Protecting the privacy and confidentiality of information about our customers is very important to Building Industry Insurance Association (BIIA). Accordingly, we strive to comply with each of the following practices in everything we do:
We do not sell, rent, lease or otherwise disclose personal information of our customers for purposes unrelated to our product and services. The personal information of our customers is of paramount importance to us. Therefore, we provide this information only to our employees, agents and third parties as required to allow them to help us develop and provide our insurance.
We work to ensure information integrity and security. We use technology tools and design our business practices to help ensure that the personal information of our customers is properly gathered, stored and processed. We also work to maintain the security of, and internal and external access to, the personal information of our customers through the use of technology and our business practices. We expect our service agents and employees to respect the personal information of our customers. BIIA has business policies and practices in place to help ensure that our employees and service agents carry out these practices and otherwise protect personal information about our customers. Both employees and service agents are subject to censure, dismissal, or termination for violation of these policies.
PRIVACY NOTICE
BIIA and our agents provide this notice to let you know about the current privacy practices of BIIA. You do not need to do anything in response to this notice. This notice is merely to inform you about how we safeguard your information.
Collection of Information
As part of BIIA's normal underwriting and operating procedures, BIIA (and our service agents acting on our behalf) need to obtain information to determine an individual/company's eligibility for our product and to perform our insurance functions. BIIA may collect nonpublic personal financial information about BIIA's customers, including:
Information from our customers (including names, addresses, and financial information). Information about the customers' transactions with BIIA (including claims and payment information). Information from consumer reporting agencies (including creditworthiness and credit history); insurance support organizations such as the Central Index Bureau (including claims histories); and a claimant's health care providers, employee(s) salary information.
Disclosure of Information
BIIA may disclose the nonpublic personal financial information we collect, as described above, as well as information about your transactions with us (such as your policy coverage, premiums, and payment history) to our service agents or other third parties who perform services or functions on our behalf. We may also disclose the nonpublic personal financial information we collect to other third parties as authorized by you or as required or permitted by law.
Our service agents will make disclosures of our customers' nonpublic personal financial information only while acting on BIIA's behalf and, furthermore, will make such disclosures only as BIIA itself is permitted to make.
Neither BIIA nor our service agents will use or share with other parties any nonpublic personal financial information about BIIA customer for any purpose other than disclosures for the performance of insurance functions by BIIA or on our behalf, disclosures that are permitted or required by law, or disclosures that the customer has authorized.
Neither BIIA nor our service agents will further disclose any nonpublic personal information about a former customer of BIIA other than as may be required or permitted by law.
Confidentiality and Security
BIIA and our service agents will safeguard, according to strict standards of security and confidentiality, any information we collect, receive or maintain about BIIA's customers. BIIA maintains administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to ensure the security and confidentiality of our customers' information and records, to protect against anticipated threats or hazards to such records, and to protect against unauthorized access to or use of such information or records.
Internally, BIIA limits access to our customers' information to only those employees who need access to the information to perform their job functions. Employees who misuse information are subject to disciplinary actions. Externally, we do not disclose customer information to any third parties unless we have previously informed the customer of the disclosure, have been authorized to do so by the customer, or are required or permitted to make the disclosure by law or our regulators.
