PRIVACY NOTICE

PRIVACY NOTICE AND NOTICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES

The employees of Hopkins Insurance, Inc., respect your right to privacy. Although we may provide this Notice as information to additional persons, the terms of this Notice apply to those individuals who inquire about or obtain insurance from Hopkins Insurance primarily for personal, family or household purposes, and certain group insurance plans.

We want you to know about our procedures for protecting your privacy and your rights and responsibilities regarding information we receive about you. We want you to understand how we gather information about you, how we protect it, and how you can help ensure its accuracy. We will provide our customers with a copy of the most recent notice of our privacy policy at least annually and more often if we make any changes affecting their rights under our privacy policy. This Notice applies to current and former customers of Hopkins Insurance, but does not in any way imply or affect insurance coverage.

Because Hopkins Insurance does not share consumer information outside of permitted exceptions, there is no need to take any action under this Notice. If we change our practices in the future, we will update this notice and, if applicable, enable affected consumers to opt-out of certain sharing.

We get most of our information about you directly from you, such as your name, address, social security number, income level and certain other financial information, on insurance applications and other forms that you provide to us. While in some cases the information you provide to your insurance representative during the insurance application process gives us all the information we need to evaluate you or your property for insurance, there are instances when we may need additional information or may need to verify information you have given us. In those cases, we may obtain information from outside sources at our own expense.

It is common for an insurance company to ask an independent source to verify and supplement information given on an insurance application. There are many such independent companies, commonly called “consumer reporting agencies,” which are in the business of providing independent information to insurance and other financial services companies. We will treat the information we receive about you from an independent reporting agency in accordance with the terms of this Notice. Upon our receipt of your written request sent to the address set forth in Section 5, we will inform you of the name and address of any agency we have used to prepare a report on you so that you can contact the agency.

Once you have been an insured customer of ours for a period of time, your record may contain information related to our experiences and transactions with you, such as insurance policy coverage, premiums and payment history, and any claims you make under your insurance policy. For example, information collected by a claims representative and any police or fire report will be retained by us. Any information that we collect in connection with an insurance claim will be kept in accordance with this Notice.

Finally, we do use “cookies” when you interact with our web sites to make that experience easy and meaningful for you. When you visit our web site, our web server sends a cookie to your computer. A cookie is an electronically transmitted file that holds small pieces of information. When you navigate through our web site, your browser “requests” pages for you to view, and that request will include the information stored in the cookie we previously sent to your computer. This process is like an electronic “handshake” between our system and your computer; the information exchanged allows us to recognize your browser.

Cookies are used to collect and store only the following information: the visitor’s domain name, the Internet address of the web site from which the visitor linked directly to our web site, the pages of our site that the visitor views and the length of time spent on each page, browser and operating system platform type, and the date and time the visitor accessed our site.

Cookies, as well as data taken from them, do not identify you personally. They merely recognize your browser. Unless you choose to identify yourself to us, either by responding to a promotional offer, buying a policy, or registering for an online service, you remain anonymous.

Session cookies exist only during an online session with Hopkins Insurance. Session cookies allow you to conduct transactions or requests on our web site. Without the session cookie information, we would not be able to complete your web transactions securely. Session cookies help us make sure you are who you say you are after you have logged in.

We do not sell this or any other information about you to other web sites, merchants or financial institutions. While we strive to protect your information, Hopkins Insurance cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us electronically, and you do so at your own risk. This web site contains links to other web sites. Hopkins Insurance is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

Information about you will be kept in our insurance policy records. We will refer to and use that information for purposes related to issuing and servicing insurance policies and settling claims. Generally, personal information about you in our records will not be disclosed by us to any external organization without your prior authorization. However, we may, as permitted by law, share information about you contained in our files with certain persons or organizations such as: your insurance representative, persons who represent you in a fiduciary capacity, including your attorney or trustee, or who have a legal interest in your insurance policy, adjusters, appraisers, auditors, investigators and attorneys, persons or organizations who need the information to perform a business, professional or insurance function for us, other insurance companies, agents or consumer reporting agencies as information is needed in connection with any insurance application, policy or claim involving you, medical professionals to inform you of a medical condition of which you may not be aware,persons or organizations that conduct research, including actuarial or underwriting studies, provided that no individual information may be identified in any research study report, persons or organizations that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements, our affiliated companies, to a court, state insurance department or other government agency pursuant to a summons, court order, search warrant, subpoena, or as otherwise required by law or regulation.

Except as permitted or required by law, unless we obtain your written consent, we will not use or share any personally identifiable health information about you for any purpose other than underwriting or administration of your insurance policy, claim or account, or in a manner as previously disclosed to you by us when we collected such information.

When your nonpublic personal financial or health information is disclosed by us to third parties for certain purposes described above, we will require them to use your information only for its intended purpose.

Hopkins Insurance currently incorporates a system of passwords and other appropriate physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect against unauthorized access to potentially private information. We will educate our employees about the terms of this Notice and the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy. Employees who gain unauthorized access or who otherwise violate our privacy policy are subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment. We plan to monitor and evaluate our information security program and available security software in light of relevant changes in technology to determine ways to increase protections to the security or integrity of our records and information.
Generally, you have the right to review and receive a copy of the recorded personal information about you contained in our files with respect to a particular policy number, except for certain legal and medical documents. You have the further right to request that we correct any of this information. To exercise these rights, you must send to us a notarized request at the address set forth below stating your complete name, address, insurance policy number, daytime phone number, and a copy of your driver’s license or other personal identification. If you believe any information is incorrect, we will investigate and correct it if we can substantiate the error. Even if we do not correct the information, you have the right to file with us a written statement of dispute which we will include in any future disclosure of the information.
If, after reading this, you have any questions about our privacy policy, please write to us at the following address:

HOPKINS INSURANCE, INCORPORATED
216 Front Avenue
Pocahontas, Iowa 50574

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