INFORM | First half of 2019

Inform in the first half of 2019 | News from the HARTMANN GROUP 11 We automatically send you, the shareholders of the PAUL HARTMANN AG, various information to inform you about the performance of the HARTMANN GROUP and current market developments. This information includes, in particular, financial information, for example, the sending of quarterly information (particularly our share- holder magazine “Inform”) and, where you have asked for this to be sent by post, the HARTMANN GROUP’s Annual Report. At the same time, an online version of the quarterly information is available to you on our website https://hartmann.info/en-corp/investor-relations/l/corp/ investor-relations under the “Downloads” menu option and in the shareholder portal. Should you no longer wish to receive the quarterly information and/or the annual report in future, please contact PAUL HARTMANN AG, Investor Relations, P.O. Box 1420, 89504 Heidenheim or via e-mail ir@hartmann.info . Should you wish only to receive quar- terly information and/or the annual report electronically in future, again, please contact the address specified. To send you quarterly information and where we send you the annual report, PAUL HARTMANN AG processes your personal data (surname and first name, address, where relevant, shareholder number) as the legal entity, in each case based on legitimate interests (Art. 6(1) sentence 1 letter f) GDPR). Where you do not provide us with your personal data yourself, we normally receive this via your custodian bank. The service providers engaged by us to send you quarterly information and/or to send you the annual report as requested process your personal data exclusi- vely according to our instructions and only to the extent this is necessary for the performance of the requested service. All PAUL HARTMANN AG employees and those of our contracted service providers who have access to your personal data and/or process this, are obliged to treat that data as confidential. We erase your personal data in accordance with the statutory regulations, particularly where the personal data are no longer required for the original purpose of their collection or processing. Among the legal requirements, you have the right to receive information about your processed data and to request their rectification or erasure or the restriction of processing. In addition, you have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Among the legal requirements, you may, at any time and without giving reasons for the same, object to any processing of your personal data for the purpose of sending the quarterly information and/or the sending of the annual report. To do so, please contact PAUL HARTMANN AG, Investor Relations, P.O. Box 1420, 89504 Heidenheim or via e-mail ir@hartmann.info . For comments and queries about the processing of personal data, your data protection officer can be reached at: PAUL HARTMANN AG, Data Protection Officer, Paul-Hartmann-Strasse 12, 89522 Heidenheim, datenschutz@hartmann.info . For further data protection information, please see our website at https://hartmann.info/en-corp/ir-dataprotection. Data protection information: quarterly information and annual report of PAUL HARTMANN AG