Important Notice About Your Privacy
At Utica First our goal is to professionally and respectfully
serve the personal and business insurance needs of our customers. Information
that you provide or we collect about you when you apply for insurance
or when you file a claim helps us to achieve that goal. You provide
us with most of the information about you that we use in evaluating
your application and servicing your insurance policy or your claim.
This enables us to provide coverage to you at the best price or to service
your claim promptly and fairly.
We know that the trust
of our customers is our most important asset. This includes the trust
that we will keep the information about you secure and treat it only
as permitted by law. This disclosure and notice tells you about the
privacy policy we have adopted and the practices we use in handling the
information you furnished to us.
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do not disclose any non-public personal information about our customers
or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law. |
What types of information does Utica First collect about you?
We collect non-public personal information about you from the following
sources:
- Information we
receive from you on applications and other forms.
- Information about
your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others.
- Information we
receive from inspection or audit functions and, if applicable, state
motor vehicle records.
- Information we
receive from a consumer reporting agency.
What information do we share with our affiliated companies?
- We share non-public
personal information about our customers or former customers with our
affiliated companies only as permitted by law.
- In some cases,
this may mean information can be disclosed to our affiliated companies
without your authorization.
What information do we disclose to nonaffiliated third parties?
- We share non-public
personal information about our customers or former customers to nonaffiliated
third parties only as permitted by law.
- We do not disclose
your non-public personal information to nonaffiliated third parties
for the purposes of marketing the products or services of any third
party.
- In some cases,
this may mean information can be disclosed to nonaffiliated third parties
without your authorization.
What measures are taken by Utica First to protect your information?
- We limit access
to non-public personal information about you to those employees who
need to know that information to provide you with products or to provide
you benefits or services under them.
- We maintain physical,
electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with state and federal
regulations to guard your non-public personal information.
- We limit the collection
and disclosure of non-public information to information necessary and
relevant to the conduct of our business.
- We collect information
only by legitimate means.
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the right to obtain access to certain items of information we have
collected about you, and you have the further right to request correction
of information if you feel it is inaccurate. |
We would be pleased to tell you more about
our policies and procedures for the privacy of your information.
Questions or requests about your privacy should be addressed to:
Privacy Officer
Utica First Insurance Company
P.O. Box 851
Utica, NY 13503-0851
Remember to include your name, address,
policy number or claim number, and daytime phone number.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE FAIR CREDIT REPORTING ACT (PUBLIC
LAW 91-508) UTICA FIRST INSURANCE COMPANY ADVISES THAT AS PART OF OUR
ROUTINE PROCEDURE IN REVIEWING APPLICATIONS FOR INSURANCE OR RENEWALS
OF INSURANCE POLICIES, WE MAY PROCURE A CONSUMER REPORT INCLUDING INFORMATION
AS TO THE CONSUMER'S CHARACTER, GENERAL REPUTATION, PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
OR MODE OF LIVING. IF SUCH INSURANCE IS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL AND IS PRIMARILY
FOR PERSONAL, FAMILY, OR HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES, SUCH INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED
THROUGH PERSONAL INTERVIEWS WITH NEIGHBORS, FRIENDS, OR OTHERS WITH WHOM
THE CONSUMER IS ACQUAINTED.
UPON REQUEST TO UTICA FIRST INSURANCE COMPANY AS NOTED ABOVE, WE WILL
PROVIDE IN WRITING A COMPLETE AND ACCURATE DISCLOSURE OF THE NATURE AND
SCOPE OF THE CONSUMER REPORT REQUESTED OR ADVISE THAT NONE WAS REQUESTED.
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