us and/or request an insurance quote

If you register with the Site, or request an insurance quote, we may ask you for your name, e-mail address, country, telephone number and the reason for your communication, as well as information about your position and organization and such other information as is reasonably necessary so that we can provide you with the quote. On the data submission form, we shall indicate by way of an asterisk, which information is optional and which information is mandatory. Any personal information that you send us will be used only for the purpose indicated on the Site or in this Privacy Policy.

Following the quote, if you decide to proceed, we will collect personal information necessary to finalize the relevant quote and proceed with the transaction, such as your name, address, post code, contact telephone number, e-mail address, billing address or payment details, as relevant to the product. We will use your personal information to administer your policy, process claims etc. and generally manage your relationship with us. Please see the Disclosure of Your Information section for information on the categories of recipients of the personal data.

Where you submit comments

Finally, if you submit a comment on any of the content that you view on our Site, we will ask for your name and e-mail address, so that, if you choose, we can update you by e-mail when others also comment on the content, and also so that we can moderate the comments in line with our acceptable use policy. You should be aware that the information you provide there will be made publicly available to Marsh employees and other users of the Site.

(2) Tracking/Website Navigational Information

As you navigate the Site, we may also collect information through the use of commonly-used information-gathering tools, such as cookies and web beacons (collectively “Website Navigational Information”). Website Navigational Information includes standard information from your web browser (such as browser type and browser language), your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, and the actions you take on the Site (such as the web pages viewed and the links clicked). We describe this Website Navigational Information in more detail below.

Marketing

Provided that you have granted your consent, we may use your personal information to provide you with information about other services and products that are offered by Marsh in the field of insurance and financial services, risk management and consulting services or our affiliated companies that we think may be of interest to you. We may contact you by post, by telephone, e-mail or other means.

Opting Out

If you have previously indicated that you wish to receive marketing communications but no longer want to receive these communications from Marsh, please contact us using the contact details at the bottom of this Privacy Policy or let us know when you speak to one of our representatives. You can also click on the 'unsubscribe' button at the bottom of the communication or log on to the Site and uncheck any alerts you have previously opted to receive; as of the following day, you will no longer receive the alerts. If the alerts are necessary to provide you with services you have requested and those alerts contain no marketing information, you will not be able to opt out of alerts.

Website Navigational Information

Cookies & Web Beacons

We also use various tools to enhance your user experience and track users of the Site, including cookies and web beacons.   These tools may collect personal information including your IP address and domain name, your browser version and operating system, traffic data, location data, web logs and other communication data, and the resources that you access.

Cookies are small pieces of text that a website places on your computer to help remember information about your visit.  Web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier that are embedded invisibly on the web pages.  Neither cookies nor web beacons can read data off your computer's hard drive or collect your personal information.  We use information collected from cookies and web beacons to improve your experience and the overall quality of our services.  We may also use cookies to collect information from third parties (such as Google) to help advertise our products and services, to analyze the effectiveness of our marketing or the performance of this Site, and to determine whether you may be interested in other products or services.    We also use web beacons to help deliver cookies and compile analytics.  Our cookies may also come from third-party service providers who have permission to place such tools on our Site.

You can refuse to accept and delete cookies by adjusting your browser setting.  Please note that refusing or deleting cookies may impact your browsing experience on the Site, or prevent you from using some of its services, and it may result in the deletion of any preferences you have set. For more information on how to reject or delete cookies, you should consult with your browser's or device’s help documentation or visit www.aboutcookies.org.  We do not use technology that recognizes do-not-track signals from your browser.  You can also opt out of Internet based advertising by installing a browser plugin from the third party where available.  For more information about interest-based advertising, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.  You may also be able to opt out of our use of certain cookies using our Cookie Management Tool, where available, linked at the bottom of the Site.

In addition, in the course of seeking network security and consistent service for all users, software programs may be employed to monitor network traffic, identify unauthorized access or access to nonpublic information, detect computer viruses and other software that might damage our computers or the network, and monitor and fine-tune our network’s performance.  These programs may detect additional information from your computer such as your IP address, addresses from network packets, and other technical information.  Any such information is used only for the purpose of maintaining the security and performance of our networks and computer systems.

We may combine the information you provide us and information we automatically collect with information from public or third-party sources.

Disclosure or use of your information

We will not exchange or sell or otherwise distribute your personal information outside the Marsh McLennan without your consent except in accordance with your instructions (including to provide the services you have contracted with us to provide to you) or as identified in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is not applicable to personal information that is already in the public domain. Where we have personal information received independently from a third party, even where this is on the understanding that the individuals to whom the personal information relates have been informed of the reason(s) for obtaining the personal information and the fact that it may be disclosed to third parties such as Marsh McLennan, the terms of this Privacy Policy shall apply to such personal information.

We may use or distribute your personal information to the extent required by law, and as described below:

(i) Providing Services. In the normal course of performing services for our clients, personal information may be shared within Marsh McLennan for research and statistical purposes, system administration and crime prevention or detection. When you supply us with information containing third party personal information (names, addresses, or other information relating to living individuals), we will hold and use that personal information to perform general insurance and other services for you on the understanding that the individuals to whom the personal information relates have been informed of the reason(s) for obtaining the personal information and the fact that it may be disclosed to third parties such as Marsh McLennan.

(ii) Obtaining quotes and proceeding with cover. In order to generate an insurance quote as requested by you, and in the event that you proceed with such cover, it is necessary for us to share the personal information that we have collected from you with the relevant insurance providers, agents and service providers, consultants and market research and quality assurance companies. Where these third parties use and process your personal information, we will require them to only use your personal information in a way which is compatible with this Privacy Policy. If these third parties wish to use your personal information for any other purpose, they will have a legal obligation to notify you of this and, where required, to obtain your consent. Contact us on privacycoordinator@marsh.com for more information on these third parties.

(iii) Agents and Service Providers. We sometimes contract with other companies and individuals to perform functions or services on our behalf, such as hosting this Site, sending e-mail messages and making phone calls on our behalf. They may have access to personal information, such as addresses, needed to perform their functions, but are restricted from using it for purposes other than providing services for Marsh.

(iv) Business Transfers. As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy assets. In such transactions, user information, including personal information, generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, if either Marsh itself or substantially all of Marsh assets were acquired, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets. Therefore, we may disclose and/or transfer your personal information to a third party purchaser in these circumstances.

(v) Legal Matters. Marsh may preserve and has the right to disclose without your prior permission any personal information about you or your use of this Site if Marsh has a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) protect and defend the rights, property or safety of Marsh McLennan, employees, other users of this Site, or the public; (b) enforce the terms and conditions that apply to use of this Site; or (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third-parties. We may also disclose personal information as we deem necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.

(vi) Marsh Employees: We will transfer your personal information to our employees and to other employees within Marsh McLennan who will process your personal information on our behalf and in doing so, will fulfil the following functions: the marketing department will carry out all marketing activity. If it is a legal matter, this will be handled by the legal team. If it is a recruitment and / or ongoing employment matter, it will be handled by the HR team. If the processing relates to moderation of the website, this will be passed to the IT team and then on to the relevant business units. Further, the business will process personal information in order to evaluate employees, or to consider them for promotion or raises, or transfers. IT may process employee personal information and customer personal information in the course of managing systems or applications where access to such personal information is unavoidable.

Transferring information overseas

Your personal information may be transferred to any country, including countries which may not have as robust a data protection regime, to achieve any of the purposes stated above and for systems administration. Marsh has offices in more than 100 countries around the world, please click here for a list of our group companies to whom we may transfer your personal information. It is possible that your details or personal information collected may be passed to these offices – but only where you request that we provide services to you in another country. You consent to the collection, processing and use of the personal data you have provided, its disclosure and transfer as described in this Privacy Policy.

Personal information collected through this Site is processed and stored in the United States. Marsh's web hosting supplier complies with the EU Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union. Where a recipient is not Safe Harbor self-certified, we shall ensure that your personal information is adequately protected using other measures.

If you submit any personal information relating to another person on or through the Site to Marsh and such personal information is protected by another state or country, you will be responsible for compliance with the applicable laws in so far as they relate to your right to use such personal information, your transfer of it to Marsh, Marsh’s storage of that personal information in electronic form on the Site and collection, use, processing and transfer of that personal information in performing brokerage and other services for your organization in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Updating your personal information

It is important that the personal information that we hold about you is accurate, complete and up to date. If any of your details change you can update us by amending your personal details on your account page. You can also do this by e-mailing us at privacycoordinator@marsh.com.

Acceptable use policy

If you leave a comment on any Marsh content or participate in a Marsh discussion forum or chat room, we ask that you must do so in accordance with spirit of the following standards:

• Please be accurate and/or genuine in your comments.
• Please stay within the applicable law of your country – don’t use this Site to post defamatory, obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory content.
• Don’t infringe the intellectual property rights (for example copyright, trademarks or database rights) of others.

Each participant's opinion is his or her own and should not be considered as reflecting the opinion of Marsh.

We will transfer you comments to employees of Marsh McLennan who shall monitor the comments made on the website. For more information on how Marsh McLennan employees will process your personal information, please see Section Disclosure or use of your information; paragraph (vi) Marsh Employees for more information.

External links

Marsh includes links to other websites whose privacy policies we do not control. Once you leave our servers (you can tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your web browser), use of any personal information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the website you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these websites via a link from the website's homepage, you should contact the website directly for more information.

Security

We have adopted the technical and organisational measures necessary to ensure the security of the personal data we collect, use and maintain, and prevent their alteration, loss, unauthorised processing or access, having regard to the state of the art, the nature of the data stored and the risks to which they are exposed by virtue of human action or physical or natural environment. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that personal information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the internet. We ask that you do your part by maintaining in strict confidence any computer passwords you use to access the Internet or this Site. We encourage responsible reporting of any vulnerabilities that may be found in our Sites or any application available through our Sites.

Information related to employment

This Site may provide an opportunity to submit your curriculum vitae or an application form to us or apply for a position through this Site. If you submit information for such purposes, we will use (which may include transferring) the personal information you provide to evaluate your qualifications and contact you regarding any positions at Marsh or any of its affiliated companies in which we believe you may be interested.

We may pass your personal information to other members of Marsh McLennan for the purposes of considering your application. This will involve transferring your personal information to our employees who will process your application on our behalf. For more information on how Marsh McLennan employees will process your personal information, please see Section Disclosure or use of your information; paragraph (vi) Marsh Employees for more information.

Privacy Policy updates

Marsh China Privacy Notice

 Personal Information Collection Statement

This Privacy Policy was last updated on Oct 25, 2021. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do so, changes in our Privacy Policy will be effective immediately. If you are a regular visitor to this Site, we recommend that you check this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.

Contact information

Privacy Policy Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to us via this form: contact form or by writing to the following address:

Legal Department
Marsh China Beijing
Unit 1506, North Tower, Beijing Kerry Centre, 1 Guang Hua Road, Chao Yang District, Beijing 100020, P.R.China

Tel: +86 10 6533 4000

Tax: +86 10 8529 8761 /8762