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Privacy Policy
Penn Millers and Your Privacy
Your
Privacy Is Our Concern
When
you applied or if you will apply to Penn Millers Insurance
Company for any type of insurance, you disclosed information
about yourself to us. The collection, use and disclosure of
such information is regulated by law. Penn Millers and its
affiliates maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards
that comply with state and federal regulations to guard your
personal information. We also limit employee access to personally
identifiable information to those with a business reason for
knowing such information. Penn Millers also instructs our
employees so that they will understand the importance of the
confidentiality of personal information, and takes appropriate
measures to enforce employee privacy responsibilities.
What
Kind Of Information Do We Collect About You And From Whom?
Penn
Millers obtains most of our information directly from you.
The application you completed, as well as any additional information
you provide, generally gives us most of the information we
need to know.
Depending
on the nature of your insurance transaction, Penn Millers
may need additional information about you or other individuals
proposed for coverage. For auto insurance, we may need information
from your motor vehicle records. For property coverages, we
may send someone to inspect your property and verify information
about its value and condition. A photo of any property to
be insured might be taken. We may review insurance claims
information and other loss information reports, and we may
also obtain medical or financial information to adjust some
claims.
Penn
Millers does not collect or obtain any information on you
using an Internet cookie, an information collecting device
from a web server.
We
may obtain additional information we need from third parties,
such as other insurance companies, government agencies, courts
and other public records.
We
may also receive consumer credit information from a consumer-reporting
agency. A report from a consumer reporting agency may contain
information as to creditworthiness, credit standing, credit
capacity, character, general reputation, hobbies, occupation,
personal characteristics or mode of living. An investigative
consumer report, containing the same type of information,
may sometimes be obtained from such an agency that will gather
information through personal interviews with your neighbors,
friends, associates, acquaintances, or others who may have
knowledge concerning those items of information.
If
we order an investigative consumer credit report, we will
notify you as required by state laws and the Federal Fair
Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Under the FCRA, you have the
right to ask to be personally interviewed if we order an investigative
consumer report. Upon request, we will tell you how to get
a copy of the report. The agency that prepares a consumer
report for us may retain that report and disclose it to other
persons as permitted by law.
What
Do We Do With The Information Collected About You?
Information
that has been collected about you may be retained in both
our records and in your agent's files. We review it in evaluating
your request for insurance coverage and in determining your
rates. We will also refer to and use information in our policy
records for purposes related to issuing and servicing insurance
policies and settling claims.
If
coverage is declined or the charge for coverage is increased
because of information contained in a consumer report we obtained,
we will tell you as required by state law and the Federal
Fair Credit Reporting Act. We will also give you the name
and address of the consumer-reporting agency making the report.
To
Whom Do We Disclose Information About You?
WE
DO NOT DISCLOSE ANY NON-PUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT
ANY CONSUMER, CUSTOMER, FORMER CUSTOMER, APPLICANT, POLICYHOLDER
OR FORMER POLICYHOLDER EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY LAW. THAT MAY
MEAN THAT WE WILL MAKE DISCLOSURES TO THE FOLLOWING TYPES
OF THIRD PARTIES WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT:
·
Your agent or broker;
·
Parties who perform a business, professional or insurance
function for our company, including our reinsurance companies;
·
Independent claims adjusters, appraisers, investigators and
attorneys who need the information to investigate, defend
or settle a claim involving you;
·
Businesses that help us with data processing and debt collection;
·
Businesses that conduct scientific research, including actuarial
or underwriting studies;
·
Other insurance companies, agents or consumer reporting agencies
as reasonably necessary in connection with any application,
policy or claim involving you;
·
Insurance support organizations which are established to collect
information for the purpose of detecting and preventing insurance
crimes of fraudulent claims;
·
Medical care institutions or medical professionals to verify
coverage or conduct an audit of services;
·
Insurance regulatory agencies in connection with the regulation
of our business;
·
Law enforcement or other governmental authorities to protect
our legal interests or in the cases of suspected fraud or
illegal activities;
·
Authorized persons as ordered by subpoena, warrant or other
court order or as required by law;
·
Policyholders for the purpose of providing information regarding
the status of an insurance transaction; or
·
Lienholders, mortgagees, lessors or other persons shown on
our records as having a legal or beneficial interest in your
policy.
How
To Contact Us
Use
any of the following methods to reach us:
Penn
Millers Insurance Company
PO Box P, 72 North Franklin Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18773-0016
Telephone:
570-822-8111
Toll Free Number: 1-800-233-8347
Fax: 570-829-2060 |