| We appreciate the opportunity to
serve you by providing a quality insurance program and other
financial services. Insurance brokers, like all providers of
financial services, are now required by law to inform their
clients of their policies regarding privacy of client information.
We take seriously the issue of safeguarding your privacy. We
feel that you should understand what nonpublic personal information
we collect, how we use the information and how we safeguard
it. This statement describes the types of nonpublic personal
information we collect and use to provide insurance products
and services to our customers.
I. COLLECTING INFORMATION
We collect nonpublic personal information which is personally
identifiable information about you obtained by Vision in connection
with providing products and services to you from the following
sources:
- Information we receive from you on applications or other
forms which may
be received in person, by mail, by phone, by fax or online.
- Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates,
or others.
- Information from consumer reporting agencies. This may
include motor
vehicle reports, claim reports, and information from a consumer
report or
investigative consumer report.
- Information received to adjust, investigate, or settle
your insurance claims,
and your claims history.
II. CUSTOMER INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH OTHERS
We will only disclose your nonpublic personal information
as permitted or required by law. We may disclose nonpublic
personal information to insurance carriers, reinsurers, service
providers for marketing services and/or actuarial studies,
nonaffiliated third parties, affiliated companies, regulatory
authorities, consumer reporting agencies, and law enforcement
agencies or other governmental authorities to protect your
interest.
III. HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR NONPUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION
We value your trust and feel your information is the cornerstone
of our ability to provide you with superior service. Vision
allows our employees to access nonpublic personal information
only when there is an appropriate reason to do so, such as
to administer or provide products or services, or to otherwise
perform their job functions. Employees who misuse this information
are subject to disciplinary action. We maintain physical,
procedural and electronic safeguards to protect your nonpublic
information.
IV. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any
time. Please be assured you will be notified of any changes
as required by law.
V. MAINTAINING ACCURATE INFORMATION
We maintain procedures to ensure the information we collect
is accurate, up-to-date, and as complete as possible. If you
believe the information we have about you in our records or
files is incomplete or inaccurate, you may request that we
make additions or corrections, or if it is feasible, that
we delete this information from our files. Your request must
be in writing and you should mail your request to us, addressed
as follows (Be sure to include the name of any insurance company,
your policy number, name, address and phone number with your
request.): Privacy Services, Vision Insurance Group, LLC,
P. O. Box 4038, Montgomery, AL 36103-4038.
VI. INTERNET POLICY
Visitors are not required to provide any personal information
to us in order to access our website, but may choose to provide
such information to us. While we do not use cookies at this
time, we may use them in the future to gather statistical
information concerning web traffic and usage patterns.
If after reading this, you have any questions or special requests
about our privacy policy or information contained in our files,
please write to us at the above address.
Thank you for allowing us to serve you. As described in our
Privacy Policy, we aim to continually protect your nonpublic
information. Please realize that because we value our customer
relationship, we endeavor to provide you with excellent products
and services.
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