Privacy Statement
We care about your personal data
PIMCO Prime Real Estate appreciates your visit to this website ("PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website") and your interest in our services and products. Your privacy is important to us and we want you to feel comfortable visiting our website. This privacy notice explains how and what type of personal data will be collected, processed and used during and following your visits to the PIMCO Prime Real Estate website, why it is collected, with whom it is shared, and your rights in this regard.
This privacy notice applies to any information obtained by PIMCO Prime Real Estate through your use of the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website. It does not apply to any websites controlled by third parties not affiliated with PIMCO Prime Real Estate that the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website may link to ("Third Party Sites"). Please review the privacy statements of Third Party Sites as PIMCO Prime Real Estate is not responsible for and has no influence on the content or the privacy practices of Third Party Sites.
The terms of this privacy notice are subject to any additional terms, disclaimers or other contractual terms you have entered into with PIMCO Prime Real Estate such as client privacy statements or notices, and any applicable mandatory laws and regulations.
This privacy notice may be updated from time to time; please do check it on a regular basis.
1. Who is the data controller?
A data controller is the individual or legal person who controls and is responsible to keep and use personal data in paper or electronic files. PIMCO Prime Real Estate GmbH is the data controller for any personal data that is processed in connection with the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website.
PIMCO Prime Real Estate is a PIMCO company. PIMCO and PIMCO Prime Real Estate are indirect subsidiaries of Allianz SE and part of the Allianz Group.
2. What personal data will be collected?
When you visit the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website, our web server automatically records details about your visit including:
IP address;
the website from which you visited us;
the type of browser software used;
the PIMCO Prime Real Estate pages that you visit; and
the date and duration of your visit to the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website
3. How will we use your personal data?
PIMCO Prime Real Estate will use your personal data for technical administration, research and development of the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website.
PIMCO Prime Real Estate respects applicable laws and regulations in its use of personal data.
4. Are cookies used on the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website?
PIMCO Prime Real Estate uses tracking technology such as cookies or tags to gather information as outlined above to understand how visitors use the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website.
Tracking technology helps us manage and improve the usability of the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website, for example by detecting whether there has been any contact between your computer and us in the past and to identify the most popular sections of the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website.
When you save your cookie settings, they should also apply to your future visits to the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website. However, for technical reasons beyond the control of PIMCO Prime Real Estate, this cannot be guaranteed. For example, if you reset your browser, delete your cookies or access PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website from another browser or device, your cookie settings may be lost. To comply with applicable laws and regulations, in some countries you may be asked to confirm your cookie settings when you first visit PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website. If you are in a country where you are automatically required to set your cookie settings, you may be asked to set them again on a future visit.
In many cases you can also control tracking technologies using your browser. Please ensure that your browser setting reflects whether you wish to be warned about and/or accept tracking technologies (such as cookies) where possible. The specific capabilities of your browser and instructions on how to use them can usually be found in the manual or help file of your browser.
Refusing, disabling or deactivating tracking technologies may result in a reduced availability of the services provided by the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website, or parts of the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website may no longer function correctly.
5. How are social media plug-ins used on the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website?
The PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website uses the following social media plug-ins
Embedded Google Maps
Powered by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Embedded YouTube Videos
Powered by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA
LinkedIn Company Profile Plugin
powered by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States
If you logged in to your account when you visited the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website, the respective operators Google, LinkedIn, YouTube (“Operator”) can connect your visit to your account directly. If you interact with the plug-in, the data will be transferred directly from your browser to the Operator and saved by the Operator. In addition, the information will be published on the relevant social network and will be visible to your contacts. If you do not want this data transfer to the Operators, you must log out of your respective account before you click on the plug-ins and activate them.
For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection, processing and use, please refer to the privacy statements relating to the respective operators that you have visited.
6. Who will have access to personal data collected through the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website
We will ensure that your personal data is processed in a manner that is compatible with the purposes specified above. For the specified purposes, your personal data may be disclosed to the following parties who operate as third party data controllers:
Other Allianz Group companies;
Authorized agents and third party service providers.
For the stated purposes, we may also share your personal data with the following parties who operate as data processors under our instruction:
Other Allianz Group companies;
Authorized agents, service providers, and research analysis agencies.
Finally, we may share your personal data in the following instances:
With law enforcement agencies, government and regulatory bodies to meet applicable legal or regulatory obligations.
7. Where will personal data collected be processed?
Your personal data may be processed both inside and outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) by the parties specified above, subject always to contractual restrictions regarding confidentiality and security in line with applicable data protection laws and regulations. We will not disclose your personal data to parties who are not authorized to process them.
Whenever we transfer your personal data for processing outside of the EEA by another Allianz Group company we will do so on the basis of the binding corporate rules (BCRs) of Allianz known as the Allianz Privacy Standard (APS).which establish adequate protection for personal data and are legally binding on Allianz Group companies. The public version of the APS and the list of Allianz Group companies that comply with them can be accessed here: www.allianz.com/en/info/privacy-statement/.
Where the Allianz Privacy Standard does not apply, we will instead take steps to ensure that the transfer of your personal data outside of the EEA receives an adequate level of protection as it does in the EEA. You can find out what safeguards we rely upon for such transfers (for example, Standard Contractual Clauses) by contacting us as detailed below.
8. What are your rights in respect of your personal data?
Where permitted by applicable law or regulation, you have the right to:
Access your personal data held about you and to learn the origin of the data, the purposes and means of the processing, the details of the data controller(s), the data processor(s) and the parties to whom the data may be disclosed;
Withdraw your consent at any time where your personal data is processed with your consent;
Update and correct your personal data so that it is accurate;
Delete your personal data from our records if it is no longer needed for the purposes indicated above;
Restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances, e.g. where you have contested the accuracy of your personal data, for the period enabling us to verify its accuracy;
Obtain your personal data in an electronic format;
File a complaint with us and/or the relevant data protection authority; and
Object to us processing your personal data, or tell us to stop processing it (including for purposes of direct marketing).
9. What security measures have we implemented to protect your information collected through the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website?
PIMCO Prime Real Estate has implemented reasonable technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data collected via the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website against unauthorized access, misuse, loss or destruction.
10. How do we treat electronic messages sent to and from PIMCO Prime Real Estate?
All electronic messages sent to and from PIMCO Prime Real Estate are protected by reasonable technical and organizational measures and may only be accessed in justified cases in line with applicable laws and regulations (e.g. court order, suspicion of criminal conduct, violation of regulatory obligations) to specific persons in defined functions (e.g. Legal, Compliance, Risk). Every step of the process, as well as the search criteria used, are logged in an audit trail. All emails are disposed of after the applicable retention period has expired.
11. What should you consider when sending data over the Internet?
The Internet is generally not regarded as a secure environment, and information sent via the Internet (such as to or from the PIMCO Prime Real Estate Website or via electronic message) may be accessed by unauthorized third parties, potentially leading to disclosures, changes in content or technical failures. Even if both sender and receiver are located in the same country, information sent via the Internet may be transmitted across international borders and be forwarded to a country with a lower data protection level than exists in your country of residence.
PIMCO Prime Real Estate does not accept responsibility or liability for the security of your information whilst in transit over the Internet to PIMCO Prime Real Estate. In order to protect your privacy you may choose another means of communication with PIMCO Prime Real Estate, where you deem it appropriate.
12. How long is personal data retained for?
We will not retain your personal data for longer than is necessary and we will hold it only for the purposes for which it was obtained.
13. How can you contact us?
If you have any queries about how we use your personal data, you can contact us by post or email at the details specified below:
PIMCO Prime Real Estate GmbH
Data Protection Officer
Seidlstrasse 24-24a
80335 Munich
Germany
14. How often is this notice updated?
We regularly review this privacy notice. We will ensure the most up to date version is published here. This privacy notice was last updated on 1 March 2023.