Farnham Insurance Privacy Notice
The privacy and security of your personal information is important to us. This notice will inform you about our policies and procedures concerning the personal information about you that we collect, maintain and disclose in connection with the insurance policies you obtain from us. In order to offer the highest quality insurance products at the lowest possible rates, we collect, maintain, and, in some instances, disclose "nonpublic personal information" about you. Nonpublic personal information may include your name, address, social security number, wage information, driving record, policy coverages, medical information or credit history. It may also include transaction information such as your premium payment or claims history with us. We appreciate the importance of your personal privacy and are committed to protecting it as we provide for your insurance needs.
Questions concerning our privacy policy may be sent to us at Farnham Insurance 507 North York Street Mechanicsburg, PA 17055. You may also contact us through our Web site.
Collection of Information
We obtain nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:
- Your prior insurance Agent or Producer;
- From you through applications or other forms such as claims forms or underwriting questionnaires;
- Insurance support organizations such as claims reporting services and other parties who provide information on insurance related transactions you have conducted with us, our affiliates, as listed above, or others;
- Consumer reporting agencies.
We Do Not Sell Your Information to Others for Marketing Purposes
Because we respect your privacy, we do not sell, trade or otherwise disclose your identity or any other personal information about you to third parties for their marketing purposes. This includes information we obtain concerning all applicants, customers and former customers. We may, however, share information regarding your transactions with us with our affiliates, as listed below, or companies that perform marketing services on our behalf to assist us in providing our products and services to you. These companies are required to keep your information confidential.
Information We May Provide to Others
We only disclose nonpublic personal information about our applicants, customers and former customers as permitted or required by law in conjunction with our normal insurance operations. Here are some examples:
- We may disclose information to others such as our claims adjusters and our attorneys in the processing of an insurance claim;
- We may be required by a court of law to provide information in connection with a legal proceeding;
- We share information with consumer reporting agencies and insurance support organizations;
- We may share information with government agencies which conduct examinations of our procedures.
Security of Your Personal Information
While your nonpublic personal information is under our control, access is limited to those employees who have legitimate business needs for such information with respect to your insurance coverages. In accordance with applicable state and federal regulations we maintain physical, procedural and electronic safeguards to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your nonpublic personal information
Online Privacy Notice
Thank you for visiting our Web Site. Your privacy is important to us, and we want you to know how we handle information you may provide to us through this Site.
How We Collect, Use and Share Information
When you visit this Site, we will only collect personal information that you provide voluntarily. You are not obligated to provide any requested information, but it might not be possible to process your request if you do not.
It may be necessary for you to provide certain information to use some of the functions on this Site. For instance, the "Get an Auto Quote," function allows you to provide information directly to us and independent Agents representing us. We may retain a copy of the information you provide.
In addition to personal information, we also collect non-personal information from JavaScript-enabled browsers. The non-personal information we collect may be stored on your computer as browser "cookies.” We transmit this non-personal information to a third party (Google) that collects Web site statistics. This non-personal information can include browser used, pages visited on this Site, IP address, referring site and search terms where appropriate, and other non-identifying data.
You may obtain additional information on how we use information provided to us by referring to Farnham Insurance’s Privacy Notice.
E-mail
Unless otherwise noted, e-mail that may be available on this Site does not provide a completely secure and confidential means of communication. It is possible that your e-mail communication may be accessed or viewed inappropriately by another Internet user while in transit. If you wish to keep your information completely private, you should not use e-mail.
Secure means of communicating with us through this Site will be identified as secure.
Children
This Site is not directed to children, and Farnham Insurance does not request or intend to collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.
Links to Other Web Sites
This Site may provide links to other Web sites not owned or controlled by us. We cannot be responsible for the privacy or security practices of other sites or the content or accuracy of such sites. You should be certain to review any privacy statements posted on other sites.
Changes to This Online Privacy Notice
We may change this Online Privacy Notice from time to time. When changes are made, the Version Date, which is located below, will be updated. We encourage you to read this Online Privacy Notice periodically to see if there are any changes that might affect you.
Version Date: 08/13/2010
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