Privacy Statement
Core-Vens & Company, Inc.
2301 North Second Street
P.O. Box 1028
Clinton, Iowa 52733-1028
Privacy Policy Notice
As of July 1, 2001
PURPOSE OF THIS NOTICE
Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) generally prohibits any
financial institution, directly or through its affiliates, from sharing
nonpublic personal information about you with a non-affiliated third party
unless the institution provides you with a notice of its privacy policies
and practices, such as the type of information that it collects about
you and the categories of persons or entities to whom it may be disclosed.
In compliance with the GLBA, we are providing you with this document,
which notifies you of the privacy policies and practices of Core-Vens
& Company, Inc.
The GLBA further requires that we inform you that you have a right to
prevent us from sharing nonpublic personal information about you with
a non-affiliated third party for any purpose that is not specifically
authorized by law. Your right to prevent us from sharing nonpublic personal
information about you with a non-affiliated third party for a purpose
that is not specifically authorized by law is called your right to “opt
out” of such information sharing.
OUR PRIVACY POLICIES AND PRACTICES
1. Information we collect:
We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following
sources:
** Information we receive from you on insurance application or other
insurance company forms with regard to insurance coverage in place.
**Information about your transactions with us or with others as it pertains
to insurance coverage in place.
**Information we receive form a consumer reporting agency such as credit
reports bearing on your creditworthiness, credit standing, credit capacity,
character, general reputation, personal characteristics or mode of life
which is used, expected to be used, or collected for the purpose of serving
as a factor in establishing your eligibility for insurance to be used
primarily for personal purposes.
**Information we receive from claims adjusters or other individuals or
entities concerning the processing or administration of claims that you
might have as a result of purchasing an insurance product from us.
** Information we receive from underwriting services such as CLUE or
Fair Isaac provided for insurance companies and agents and used as a factor
in establishing your eligibility for insurance to be used primarily for
personal purposes.
**Information we receive from government agencies such as motor vehicle
records.
**Information that we compile from sources that are within the public
domain such as telephone books, city directories, and membership lists
that are subsequently compiled into a nonpublic personal information database
used by us.
Unless sit is specifically stated otherwise in an amended Privacy Policy
Notice, no additional information will be collected about you.
2. Information we may disclose to third parties:
We may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above,
about our customers or former customers, to companies that perform marketing
services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we
have joint marketing agreements. We also may disclose information about
our customers or former customers as permitted by law.
3. Non-affiliated third parties to whom disclosures may be made:
A. Non-Affiliated third parties To Whom Disclosures May Be Made
We may disclose nonpublic personal information about you, such as we
have described above, to the following types of third parties that perform
marketing services on our behalf or with whom we have joint marketing
agreements:
**Financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements
such as insurance providers including those that have issued a policy
or policies to you.
** Financial institutions that may have loaned you money to acquire an
item of personal property such as a house, boat, car, jewelry, etc. That
requires proof of insurance coverage.
** Other insurance agents or brokers to enable us to provide insurance
coverage requested by you.
We may also disclose nonpublic personal information about you to non-affiliated
third parties as permitted by law.
B. Notification of Your Right to Opt Out of Certain Disclosures
As we have indicated in this Privacy Policy Notice, we collect certain
nonpublic personal information about you, and we may disclose that information
to certain non-affiliated third parties for purposes other than those
expressly permitted by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the federal and
state regulations implementing that Act. If you prefer that we not disclose
nonpublic personal information about you to non-affiliated third parties,
you may opt out of those disclosures, that is, you may direct us not to
make those disclosures (other than those disclosures that are expressly
permitted by the Gramm0Leach Bliley Act and its implementing regulations).
If you wish to opt out of such disclosures to non-affiliated third parties,
you may: check the appropriate box below or on the attached form and return
it to us as noted in the directions.
4. Our practices regarding information confidentiality and security:
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those
employees who need to know that information in order to provide products
or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards
that comply with federal regulations to guard you nonpublic personal information.
5. Our policy regarding dispute resolution:
Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to our privacy policy,
or the breach thereof, shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with
the rules of the American Arbitration Association, and judgment upon the
award rendered by the arbitrator (s) may be entered in any court having
jurisdiction thereof.
6. Reservation of the right to disclose information in unforeseen circumstances:
In connection with the potential sale or transfer of its interests, Core-Vens
& Company, Inc. reserves the right to sell or transfer your information
(including but not limited to your address, name, age, sex, zip code,
state, and country of residency and other information that you provide
through other communications) to a third party entity that (1) concentrates
its business in a similar practice or service: (2) agrees to be Core-Vens
& Company, Inc’s successor in interest with regard to the maintenance
and protection of the information collected; and (3) agrees to the obligations
of this privacy statement.
Core-Vens & Company, Inc