Privacy Policy for ‘Tristar.insure’
Effective date (this version): Feb 9th, 2021
TRISTAR Insurance Agents & Brokers Ltd. is a Bahamian-registered and owned company and is under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. This website, Tristar.insure, is owned and operated by TRISTAR Insurance Agents & Brokers.
TRISTAR Insurance Agents & Brokers Ltd. exists to provide a variety of insurance and financial products and services from leading insurers and providers. Our websites and other digital assets, including this website, Tristar.insure, are used to accomplish our business goals and to better service our customers and partners.
1. INTRODUCTION
This Privacy Policy applies when you visit this website, Tristar.insure, and when you use any of the online forms found therein.
We take privacy seriously. We also understand the importance of carefully handling the sensitive and personal information that is shared through our website. Users and visitors of our websites may rest assured that, unless required by law, we will not share or sell their personal information in any shape or form to any 3rd party.
2. SECURITY
We are committed to ensuring that your information is safe and secure. To safeguard against unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
3. DATA THAT WE COLLECT
3.1 User-Entered Data
We collect data that users of our website provide to us through direct entry into the various online forms found on our website. This includes data entered into contact forms or into request for quotation forms or any other form found on Tristar.insure. Examples of data collected include: name, age, gender, address, medical history and preferences for levels and type of insurance coverage.
How user-collected data is used
User-Entered Data is used to either assist customers with questions (in the case of our contact forms) or to provide insurance quotations (in the case of our various online quotation forms). Data entered into the various forms on our website is stored indefinitely in the database(s) connected to our website.
3.2 Data Collected via Cookies
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Visitor data may be collected through the use of Google Analytics. This information is collected through a cookie (a small file placed onto a visitor’s device) that collects information such as how many website visits Tristar.insure receives over a period of time, where those visits came from, what page was the entry and exit point for the visit, how long a visitor stayed on the website, the pages that were visited and more. Note that the cookie does not collect personal identifiable information and thus none of the information entered through any of the online quotation or contact forms found on the website is accessed or shared by Google.
Please refer to Google’s privacy policy which includes analytics for further information: https://policies.google.com/privacy
How it is used
Cookies are commonly used by websites to improve the user experience. Data collected via Google Analytics is used solely for the purposes of optimizing our website for online search, for usability, and to improve its overall performance as an important communication tool for the company and its customers.
3.3 SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
Note that our website contains social media links that direct users to our various business accounts with popular third-party social media sites like Facebook and Instagram. These social websites will often track visitors using their own cookies which may continue to follow a user’s activity long after they have visited the Tristar.insure website. Should this be of concern to you, there are a variety of browser-based plugins that you may download to block social media websites from collecting information about you.
4. DATA SHARING OR TRANSFER
Note that TRISTAR Insurance Agents & Brokers Ltd. does share information that website visitors enter into the various online insurance quotation forms with the relevant insurers from whom our customers are seeking to receive insurance quotations or coverage from. The insurance quotation forms found on this website were crafted expressly for the purpose of collecting and transmitting information to these insurance providers with whom we conduct business and partner with to provide a range of insurance-related products and services. If you have any questions about the data that is passed through our online quotation forms, please send us a message at: https://tristar.insure/contact-us.
As stated, we generally, we do not share the personally identifiable information collected through our website with anyone unless we have obtained your prior permission. However, we may share personally identifiable information about you with business affiliates and subsidiaries that we control and that either are subject to following practices equal to, or at least as protective, as those described in this Privacy Policy. We may also share personally identifiable information with agents and contractors that assist us in administering this website and in providing our products and services to you, in response to legal process or when the law requires it (for example, in response to a subpoena, court order or a law enforcement agency’s request), or to protect the rights, property or safety of TRISTAR, the website, users of the website and others. In addition, in the event that assets relating to TRISTAR are transferred or sold to another entity, personally identifiable information may be transferred to the acquiring entity and/or to potential acquiring entities.
We will not sell or trade customer information with any other organization outside of TRISTAR Insurance Agents & Brokers Ltd.
Customer email information will not be sold or given to an email subscription or marketing organization outside of TRISTAR Insurance Agents & Brokers Ltd. without the approval of any affected individual.
5. CONTACTING US
Through the Bahamas Data Protection (Privacy of Personal Information) Act (DPA), you have the right to access, the right to delete and the right to correct or rectify inaccurate data that has been collected and is being stored through your use of our website. If you would like to know what has been stored, or need stored information about yourself to be edited or deleted, contact us at https://tristar.insure/contact-us.
TRISTAR Insurance Agents & Brokers Ltd.
Office Address: East Bay & York Streets | Nassau, Bahamas
Phone: 242-502-9400
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