NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES AND POLCIES

The privacy and security of your personal information is important to us. This notice will inform you about our policies and procedures concerning the personal information about you that we collect, maintain and disclose in connection with the insurance policies you obtain from us. In order to offer the highest quality insurance products at the lowest possible rates, we collect, maintain, and, in some instances, disclose "nonpublic personal information" about you. Nonpublic personal information may include your name, address, social security number, wage information, driving record, policy coverage, medical information or credit history. It may also include transaction information such as your premium payment or claims history with us. We appreciate the importance of your personal privacy and are committed to protecting it as we provide for your insurance needs.

Collection of Information
We obtain nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources: From you through applications or other forms such as claims forms or underwriting questionnaires Insurance support organizations such as claims reporting services and other parties who provide information on insurance related transactions you have conducted with us, our affiliates, as listed above, or others. Consumer reporting agencies.

We do not Sell Your Information to Others for Marketing Purposes
Because we respect your privacy, we do not sell, trade or otherwise disclose your identity or any other personal information about you to third parties for their marketing purposes. This includes information we obtain concerning all applicants, customers and former customers. We may, however, share information regarding your transactions with us with our affiliates, as listed above, or companies that perform marketing services on our behalf to assist us in providing our products and services to you. These companies are required to keep your information confidential.

Information We May Provide to Others
We only disclose information about our applicants, customers and former customers as permitted or required by law in conjunction with our normal insurance operations. Here are some examples:
We may disclose information to others such as our claims adjusters and our attorneys in the processing of an insurance claim;
We may be required by a court of law to provide information in connection with a legal proceeding;
We share information with consumer reporting agencies and insurance support organizations;
We may share information with government agencies which conduct examinations of our procedures.

Security of Your Personal Information
While your nonpublic personal information is under our control, access is limited to those employees who have legitimate business needs for such information with respect to your insurance coverages. In accordance with applicable state and federal regulations we maintain physical, procedural and electronic safeguards to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your nonpublic personal information.

Further Information
For additional information concerning our privacy policy you may write to us at:
Cook Insurance Agency
PO Box 157 - 119 Valley Drive
Jonesville, NC 28642

Disclaimer
The information on this Web site concerning any insurance policies, companies, or other products is intended to give you an overview of the policies and products offered by member companies of the Cook Insurance Agency. None of these descriptions constitutes an insurance policy and not all policies and products are available in all states. For more information, please contact Cook Insurance Agency at 336-526-2665
Cook Insurance Agency’s Web site provides you with the ability to view other worldwide web sites. Cook Insurance Agency does not endorse, promote or otherwise recommend in any way the products, services or information found through this access. Furthermore, no warranty or representation with respect to the products or services made available through other such sites is provided by Cook Insurance Agency.
Personal information provided by anyone to Cook Insurance Agency, for purposes of obtaining a quote via this website, should be considered to be voluntary and at the users risk. Personal information submitted by anyone to Cook Insurance Agency via this website should note that this information may be used to obtain insurance scores and past loss reports as provided by insurance and consumer reporting bureaus utilized by Cook Insurance Agency
Cook Insurance Agency is an equal opportunity insurance agency and does not discriminate in the coverage it offers or does not offer based on age, race, creed, color, gender, class, religion, sexual orientation and/or preference(s). Decisions to offer or not offer coverage options to anyone is at the sole discretion of applicable underwriting guidelines provided by companies with whom Cook Insurance Agency is legally appointed and/or by limitations according to North Carolina state insurance laws.

Form Submissions
Completion and/or submission of any web form to Cook Insurance Agency via this website, indicates that Cook Insurance Agency has permission to contact you via telephone. Furthermore, if you do subscribe to any “do not call” lists, your submission of information via this website indicates that you permit Cook Insurance Agency, to contact you via telephone. You will hold Cook Insurance Agency harmless from any penalties otherwise levied against all other telemarketing calls as indicated by federal do not call list laws.