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Brown and Brown of CA., Inc. values your business and respects your privacy.
That’s why we want to assure you that we are serious about keeping your personal
information private before, during and after your business relationship with us.
Brown and Brown of CA., Inc. does not disclose, sell, trade, lease or rent personal information to
other companies except where explicitly authorized by our customer or as
required by law. This notice describes our current policy regarding the
collection and disclosure of non-public personal information.
We may collect non-public personally identifiable information
("Information") as follows:
Information you provide us on applications or other forms, such as your
name, address, phone number, e-mail address, social security number, driver’s
license number, or date of birth. Depending on the nature of your insurance
transaction, we may need additional information about you or other individuals
proposed for insurance.
Information about your transactions and experiences with us and
others, such as your balance, payment history, or coverage changes. We may need
additional information about you or other individuals proposed for insurance
with respects to claims that may arise or claims that may be pending.
Information we receive from other agents, brokers, administrators,
investigators, insurance support agencies, legal counsel, consumer reporting
agencies and government reporting agencies.
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about
our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law. We may
disclose nonpublic personal information about you to the following affiliates
and nonaffiliated third parties to effect, administer, or enforce your insurance
transaction:
• Insurance companies that might quote and/or write your
policies;
• Claims administrators;
• Appraisers, inspectors, and other
insurance support services;
• Consumer reporting agencies;
• Governmental
agencies when required to do so;
• A third party for the purpose of
conducting an audit in connection with the operations or services provided
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Payment processing organizations;
• Persons or agencies lawfully entitled to
such information pursuant to a subpoena or court order.
We restrict access to nonpublic personally identifiable
information about you to those employees or independent contractors engaged by
us whom we have determined need to know that information to provide products or
services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards
designed to protect your Information from unauthorized access by third parties.
Brown and Brown of CA., Inc. collects information in three categories when
you visit our website. Brown and Brown of CA., Inc. stores information collected by general
browsing, when you request a quotation, and when you request policyholder
service transactions in a secure environment behind our firewall.
When you
are browsing the website for general information, browsing patterns are stored
in our database for review. Brown and Brown of CA., Inc. reviews customer web browsing patterns to
enable us to enhance pages of particular interest to you.
When you complete an online enrollment form, information is
collected to help us effectuate your coverage options and process payments.
This website provides some links to third-party websites that
are not owned by Brown and Brown of CA., Inc.. Brown and Brown of CA., Inc. has no control over their privacy
practices and assumes no responsibility in connection with your use of their
websites. We recommend that you check the privacy policy of any website before
you provide any personally identifiable information.
We reserve the right to change our privacy policies in the
future, which could include sharing nonpublic personal information with
nonaffiliated third parties for purposes other than as stated in this notice. We
will provide you a revised privacy notice before we do that.
Additional copies of our Privacy Notice or further information
may be obtained by submitting a written request to the following address:
Privacy Administration
Brown & Brown of California,
Inc.
681 S. Parker Street, Suite
200
Orange, CA 92868
or include your name and policy number and e-mail us
at privacypolicy@broprog.com.
Effective Date: This policy was last updated on June
14, 2005
WARNING: Unauthorized access to secured
databases or circumvention of security measures on this Website may be a
violation of state and federal laws.
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