On-Line Consumer Policy:
Keep Insurance Privacy Policy
1.Gramm-Leach-Biley Act
a.Notice Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act("GLBA") generally prohibits
any financial institution, directly or through its affiliates, from sharing nonpublic
personal information about you with a non-affiliated third party unless the institution
provides you with a notice of its privacy policies and practices, such as the type
of information that it collects about you and the categories of persons or entities
to whom it may be disclosed. In compliance with the GLBA, we are providing you with
this document, which notifies you of the privacy policies and practices of Keep
Insurance and any subsidiaries and/or affiliates ("Keep"). You also have a right
to prevent us from sharing nonpublic personal information about you with a non-affiliated
third party for any purpose that is not specifically authorized by law.Your right
to prevent us from sharing nonpublic personal information about you with a non-affiliated
third party for a purpose that is not specifically authorized by law is called your
right to "opt out" of such information sharing.
b.Privacy Polices and Practices
I.Information We Collect We may collect nonpublic personal information about
you from the following sources: (a)information we receive from you on applications
or other forms; (b) information about your transactions with us, our affiliates
or others; (c) information we may receive from consumer reporting agencies; and
(d) information from search agencies.Unless it is specifically stated otherwise
in an amended Privacy Policy Notice, no additional information will be collected
about you.
ii.Information We May Disclose to Third Parties We may disclose all of the
information that we collect about you, as described above.
iii.Non-Affiliated Third Parties to Whom Disclosures May be Made, and Right to
"Opt-Out" we may disclose nonpublic personal information about you to the following
types of third parties, unless you tell us not to:(a) insurance companies; (b) companies
through which we market your account including, insurance brokers, insurance agents,
general agents, wholesale brokers and surplus lines brokers; (c) financial service
providers; (d) mortgage bankers and/or brokers; (e) financing companies; (f) search
companies; (g) claim adjusters and/or investigators; (h) governmental entities as
may be required by law; (I) persons or entities as required by subpoena or court
order; (j) fulfillment service providers; and (k) companies through which we have
marketing agreements.We may also disclose nonpublic personal information about you
to non-affiliated third parties as permitted by law.However, if you prefer that
we not disclose nonpublic personal information about you to non-affiliated third
parties, you may “opt out” of those disclosures, that is you may direct us not to
make those disclosures, by making a written request to "opt out" of any disclosure
of nonpublic personal information to non-affiliated third parties, signed by yourself
or an authorized individual, and mailing the request to: Keep Insurance, 27 Cleveland
Street, Valhalla, New York 1059; Att’n: Administrative Coordinator.
2.Fair Credit Reporting Act
a.Notice Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, if non-transactional information
is shared with affiliates, we must describe the information that may be shared,
indicate what affiliates may receive this information, and afford you of the right
to "opt-out" of such information sharing.
b.Policies and Procedures
I.Information We Can Share With Affiliates We may share with our affiliated
companies information about you including: (a) information we obtained from your
insurance application, such as your income or your marital status; (b) information
we obtained from a consumer report, such as your credit score or credit history;
(c) information we obtain to verify representations made by you, such as your open
lines of credit; and (d) information we obtain from a person or entity regarding
its employment, credit or other relationship with you, such as your employment history.
ii.Our Affiliated Companies Who May Receive This Information These are companies
wholly or partly owned by Keep Insurance, or otherwise affiliated with Keep Insurance,
which engage in agency and brokerage operations.
iii.Right to Opt-Out If you prefer that we do not share this information
with our affiliated companies, you may direct us not to share this information by
doing the following: send a written request to "opt out" of any disclosure of nonpublic
personal information to affiliated companies, signed by yourself or an authorized
individual, and mailing the request to: Keep Insurance, 27 Cleveland Street, Valhalla,
New York 10595; Att'n: Administrative Coordinator.
3.Practices Regarding Confidentiality and Security We restrict access to
no npublic personal information about you to those persons who need to know that
information in order to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical
electronic procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your
nonpublic personal information.
4.Reservation of Right to Disclose Information in Certain Circumstances In
connection with any potential sale or transfer of its interest, Keep Insurance and
its subsidiaries and/or affiliates reserve the right to sell or transfer your information
(including but not limited to your name, address, age, sex, zip code, state and
country of residence, and other information you have provided) to a third-party
entity that: (a) concentrates its business in a similar practice or service; (b)
agrees to be successor in interest with regard to the maintenance and protection
of the information collected; and (c) agrees to the obligations of this privacy
statement.
5. Use of Credit Information In the course of processing an application for
insurance, credit information may be obtained and utilized. Such information may
also be obtained and utilized for processing policy renewals. In the event an adverse
action is taken based on such information, the insurance carrier (or Keep Insurance
if so designated by the carrier) will provide notification that such action has
been taken.
6. Internet Information Keep and any affiliated insurance carriers or brokers
whose products are provided through our site are the owners of the information collected
on this site.
Keep may share aggregate information about our users with advertisers, business
partners, sponsors and other third parties, though such summary information will
not identify any specifics related to you. We will not sell, share, or rent this
information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.
We may use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the website, track user movement,
and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not
linked to personally identifiable information. We may use a cookie to store information
about individual website users. Our website registration form requires users to
give us contact information (like their name and email address) and demographic
information. When you order a product, we need to know, and therefore collect, your
contact information (like your name, address, and e-mail address), certain financial
information and all information supplied in determining your ratability under the
policy you purchase and the terms of such policy. Additionally, we retain a record
of all information provided by you in your application as is the general practice
in the insurance industry. Our website may contain links to other sites. Please
be aware that Keep is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy
statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
7. Policy Changes Any amendment to this Policy shall be posted on this page,
and shall be effective as of the time of posting, unless otherwise specified.
Revised 5/11/09