This Privacy Policy describes how Fortify Group, Inc. uses and protects the information you provide us as a visitor to this website or as our customer.
Fortify Group values your personal privacy and strives to protect it. If we ask you to provide information by which you can be identified using this website, it will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Fortify Group owns the information collected on this website. We will not sell, disseminate, disclose, trade, transmit, transfer, share, lease or rent personally identifiable information to a third party not specifically authorized to receive your information except as we disclose to you in this Privacy Policy.
What We Collect
We will not collect personal information that is not voluntarily supplied by you. We will ask you to provide your personal information to us when you enroll for coverage and purchase an insurance policy from us, as well as when you send an e-mail to us from this Web site. When you send us an email from this website, you will provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including your email address.
When you enroll for an insurance policy through Fortify Group, Inc. offices (in Geneva, Shickley or North Platte), we will ask you to provide your name, home address, mailing address, telephone number and email address. This information will be provided to the insurance company when you purchase an insurance policy so they can establish you as a policyholder. We will maintain a record of your information at the offices of Fortify Group, Inc., so we can provide you with policyholder service.
Each employee has been instructed on how to maintain the privacy of each customer, and the importance of protecting the customers’ personal information. Each employee at Fortify Group, Inc. is required to sign and acknowledge a Confidentiality and Nondisclosure Agreement to maintain customers’ personal information.
Payment
When you purchase an insurance policy through Fortify Group, Inc., you will pay the premium with your credit card, personal check or cash. If you use your credit card to pay the premium, your credit card information is deleted from our records after your purchase has been authorized. A transaction number will be provided to you on your Binder of Insurance. You may use this transaction number as a reference to the credit card purchase. We do not keep a record of your credit card information. If you pay the premium using your personal check, we will not keep a copy of your check in the file.
What We Do With The Information We Gather
We may use personal information for internal record keeping; to provide services you request and process your transactions or to create, operate and improve our products, services, content and advertising.
How we use cookies
We use website browser software tools such as cookies and web server logs to gather information about your browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our website and make your visit to the website more enjoyable. Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our website as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our website and evaluate our website's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture any personal information about you.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Security
The security of your personal information is of utmost concern to Fortify Group, Inc. We exercise care in providing secure transmission of your personal information, and we take commercially reasonable steps to maintain the security of this information. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you voluntarily transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Fortify Group, Inc., may store data on servers provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
Contacting You
Fortify Group may contact you via email to inform you of new products or services, to send information we think you may find educational or interesting, or to ask for feedback. You will have the opportunity to opt out of emails by notifying us or choosing to unsubscribe.
Third-Party Links
This website may contain links to third-party web sites that are not controlled by Fortify Group, Inc. These third-party links are made available to you as a convenience and you agree to use these links at your own risk. Please be aware that Fortify Group, Inc. is not responsible for the content of third-party websites linked to Fortify Group, Inc., nor are we responsible for the privacy policy or practices of third-party websites linked to Fortify Group, Inc.
Our privacy policy only applies to information we collect from you while you are at and while you are actively in a session with Fortify Group, Inc. If you should link to a third-party website from Fortify Group, Inc., we strongly encourage you to review and become familiar with the website privacy policy.
Your privacy responsibilities
To help protect your privacy:
- Do not share user IDs or passwords with anyone else
- Log off the Fortify Group Inc. website when you are finished
- Take precautions to guard against “malware” (viruses), such as installing and updating suitable anti-virus software.
Fortify Group, Inc. may change this Privacy Policy occasionally by updating this page. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy without providing you with advance notice of our intent to make the changes. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use this website.
The effective date of this Privacy Policy is Nov. 20, 2019. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us at jen@fortifygroup.net.
