As used in this Policy, "you" and "your" refer to the individual visitor using the Site. "We", "us" or "our" refers individually and collectively to the insurance company identified above and as applicable to its affiliates in the National General Insurance Group (see list below)*
You take online privacy and information security seriously and so do we. Our organization is committed to protecting the personal information of visitors to our web sites and web pages. This policy is one way of sustaining your trust in our companies, our products and our services.
This Online Privacy Policy applies only to our web sites and web pages from which you directly linked to this policy. This policy applies only to the collection, use and sharing of information that you provide to us online and applies when you are a current and former customer.
Our Online Privacy Policy describes the information we collect from and about you during your visit to our web sites and web pages. Our policy also describes how we use information about you, whom we share it with, and how we protect it.
Our web sites and web pages may contain links to third party sites not controlled by us or covered by this Online Privacy Policy. We recommend that you check the privacy statement of other sites you visit before providing any personal information.
As required by law, once you become a customer of ours and annually thereafter, we will also provide you a Privacy Notice describing our privacy practices related to the collection and sharing of personal information about our customers.
Occasionally we may revise our Online Privacy Policy, so we encourage you to periodically visit our website and click on the Online Privacy Policy link to review the most current version.
Below is a series of questions and answers that we believe address the most important issues related to your privacy and our use of your personal information.
1. What Personal Information Do You Collect About Me in an Online Transaction?
2. How Do You Use the Personal Information You Collect About Me Online?
3. Why Do You Need My Social Security Number and How Do You Protect It?
4. Do You Share the Personal Information You Collect About Me Online?
5. Do You Use Cookies or Other Online Technologies to Collect Information About Me?
6. How Can I Change or Update the Personal Information You Collected About Me Online?
7. What Steps Do You Take to Protect Personal Information About Me?
8. Do I Have a Choice About Your Sharing My Information With Your Affiliates or With Unaffiliated Third Parties?
9. Will You Make Changes to this Privacy Policy?
10. I'm concerned about my information security and identity theft. What can I do to improve my security?
We collect personal information about you from the information you provide to us when you visit our web sites and web pages, when you obtain an insurance quote, apply for one of our products, use one of our services, or obtain other information from us. Depending on where you live and your transaction with us, the types of information we may collect could include: your name; marital status; date of birth; the names and dates of birth of other persons in your household; addresses; telephone numbers; social security number; driving records; the types of vehicles you drive and records about those vehicles; health information; income and tax data; employment; credit and/or criminal conviction history; information about your bank or financial institutions, including account numbers; lienholder information; information about other insurance you have or have had; and/or your e-mail address.
In addition to the information described above, when you visit our website we will record various data that will help us better understand how visitors use our site
and better serve our customers. This data includes, but is not limited to: the IP address of the computer you are using, browser and platform types, domain names,
access times, how you linked to our website, and how you navigated through our website.
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We use the personal information we collect online to process your request for services, products or information. For example, if you complete a quote form,
we may use the information you provide to develop an accurate quote for you. We may also use the information we collect for analytic purposes, market research
or for marketing purposes, as allowed by law.
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We collect social security numbers as necessary to support state and federal legal requirements, to provide products or services to you, and to meet our human resources needs.
For example, providing your social security number will help you get our best rate in states where we are allowed to use your credit based insurance score to determine insurance rates.
We restrict access to social security numbers to only those employees, agents, and subcontractors who need that information to support these purposes.
We provide social security numbers to government agencies, as required by law. We strive to protect social security numbers from unlawful disclosure and
keep them confidential by maintaining physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards such as masking and encryption that comply with applicable state and federal regulations.
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Our affiliated companies that are listed below may share information about you with each other. We may also share your personal information with unaffiliated third parties. However, we do not disclose any information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted or required by law. These disclosures are generally described as:
In addition, we may provide personal information about current and former customers to other third parties who have a legitimate need for the information. These may include, for example, insurance agents, third party claims adjusters and investigators, actuarial consultants, reinsurers, governmental agencies, courts, and law enforcement authorities. We may also provide personal information to insurance industry statistical reporting organizations, but individual identities will not be revealed through such statistical reports.
From time to time, we may also contract with parties outside our affiliated group so we can make available certain financial and other consumer products and services to our current and former customers. For example, we may enter into joint marketing agreements with financial institutions, like banks, lending companies, tax return preparers or processors, or money transfer providers to make available the various financial products and services they provide. We may also enter into joint marketing agreements with other types of businesses such as grocery stores and phone companies so they or we can give you information or special offers about the products and services those businesses offer. In those cases, we may disclose to those companies certain types of information we collect about our current and former customers as described in response to the first question above, but we would not share any health or credit information, driving records, social security numbers, bank account, or credit card information. The companies we work with would be subject to confidentiality agreements with us as well as other legal restrictions on using your nonpublic information that apply to them.
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Yes. When you browse or visit one of our web sites, we may store certain information on our computer. This information may be in the form of a small text file called a "cookie" and can help us to tailor our sites to your individual preferences and save you time if you visit the site again. For example, cookies may include the country web page you prefer or your language preference. Where specific programs associated with our web sites require a user ID and password, you have the option of requesting that we save your user ID and password so that you will not have to re-enter that information the next time you access the web site. This is accomplished by the placement of a cookie on your computer.
We may also use cookie technology or other online tracking technologies, like web beacons, to gather information about your visit to our web sites. This information allows us to measure site activity and to improve your experience on our sites and may include the time and length of your visit, the web pages you look at on our sites, the web site you visited just before coming to ours and your internet services provider. If we provide you a link from one of our sites to another site, we may track the fact that you navigated to that other site from ours, and we may track your activity while on that site. This will help us understand which links are helpful to you when you visit our site, and will help us provide you with links that may be of interest to you, when you visit our site again. Our website may also use a website recording service which may record mouse clicks, mouse movements, page scrolling and any text keyed into website forms. Data collected by this service is used to improve our website usability. The information collected is stored and is used for aggregated and statistical reporting, and is not shared with anybody else.
We may also use third-party vendors to service advertising on our behalf across the Internet and sometimes on our websites and social media.
They or we may collect anonymous information about your visits to our websites and pages, and your interactions with us and our products and services.
Anonymous information is not personally identifiable and includes things like the pages you visited and the duration of your visit on the websites.
They may also use information about your visits to this and other Web sites to target advertisements for goods and services. This anonymous information is collected
using a pixel tag, which is industry standard technology used by most major web sites. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices
about not having this anonymous information used by our third party service providers, please visit or click here.
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If you have questions about information you provided on our web sites or web pages, use the "Contact Us" link provided on the specific web page, so that we may assist you.
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We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with industry standards to protect your personal and credit information.
We handle your information securely. We limit access to your personal and credit information and our servers to personnel who have a legitimate business reason for such access. We expect our personnel to adhere to high standards of ethics and integrity in performing their jobs and conducting the business and affairs of the company. We train our employees about the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of your information and your privacy, and we will take disciplinary or other corrective action to ensure that our employees comply with our privacy policy. Information stored by us is housed securely.
We use a secure server and security protocol to safeguard the information you provide during the purchase and payment processes. Our secure server implements the
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol and 128-bit encryption for when you interact with us including when you provide personal information during the purchase and payment processes.
This technology encrypts your information so a third party cannot read the information while in transit. We use the digital certificate services of VeriSign so you can be
confident knowing you are transacting your business with us.
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You have the right to prevent our sharing information about you in certain circumstances; such as, marketing in connection with our agreements with nonfinancial companies. But there are circumstances where we are lawfully allowed or required to share information about you. These circumstances include but are not limited to: among our affiliates, for example, if the information relates to your identification (such as your name and address) or to your transactions and experiences with us (such as your payment record and claims history); with a third party, for example, if it is necessary to provide services to effect, administer or enforce a transaction requested by you; with any of our affiliated companies that provide such services to you; with a third party financial institution under a joint marketing agreement; with regulatory authorities; and when otherwise required by law or legal process. In those circumstances, it is our policy to share your information only to the extent required or allowed by law.
If you prefer that we not share your personal information with third parties or among our own affiliated companies (unless the information is otherwise required or
allowed by law to be shared), please send your written instructions to:
Attn: Online Privacy Opt Out
National General Group
PO Box 3199
Winston-Salem, NC 27102-3199
Be sure to include your insurance policy number(s), claim number, premium finance account, memberships, or other account numbers.
Note that one joint account holder or policyholder can bind the decision not to share on joint accounts and insurance policies, including other covered persons. For example, if you and your spouse are joint insureds on an auto policy and you choose not to share, your decision will bind your spouse only for the joint accounts or joint policies. Individual accounts and policies of a spouse will not be affected by the other spouse's decision not to share information with respect to their individual accounts and policies.
You understand that if you instruct us not to share your personal information, you may not receive valuable information about financial and other consumer products and services
(possibly including certain types of discounts on, or other special offers related to, non-insurance products and services) that could be of interest to you and your family.
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Yes. Our Online Privacy Policy was originally effective August 10, 2009. We reserve the right to alter this privacy policy at our discretion.
Any change to this policy will be posted on our web sites in a timely manner. We encourage you to check our online policy periodically.
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Following are just a few examples of how you can improve your information security and guard against identity theft. For more information, the Federal Trade Commission at www.ftc.gov is a good resource.
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* This Online Privacy Policy applies to all companies in the National General Group that use common internet platforms, including: National General Insurance Company, National General Assurance Company, National General Insurance Online, Inc., Integon Casualty Insurance Company, Integon General Insurance Corporation, Integon Indemnity Corporation, Integon National Insurance Company, Integon Preferred Insurance Company, New South Insurance Company, MIC General Insurance Corporation, Home State County Mutual Insurance Company - (Administered by Integon National Insurance Company, National General Insurance Company, Imperial Fire & Casualty Insurance Company or Integon Indemnity Corporation), National General Motor Club, Inc., National Health Insurance Company, Agent Alliance Insurance Company, National General Premier Insurance Company, Imperial Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, Adirondack Insurance Exchange, Mountain Valley Indemnity Company, New Jersey Skylands Insurance Association, Century-National Insurance Company, Standard Property and Casualty Insurance Company, Direct Insurance Company, Direct General Insurance Company, Direct General Insurance Company of Mississippi, Direct National Insurance Company, Direct General Life Insurance Company, and National Farmers Union Property and Casualty Company. It will also apply to companies that in the future are controlled by or are under common control with a company in the National General Group and that use National General's common internet platforms.
Last Updated 04/2021
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