Privacy Statement (US)

This privacy statement was last changed on December 10, 2022, last checked on December 10, 2022, and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United States.

In this privacy statement, we explain what we do with the data we obtain about you via https://app.quote-bot.com/. Continued use of https://app.quote-bot.com or https://quote-bot.com or any webpage affiliated with these main links constitutes consent for us to collect and share your information. We recommend you carefully read this statement. In our processing we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:

  • we clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this by means of this privacy statement;
  • we aim to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data required for legitimate purposes;
  • we first request your explicit consent to process your personal data in cases requiring your consent;
  • we take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
  • we respect your right to access your personal data or have it corrected or deleted, at your request. If you have any questions, or want to know exactly what data we keep of you, please contact us.

1. PURPOSE AND CATEGORIES OF DATA

We may collect or receive personal information for several purposes connected with our business operations which may include the following:

1.1 CONTACT – THROUGH PHONE, MAIL, EMAIL, AND/OR WEBFORMS

The following categories of data are collected

  • A first and last name
  • A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
  • An email address
  • A telephone number
  • IP address
  • A social security number
  • A signature
  • Physical characteristics or description
  • State identification card number
  • Insurance policy number
  • Professional or employment-related information
  • Health Information
  • Employment history

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

1.2 PAYMENTS

The following categories of data are collected

  • A first and last name
  • A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
  • An email address
  • A telephone number
  • IP address
  • Credit Card (tokenized so it is not retained by us)

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

1.3 APPLYING FOR AN INSURANCE POLICY

The following categories of data are collected

  • A first and last name
  • A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
  • An email address
  • A telephone number
  • IP address
  • Marital status
  • Date of birth
  • Social Security Number
  • Sex/Gender
  • Physical characteristics or description
  • Medical information
  • Health information
  • Employment information
  • Income information
  • Business information

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

1.4 NEWSLETTERS

The following categories of data are collected

  • A first and last name
  • An email address
  • A telephone number
  • IP address

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

1.5 RECEIVING QUOTES FOR AN INSURANCE POLICY

The following categories of data are collected

  • A first and last name
  • A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
  • An email address
  • A telephone number
  • IP address
  • Marital status
  • Date of birth
  • Sex
  • Physical characteristics or description
  • Driver’s license
  • State identification card number
  • Professional or employment-related information

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

1.6 TO BE ABLE TO COMPLY WITH LEGAL OBLIGATIONS

The following categories of data are collected

  • A first and last name
  • A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
  • An email address
  • A telephone number
  • IP address
  • Driver’s license

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

1.7 COMPILING AND ANALYZING STATISTICS FOR WEBSITE IMPROVEMENT

The following categories of data are collected

  • A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
  • An email address
  • A telephone number
  • IP address
  • Date of birth
  • Sex
  • Physical characteristics or description

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

2. SHARING WITH THIRD PARTIES

Continued use of https://app.quote-bot.com or https://quote-bot.com or any webpage affiliated with these main links constitutes consent for us to collect and share your information. We only share or disclose this data with Insurance Companies for the following purposes:

Purpose of the data transfer: Quoting, Qualifying for, and Applying for Insurance Policies

Country or state in which this service provider is located: United States of America

Upon receipt of this shared information, the Insurance Company or companies to provide our service.

Specific Third Parties by Category:

Insurance Companies:

Assurity Life Insurance Company and Assurity Life Insurance Company of New York. Assurity privacy policies: https://www.assurity.com/legal-information. Assurity may contact you directly upon receipt of data.

The sharing of data with these Third Parties is done in accordance with The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and if you do not want to share your information with these third parties DO NOT continue through any form on our site.

3. DISCLOSURE PRACTICES

We disclose personal information if we are required by law or by court order, in response to a law enforcement agency, to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information, or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety.

4. HOW WE RESPOND TO DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS & GLOBAL PRIVACY CONTROL

Our website responds to and supports the Do Not Track (DNT) header request field. If you turn DNT on in your browser, those preferences are communicated to us in the HTTP request header, and we will not track your browsing behavior.

5. COOKIES

Our website uses cookies for the quoting and application process for insurance. These cookies are stored for the next time you to or through our process to improve the customer experience and speed while utilizing our service. We do not place information into our cookies nor do we share our cookies for any other systems to track.

6. SECURITY

We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.

7. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data reliably or securely. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites before making use of these websites.

8. AMENDMENTS TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

We reserve the right to make amendments to this privacy statement. It is recommended that you consult this privacy statement regularly to be aware of any changes. In addition, we will actively inform you wherever possible.

9. ACCESSING AND MODIFYING YOUR DATA

If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. We will always follow up with a phone call to verify your identity. Please make sure to always clearly state who you are, and answer all security questions so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data of the wrong person. We will never ask for your full social security number in this phone call nor by email. We shall provide the requested information only upon receipt of a verifiable consumer request. You can contact us by using the information below. You have the following rights:

9.1 YOU HAVE THE FOLLOWING RIGHTS CONCERNING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

  • You may send an email to request access to the data we process about you.
  • You may request an overview, in a commonly used format, of the data we process about you.
  • You may request correction or deletion of the data if it is incorrect or not or no longer relevant

9.2 SUPPLEMENTS

This section, which supplements the rest of this Privacy Statement, applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of California pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCRA).

Privacy Information Disclosure for California Residents

Right to know what personal information is being collected about you

A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer the following:

  1. The categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
  2. The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
  3. The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
  4. The categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information.
  5. The specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer.

The right to know whether personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom

A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that sells the consumer’s personal information, or that discloses it for a business purpose, disclose to that consumer:

  1. The categories of personal information that the business collected about the consumer.
  2. The categories of personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.
  3. The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose.

The Right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights

A consumer shall have the right to request that a business delete any personal information about the consumer that the business has collected from the consumer.

A business that receives a verifiable request from a consumer to delete the consumer’s personal information pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall delete the consumer’s personal information from its records and direct any service providers to delete the consumer’s personal information from their records.

A business or a service provider shall not be required to comply with a consumer’s request to delete the consumer’s personal information if it is necessary for the business or service provider to maintain the consumer’s personal information in order to:

  1. Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by the consumer, or reasonably anticipated within the context of a business’s ongoing business relationship with the consumer, or otherwise perform a contract between the business and the consumer.
  2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
  3. Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
  5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.
  6. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the businesses’ deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if the consumer has provided informed consent.
  7. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
  8. To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer’s relationship with the business.
  9. Comply with a legal obligation.
  10. Otherwise use the consumer’s personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.
Right to opt-out

If you wish to opt out, DO NOT SUBMIT any form on https://app.quote-bot.com, https://quote-bot.com, or any affiliated website, as the information in these forms is required to be able to fulfill any portion of our service, specifically insurance quotes, insurance qualifications, and insurance applications. You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you. For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please send an email to info@quote-bot.com.

Financial incentives

Selling of personal data to third parties

We do not sell and have not sold consumers’ personal data in the preceding 12 months

A list of the categories we have disclosed with Insurance Companies for receiving insurance quotes or applying for insurance in the preceding 12 months:

  1. A first and last name
  2. A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
  3. An email address
  4. A telephone number
  5. Marital status
  6. Date of birth
  7. Social Security Number
  8. Sex/Gender
  9. Driver’s license
  10. State identification card number
  11. Insurance policy number
  12. Professional or employment-related information
  13. Employment history
  14. Income Information
  15. Medical Information
  16. Health Information
  17. Business Information

10. CHILDREN

Our website is not designed to attract children and it is not our intent to collect personal data from children under the age of consent in their country of residence. We, therefore, request that children under the age of consent do not submit any personal data to us.

11. CONTACT DETAILS

QB Insurance Agency LLC

16336 Golden Sun Way

Monument, CO 80132

United States

Website: https://quote-bot.com and https://app.quote-bot.com

Email: info@quote-bot.com

Phone number: 1-719-451-7552

ANNEX

Assurity

Assurity is the marketing name for the mutual holding company Assurity Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries. Those subsidiaries include but are not limited to: Assurity Life Insurance Company and Assurity Life Insurance Company of New York. Insurance products and services are offered by Assurity Life Insurance Company in all states except New York. In New York, insurance products and services are offered by Assurity Life Insurance Company of New York, Albany, New York. Product availability and rates may vary by state.

Assurity Life Insurance Company – NAIC license 71439

Assurity Life Insurance Company of New York – NAIC license 15940

Information about privacy and handling of user data, can be found at: https://www.assurity.com/legal-information

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Vimeo

Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored. If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account. For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.