Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Don Jacobs Insurance Services collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Don Jacobs Insurance Services’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Don Jacobs Insurance Services’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Don Jacobs Insurance Services may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Don Jacobs Insurance Services also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Don Jacobs Insurance Services does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Don Jacobs Insurance Services’s websites choose to interact with Don Jacobs Insurance Services in ways that require Don Jacobs Insurance Services to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Don Jacobs Insurance Services gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at this website to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Don Jacobs Insurance Services are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Don Jacobs Insurance Services collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Don Jacobs Insurance Services Don Jacobs Insurance Services does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Use of Personal Data
Don Jacobs Insurance Services may collect aggregated statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Don Jacobs Insurance Services may monitor the most popular website account on this site. Don Jacobs Insurance Services may display this information publicly or provide it to others. Don Jacobs Insurance Services does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Don Jacobs Insurance Services discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Don Jacobs Insurance Services’s behalf or to provide services available at Don Jacobs Insurance Services’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Don Jacobs Insurance Services’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Don Jacobs Insurance Services will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Don Jacobs Insurance Services discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Don Jacobs Insurance Services believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Don Jacobs Insurance Services, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Don Jacobs Insurance Services website and have supplied your email address, Don Jacobs Insurance Services may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Don Jacobs Insurance Services and our products. We expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Don Jacobs Insurance Services takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Don Jacobs Insurance Services uses cookies to help Don Jacobs Insurance Services identify and track visitors, their usage of Don Jacobs Insurance Services website, and their website access preferences. Don Jacobs Insurance Services visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Don Jacobs Insurance Services’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Don Jacobs Insurance Services’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Don Jacobs Insurance Services may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Don Jacobs Insurance Services’s sole discretion. Don Jacobs Insurance Services encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.
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