CannGen Insurance Europe S.R.L. (“CGEU”) is part of the CannGen Insurance Services Group (“CannGen Group”) and aims to ensure the confidentiality and secrecy of personal data processed by the company in connection with the services provided to its clients. CGEU operates as a Managing General Underwriter (MGU). CGEU’s services primarily include underwriting and insurance brokerage services that facilitate the consideration of, access to, administration of and claiming of insurance
benefits.
1. The name and contact details of the controller and the data protection officer of the company.
This privacy notice applies to data processing by the data controller:
CannGen Insurance Europe S.R.L.
Aramis Building,
Leonardo Da Vincilaan 1
1930 Zaventem
Belgium
E-mail it@canngenins.com
The company data protection officer is Mr. Nick Morris, who can be contacted at the above address, or at nmorris@canngenins.com.
The person responsible is also referred to below as “CGEU”.
2. Collection and storage of personal data as well as the type and purpose of such data and their use.
When you request our services, we ask you for accurate and necessary information that will enable us to respond to your request. If you provide us with personal data, we will use that data for the purposes for which it was provided to us, as stated at the time of collection or obvious from the context of collection, for example to provide an insurance quote.
When we provide the above services to our customers, we may collect personal data such as:
In the event that you (also) provide us with personal data of third parties (for example, employees or family members), please note that you must obtain the consent of these persons beforehand.
We receive personal data from various sources and third parties. For example, we receive data from employees of our business customers to the extent necessary to provide them with the protection of an insurance policy arranged by us.
Other sources of personal data may include:
The collection of this data takes place,
We may also use your personal data for other purposes if you have consented or the processing is compatible with the previous purpose.
The data processing is necessary according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b GDPR for the aforementioned purposes for the appropriate mutual fulfilment of contractual obligations, according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. c GDPR for the fulfilment of a legal obligation to which the controller is subject and/or according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR for the protection of the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party.
In order to facilitate the provision of insurance cover and the processing of insurance claims, CGEU relies on the data subject’s consent to the processing of special categories of personal data as set out in the enumeration above, pursuant to Art. 6 para 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR.
The data subject’s consent to the processing of special categories of personal data is a necessary condition for CGEU to provide the services requested by the customer.
If data about another person is provided to CGEU, you agree to inform that third party about our use of their personal data and to obtain their consent for us.
You can withdraw your consent to this processing at any time. However, as a result, CGEU will no longer be able to provide the services to you. In addition, if you withdraw your consent to the processing of special categories of personal data by an insurer or reinsurer, the continuation of
insurance cover may no longer be possible.
3. Disclosure of data to third parties.
We will only share your personal data with service providers, business partners and other third parties in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
We do not rent, sell or otherwise disclose personal information to unaffiliated third parties for their own marketing purposes. We do not share personal data with third parties except as described below.
Within the CannGen group
We may share personal data with other affiliates and business units of the CannGen Group in order to provide services to you, including the processing described in the section above entitled “Collection and storage of personal data and the nature, purpose and use thereof”.
Business partner
We disclose personal data to business partners who provide us with certain specific services or work with us on a project. These business partners operate as separate data controllers and are independently responsible for compliance with data protection laws. For more information about their practices, please see the privacy statements of these business partners.
Examples of this are:
Insurers, reinsurers and other insurance intermediaries, insurance reference bureaus, service providers for conducting sanction and compliance checks as well as underwriting.
Authorised service providers
We may share your information with service providers that we contract (as processors) to provide services. These service providers are subject to contractual restrictions, i.e. the data may only be used and disclosed for the performance of the services we have contracted them to perform or to comply with legal requirements. These activities may include processing activities carried out by us as described in the above section “Collection and storage of personal data and the nature, purpose and use thereof”. In doing so, we observe the strict German and European data protection regulations.
If we transfer personal data to service providers outside the European Economic Area (EEA), the transfer will only take place if the third country has been confirmed by the EU Commission as having an adequate level of data protection or if other adequate data protection guarantees (e.g. binding internal company data protection regulations or EU standard contractual clauses) are in place. Detailed information on this and on the level of data protection at our service providers in third countries can be obtained directly from us, if required. You can also request the information using the contact information above.
Our IT service providers are based in the following countries: Germany, USA, Philippines. These service providers are subject to strict contractual restrictions with regard to the processing of personal data. Accordingly, processing is only permitted to the extent necessary to perform the services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements.
The aforementioned service providers ensure adequate protection of your data, and their activities are limited to the purposes for which your data was made available to them.
Legal obligations and business transfers
We may disclose personal data to a third party,
Disclosure may also be required in the case of audits or to investigate a complaint or security threat.
4. Duration of the data storage
We will delete your personal data as soon as it is no longer required for the above purposes. In the process, personal data may be retained for the time during which claims are asserted against our company. In addition, we store your personal data insofar as we are legally obliged to do so.
5. Data subject rights
You have the right:
6. Right of objection
Insofar as your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, insofar as there are grounds for doing so that arise from your particular situation.
If you wish to exercise your right of objection, simply send an e-mail to nmorris@canngenins.com
7. Amendments to this declaration
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will also notify you separately on our website or our contractors, as necessary, of any changes that materially affect it. We also encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy so that you are aware of our privacy practices.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 4 August 2025.