Privacy Policy

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In the course of our business relationship with you, we collect information about you that is necessary to provide you with our products and services. We treat this information as confidential and recognize the importance of protecting it. We value your confidence in us.

 

How We Protect Your Information

 

Our customers are our most valued assets. Protecting your privacy is important to us. We restrict access to personal information about you to those individuals, such as our employees, who provide you with our products and services. We require those individuals to whom we permit access to your customer information to protect it and keep it confidential. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with applicable regulatory standards to guard your nonpublic personal information.

 

Information We Collect

 

We collect and maintain information about you to provide you with the coverage, product or service you request and to service your account. We collect certain information ("nonpublic personal information") about you and the members of your household ("you") from the following sources:

• Information we receive from you on applications or other forms, such as your social security number, assets, income, and property information;
• Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates or others, such as your policy coverage, premiums, and payment history;
• Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency or insurance support organization, such as motor vehicle records, credit report information and claims history;
• and If you obtain a life, long-term care or disability product, information we receive from you, medical professionals who have provided care to you and insurance support organizations, regarding your health.

Information We Disclose

 

We are permitted to disclose personal health information (1) to process your transaction with us, for instance, to determine eligibility for coverage, to process claims or to prevent fraud; (2) with your written authorization, and (3) otherwise as permitted by law.

 

The Farmers Insurance Group encompasses various affiliates that offer a variety of financial products and services in addition to insurance. Sharing information enables our affiliates to offer you a more complete range of products and services.

 

We may disclose nonpublic personal information, as described above in Information We Collect, to our affiliates, which include: Financial service providers such as insurance companies and reciprocals, investment companies, underwriters and brokers/dealers; and Non-financial service providers, such as management companies, attorneys-in-fact and billing companies.

 

We are permitted by law to share with our affiliates our transaction and experience information with you.

 

General Statement

 

We may collect your name, address, phone number and e-mail address at this site. We will use this information to provide you information you request. When you encounter a screen in this site that asks for information you do not want us to have or use, you should not proceed further with that screen.

 

Hyperlinks

 

We have links to third party web sites from our web site. If you go to these sites from our site, you may be asked to give non-public personal information for access to their services or products. You may become a part of that business' customer base and be subject to their policies regarding the handling of customer data.

 

Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to be aware of this when you leave our site and to read the Privacy Statements of each and every Web site that you visit, as the privacy policy of those sites may differ from ours. Our privacy statement applies solely to the Barth Howard Insurance Agency site (personalinsuranceagent.com).

 

Security

 

We handle your information securely. We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you only to those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you or to provide necessary technical support. We require our employees to adhere to high standards of ethics and integrity in performing their jobs and conducting business.