Commercial Insurance Guide Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or submit data via www.commercialinsuranceguide.com (the “Site”) or linked forms.
Your privacy is important to us. It is Commercial Insurance Guide’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our Site, https://commercialinsuranceguide.com, and via the linked forms we operate.
We only ask for personal information when we need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used.
What data we store, we’ll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
– “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier.
We use WordPress to power and host our website-you can read more about how WordPress uses cookies here: https://automattic.com/cookies/
For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
– “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
– “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally when you request a quote through the Site and/or the linked forms, we request certain information from you, including your name, company name, physical address, mailing address, email address, phone number and any specific information that will further our efforts to obtain a quote on your behalf.
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Quote Request Information.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We use the Quote Request Information that we collect generally to assist our efforts to obtain quotes.
Additionally, we use this Quote Request Information to:
Communicate with you;
Screen our quote requests for potential risk or fraud; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.
For example, we use WordPress to power and host our website-you can read more about how WordPress uses your Personal Information here: https://automattic.com/privacy-notice/
We use Cognito Forms to power and host our forms submissions. You can read more about how Cognito Forms uses your Personal Information here: https://www.cognitoforms.com/privacy
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
DATA RETENTION
When you request a quote through the Site or linked forms, we will maintain your submitted Information for our records.
EXTERNAL SITES
Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.
ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY ONLY
This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website or linked forms with regards to the information that they shared in www.commercialinsuranceguide.com or linked forms.
This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website or linked forms.
CONSENT
Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected]