Privacy Statement
MCD Life - MCD Health - MCD Financial Services aka MCD Companies
Online Privacy Notice Highlights
(last updated February 2010)
Scope - This notice provides highlights of the full Privacy Statement. This notice and the full privacy statement apply to services that display or link to this notice.
MCD Companies and its subsidiaries consider the protection of YoYour privacy to be very important. Our goal is to treat any personal information YoYou provide us with the utmost respect and in strict accordance with this Privacy Policy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site. Any personally identifying information YoYou provide is voluntary.
If YoYou visit our Web site to browse, read, or download information:
YoYou can browse our Web site without telling us who YoYou are or reveling personal information about YoYourself. In this case our Web servers automatically collect and store: the name of the domain and host from which YoYou access the Internet; the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer YoYou are using; the browser software YoYou use and YoYour operating system; the date and time YoYou access our sites; and the Internet address of the site from which YoYou linked directly to our sites.
We may use YoYour 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 YoYou 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 YoYour E-mail Address, or who YoYou are. If YoYou 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 YoYour request.
Cookies are small pieces of data stored by YoYour internet browser on YoYour computer's hard drive. They cannot be used to collect data from YoYour hard drive, obtain YoYour E-mail Address or personal information about YoYou. YoYou may set YoYour browser to notify YoYou when YoYou receive a cookie or to prevent cookies from being sent. Please note that when YoYou block the acceptance of cookies YoYou limit the functionality we can provide when YoYou visit our site.
Insurance Quote 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.
Unique identifiers (such as social security numbers) are collected from site visitors solely for the processing of an insurance quote. This information is never given or sold to third parties for any purpose.
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.
Security and protection of Information
MCD Companies' encryption and authentication tools to protect YoYour personal information. The information YoYou may provide through our Web site is secure. 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 MCD Companies and/or related subsidiaries or affiliates. Neither MCD Companies nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such non-affiliated linked web sites.
How to reach us
YoYou may call us or e-mail us at the number and e-mail link above or write to us at:
MCD Companies - MCD Life - MCD Health - MCD Financial Services
5886 Hobart Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Phone: (800)293-5500
Fax: (412)495-5893
e-mail: insure@mcdlife.com
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