At Biggar & District Insurance Services, we are committed to protecting your privacy as a visitor to this Web site and as our customer. To our visitors and to our customers, we offer this pledge:
Biggar & District Insurance Services is the owner of the information, which is collected on this Web site. We will not sell, disseminate, disclose, trade, transmit, transfer, share, lease or rent any personally identifiable information to any third party not specifically authorized by you to receive your information except as we have disclosed to you in this Privacy Policy.
Information Collection
We will ask you to provide your personal information to us when you enroll for coverage and when you purchase an insurance policy from us. We will also ask you to provide your personal information to us when you send e-mail to us from this Web site. When you enroll for an insurance policy at Biggar & District Insurance Services, we will ask you to provide your name, home address, mailing address, telephone number and e-mail 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 Biggar & District Insurance Services so we can provide you with policyholder service. The employees of Biggar & District Insurance Services are each required to sign and acknowledge a Confidentiality and Nondisclosure Agreement. Each employee has been instructed on maintaining the privacy of each customer and the importance of protecting the customer’s personal information.
When you purchase an insurance policy from Biggar & District Insurance Services, you will pay the premiums by cash, cheque, debit or credit card, e-transfer or online through participating financial institutions. 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. We can; however, if advised by you, hold this information on file for future confirmed transactions. When paying premiums by any method, a receipt of payment will be issued upon request.
When you send us e-mail from this Web site, you will provide us with certain personally identifiable information including your e-mail address.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data that is stored on a visitor’s hard drive while they are visiting this Web site. We may utilize a short-lived form of cookie when you visit this site. At Biggar & District Insurance Services, a cookie is only used to identify one unique visitor from another visitor during a particular session. A session is the period of active site-use while that unique visitor is linked to our server. We may use cookie technology during a session as a tool to carry forward your input information during the enrollment process. This enables the visitor to input their information once and have the information appear later during the enrollment process. No personally identifiable information is stored on the cookie. The cookie expires and is deleted from the visitor’s computer as soon as they close their browser or if they are not actively browsing our Web site for more than 20 minutes. Should a previous visitor to our Web site return for a new session, they will be issued a new cookie and in no way will they be recognized as a visitor from a previous visit or session.
Third-Party Links
This Web site may contain links to third party Web sites that are not controlled by Biggar & District Insurance Services. 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 Biggar & District Insurance Services is not responsible for the content of third-party Web sites linked to Biggar & District Insurance Services nor are we responsible for the privacy policy or practices of third-party Web sites linked to Biggar & District Insurance Services. Our Privacy Policy only applies to information we collect from you while you are at and while you are actively in a session with Biggar & District Insurance Services. If you should link to a third party Web site from Biggar & District Insurance Services, we strongly encourage you to review and become familiar with that Web site’s privacy policy.
Changes In Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy without providing you with advance notice of our intent to make the changes.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us at:
Telephone: (306) 948-2204
Toll Free: 1-855-948-2204
Email: biggar@biggarinsurance.ca