Eccher & Associates Insurance Agency, Inc
Privacy Notice
We value the trust of our policyholders and the others for whom we do business. This Privacy Notice will provide you with our policy regarding the collection and protection of nonpublic personal information of our present and former policyholders. We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of nonpublic personal information collected in orders to provide quality products and services to our policyholders and former policyholders.
The information policy containing in this notice applies to information collected in connection with products for business purpose.
We may collect certain nonpublic information when underwriting, administering or servicing an insurance policy, or in handling a claim. It may be collected from such persons or organizations as our contracted companies or brokers, policyholder, a claimant, or a claimant’s employer. We may collect nonpublic personal information from persons who witnessed the incidents, or persons retained by a claimant or by us in the process of administering or servicing a policy, or handling a claim. Such people might include physicians, attorneys, accountants, repair shops, consumer-reporting agencies, and appraisers as permitted or requested by law.
Information that may be collected includes, but is not limited to, an individual’s name, address, telephone number, social security number, motor vehicle report, policy number, premium and/or premium payment history, medical history, and credit reports. We may also collect from claimant the claimant’s name, address, telephone number, address, telephone number, social security number, claim number, date of loss, type of loss, and the values of the claim. We may also collect nonpublic personal information when you use the agency web sites.
Nonpublic personal information may be shared with affiliate and nonaffiliated third parties in order to administer or serve an insurance policy or claim, and as otherwise permitted or requested by law. Our affiliates include insurance companies, administrators, investment companies, brokers/dealers and other providers of financial products and services. Examples of affiliated third parties include insurance companies, the policy holders, persons or organizations retained to assist in the administration of policies and/or claims ( such as appraisers, repair shops, and medical providers), insurance support organizations, reinsures, companies with which we have joint marketing agreements, and others as permitted or required by law.
We use nonpublic personal information to underwrite, administer or service policy, administer a claim, or in connection with billing charges and as otherwise permitted by law. Nonaffiliated third parties that may receive or have access to our nonpublic information are not authorized to use such information for any marketing purpose except permitted by law. They may not copy or disclose nonpublic personal information to any other party and may use it only for the purpose of performing their responsibilities to us, or our policyholders, or claimants and as otherwise permitted by law.
We control access to nonpublic personal information to those who need access to provide products and services to policyholders and to others as permitted and required by law. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to better protect against the misuse of nonpublic information under control.
We reserve the right to change our privacy policy in the future, which could include sharing nonpublic personal information with nonaffiliated third parties for purpose other than as started notice. We will provide you a revised Privacy Notice before we do that. Additional copies of our Privacy Notice may be obtained by submitting written request to the following address: Eccher & Associates Insurance Agency, Inc. Attn: Privacy Management, P.O. Box 7, Millstadt, IL 62260 or on the internet at our web page www.eccherinsurance.com