Beazley Plc ("Beazley")
Privacy Statement
Beazley regards the lawful and correct
treatment of personal information as important and is committed to
safeguarding the privacy of visitors to the website. Our privacy
policy explains how your information may be lawfully and correctly
treated by our staff.
For the purposes of the UK Data
Protection Act 1998 (the Act), Beazley is a data controller.
The information we collect
In order for you to use the service offered in
this website, we need to collect various types of information. This
information will include name, address, e-mail address, telephone,
fax numbers, and details relating specifically to any insurance
coverage required.
When you visit this website, our server will
automatically record your domain and IP, the date, time and
duration of your visit, and any information you provide by filling
in forms on any of our websites. This includes information provided
at the time of registering to use any of our websites. We may also
ask you for information when you report a problem with any of our
websites or if you contact us for any other reason. We may collect
information about your computer, including where available your IP
address operating system and browser type. IP addresses are not
linked to personally identifiable information. We only use IP
address to analyse trends, administer our website, track general
user movements, and gather broad demographic information for
aggregate use.
How we use this information
We will only use the information you have
provided in order to:
- Ensure that content from our websites are
presented in the most efficient manner for you and your
computer;
- Process marine certificate quotes;
- Process invoices and accounting records;
- Administer your insurance policy and marine
certificates;
- Respond to any query or comment you have
made, or to provide you with information you have requested.
The data we collect from you may be
transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European
Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating
outside the EEA. By submitting your details you agree to this
transfer, storing and processing. On many occasions data
processing will take place at Beazley, and at a third party
subcontracted to Beazley, called Insurance Systems Inc.
(Hereinafter “ISI”). The same duty of confidentiality and security
will apply to ISI and all processing will be carried out under our
instruction.
In relation to any other third parties we will
only disclose your information where you have given your consent or
where we are required to do so by law, or where it is necessary for
the purpose of, or in connection with legal proceedings or in order
to exercise or defend legal rights.
All data processing is regulated under the
Data Protection Act 1998.
Social Security Number Policy
Beazley may collect social security numbers as part of the
conduct of its business and this notice applies to any social
security number that we collect in the course of our
business. We strive to protect the confidentiality of the
social security numbers that we collect, by limiting access to
social security numbers and by maintaining protections against the
misuse, loss or unlawful disclosure of social security numbers.
Information security
On this website we protect any information you
have given us by providing you with a User ID and password. We also
use industry standard secure sockets layer (SSL) 128 bit encryption
technology to encrypt sensitive information. However, the
transmission of information via the internet is not completely
secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data,
we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our
websites; any transmission is at your own risk.
The User ID and password helps us to protect
your personal information. You will need a User ID and password to
access your personal information on our website. You must keep this
password safe and must not disclose it to anyone. We will accept no
responsibility or liability if a third party obtains and users your
User ID and password. You must tell us immediately if you have lost
your User ID or password, or if you believe a third party may have
obtained it. Please inform us if you would like us to change your
User ID or password for any reason.
Links to other third party websites
This site provides links to other third party
sites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these
websites and this statement applies solely to any personal
information collected by our website.
Disclosure of your Information
We may disclose your personal information to
any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, ultimate
holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in
section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
We may disclose your personal information to
third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business
or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the
prospective seller or buyer of such business of assets.
- If Beazley or substantially all of its assets
are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by
it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share
your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or
in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or terms and
conditions of supply and other agreements; or to protect the
rights, property of safety of Beazley, our customers, or others.
This includes exchanging information with other companies and
organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk
reduction.
Use of cookies
Cookies are pieces of information in the form
of a small flat file that a website transfers to your hard drive to
store and sometimes track information about the use of the website
and the aspects of it that interest you. You are not obliged to
accept a cookie that we send to you and you can in fact modify your
browser so that it will not accept cookies. However, if you select
this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site.
For more information about cookies including how to set your
internet browser to reject cookies please go to
www.allaboutcookies.org. We use this information to compile
statistical data on the use of our websites, but we do not use the
information itself.
Modifying and removing personal information
You have the right to ask us not to process
your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform
you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for
such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any
third party for such purposes. You can exercise the right at any
time by contact us at the address below.
If at any time you would like your record and
all personal information relating to you removed from our system,
please send an e-mail to info@Beazley.com. Such removal may
not be possible until any current contracts of insurance with you
have expired.
The Act gives you the right of access to
information held about you for a small fee. Your right of access
can be exercised in accordance with the Act.
Your acceptance of these terms
By using this site, you consent to the
collection and use of this information by Beazley and to this
privacy policy. If we change our privacy policy in any way, we will
post these changes on this page. You are responsible for checking
this privacy policy whenever you access the Site.
Contact details
Please e-mail any questions, concerns or
comments you have about this policy to:
Beazley plc
2 Northwood Avenue, Northwood Park
Santry Demesne, Santry
Dublin, 9
Email: info@beazley.com
Last updated: July, 2009