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MILTNER INSURANCE AGENCY, INC.
PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE
AS OF JULY 1, 2001
PURPOSE OF THIS 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 Miltner Insurance Agency, Inc.
The GLBA further requires that we inform you
that you 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.
OUR PRIVACY POLICIES AND PRACTICES
1. Information we collect:
We collect nonpublic personal information
about you from the following sources:
Information we receive from you on applications
or other insurance company forms with regard to insurance
coverage in place.
Information about your transactions with
us or with others as it pertains to insurance coverage in
place.
Information we receive from a consumer reporting
agency such as credit reports bearing on your creditworthiness,
credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation,
personal characteristics or mode of life which is used,
expected to be used, or collected
for the purpose of serving as a factor in establishing your
eligibility for insurance to be used primarily for personal
purposes.
Information we receive from claims adjusters
or other individuals or entities concerning the processing
or administration of claims that you might have as a result
of purchasing an insurance product from us.
Information we receive from underwriting services
such as CLUE, Choicepoint or Fair Isaac provided for insurance
companies and agents used as a factor in establishing your
eligibility for insurance to be used primarily for personal
purposes.
Information we receive from governmental agencies
such as motor vehicle records.
Information we compile from sources that are
within the public domain such as telephone books, city directories,
and membership lists that are subsequently compiled into
a nonpublic personal information database used by us.
Unless it is specifically stated otherwise
in an amended Privacy Policy Notice, no additional information
will be collected about you.
2. Information we may disclose to third parties:
We may disclose all of the information we
collect, as described above, about our customers or former
customers, to companies that perform marketing services
on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom
we have joint marketing agreements. We also may disclose
information about our customers or former customers as permitted
by law.
3. Nonaffiliated third parties to whom disclosures
may be made:
A. Nonaffiliated Third Parties to Whom Disclosures
May Be Made
We may disclose nonpublic information about
you to the following types of third parties, unless you
tell us not to:
Financial institutions with whom we have joint
marketing agreements such as insurance providers including
those that have issued a policy or policies for you.
Financial institutions that may have loaned
you money to acquire an item of personal property such as
a house, boat, car, jewelry, etc. that requires proof of
insurance coverage.
Other insurance agents or brokers to enable
us to provide insurance coverage requested by you.
We may also disclose nonpublic personal information
about you to non-affiliated third parties as permitted by
law.
B. Notification of Your Right To Opt Out of
Certain Disclosures
As we have indicated in this Privacy Policy
Notice, we collect certain nonpublic personal information
about you, and we may disclose that information to certain
non-affiliated third parties for purposes other than those
expressly permitted by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the
federal and state regulations implementing that Act. 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 (other than those disclosures that
are expressly permitted by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and
its implementing regulations).
If you wish to opt out of such disclosures
to non-affiliated third Parties, you may.
4. Our practices regarding information confidentiality
and security:
We restrict access to nonpublic information
about you to those employees who need to know that information
in order to provide products or services to you. We maintain
physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply
with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal
information.
5. Our policy regarding dispute resolution:
Any controversy or claim arising out of or
relating to our privacy policy, or the breach thereof, shall
be settled by arbitration in accordance with the rules of
the American Arbitration Association, and judgment upon
the award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may be entered in
any court having jurisdiction thereof.
6. Reservation of the right to disclose information
in unforeseen circumstances:
In connection with the potential sale or transfer
of its interests, Miltner Insurance Agency, Inc. and its
affiliates reserve the right to sell or transfer Your information
(including but not limited to your address, name, age, sex,
Zip code, state and country of residency and other information
that you provide through other communications) to a third
party entity that (1) concentrates its business in a similar
practice or service; (2) agrees to be Miltner Insurance
Agency, Inc.’s successor in interest with regard to the
maintenance and protection of the information collected;
and (3) agrees to the obligations of this privacy statement.
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