The following is a description of: (i) the categories of Personal Information we may have collected in the preceding 12 months, whether offline or online; (ii) the sources from which we may have collected it; and (iii) the business purposes for which we may have collected it.
A. Information we do NOT knowingly collect.
We do not knowingly solicit, collect, or receive information from or about minors (under the age of eighteen) or persons residing outside the U.S.A.
B. Information that You provide to us directly.Through our Site or for Customer Service
You may choose to voluntarily submit or otherwise disclose personal information to us (e.g., name, email address, phone number, and a personalized message about your inquiry), through the “Contact Us” features on our Site, or through mail, e-mail, telephone, fax or electronically. If you initiate contact or correspond with us, we may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, whether oral or written, and we reserve the right to use your contact information, and any other information that you provide to us in your message, to respond thereto or to offer customer service and attempt to resolve your request or inquiry.
If you wish to change or correct any information voluntarily submitted to us, please do so by contacting us in the manner described above.
When Applying for our Product or Creating a Contract with UsYou may submit information to us when you apply for services or products that we offer and/or create an account with us. This information typically includes your name, email address, address, phone number, date of birth, social security number, income information, and account information, bank account information, login and passcode, lawsuit or judgment information, insurance information, etc. We use this information to respond to your inquiries and requests; provide support services to you; assess your satisfaction with our services; protect against and detect fraud in relation to your contract. We use this information to determine whether to issue a contract and to administer contracts when issued. We may need similar information to change the owner designation of the contract, support a change of address, or other administrative requirements.
Disbursing Proceeds to YouIf we are paying a claim for one of our products, we or our delegees may collect certain information about you or your name, contact information, address, bank account information, and other related facts. We use this information to administer contracts when issued, to determine when you are eligible for payment on a claim, and to make payments on claims.
When Applying for a Job with UsYou may choose to voluntarily submit information to us when you apply to work for us as an employee or independent contractor. This information typically includes your name, email address, address, phone number, resumé (including but not limited to, employment history, education information, skills, interests). We use this information to evaluate your application.
C. Information from Third Parties acting on your behalf.
We may receive and maintain personal information (e.g., name, address, telephone number, email address, date of birth, social security number, account numbers, account balances, account values, investments, financial or banking information.) contained in communications with someone other than you, such as your spouse, power of attorney, authorized representative, custodians or your attorney.
D. Information we receive from our Service Providers.
We receive and maintain personal information from our Service Providers. Service Providers are persons or entities that we contract with to provide a material service in connection with property and casualty insurance products. Information that we typically may receive includes IP address, web activity, geolocation, residential address, phone number, financial information, letter vendors, bankruptcy activity letter correspondence, and email communications.
E. Information automatically collected by Use of this Site.As with most websites, our Site automatically collects certain information during a user’s visit to the Site. The information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, the location where the device is accessing the internet, browser type, operating system and other information about the usage of the Site, including a history of pages viewed. We use this information to improve the Site’s design, estimate user volume and usage patterns, speed up searches, and improve the user experience by customizing options and recognizing return users. We may also use this information to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website, analyze trends, track visitor movements, and gather broad demographic information that assists us in identifying visitor preferences. More specifically:
(i) IP Address
Each time you visit our Site, we may automatically collect your internet protocol (IP) address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose and resolve potential issues with or security threats to our Site or to the company, we may use an IP address to help identify users and to gather broad demographic information about them.
(ii) Cookies, Pixel Tags, and Web Beacons
Cookies (browser or flash) are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your device through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to optimize Site functionality and improve a user’s experience while navigating through the Site. Most or all browsers permit you to disable or reject cookies. You can do this by adjusting your preferences in the browser.You can also click on the “Privacy and Cookies Policy” banner at the bottom of the Site and adjust Cookie Settings to accept or reject certain cookies used by our Site.
Our Site may incorporate “pixel tags,” “web beacons,” or similar tracking technologies (collectively, “pixel tags”) that track the actions of Site users. Pixel tags are used to collect information, such as the internet service provider, IP address, the type of browser software and operating system being used, the date and time the Site is accessed, the website address, if any, from which a user linked directly to the Site and/or the website address, if any, to which the user travels from the Site and other similar traffic-related information.
We may aggregate information collected from Site visits by various users to help us improve the Site and the services that we provide through the Site.
(iii) Do Not Track
Our Site tracks when visitors to our website enter through a marketing landing page. The Site also keeps a record of third-party websites accessed when a user is on our Site and clicks on a hyperlink. But we do not track users to subsequent sites and do not serve targeted advertising to them.
(iv) Analytics Information
Web servers for the Site may gather certain anonymous navigational information about where visitors go on our Site and information about the technical efficiencies of our Site and services. Anonymous information does not directly or indirectly identify, and cannot reasonably be used to identify, a particular individual. Examples of anonymous information may include certain information about the internet browser, domain type, service provider and IP address information collected through tracking technologies and aggregated or de-identified data. We use anonymous analytics information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Site.
We use Google Analytics (“GA”) and other analytics tools for aggregated, anonymized website traffic analysis. In order to track session usage, Google drops a cookie with a randomly generated ClientID in a user’s browser. This ID is anonymized and contains no identifiable information like email, phone number, name, etc. We also send Google IP Addresses. We use GA to track aggregated website behavior, such as what pages a user looked at, for how long, etc. This information helps us improve the user experience and determine Site effectiveness. You have the option to delete your cookies and/or install Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).