Online Privacy Statement

 This Online Privacy Statement describes how we may collect, use and share information you provide when you visit this webpage. As used herein, "we" or "Citi" refers to Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG. Our goal is to maintain your trust and confidence when handling personal information about you.

Security of Personal Information

The security of personal information about you is our priority. We protect this information by maintaining physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that meet applicable law. We train our employees in the proper handling of personal information. When we use other companies to provide services for us, we require them to protect the confidentiality of personal information they receive.

What information do we collect?

On this website we collect personal and non-personal data.

Non personal information
When you visit our site, we gather non-personal information such as what browser and which version of it you're using, the type of operating system you have and which site you came from or advertisement you viewed or clicked on. This information helps us provide an online experience that matches your device and to manage our online advertising.

Personal information
In addition to the information described in the previous section, we can also collect personal information as your IP address. Collecting this personal information allows us to offer you an interactive online experience.

Notes on the collection and processing of personal data

The personal data is collected for the optimized display of the website and online security reasons. The data is collected and processed solely for this purpose. Therefor your data will be transmitted to the following company as part of order data processing:

Adesso SE
Frühlingstr. 8
76131 Karlsruhe
Germany

Adesso is developing and running our CitiFirst website.

Your data will only be stored for as long as necessary to process the above mentioned purposes or if legal requirements make longer storage necessary. 

Deletion of your data

You have the opportunity to object to the further use of your data or to restrict the use at any time.

Non personal data collected during your visit of the website will be deleted after 26 months.

Complaints

For complaints in connection with the collection and processing of your personal data, you may contact our local data protection officer (Data.Privacy.Office.Germany@citi.com). 

You can also contact the responsible data protection supervisory authority of the state of Hesse under (https://www.datenschutz.hessen.de)

Information about the stored personal data

On request, we will inform you in writing, taking into account the legal requirements, whether and which personal data about you is stored. If data is stored incorrectly, please let us know. We will then promptly replace this data with the appropriate correct data.

Responsible for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation is Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG (CGME). The data protection officer of CGME can be reached via the following email address: Data.Privacy.Office.Germany@citi.com 

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that a web server may place on your computer when you visit a website. The file uniquely identifies a computer. Information stored in a cookie sent by Citi can only be read by Citi or companies we work with to operate this website. These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our websites by providing information about the areas visited, the time spent on the website and any issues encountered, such as error messages. This helps us improve the performance of our websites.

You can control whether to accept non-essential cookies or not. You may accept non-essential cookies when entering the website through the cookie consent disclaimer or anytime during your visit through the link in the footer of the website. If you decide not to accept non-essential cookies, some features and services on our site may not work properly because we may not be able to recognize you.

The following table provides you with an overview of all non-essential cookies that we use on our website.

Cookie Description Category Duration
EPi_NumberOfVisits Stores the number of times you access pages on the site to allow personalization of content based on the frequency the site content is viewed. Used with the Number of Visits personalization criterion. This cookie is not  set if you remove it from all of your visitor groups. Personalisation 1 year
EPI-MAR-<Content GUID> Where content GUID is the EPiServer GUID for the content under test. Inside the cookie we store the state of the user against the running A/B test. So things like the version the user should see if they return to a test item while the test is still running, if they have yet to view the content under question, and the various goals the user has converted on or has yet to convert on. Personalisation 1 year
cookie-consent_PT Stores the chosen Cookie settings from the disclaimer / cookie setting page. Personalisation 100 years
content-likes Stores the article you have liked to prevent unintentionally multiple likes of the same article from the same user. Personalisation 100 years
_ga; _gat; _gid Google Analytics Statistics 1 year

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyze how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

You can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Notice of Changes

From time to time, we may change this Online Privacy Statement. The effective date of this statement, as indicated below, shows the last time this statement was revised or materially changed. Checking the effective date below allows you to determine whether there have been changes since the last time you reviewed the statement.

This page was last updated in March 2023.