Our
Privacy Promise to You
USI provides this notice
to you, our customer, so that you will know what
we will do with the personal information, personal
financial and health information (collectively
referred to as the "protected information") that
we may receive from you directly or receive from
your health care provider or receive from another
source that you have authorized to send us your
protected information. We at USI are concerned
about your privacy and assure you that we will
do what is required of us to safeguard your protected
information.
What types of information will we be collecting?
USI collects information from you required
both for our business and pursuant to regulatory
requirements. Without it, we cannot provide our
products and services for you. We will be collecting
protected information about you from:
· Applications or other forms,
such as name, address, Social Security number,
assets and income, employment status and dependent
information;
· Your transactions with us or your transactions
with others, such as account activity, payment
history, and products and services purchased;
· Consumer reporting agencies, such as credit
relationships and credit history. These agencies
may retain their reports and share them with others
who use their services;
· Other individuals, businesses and agencies,
such as medical and demographic information; and
· Visitors to our websites, such as information
from on-line forms, site visitorship data and
on-line information collection devices, commonly
called "cookies."
What will we do with your protected information?
The information USI gathers is shared within our
company to help us maximize the services we can
provide to our customers. We will only disclose
your protected information as is necessary for
us to provide the insurance products and services
you expect from us. USI does not sell your protected
information to third parties, nor does it sell
or share customer lists.
We may also disclose all of the information described
above to third parties with which we contract
for services. In addition, we may disclose your
protected information to medical care institutions
or medical professionals, insurance regulatory
authorities, law enforcement or other government
authorities, or to affiliated or nonaffiliated
third parties as is reasonably necessary to conduct
our business or as otherwise permitted by law.
Our Security Procedures
At USI, we have put in place the highest measures
to ensure the security and confidentiality of
customer information. We will handle the protected
information we receive by restricting access to
the protected information about you to those employees
and agents of ours who need to know that information
to provide you with our products or services or
to otherwise conduct our business, including actuarial
or research studies. Our computer database has
multiple levels of security to protect against
threats or hazards to the integrity of customer
records, and to protect against unauthorized access
to records that may harm or inconvenience our
customers. We maintain physical, electronic, and
procedural safeguards that comply with federal
and state regulations to safeguard all of your
protected information.
Our Legal Use of Information
We retain the right to use ideas, concepts,
know-how, or techniques contained in any nonpublic
personal information you provide to us for our
own purposes, including developing and marketing
products and services.
Your Right to Review Your Records
You have the right to review the protected
information about you relating to any insurance
or annuity product issued by us that we could
reasonably locate and retrieve. You may also request
that we correct, amend or delete any inaccurate
information by writing to us at:.
U.S.I. Holdings Corporation
555 Pleasantville Road
South Building
Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
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