Privacy Policy Sterling Insurance Group

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group 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. Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group 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 Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group’s websites choose to interact with Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group in ways that require Lappan Agency/ Sterling Insurance Group to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group 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 Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group 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

Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group may collect aggregated statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group may monitor the most popular website account on this site. Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group may display this information publicly or provide it to others. Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group 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 Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group’s behalf or to provide services available at Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group’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 Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group 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, Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group website and have supplied your email address, Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group 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 Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group 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. Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group 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. Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group uses cookies to help Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group identify and track visitors, their usage of Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group website, and their website access preferences. Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group’s sole discretion. Lappan Agency/Sterling Insurance Group encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.

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