Privacy Policy (as of January 2011)
Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy. It is meant to inform you of some important information about our privacy policy and your rights. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post them here and update the date set forth above. If any changes we make are material, we may take additional measures to inform you of those changes. Use of this website signifies your agreement with our Privacy Policy.
New Amsterdam Life is committed to the confidentiality and privacy of our clients' nonpublic personal information. This commitment extends to all clients, including former clients.
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your nonpublic personal financial information. We permit only authorized persons who are trained in the proper handling of customer information to have access to that information. New Amsterdam Life does not sell customer information to marketing, mailing list or telemarketing companies.
We may collect nonpublic personal financial information about you from various sources, including:
- Your Insurance Application Request Form and Contact Us submission, information such as your name, address and telephone number;
- Third parties, such as claims, consumer or medical reports; and
- Your transactions with us, information such as your premium payment and claim history.
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal financial information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except to certain third parties who perform services on our behalf and as required by law.
This Policy pertains to data collected from you when you use our website. Please refer to "Our Information Confidentiality and Security Policy" regarding data collected when you apply to New Amsterdam Life for insurance.
Many of the ways in which you interact with the New Amsterdam Life internet site allow us to learn about you. We collect and store statistics and other information about the online activities of our visitors. For example, we track the number of people who view each page to learn which features are the most helpful.
In those instances where we do collect personally identifiable information, you have the option of choosing whether or not to disclose it to us. Some examples of when you voluntarily submit this kind of information include a request by you for information or submitting an application request for insurance, or providing feedback to us in connection with our website. Personally identifiable information you may choose to provide can include your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and other information you may wish to tell us. If you do not provide all "required" information, however, some portions of our site will not work properly for you, or you may be denied access to certain sections of the Web site.
We do not sell your email addresses or your name and personal demographic information to mass marketers or other third parties. We use your information to do such things as distribute email communications, operate our site, enhance our site, and sell and deliver advertising. We also use this data, both aggregated and personally identifiable, to enhance your on-site experience by displaying content and marketing messages that we believe will be of interest to you. We may disclose information from our site, on an aggregated or non-personally idenitifiable basis, to third parties for purposes of analyzing our Web site traffic and optimizing how we lay out content on the site.
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your hard drive, not on our Site. We use cookies, or, in a limited number of cases, IP addresses, for a number of reasons. Cookies allow us tailor our Site or a marketing message to better match your needs and interests. Cookies also allow us to better understand how users use our Site, which in turn helps us focus our resources on features that are most helpful for our users. You can decline our cookies if your browser permits, but some parts of our site may not work properly if you do.
Please note that if you disclose any information on your own to parties who provide services to us or to any other sites you encounter on the Internet (even if these sites display our branding), different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them.
We maintain electronic and procedural safeguards to protect personally identifiable information. We permit only authorized persons who are trained in the proper handling of personally identifiable information to have access to that information.
We may change, move or delete portions of, or may add to, our site from time to time.If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post them here and update the date set forth above.
