Released: July 5, 2001
Purpose of this Notice
The privacy of personal information is important to Seabury &
Smith, Inc., its subsidiaries and other affiliated companies.
Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) is a United States
law that generally prohibits any financial institution, directly
or through its affiliates, from sharing nonpublic personal information
about consumers or customers with a nonaffiliated third party unless
the institution provides the appropriate consumer or customer with
a notice of its privacy policies and practices, such as the type
of information that it collects from consumers or customers and
the categories of persons or entities to whom the information may
be disclosed. In compliance with the GLBA and state laws relating
to privacy in the insurance industry, and in order to notify our
clients of our privacy practices, we are providing you with this
document, to inform you of our privacy policies and practices.
Our Privacy Policies and Practices
We provide insurance brokerage, risk management and related services
to our individual, corporate, union and association clients ("Clients")
1. Information we collect:
We collect nonpublic personal information about the employees and
members of our corporate, union and association Clients, in certain
cases their family members, and from our individual Clients (collectively
"Participants") from the following sources:
- Information we receive from Clients and Participants on applications
or other forms in connection with providing services to Clients
and Participants.
- Information we receive as a result of processing and verifying
the information provided to us about Clients and Participants.
Information we receive from affiliates, insurers, other intermediaries,
third party providers and others regarding our Clients and Participants.
- Information we receive from consumer reporting agencies.
- Information available from external sources (such as publicly
available records).
2. Information we may diclose to third parties:
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about our
Clients, former Clients, Participants or former Participants to
any third parties except as stated in this policy and as otherwise
permitted by law. We may share this information outside the company
in order to process or complete the transaction for which the information
was provided or as otherwise authorized by our Clients or Participants.
The law permits us to share this information with our affiliates.
We may also disclose all of the information we collect, as described
in Section 1 above, to companies that perform marketing services
on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have
joint marketing agreements.
The GLBA and this notice does not affect any rights an individual
Client or Participant may have under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
3. Our practices regarding information confidentiality and
security:
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about Clients
and Participants to those who need to know that information in order
to provide products or services to our Clients and Participants.
We have in place physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards
in order to guard any nonpublic personal information we maintain
regarding Clients and Participants.
You do not need to call or do anything as a result of this
notice. It it meant to inform you of how we treat your nonpublic
personal financial information.
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