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This website and all of its contents hereunder, are strictly for the use of AGENTS and ADVISORS appoointed with carriers through Advisor's Choice Insurance Brokerage Services LLC. This site is NOT FOR CONSUMER USE. The material contained in this site is composed of information created by Advisors Choice Insurance Brokerage Services as well as provided by third parties. The purpose of the information provided on this site is to provide Advisors with a reference to products, and other information. Advisor's Choice Insurance Brokerage makes every effort to maintain the accuracy of information provided on this site, however, DOES NOT GUARANTEE the accuracy of information provided on this site and is NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ERRORS AND OMISSIONS. All information should be verified by the Advisor using this site.
Advisor's Choice Insurance Brokerage Services Privacy Policy
Advisor's Choice Insurance Brokerage Services LLC (Advisor's Choice) strongly believes in protecting the confidentiality and security of information we collect about individuals and entities (Applicants) who use our services to obtain insurance coverage. The material below describes our privacy policy and describes how we treat the information we receive about applicants if they or their agents become a current or former customer, or use our services to apply for any of our or our carrier's products or services.
Why We Need to Know About Applicants for Insurance Coverage
We need to know about applicants for insurance coverage so that we can facilitate the acquisition of the insurance coverage and other products and services of which they've applied. We may also need information from their agent(s) and others to help us verify their identity in order to prevent money laundering and terrorism.
What we need to know about them includes their address, age and other basic information. But we may have to know more about them, including their finances, employment, health, hobbies or business they conduct.
How We Learn About Applicants for Insurance Coverage
What we know about applicants we get mostly from them. But either Advisor's Choice and/or our represented insurance carriers may also have to find out more about applicants from other sources in order to make sure that what we know about Applicants is correct and complete. Those sources may include Applicant's adult relatives, employers, consumer reporting agencies, health care providers and others. Some of our sources may give us reports, and they may disclose what they know about Applicants to others.
How We Protect What We Know About Applicants
We treat what we know about Applicants confidentially. Our employees are told to take care in handling Applicant's information. They may get information about Applicants only when there is a good reason to do so. We take steps to make our computer data bases secure and to safeguard the information we have about Applicants.
How We Use and Disclose What We Know About Applicants
We may use anything we know about Applicants to help us serve Applicants better. We may use it, and disclose it to our affiliated insurance carriers and others, for any purpose allowed by law. For instance, we and our represented insurance carriers may use Applicant's information, and disclose it to others, in order to:
- Help us evaluate Applicants request for an insurance carrier product or service
- Help us process applications for coverage and other transactions
- Confirm or correct what we know about Applicants
- Help us prevent fraud, money laundering, terrorism and other crimes by verifying what we know about Applicants
- Help us run our business
- Process data for us
- Perform research for us
- Help us comply with the law
- Audit our business
Other reasons we may disclose what we know about Applicants include:
- Doing what a court or government agency requires us to do; for example, complying with a search warrant or subpoena
- Telling another company what we know about Applicants, provided we have the appropriate written permission to do so
- Giving information to the government so that it can decide whether Applicants may get benefits that it will have to pay for
- Telling Applicants health care provider about a medical problem that Applicants have but may not be aware of
- Giving Applicants information to someone who has a legal interest in Applicants' insurance, such as someone who lent Applicants money and holds a lien on Applicants policy
- When we disclose information to others to perform business services for us, they are required to take appropriate steps to protect this information. And they may use the information only for the purposes of performing those business services.
How Applicants Can See and Correct Applicant's Information
We will work with an applicant to facilitate the Applicant's desire to review what we and/or the carrier for which the Applicant applied for coverage know about the Applicant if the Applicant asks us in writing. (Because of its legal sensitivity, we will not show Applicants anything that we learned in connection with a claim or lawsuit.) If Applicants tell us that what we and/or one of our represented carriers know about the Applicant is incorrect, we will review it. If we agree with the Applicant, we will correct our records and notify the carrier of which the applicant applied for coverage. If we do not agree with the Applicant, the Applicant may tell us in writing, and we will include the Applicant's statement when we give the Applicant's information to anyone outside our company.
Applicants May Have Additional Rights Under Other Privacy Laws
In addition to any other privacy notice we may provide, federal law has established privacy standards and requires our carriers to provide a summary of their privacy policy to their customers once each year. Individuals may have additional rights under other applicable laws.
How Applicants Can Get Other Material From Us
If Applicants want to know more about our privacy policy generally, please contact us through our form, or write to Advisor's Choice Insurance Brokerage Services LLC, 515 Marin Street, Suite 414, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360.
Vanderbilt Securities LLC is our affiliated Broker Dealer. Click here to view Vanderbilt's Privacy Policy.