CINCINNATI EQUITABLE INSURANCE COMPANY
CINCINNATI EQUITABLE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
LAKELAND INSURANCE COMPANY
SOUTHERN MICHIGAN INSURANCE COMPANY
DISCLOSURE OF
NONPUBLIC PERSONAL
INFORMATION
At
Cincinnati Equitable, Cincinnati Equitable Life, Lakeland and Southern Michigan
Insurance Companies your privacy is important to us and we are committed to
protecting your privacy and earning your trust. We are required by federal statute, specifically the Gramm Leach
Bliley Act, to provide you with certain information about our practices
regarding the nonpublic personal information we obtain from you and about you
in the ordinary course of business. Our
practices of information-gathering in order to provide your personal insurance
are usual, appropriate and an acceptable method for the purposes of insurance
underwriting and reinsurance. We
collect information about people and property to quote and service insurance
policies and provide comparison rates.
Some of this is called “Nonpublic Personal Information,” which
generally means information that is provided by you, obtained by us, or that
results from your transactions with us.
It does not include information available to the general public.
We
collect the following categories of nonpublic personal information in the
normal course of business:
·
Information
we receive from you on applications or other forms;
·
Information
about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others, such as arising
from any claims you have presented, or your coverage with an affiliate of ours;
·
Information
we receive from a customer-reporting agency, including credit scores, motor
vehicle records and loss history information.
We
may disclose any of the nonpublic personal information you share with us to
affiliates, however, we will do so only to affiliates or to third parties who
help us perform our business function of underwriting and pricing your
insurance, settling claims, and otherwise servicing you and your policy(ies). This would include the following types of
nonaffiliated entities: consumer
reporting agencies, insurance adjusters, rating bureaus, insurance department
regulators, insurance agencies, property inspectors, and other insurance support
organizations. Disclosures to the entities
described here are permitted by law, and we only disclose your nonpublic
personal information as permitted by law.
Also,
we do not disclose nonpublic personal information about former customers except
as permitted by law.
In
addition, Cincinnati Equitable, Cincinnati Equitable Life, Lakeland and
Southern Michigan Insurance Companies seek to maintain the confidentiality of
your nonpublic personal information.
Cincinnati Equitable, Cincinnati Equitable Life, Lakeland and Southern
Michigan Insurance Companies intend for its employees to access customer’s and
consumer’s nonpublic personal information only in the course of their servicing
our products. We notify each employee
of our strict employment policy against any employee accessing nonpublic personal
information for any reasons other than to fulfill their job requirements or as
permitted by law. All employees are
also required to report to their supervisor any unauthorized use of customer’s
and consumer’s nonpublic personal information of which any employee becomes
aware, so that the matter may be investigated and appropriate disciplinary
action taken.
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