Important Notice – Partners Equity Group Privacy Statement
Revised February 1, 2006
At Partners Equity Group, we value you as a customer. We share your concerns about privacy. We are providing this notice to explain how we treat personal information (“customer information”) that is not public. This is information we obtain from you or other sources when we provide you with products and services.
We want you to know that we respect your privacy; and we protect your information.
We do not sell customer information.
We do not share your information with persons, companies, or organizations outside of Partners Equity Group.
We expect persons or organizations that provide services on our behalf to keep your information confidential. We also expect those persons or organizations to use your information only to provide the services we have asked them to perform.
We convey to our employees about the need to protect your information. We have established safeguards (these are physical, electronic and procedural) to protect this information.
Below are answers to questions you might have about privacy. You may be wondering...
What do we do with your information?
We do not sell your customer information to anyone. We do not share this information with companies or organizations outside of Partners Equity Group. If that practice were to change, we would offer you the means to opt out of this type of information sharing. We may also contact you about products, features, and options in which you have expressed an interest.
What kind of customer information do we have, and where did we get it?
Much of the information that we have about you comes from you. When you contract with Partners Equity Group, you may give us information regarding your company and agents: social security numbers, agent numbers, address, e-mail address, or telephone number. We may collect information from our web site. We may collect information from outside sources.
How do we protect your customer information?
We expect any company (insurance carriers) with whom we share your information to use it only to provide the service we have asked them to perform. Information about you is also available within Partners Equity Group. It is available to those people who may need to use it to meet and service the needs of our customers. We communicate the need to protect your information to all employees and agents. We especially communicate this need to people who have access to it. Plus, we have established physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your information.
Note that if your relationship with us ends, your information will remain protected. This protection will be provided according to our privacy practices outlined in this notice.
How can you find out what information we have about you?
You may request to see, or obtain by mail, the information about you in our records. If you believe that our information is incomplete or inaccurate, you may request that we correct, add to, or delete from the disputed information. To fulfill your request, we may make arrangements to copy and disclose your information to you on our behalf. You may also request a more complete description of the entities to which we disclose your information, or the conditions that might warrant such disclosures. Please send any of the requests listed above in writing to:
Partners Equity Group
2255 Riverside Drive
Trenton, MI 48183
Internet use…
Our web site, partnersequitygroup.com, provides information about us, our services, and the insurance companies that we represent. This Privacy Statement applies to users of partnersequitygroup.com, regardless of whether the user is a Partners Equity Group customer.
As indicated above, we may also use customer information to send you promotional communications about products, features, and options that we believe may be of interest to you. If we have your e-mail address, we may do this by e-mail. If you do not wish to receive promotional e-mails from us, you can inform us of your desire to be removed from our mailing lists by writing us at:
Partners Equity Group,
2255 Riverside Drive
Trenton, MI 48183.
Who Should Use Our Web Site?
Our Web site is for insurance and financial products and services; it is not intended for children. We do not market any products or services to children under the age of thirteen or knowingly collect any information from children under the age of thirteen. If we become aware that information is or has been submitted by or collected from a child under the age of thirteen, we will delete this information.
What security procedures do we use to guard against the loss, misuse, alteration, or theft of information while that information is being submitted to Partners Equity Group over the Internet?
We take seriously the issue of safeguarding your privacy online. However, please note that you should exercise discretion with respect to the submission of any personal or financial information via e-mail. Please keep in mind that transmitting information via e-mail over the Internet is never completely secure and thus any information submitted may be intercepted, collected, used, or disclosed by others. If you are concerned about the security of your communication, we encourage you to send your correspondence through the postal service or use the telephone to speak directly to us. We are not responsible for the security or confidentiality of communications you send to us through the Internet using e-mail messages.
What can you do as a customer to help maintain the security of information when accessing Partners Equity Group over the Internet?
Some steps you can take to maintain the security of your information include:
Utilize the latest, generally proven version of the Netscape, Microsoft Explorer or the America Online browser. Our site is most secure when using one of these browsers.
Keep your User ID and PIN or password confidential. Utilize a PIN or password unique to you and, if possible, change it frequently.
Make sure others are not watching you enter your User ID, PIN or password on your keyboard when using the Agent Log In or when using other protected areas of partnersequitygroup.com.
Do not leave your computer unattended while logged onto our Agent Log In or other protected areas of partnersequitygroup.com. After you’ve finished accessing your information, exit the Agent Log In or other protected area within partnersequitygroup.com. This ensures that no one can access your policy information if you leave your computer and your session has not been timed out.
Whose Privacy Statement applies to Links and Co-Branded Sites?
This Web site contains links to other sites. Partners Equity Group provides links to other sites as a convenience to persons who visit the Partners Equity Group web site. If you choose to use the services provided by those sites, you may be asked by those sites to provide certain personally identifiable information (some of which may, on an individual or aggregated basis, be shared with Partners Equity Group). Please be aware that Partners Equity Group is not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites, even though Partners Equity Group's name or logo may appear on those sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy policies of each and every Web site that you visit, as the privacy policies of those sites may differ from ours. Our Privacy Statement applies solely to this Web site.
We hope you have found this Important Notice helpful. Please be aware that we may periodically update or revise this Privacy Statement. If we change our online Privacy Statement, we will post a notice on our homepage notifying users that the policy has been revised. If you have any questions or would like more information, please don’t hesitate to contact Partners Equity Group at 1-734-675-6991 |
