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At Associated Insurance Agency, Inc./McFarland Insurance Services, Inc./SGA Insurance Services, we are committed to the careful handling of personal nonpublic information. We collect and use information for business purposes with respect to insurance products and related business activities involving you, our customer. These business activities include evaluating a request for insurance products and related services such as claims handling or processing other transactions requested by you.
Federal law has established privacy standards and requires us to provide this summary of our privacy policy once per year. The following information will provide you with a better understanding of the type of information we collect, how we use it and to whom we may disclose it.
How We Collect Information
Your application is our major source of information. However, we may occasionally collect information about you and other persons proposed for coverage from third parties such as other insurance companies, physicians, hospitals, and other medical personnel, insurance support organizations or consumer reporting agencies. For example, we may collect information such as loss information reports, motor vehicle reports and credit reports. We may ask such an insurance support organization to view your property. They would report to us the value and condition of your property and may send a photograph. Occasionally, we may order a consumer credit report showing your history of meeting financial obligations. Information from a report prepared by an insurance support organization may be retained by them and disclosed to other persons to the extent permitted by law.
Disclosure of Information
The privacy of the information that you provide us with or that we collect about you is important to us. It is our policy not to disclose any nonpublic personal information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law. For example, we may disclose information to others such as your name, address, social security number or policy coverage's to:
Third parties who provide business services for us relating to the products and services we offer
Third parties who help us evaluate requests for insurance or benefits or to prevent fraud
Third parties that require us to submit information to them, such as regulatory agencies
Our Promise To You
Even though these activities are permitted by law, we do this only to help us protect and enhance our customer's financial well being. We would not, for example, sell a customer's name, or other nonpublic information, to a credit card company.
Our employees are required to protect the confidentiality of your information and access information only when there is an appropriate need to do so. In addition, we maintain the necessary electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your information.
We continue to review our privacy practices in order to look for ways to make our use of your information more meaningful and to provide superior service. Your confidence in our agency and the manner in which we conduct our business is greatly appreciated. Our promise to you is that we will treat your personal information with utmost confidentiality, use it only to help serve you better and in a manner prescribed by law. If you have questions regarding our privacy policy, click right here on Contact Us.
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