Privacy Statement for customers acquired from independent producers or other financial institutions - CaliforniaPRIVACY POLICY
Your Privacy is Our Priority
For over 50 years, the Balboa Insurance Group insurers* have been trusted providers of insurance products and services to customers of our business partners. Due to our valued customer relationships, our privacy policy limits our sharing of nonpublic personal information we have about you ("data"). This notice is meant to explain how we protect and use your data. We want you to know that data you give us is safe, secure and used responsibly.
Data Protection
We protect your data in many ways. These measures include:
- Internal electronic and physical access controls;
- Requiring our business partners to protect data;
- Audits of our access controls; and
- Limiting data access to those employees who need it to serve you.
Data Collection
We may collect data from:
- Your applications or other forms (such as name, address, age, Social Security number, credit card information and health history);
- Your transactions with us or others (such as name and address and claims history); and
- Consumer reporting firms (such as credit, claim or health history).
Data Sharing
We may share data with the following entities:
- Firms that perform services for us;
- Government agencies as required; and
- Consumer reporting firms.
We may disclose to the entities above the information that we get from you. Data we get from a report prepared by a consumer reporting firm may be kept by such firm and shared with others. However, please be aware that we will not share data with others so that they may solicit their products to you. We do not share data except as described above or as required or allowed by law.
Internet Policy
Our web servers record a visitor's domain name but not the email address. These servers also track the website pages that are visited. This information helps us to improve our websites.
Data Review and Correction
You have the right to see and correct your data. To get a copy of your data that we have, please write to: Balboa Insurance Group, P.O. Box 19702, Irvine, CA, 92623-9702; Attn: Data Request. We may charge you a fee to cover our costs.
Privacy Policy Changes
If changes to our privacy practices affect your data, we will send you a new privacy notice before such change.
Please contact us at 1-866-605-3472 if you have questions about this policy.
Any rights that a consumer, claimant, or beneficiary may have as described in this notice are not limited by any standard privacy notices that we also use.
Corporate Privacy Policy Notice Effective Date: 12/2004
*For purposes of this statement, Balboa Insurance Group consists of Balboa Insurance Company, Meritplan Insurance Company, Newport Insurance Company, Newport E & S Insurance Company, Balboa Life Insurance Company, Balboa Life Insurance Company of New York, and Balboa Warranty Services Corporation.
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