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	Usage & Privacy Statement At Tri-County Insurance Agency, we are committed to providing you with the best insurance and wealth management related products backed by consistent, top-quality service. While personal information about you is fundamental to our ability to do this, your privacy is also very important to us. This notice will tell you about our privacy policy and the practices we use in handling our nonpublic personal information. You are entitled to know what kind of personal information we keep in our files about you, to have reasonable access to it, and to receive a copy. Contact us if you have questions about what personal information we may have on file. Tri-County Insurance Agency obtains most of our information directly from you. The application you complete, as well as any additional information you provide, generally gives us most of the information we need to know. We may also collect personal information about you from any of your other transactions with us, our affiliates, or others. Third party sources of personal information might include government agencies, consumer reporting agencies, courts, and other public records. The types of personal information we gather depends on the nature of your insurance transaction. For auto insurance, we quite often obtain information from your motor vehicle records. For property coverage, we may send someone to inspect your property and verify information about its value and condition. A photo of any property to be insured might be taken. We may review insurance claims information and other loss information reports, and we may also obtain medical or financial information to adjust some claims. At times we may review personal information contained in consumer reports provided to us by a consumer reporting agency. The agency that prepares a consumer report for us may retain that report and disclose it to other persons as permitted by law. Personal information that has been collected about you may be retained in our records. We review it in evaluating your request for insurance coverage and in determining your rates. We will also refer to and use such information in our policy records for purposes related in issuing and servicing insurance policies and settling claims. Tri-County Insurance Agency uses a variety of physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information in our possession. We also limit our employees' access to your personal information to those with a business reason for knowing such information. Tri-County Insurance Agency also instructs our employees so that they will understand the importance of the confidentiality of personal information, and takes appropriate measures to enforce employee privacy responsibilities. We do not disclose any personal information about our customers or former customers, except as permitted by law. That means we may make disclosures to the following types of third parties, if necessary, without your consent: Our affiliated property and casualty insurance companies; Parties who perform a business, professional, or insurance function for our company; Independent claims adjusters, appraisers, investigators, medical professionals, and attorneys who need the information to investigate, defend, or settle a claim involving you; Consumer reporting agencies as reasonably necessary in connection with any application, policy, or claim involving you; Insurance regulatory agencies in connection with the regulation of our business; Law enforcement or other governmental authorities to protect our legal interests or in cases of suspected fraud or illegal activities; Certificate holders or policyholders for the purpose of providing information regarding the status of an insurance transaction; or Lienholder, mortgagees, lessors, or other persons shown on our records as having a legal or beneficial interest in your policy. Internet Privacy Policy The Tri-County Insurance Agency is just as committed to protecting your privacy on the Internet as we are for traditional insurance services. We encourage you to read the following policy for information regarding our Internet specific privacy measures. While you are using our site, Tri-County Insurance Agency collects information on the pages you have visited and the contents of those pages, any information you input, your time of visit and related session information, your requested page, and the status of your request. This information enables us to tell which areas of the site are of most interest to our visitors. We use this information to manage and customize our website content, layout, and services, to improve our site and enhance customer service. If you contact us by e-mail, your e-mail address will be revealed to us in the message you send. We will use your e-mail address only for the specific purpose of responding to your comments or questions. We will not sell your e-mail address or share it with others outside of Tri-County Insurance Agency. If you have indicated the desired to be added to out mailing, you may receive email communications from us. This site has security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Tri-County Insurance Agency maintains security procedures to help prevent unauthorized access to your information. These procedures are tested and audited periodically to determine their integrity. Transmitting information or sending e-mail messages via the Internet is never completely secure. They may be intercepted, collected, used or disclosed by others. We are not responsible for the security of any confidential communication you send to us via the Internet. We encourage you to communicate confidential information either through the mail, express delivery service, or by telephone. Our website contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click one of those links, you are moving to another website. We encourage you to read the Privacy Statements of these linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours.		Preferred Providers › Office Directions