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Privacy at Chubb

At Chubb ("we", "us"), we routinely collect and use personal data about individuals, including insured persons, claimants or business partners ("you").  We are aware of our responsibilities to handle your personal data with care, to keep it secure and comply with applicable privacy and data protection laws, including the DIFC Data Protecton Law No. 5 of 2020.

How this Policy Works

The purpose of this Policy is to provide a clear explanation of when, why and how we collect and use information which may relate to you ("personal data").

This policy is directed at those individuals who deal with Chubb Underwriting (DIFC) Limited (“Chubb DIFC”).

We have designed this Policy to be as user friendly as possible. Click on a topic in the list below to find out more, or explore individual topics in more detail by following the various links. We have labelled sections of the Policy to make it easy for you to navigate to the information that may be most relevant to you. 

Do read this Policy with care.  It provides important information about how we use personal data and explains your statutory rights. This Policy is not intended to override the terms of any insurance policy or contract you have with us, nor rights you might have available under applicable data protection laws. 

Contact Information

If you have any queries please contact the Data Protection Office at: dataprotectionoffice.europe@chubb.com

Privacy Policy

Chubb is a group of companies, including the Combined Insurance and Chubb Life Europe brands. The Chubb group company which was originally responsible for collecting information about you will be principally responsible for looking after your personal data (your Data Controller).  If you have an insurance policy with us, this will be the Chubb company named on that policy.  

You can find out the identity of each company that is processing your personal data in the context of providing your insurance cover in the following ways:  

Where you took out the insurance policy yourself: the Chubb company or / and, if purchased through a broker, the broker will have provided you with its name, address and contact details.

Where your employer or a third party took out the policy for your benefit: you should contact your employer who should provide you with details of the Chubb Company. 

Where your personal data has been passed to another Data Controller (e.g. a reinsurer): the first Data Controller will inform you of the other Data Controllers with whom they have shared your personal data who you can contact about their use of your personal data, as we do in  Section 6 of this policy.  

A description of the entities that make up the Chubb group is available at www.chubb.com/content/dam/chubb-sites/chubb-com/uk-en/footer/privacy-policy/documents/pdf/ChubbGroupEntities.pdf

You should be aware that although one Chubb company may be principally responsible for looking after your personal data, information may be held in databases which can be accessed by other Chubb companies.  When accessing your personal data, Chubb companies will comply with the standards set out in this Policy.

Prospective Insureds and Insured Persons. In order to underwrite and administer insurance policies, we collect information about the prospective insured, policyholder and related parties. This may include background and contact information on the prospective insured, policyholder or their representative, and matters relevant to the assessment of risk and management of insurance policies. The prospective insured or policyholder may be an individual, company or their representative. 

The nature of Chubb DIFC’s business is such that the overwhelming majority of its customers are corporate customers seeking to take out policies for property and casualty (P&C) cover, which requires us to collect very limited personal data.  The personal data which we do collect will primarily be in relation to corporate directors and / or employees of those customers. 

We may however, in limited circumstances collect limited basic information with respect to Prospective Insureds and Insured Persons, where underwriting group Accident and Health insurance policies (as a reinsurer). 

The level and type of personal data we collect and use varies depending on the type of policy that is applied for or held and may include information on other individuals who need to be considered as part of the policy. In some instances, it is necessary for us to collect and use Sensitive Personal Data, such as information about past criminal convictions. For Chubb DIFC, as a rule, this would primarily be in relation to directors of our corporate customers for “Know your client” purposes. We are required to establish a legal basis to use your Sensitive Personal Data - see Section 5 for further details. 

If you are an Insured Person, from time to time you may need to provide us with the personal data of third parties, for example an injured third party in relation to a claim under a liability policy. Again, it is unlikely that Chubb DIFC would be the Chubb entity requesting this information from you, with the Chubb entity with which you hold your policy being the more likely requestor. Wherever possible, you should take steps to inform the third party that you need to disclose their details to us, identifying Chubb as your insurer.  We will process their personal data in accordance with this Policy. 

Claimants. The nature of Chubb DIFC’s business means that it would not ordinarily handle information with respect to individual claims, although it may do on occasion for the purpose of supporting the Chubb entity through which you are insured. If you are making a claim under a policy, we will collect your basic contact details, together with information about the nature of your claim and any previous claims.  If you are an Insured Person we will need to check details of the policy you are insured under and your claims history.  Depending on the nature of your claim, it may be necessary for us to collect and use Sensitive Personal Data, such as details of personal injury you may have suffered during an accident. Again, the instances where Chubb DIFC would handle your Sensitive Personal Data are limited, with the Chubb entity through which you are insured being primarily responsible for such processing in the course of evaluating your claim. 

Business Partners and Visitors. If you are a business partner, we will collect your business contact details. We may also collect information about your professional expertise and experience. We may collect your contact details, if you visit our website, register for a newsletter or attend one of our events. If we collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

For more information on what information we collect please see Appendix 1

Prospective Insureds and Insured Persons

  • Information about you may be provided to us by an insurance broker, your employer, school, or any other third person who may be applying for a policy which names or benefits you. 
  • We may collect information about you from other sources where we believe this is necessary to manage effective underwriting of the risk associated with a policy and/or helping fight financial crime. These other sources may include public registers and databases managed by credit reference agencies and other reputable organisations.

Claimant

  • We may, on occasion, be provided with your personal data by third parties (such as ceding companies or insurance brokers) in relation to a potential claim. Under such circumstances, Chubb DIFC would not be the data controller and its role would be limited to sharing your personal data with the reinsurer which would handle the claim.  
  • Chubb DIFC may also receive information about you if the claim is made by another person who has a close relationship with you or is otherwise linked to the claim - for example if the policyholder is your employer, or if you are the subject of a third party claim. Again, Chubb DIFC would not typically be the most appropriate recipient of such information, although it may receive such information from third parties (such as ceding companies or insurance brokers) in relation to a potential claim. Again, Chubb DIFC would not be the data controller with respect to such personal data and its role would be limited to sharing that personal data with the reinsurer which would handle the claim. 
  • We may also be provided with information by your solicitors (or those acting on behalf of your employer).
  • We may collect information from other sources where we believe this is necessary to assist in validating claims and/or fighting financial crime. This may include consulting public registers, social media and other online sources, credit reference agencies and other reputable organisations. 

Business Partner and Visitors

  • We will collect information about you if you or your company provides your contact or other information to us in the course of working with us, either directly as a business partner or as a representative of your company.
  • We may also collect information about you if you attend meetings, events or conferences that we organise, contact us through our website or sign up to one of our newsletters or bulletin services.
  • We may collect information from other public sources (e.g. your employer's website) where we believe this is necessary to help manage our relationships with our business partners.

Applicable to all

  • If you telephone Chubb (for example, when notifying a claim or discussing that claim with us) or if Chubb telephones you (for example, to sell an insurance policy) we may record the telephone call.  We may also use Interactive Voice Response ("IVR") technology to automate responses to voice commands, and to analyse call recording data.  We use call recordings as an evidence of your agreement to purchase an insurance policy or submit a claim, to help train our staff and to provide an accurate record of the call in case of complaints or queries.  We may also analyse call recordings using automated technology in order to detect where there may be customer service failings (and then to resolve these), or to detect potential evidence of fraud.  

Prospective Insureds and Insured Persons. If you are a prospective insured or an insured person we will use your personal data to consider an application for an insurance policy under which you benefit, assess and evaluate risk, and subject to applicable terms and conditions, provide you  with a policy. 

Due to the fact that it primarily acts as a reinsurance broker for corporate policies, Chubb DIFC only requests information on Prospective Insured Persons and Insured Persons under very limited circumstances, primarily where underwriting group Accident and Health insurance policies (as a reinsurer).

If you are an insured under our policy we will use your personal data to administer the policy, deal with your queries, and manage the renewal process.  We will also need to use your personal data for regulatory purposes associated with our legal and regulatory obligations as a provider of insurance.

Claimants. If you are a claimant the Chubb entity which handles your claim will use your personal data to assess the merits of your claim, and potentially to pay out a settlement. Due to the nature of its business, Chubb DIFC would not typically be involved in this process, although it may on occasion receive such information from third parties (such as ceding companies or insurance brokers). Under such circumstances, Chubb DIFC would not be the data controller and its role would be limited to sharing your personal data with the reinsurer who would handle the claim. 

The entity which reviews your claim may also need to use your personal data to evaluate the risk of potential fraud, a process which may involve Profiling, which uses automated processes.  If you are also an Insured Person, we will use personal data related to your claim to inform the renewal process and potentially future policy applications.  

Business Partners and Visitors. If you are a business partner we will use your personal data to manage our relationship with you, including sending you marketing materials (where we have appropriate permissions) and to invite you to events.  Where relevant, we will use your personal data to deliver or request the delivery of services, and to manage and administer our contract with you or with your employer. If you are a visitor, we will use your personal data; typically, to register for certain areas of our website, enquire for further information, distribute requested reference materials, or invite you to one of our events.

Data analytics. We routinely analyse information in our various systems and databases to help improve the way we run our business, to provide a better service and to enhance the accuracy of our risk and other actuarial models.  We take steps to protect privacy by aggregating and where appropriate anonymising data fields (particularly in relation to Policy Information and Claim Details, as defined in Appendix 1) before allowing information to be available for analysis. 

We will make sure that we only use your personal data for the purposes set out in Section 4 and in Appendix 2 where we are satisfied that:

  • you have provided your consent to us using the data in that way, or
  • our use of your personal data is necessary to perform a contract or take steps to enter into a contract with you (e.g. to manage your insurance policy), or
  • our use of your personal data is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we have (e.g. to comply with DIFC requirements), or
  • Our use of your personal data is necessary to support 'legitimate interests' that we have as a business (for example, to improve our products, or to carry out analytics across our datasets), provided it is conducted at all times in a way that is proportionate, and that respects your privacy rights. 

Before collecting and/or using any Sensitive Personal Data we will establish a lawful exemption which will allow us to use that information.  If your Sensitive Personal Data is collected on a form (including on a website) or over the telephone, further information about the exemption may be provided on that form. This exemption will typically be:

  • your explicit consent (if this is specifically requested from you on a data collection form, in language which references your consent); 
  • the establishment, exercise or defence by us or third parties of legal claims.

PLEASE NOTE. If you provide your explicit consent to permit us to process your Sensitive Personal Data, you may withdraw your consent to such processing at any time.  However, you should be aware that if you choose to do so we may be unable to continue to provide insurance services to you (and where you withdraw consent to an insurer’s or reinsurer’s use it may not be possible for the insurance cover to continue). This may mean that your policy needs to be cancelled.  If you choose to withdraw your consent we will tell you more about the possible consequences, including the effects of cancellation, (which may include that you have difficulties finding cover elsewhere), as well as any fees associated with cancellation.

Please see Appendix 2 to find out more about the information we collect and use about you and why we believe it is appropriate to use that information for such activities.

We work with many third parties, to help manage our business and deliver services. These third parties may from time to time need to have access to your personal data. 

For Prospective Insureds and Insured Persons these third parties may include:

  • BrokersOther Insurers / Re-insurers and Third Party Administrators who work with us to help manage the underwriting process and administer our policies
  • Service Providers, who help manage our IT and back office systems
  • theDFSA, as well as other regulators and law enforcement agencies around the world
  • credit reference agencies and organisations working to prevent fraud in financial services
  • Legal Advisors and other professional services firms

For Claimants this may include:

As noted above, Chubb DIFC would not typically be involved in the claims administration process, although it may be indirectly involved by providing support to the Chubb entity which holds the insurance contract. 

  • Third Party Administrators who work with us to help manage the claims process
  • Loss Adjusters and Claims Experts who help us assess and manage claims
  • Service Providers, who help manage our IT and back office systems
  • Assistance Providers, who can help provide you with assistance in the event of a claim
  • Legal Advisors, who may be legal representatives for you, us or a third party claimant
  • credit reference agencies and organisations working to prevent fraud in financial services

We may be under legal or regulatory obligations to share your personal data with courts, regulators, law enforcement or in certain cases other insurers. If we were to sell part of our businesses we would need to transfer your personal data to the purchaser of such businesses. 

Insurance involves the use and disclosure of your personal data by various insurance market participants such as intermediaries, insurers and reinsurers. 

Please see below for relevant definitions:

Assistance Providers: these are a special category of service provider, which we use to help provide you with emergency or other assistance in connection with certain policies (e.g. certain travel policies).. 

Brokers: insurance brokers arrange and negotiate insurance coverage for individuals or companies and deal directly with insurers, such as Chubb, on behalf of the individuals or companies seeking coverage.

Claims Experts: these are experts in a particular field which is relevant to a claim, for example medicine, forensic accountancy, mediation or rehabilitation, who are engaged by Chubb to help us properly assess the merit and value of a claim, provide advice on its settlement, and advise on the proper treatment of claimants. 

Data Controller: means a natural or legal person (such as a company) which determines the means and purposes of processing of personal data.  For example, a Chubb entity which sells you an insurance policy will be your Data Controller as it determines how it will collect personal data from you, the scope of data which will be collected, and the purposes for which it will be used.

DFSA: means the Dubai Financial Services Authority, which is a financial regulatory body. The DFSA regulation of financial services firms in the DIFC. When discharging its general functions, the DFSA is responsible for contributing to the securing of an appropriate degree of protection for policyholders.

Prospective Insured and Insured Person: we use this term to refer to prospective, active or former individual policyholders, as well as any individual who benefits from insurance coverage under one of our policies (for example, where an employee benefits from coverage taken out by their employer).

Legal Advisors: we frequently use Legal Advisors to advise on complex or contentious claims or to provide us with non-claims related legal advice.  In addition, if you are a claimant you may be represented by your own Legal Advisor(s).

Loss Adjuster: these are an independent claims specialist which investigates complex or contentious claims on our behalf.  

Other Insurers / Reinsurers: some policies are insured on a joint or "syndicate" basis.  This means that a group of insurers (including us) will join together to write a policy.  Policies may also be reinsured, which means that the insurer will purchase its own insurance, from a reinsurer, to cover some of the risk the insurer has underwritten in your policy.  Chubb purchases reinsurance, and also act as a reinsurer to other insurance firms. 

Profiling: means using automated processes without human intervention (such as computer programmes) to analyse your personal data in order to evaluate your behaviour or to predict things about you which are relevant in an insurance context, such as your likely risk profile.

Sensitive Personal Data: means any personal data relating to your health, genetic or biometric data, criminal convictions, sex life, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership.  At Chubb, (other than in the context of our employees, which is outside the scope of this Policy) we routinely only process Sensitive Personal Data relating to health or criminal convictions. 

Service Providers: these are a range of third parties to whom we outsource certain functions of our business.  For example, we have service providers who help us with the administration of setting up a new policy record.  Some of these providers use 'cloud based' IT applications or systems, which means that your personal data will be hosted on their servers, but under our control and direction.  We require all our service providers to respect the confidentiality and security of personal data. 

Third Party Administrators (or TPA’s): these are companies outside the Chubb Group which administer the underwriting of policies, the handling of claims, or both, on our behalf. We require all TPAs to ensure that your personal data is handled lawfully, and in accordance with this Policy and our instructions.

We may use your personal data to send you direct marketing communications about our insurance products or our related services.  This may be in the form of email, post, SMS, telephone or targeted online advertisements.  

In most cases our processing of your personal data for marketing purposes is based on our legitimate interests to provide information you might find helpful to manage your insured risks, insurance renewals and other products, services and offers that may be of interest to you, although in some cases (such as where required by law) it may be based on your consent. You have a right to prevent direct marketing of any form at any time - this can be exercised by following the opt-out links in electronic communications, or by contacting us using the details set out in Section 12.

We take steps to limit direct marketing to a reasonable and proportionate level, and to send you communications which we believe may be of interest or relevance to you, based on the information we have about you. 

From time to time we may need to share your personal data with members of the Chubb group who may be based outside Europe (outside of the European Economic Area). We may also allow our Service Providers or Assistance Providers, who may be located outside Europe, access to your personal data. We may also make other disclosures of your personal data overseas, for example if we receive a legal or regulatory request from a foreign law enforcement body.  

We will always take steps to ensure that any international transfer of information is carefully managed to protect your rights and interests:

  • we will only transfer your personal data to countries which are recognised as providing an adequate level of legal protection or where we can be satisfied that alternative arrangements are in place to protect your privacy rights;
  • transfers within the Chubb group of companies will be covered by an intra-group agreement which gives specific contractual protections designed to ensure that your personal data receives an adequate and consistent level of protection wherever it is transferred within the Chubb group;
  • Transfers to Service Providers and other third parties will be protected by contractual commitments and where appropriate further assurances;
  • any requests for information we receive from law enforcement or regulators will be carefully checked before personal data is disclosed.

You have the right to ask us for more information about the safeguards we have put in place as mentioned above. Contact us as set out in Section 12 if you would like further information.  

'Automated Decision Making' refers to a decision which is taken solely on the basis of automated processing of your personal data.  This means processing using, for example, software code or an algorithm, which does not require human intervention. 

As Profiling uses automated processing, it is sometimes connected with automated decision making. Not all profiling results in Automated Decision Making, but it can do. 

You have certain rights in respect of automated decision making, where that decision has significant effects on you, including where it produces a legal effect on you.  See Sections 11 & 12 for more information about your rights. 

We will retain your personal data for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes listed in Section 4 of this Policy.  In some circumstances we may retain your personal data for longer periods of time, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, regulator, tax or accounting requirements.

In specific circumstances we may also retain your personal data for longer periods of time so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges, or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation relating to your personal data or dealings.

We maintain a data retention policy which we apply to records in our care. Where your personal data is no longer required we will ensure it is either securely deleted or stored in a way which means it will no longer be used by the business. 

You have a number of rights in relation to your personal data.

You may request access to your data, correction of any mistakes in our files, erasure of records where no longer required, restriction on the processing of your data, objection to the processing of your data, data portability and various information in relation to any Automated Decision Making and Profiling or the basis for international transfers.  You may also exercise a right to complain to your Supervisory Authority.   More information about each of these rights can be found by clicking on the relevant link or by referring to the table set out further below.

To exercise your rights you may contact us as set out in Section 12.

Please note the following if you do wish to exercise these rights:

 Right

 What this means

 Access

You can ask us to:

  • confirm whether we are processing your personal data;
  • give you a copy of that data;
  • provide you with other information about your personal data such as what data we have, what we use it for, who we disclose it to, whether we transfer it abroad and how we protect it, how long we keep it for, what rights you have, how you can make a complaint, where we got your data from, to the extent that information has not already been provided to you in this Policy.  

 Rectification

You can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data. 

We may seek to verify the accuracy of the data before rectifying it.

 Erasure

You can ask us to erase your personal data, but only where:

  • It is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected; or
  • You have withdrawn your consent (where the data processing was based on consent); or
  • Following a successful right to object (see 'Objection' below); or
  • It has been processed unlawfully; or
  • To comply with a legal obligation to which Chubb is subject. 

We are not required to comply with your request to erase your personal data  if the processing of your personal data is necessary: 

  • For compliance with a legal obligation; or
  • For the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;

There are certain other circumstances in which we are not required to comply with your erasure request, although these two are the most likely circumstances in which we would deny that request.

 Restriction

You can ask us to restrict (i.e. keep but not use) your personal data, but only where:

  • Its accuracy is contested (see Rectification), to allow us to verify its accuracy; or
  • The processing is unlawful, but you do not want it erased; or
  • it is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected, but we still need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
  • You have exercised the right to object, and verification of overriding grounds is pending.

We can continue to use your personal data following a request for restriction, where:

  • we have your consent; or
  • to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
  • To protect the rights of another natural or legal person; or
  • For reasons of substantial public interest. 

 Portability

You can ask us to provide your personal data to you in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format,  or you can ask to have it 'ported' directly to another Data Controller, but in each case only where:

  • The processing is based on your consent or on the performance of a contract with you; and
  • The processing is carried out by automated means. 

 Objection

You can object to any processing of your personal data which has our 'legitimate interests' as its legal basis, if you believe your fundamental rights outweigh our legitimate interests. 

Once you have objected, we have an opportunity to demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate interests which override your rights. 

You can also object to our use of your perosnal data for direct marketing purposes at any time

 Automated   Decision   Making

You can ask not to be subject to a decision which is based solely on automated processing (see Section 9), but only where that decision:

  • produces legal effects concerning you (such as the rejection of a claim); or
  • otherwise significantly affects you. 

In such situations, you can also obtain human intervention in the decision making, and we will ensure measures are in place to allow you to express your point of view, and/or contest the automated decision.

Your right not to be subject to automated decision making does not apply where the decision which is made: 

  • Is necessary for entering into or performing a contract with you;
  • Is authorised by law and there are suitable safeguards for your rights and freedoms (including any DIFC law concerning fraud, counter-terrorism, money laundering, and tax-evasion monitoring and prevention which requires processing of your personal data); or
  • Is based on your explicit consent. 

However, in these situations you can still obtain human intervention in the decision making, and we will ensure measures are in place to allow you to express your point of view, and/or contest the automated decision.

 Non-Discrimination

You have the right not to be discriminated against as a result of your exercise any of the aforementioned rights, including by:

(a) being denied access to any of our products;

(b) being charged a different price for any of our insurance products as a result of your excercising of such rights;

(c) being offered any of our insurance products at a less favourable; or

(d) us suggesting that (b) or (c) might occur.

Should you be concerned that this is the case, please do not hestiate to let us know.

 International   Transfers

You can ask to obtain a copy of, or reference to, the safeguards under which your personal data is transferred outside of the DIFC. 

We may redact data transfer agreements or related documents (i.e. obscure certain information contained within these documents) for reasons of commercial sensitivity. 

 Supervisory   Authority

You have a right to lodge a complaint with the DIFC Commisioner for Data Protection at commissioner@dp.difc.ae.

We ask that you please attempt to resolve any issues with us first, although you have a right to contact your supervisory authority at any time.  

 Identity


We take the confidentiality of all records containing personal data seriously, and reserve the right to ask you for proof of your identity if you make a request in respect of such records.

 Fees


We will not ask for a fee to exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data, unless your request for access to information is unfounded, repetitive or excessive, in which case we will charge a reasonable amount in the circumstances.  We will let you know of any charges before completing your request.

 Timescales


We aim to respond to any valid requests within one month unless it is particularly complicated or you have made several requests, in which case we aim to respond within three months.  We will let you know if we are going to take longer than one month. We might ask you if you can tell us what exactly you want to receive or are concerned about.  This will help us to action your request more quickly.

 Third Party   Rights


We do not have to comply with a request where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other data subjects.

 

The primary point of contact for all issues arising from this Policy, including requests to exercise data subject rights, is our Data Protection Officer.  

The Data Protection Officer can be contacted in the following ways:

Email:

dataprotectionoffice.europe@chubb.com

Write to:

Data Protection Officer, 
Chubb, 100 Leadenhall Street, 
EC3A 3BP, London

Web form

If you have a complaint or concern about how we use your personal data, please contact us in the first instance and we will attempt to resolve the issue as soon as possible. You also have a right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection supervisory authority at any time.

Updated October 2020