Privacy Statement

This Data Privacy Statement describes how Aon collects, uses, and protects personally identifiable information. At Aon, protecting personally identifiable information about you is important to us. We strive to protect the personal information under our control and take certain precautions to help maintain the security and integrity of that data.

Aon's Commitment to Protecting Personally Identifiable Information

We have implemented various security measures to help prevent unauthorized processing or disclosure of personal information and to prevent accidental loss, destruction, or damage to your personal information. Only employees who assigned to the job are authorized to access personal information, and they are obliged to abide to approved Data Privacy Contract . We have implemented appropriate IT security standards and related procedures, and we train our employees about data security issues.

When and How Aon Receives Your Information

Most of the personally identifiable information we receive relates to an employer's HR systems. There are several ways that we could receive personal information:

  • When we perform services for our clients. Your employer or service providers appointed by your employer might provide information about you.
  • When you attend an Aon event. You may provide this information directly, or it may be provided by your employer or colleagues.
  • When you apply for a position at Aon. You may provide this information directly (through an online portals, careers site or via correspondence), or it may be provided via an agency.

The types of personal information we receive may include:

  • Contact information and other identifiers such as name, address, phone number, email address, Social Security Number, as required to provide our services.
  • Demographic information, such as date of birth, gender, and marital status.
  • Employment information, such as date of hire, employment status, pay history, tax withholding information, performance records, and date of termination.
  • Benefit program participation and coverage information, such as benefit elections, beneficiary information, claims information, benefit plan account balances or accrued benefits, and date of retirement.
  • When you use our online tools, we record access information like IP or cookies to enable secure access to resources.

Use of cookies

A cookie is a piece of information contained in a very small text file that is stored in your Internet browser or elsewhere on your hard drive. Cookies allow a website to identify a user's device whenever that user returns to the website and are commonly used in order to make websites work more efficiently and enrich the user experience, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies alone cannot be used to identify you and it does not keep any of the data it collects.

We collect information during your visit to our website through the use of cookies. The cookies used by us fall into the following categories:

  • Strictly Necessary:
    These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of our website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.
  • Functionality:
    Functionality cookies are used to provide other services such as our online calculators and certain navigation elements of the website which enhance your browsing experience. They can also enable us to remember setting choices you make to improve your visit.

Our websites do not use any third party cookies.

How Aon uses Your Information

We use your information only for the purpose that this was collected. The following is a summary of the purposes for which we use personal information:

  • Performing services for our clients:
    We process personal information which our clients provide to us in order to perform our services. This may impact you, for example, where you are the employee of our client, or the member of a client's pension scheme. The precise purposes for which your personal information is processed will be determined by the scope and specification of our client engagement, and by applicable laws, regulatory guidance and professional standards. It is the obligation of our client to ensure your acknowledge and consent that your personal information will be disclosed to Aon.
  • Contacting our clients and prospective clients:
    We process personal information about the individual representatives of our corporate clients in order to:
    • contact our clients in relation to current, future and proposed engagements;
    • send our clients newsletters;
    • invite our clients to events.
  • Legal basis
    All processing (i.e. use) of your personal information is justified by a "lawful basis" for processing. In the majority of cases, processing will be justified on the basis that:
    • the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or to take steps (at your request) to enter into a contract (e.g. where we help an employer to fulfil an obligation to you under an employment contract in relation to the delivery of employee benefits);
    • the processing is necessary for us to comply with a relevant legal obligation (e.g. where we are required to make disclosures to courts or regulators); or
    • the processing is in our legitimate commercial interests, subject to your interests and fundamental rights (e.g. where we use personal information provided to us by our clients to deliver our services, and that processing is not necessary in relation to a contract to which you are a party).

Our commitment to protecting personally identifiable information means that:

  • We won't sell your personally identifiable information to any third party.
  • We won't use, transfer, or disclose your personally identifiable information to anyone outside of Aon, unless authorized by you, except as required by law or legal process, in response to law enforcement requests, and as necessary to protect the property, interests, and rights of Aon and/or your employer.

Making Corrections

Aon is committed to accurately maintaining your personally identifiable information. Although we can't guarantee that your personal information will be 100% accurate at all times, we'll take reasonable steps to correct personal information that is properly identified as incorrect.

Our retention of your personal data

We may retain your personal data for the longer of the period required in order to meet our legal or regulatory responsibilities, and the period envisaged within our data retention policy. We determine the period envisaged within such policy with regard to the operational and legal requirements applicable in fulfilling the purposes described in this statement. Thereafter, we shall take appropriate steps to dispose of any records containing your personal data to the extent this is operationally feasible and proportionate.

Your Data protection rights

You have certain rights regarding our use of your personal data, examples summarised below:

  • the right to access your data (in an easily readable form);
  • the right to examine and correct your data;
  • the right to data portability;
  • the right to restrict the use of your data;
  • the right to withdraw any consent given to the processing of your data (where applicable);
  • the right to receive information regarding any entities we disclose your data to;
  • the right to object to the processing of your data where we have considered this to be necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests.

Contact Information

Aon reserves the right to modify this Data Privacy Statement at any time. Should you have any queries or wish to discuss your data protection rights or this Data Privacy Statement with us, please send an email at enable javascript to view the email address.

This Statement was last updated on June 15, 2020.