Effective Date: This Policy was last updated on April 16,
2009.
Brown & Brown, Inc. and its subsidiaries consider the protection of your privacy
to be very important. Our goal is to treat any personal information you provide
us with the utmost respect and in strict accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Any personally identifying information you provide is voluntary. If you have any
questions about this Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at
it@bbins.com.
If you visit our Web site to browse, read, or download information:
You can browse our Web site without telling us who you are or revealing personal
information about yourself. In this case our Web servers automatically collect
and store: the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet;
the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser
software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our
sites; and the Internet address of the site from which you linked directly to
our sites.
We may use your IP address to assist in correcting server problems and to
administer our web site. Additionally, we may use this information for
statistical purposes, such as determining user demographics for advertising
purposes.
We may use this information only as anonymous aggregate data to determine the
number of visitors to different sections of our sites, to ensure the sites are
working properly, and to help us make our sites more useful. We do not use it to
track or record information about individuals.
If you are browsing, a cookie or tracking mechanism is used to help us measure
the number of visits, time spent, pages viewed and other Web site statistics.
This cookie, by itself does not reveal to us your e-mail address, or who you
are. If you decide to request information or a rate quotation from Brown &
Brown, or one of our subsidiaries, we may collect additional information in
order to properly respond to your request.
Cookies are small pieces of data stored by your internet browser on your
computer's hard drive. They cannot be used to collect data from your hard drive,
obtain your e-mail address or personal information about you. You may set your
browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to prevent cookies from being
sent. Please note that when you block the acceptance of cookies you limit the
functionality we can provide when you visit our site.
Insurance Quote, Application, and Information Request Forms
Our web site's insurance quote request forms and information request forms may
require users to provide us with contact information (such as name, e-mail and
postal addresses), unique identifiers (such as social security number), and
demographic information (such as zip code and age).
Contact information from information and insurance quote forms is used to
contact customers, when necessary. This data is necessary for the processing of,
and future identification of, insurance quotes and confirmation of mailing
addresses, and is used solely for those purposes. Information is never given or
sold to third parties for any purpose, except to Brown & Brown’s affiliated
businesses and to third-party service providers acting on Brown & Brown’s
behalf.
Unique identifiers (such as social security numbers) are collected from site
visitors requesting insurance quotes solely for the processing of an insurance
quote. This information is never given or sold to third parties for any purpose,
except to Brown & Brown’s affiliated businesses and to third-party service
providers acting on Brown & Brown’s behalf.
Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. This data is also
necessary for processing insurance quotes and is used solely for that purpose.
This information is never given or sold to third parties for any purpose.
Brown & Brown may disclose your personal information among its affiliated
businesses and with third-party service providers acting on Brown & Brown’s
behalf. However, Brown & Brown will not sell, rent or lease your personal
information. The personal information you provide may be transmitted, used,
stored and otherwise processed outside of the country where you submitted that
information, including jurisdictions that may not have data privacy laws that
provide equivalent protection to such laws in your home country.
Security and protection of Information
Brown & Brown uses encryption and authentication tools to protect your personal
information. The information you may provide through our Web site is secured
using industry-standard security matters to protect the loss, misuse, or
alteration of the information under our control. While there is no such thing as
perfect security on the Internet, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure
the safety of your personal information. In addition our employees are
instructed that such information is to be used only in accordance with the
principles of this Privacy Policy and the laws applicable to each specific
business. Employees who misuse customer information are subject to disciplinary
action.
External Links
This site may contain links to other sites not affiliated with Brown & Brown,
Inc. and/or related subsidiaries or affiliates. Neither Brown & Brown, Inc. nor
any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall be responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of such non-affiliated linked web sites.