Privacy Statement for customers acquired from a Countrywide affiliated company - California
PRIVACY POLICY
Your Privacy is Our Priority
The Countrywide Insurance Group insurers* (Countrywide) are
trusted providers of insurance products and services to customers of the
Countrywide family of companies. 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:
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Internal electronic and physical access controls;
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Requiring our business partners to protect data;
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Audits of our access controls; and
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Limiting data access to those employees who need it to serve you.
Data Collection
We may collect data from:
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Your applications or other forms (such as name, address, age, Social Security
number, credit card information and health history);
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Your transactions with us or others (such as name and address and claims
history); and
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Consumer reporting firms (such as credit, claim or health history).
Data Sharing
We may share data with the following entities:
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Affiliates within the Countrywide family (such as a mortgage lender and
insurance agents);
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Firms that perform services for us;
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Government agencies as required; and
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Consumer reporting firms.
We may disclose to the entities above the information that we get
from you. We may share transaction and experience data with our affiliates as
allowed by law unless you opt out of such sharing. You will get a separate
notice which describes how to opt out. Such sharing will permit our affiliates
to make available to you certain products and services. However, please be
aware that we will not share data with firms not affiliated with us so that
they may solicit their products to you. Data we get from a report prepared by a
consumer reporting firm may be kept by such firm and shared with others. 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: Countrywide 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, Countrywide Insurance Group includes 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, Countrywide Insurance Services, Inc. and Balboa
Warranty Services Corporation.
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