Privacy Policy
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PREAMBLE
Montgomery Insurance Group, L.L.C. (“Agency”, or “us”, “we” or the correlative term “our”) takes our obligation to safeguard and secure your Personal Information (as defined below) very seriously. This Privacy Policy and Online Privacy Notice (“Online Notice”) describes how we use, maintain, protect and disclose information obtained from you and/or about you that we collect. This Online Notice only applies to this Agency. This Online Notice contains the same information as our standard Privacy Notice (“Standard Privacy Notice”) which is distributed through means other than through this Website. Your use of this Website is governed by the Terms of Use [www.montgomeryinsurancegrp.com] and this Online Notice. PLEASE READ THIS ONLINE NOTICE CAREFULLY. BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ONLINE NOTICE AS WELL AS THE TERMS OF USE WHICH ARE INCORPORATED HEREIN BY THIS REFERENCE. WHO ARE WE?
This Agency is an independently owned and operated insurance agency operating as a GlobalGreen Insurance Agency® licensee. This Agency is an Affiliate of Equity One Franchisors, LLC (“Franchisor”), however Franchisor does not own or operate any insurance agency under the name “GlobalGreen Insurance Agency” or any other name and does not collect any information from you except as expressed on its website, www.ggiausa.com and stated in its Privacy Policy related thereto. We may, from time to time, establish other Affiliates (“Affiliates” means companies related to our Agency by common ownership or control, which can be financial and nonfinancial companies). WHY ARE WE PROVIDING THIS ONLINE NOTICE?
Insurance agencies choose how they share your “Personal Information”. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some, but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your Personal Information. Please read this Online Notice carefully to understand what we do. As used in this Online Notice, “Personal Information” means any nonpublic information related to an identified individual (e.g., you or your family), and is frequently referred to as “personally identifiable information”, “personal information”, “protected health information” or other similar names. Examples of Personal Information include, but are not limited to, your name, address, Social Security Number, driver’s license number, assets, financial accounts and information, credit card numbers and accounts, credit history, income and medical information, among others. We are providing this Online Notice to inform you and our customers generally about how we collect, use, protect and share information about you and our other customers. This Online Notice only applies to (i) individuals who have an ongoing relationship with this Agency who have obtained insurance products or services through our Agency (a “Customer”), whether home, auto, health, long-term care, life, disability, dental, supplemental or other insurance products or services, and (ii) individual consumers who are interested in or investigating forming a relationship with our Agency but have not yet done so or do not have an ongoing relationship with us even if such individual has obtained insurance products from us. Applicable federal and state laws require us to provide you with this Online Notice. You may already have received from us a copy of our Standard Privacy Notice. We will provide you with a copy of our Standard Privacy Notice each year you are a Customer of our Agency. We collect, use and maintain information we believe is necessary to administer our business and to offer and provide you with insurance related products and services. The type of information we collect, whether Personal Information or other information, depends on the insurance product or service we provide to you. We collect such information:
You may limit the purposes for which we collect your Personal Information and what we can share with others. Please see “HOW DO YOU LIMIT OUR SHARING OR DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION” below. HOW DOES OUR AGENCY COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including but not limited to:
WHAT DOES OUR AGENCY DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Our Agency does not disclose Personal Information to third parties, except as required or permitted by law. For example, in the course of our regular business practices, we may disclose or share your Personal Information contained in applications and other Personal Information we have collected as described above:
(“Anonymized Data”) and is therefore no longer Personal Information. We may use or disclose Anonymized Data in any manner we see fit. We do not: (i) sell your Personal Information, (ii) provide your Personal Information to persons other than those necessary for the purpose of providing you with our products or services or as set forth in this Online Notice, (iii) share any of your medical information without your authorization except for the purpose of applying for insurance, administering a claim for you, or if we are permitted or required to do so under applicable laws. HOW DOES OUR AGENCY PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We maintain industry standard physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your Personal Information. Please note that pursuant to a contractual arrangement with a third party, your Personal Information is stored and maintained in a secure storage facility (“Facility”) to which we have access. That Facility, together with other organizations, has obligations to store, maintain and protect your Personal Information in a manner consistent with applicable laws and prevailing industry standards. ACCESS TO AND CORRECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you are a resident of Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon or Virginia (or such other states that may pass similar laws from time to time,) you have the right to access and You can request to review certain Personal Information that we have collected from time to time from or about you and that is in our records. To do so, simply contact us at www.agency@ggiausa.com. If you would like to correct any such information that you provided to us, we will make the appropriate adjustment in your records. If you wish to correct information provided to us by a third party, we will provide you with such third party’s contact information. Please note that we may not be able to provide information relating to investigations, claims, litigation and other matters. Upon the request of residents from other states, we will take reasonable steps to verify the accuracy of your Personal Information in our records. HOW DO YOU LIMIT OUR SHARING OR DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
To limit or restrict our ability to share your Personal Information:
Please note: If you are a new Customer, we can begin sharing your information as set forth herein 30 days from the date we sent or provided you with this Online Notice. When you are no longer our Customer, we may continue to share your information as described in this Online Notice. However, you can contact us at any time to limit our sharing or disclosure. Questions? Please call (936) 597-9100 or go to our website at www.montgomeryinsurancegrp.com, or www.ggiausa.com. Federal law gives you the right to limit only • Sharing for Affiliates’ everyday business purposes—information about your creditworthiness • Affiliates from using your information to market to you • Sharing for Non-affiliates to market to you State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing. [See below for more on your rights under state law.] To let us know by Mail, please send us the following form: |