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USwideInsurance.com
Privacy Policy
Version
12/04/2005
New Conditions Please See
Referral Fee
At USWide Insurance, we strive to develop innovative services to
better serve our users. We recognize that privacy is an important
issue, so we design and operate our services with the protection of
your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of
personal information we gather when you use USWide Insurance
services, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard it.
The following principles apply to the personally identifying
information we ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying
information" is information that individually identifies you, such
as your name, physical address or email address.
Data collection
To process your quote request, we require your name, phone number,
email address, and any other information pertinent to the type of
service you are requesting.
This information is used by the third party product and service
providers in our network to provide accurate responses to your
enquiries. We provide this information to them on your behalf in
order for them to provide a product or service to you. (Unless
otherwise notified by you, these companies do not have any right to
use the personally identifiable information we provide to them
beyond what is necessary to assist us)
Personal information, including contact information, will never be
released to any other party at any time.
Referral Fee
When passing on your request for information USWide Insurance may
charge our partners a fee for right to provide you with the
information you require, and if you go on to purchase a product from
that partner USWide Insurance may receive a commission on that
transaction.
Cookies
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Upon
your first visit to USWide Insurance, a cookie is sent to your
computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A "cookie" is a
small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your
computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to improve the
quality of our service and to better understand how people
interact with us. USWide Insurance does this by storing user
preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of
how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept
cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to
indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some USWide
Insurance features or services may not function properly without
cookies.
Information sharing
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We do
not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other
companies or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may
share such information in any of the following limited
circumstances:
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We
have your consent by the act of you pressing submit to request a
quote.
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We
provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for
the sole purpose of processing personally identifying
information on our behalf. When this is done, it is subject to
agreements that oblige those parties to process such information
only on ours and your instructions and in compliance with this
Privacy Policy and appropriate confidentiality and security
measures.
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We
conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief
that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is
reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety
of USWide Insurance, its users or the public.
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We may
store and process personal information collected on our site in
Australia or any other country in which USWide Insurance. or its
agents maintain facilities. By using our services, you consent to
the transfer of your information among these facilities, including
those located outside your country.
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In the
event of a transfer of ownership of USWide Insurance, such as
acquisition by or merger with another company, we will provide
notice before any personally identifying information is
transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
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We may
share aggregated information with others. Examples of this include
the number of users who searched for “Insurance quotes” or how
many users clicked on a particular advertisement.
Information security
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We take
appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized
access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of
data.
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We
restrict access to your personally identifying information to
employees who need to know that information in order to operate,
develop or improve our services.
Links
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The
sites displayed as search results or linked to by USWide Insurance
services are developed by people over whom USWide Insurance
exercises no control. These other sites may place their own
cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal
information.
Changes to this Policy
Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We
expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that
are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this
page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a
more prominent notice. Each version will be noted at the top of the
page.
If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us
any time at
info@uswideInsurance.com
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