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Last updated 5/19/2008
To underscore our commitment to privacy and our vision that good privacy is good business -- for ChoicePoint, for our customers and for consumers -- we have adopted this online privacy policy, which reflects and implements our corporate privacy principles in an online setting, for
www.insurquote.com, which is operated by ChoicePoint Inc., 1000
Alderman Drive, Alpharetta, GA 30005, (877) 301-7097, (770)
752-5939 (fax) and
privacy@choicepoint.com. This site is not directed at children.
If you have questions or
concerns regarding this statement, please contact us at:
ChoicePoint Inc.
Office of Privacy, Ethics and Compliance
1000 Alderman Drive
MD-71A
Alpharetta, GA 30005
Telephone: 877.301.7097
Fax: 770.752.5939
Email: privacy@choicepoint.com
INFORMATION
COLLECTION
I.
Personally-identifiable information
This site only collects personally-identifiable information from you if you choose to provide this information to us. Personally-identifiable information collected with your consent may include, for example, e-mail address, password, Id number, any response you provide to survey questions, information relating to any orders you place, or any inquires you may make through our Web site.
This site uses
first-party cookies, however personally identifiable information is
not collected through the use of cookies. Cookies are used to
determine whether a visitor is unique or whether the visitor has
viewed our site before. This site also uses cookies to keep track
of user Ids and passwords.
Cookies are optional and
do not affect the operability of our Web site.
III.
Nonpersonally-identifiable information
This site also collects
nonpersonally-identifiable information. For example, as you browse
this Web site we may collect information about your visit, but not
about you personally. Via Web server logs, for example, we may
monitor statistics such as: the number of people that visit our
site, which page(s) are visited on our site, from which domain our
visitors come (e.g., aol.com, hotmail.com, etc.), and which browsers
people use to visit our site (e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft
Internet Explorer, etc.). Our Web site uses an outsourcing program
to assist us in analyzing this data to better tailor our Web site.
INFORMATION USE AND
CONSUMER CHOICE
The information collected by this Web site is used only for responding to your inquiries and otherwise corresponding with you, for processing transactions you request, maintaining your account (if you have one), for other purposes permitted by your organization's or sponsoring insurer's subscriber agreement(s) (if any), and for the administration, review and/or the improvement the content of our Web sites.
We may contact you in
response to your comments or inquiries, as part of the maintenance
of your account with us (if you have one), or in order to complete a
transaction that you requested.
We may also contact you
to inform you of other products or services we think may be of
interest to you, but we always offer you an opportunity to opt not
to receive such communications.
ONWARD TRANSFER
We may disclose information you provide to us to third parties in order to complete a transaction that you requested or as otherwise permitted by your organization's or your sponsoring insurer's subscriber agreement(s) (if any). In other cases, it may be necessary to disclose information you provide about yourself or third parties in order to obtain the information product you requested.
We may also outsource
some tasks, including the operation of some Web site functions that
require access to information you supply online. In such cases,
however, we require that the companies acting on our behalf abide by
our privacy policy and institute safeguards to protect the
confidentiality of your information.
We may disclose
information you provide to other ChoicePoint companies or to outside
firms so that they can contact you about products or services that
may be of interest, but we will provide you with an opportunity to
opt not to have your information disclosed for these purposes.
If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, that company will assume responsibility for the personal information collected by us through this Web site and it will assume rights and obligations regarding the information collected through this Web site, as described in this privacy policy.
Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform with the law or to comply with a legal process.
ACCESS AND CORRECTION
As an
information company, we know the importance of accurate data.
Therefore, we strive to maintain the accuracy of the information
collected through this Web site. Furthermore, we believe that the
individual is invaluable in ensuring that data is complete and
accurate. We will provide you with access to
personally-identifiable information you provide through our Web site
for as long as we maintain that information in a readily accessible
format. Similarly, we permit and encourage you to correct
inaccuracies in the information you submit to us through our Web
site.
If you wish to correct
any inaccurate information you have submitted to this site, please
either use the mechanisms provided by the site or send an e-mail to:
privacy@choicepoint.com.
SECURITY
We take
steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized
alteration of personally-identifiable information collected through
this Web site. We recognize the importance of security for all
personally-identifiable information collected by our Web site. We
exercise care in providing secure transmission of your information
from your PC to our servers.
Once we receive
personally-identifiable information, we take steps to protect its
security on our systems. In the event we request or transmit
sensitive information, such as credit card information or Social
Security Numbers, we use industry standard, secure socket layer (“SSL”)
encryption.
We limit access to
personally-identifiable information to those employees who need
access in order to carry out their job responsibilities.
OTHER WEB SITES
This online privacy policy only applies to the Web site(s) and webpage(s) identified in the first paragraph of this privacy policy. Our Web site, however, may include links to other Web sites which may be operated by other ChoicePoint companies or by third parties. If you visit a Web site not listed above, we recommend that you review the online privacy policy of that Web site to determine how the operator of that Web site will handle personal information collected through that Web site.
POLICY CHANGES
We may revise this online privacy policy from time to time. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on the Web site. If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner.
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