Allstate Property-Liability Sales and Distribution (“Business”, “we”, “our” or “us”) operates through a network of independent and exclusive agents to sell our services and products and assist our customers. As part of our relationship with you, our prospective, current and former agents (“you”, “your”), we collect, use and share your personal information. This privacy statement describes our privacy practices relating to the collection, use and sharing of personal information of prospective, current, and former agents.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
We collect personal and other information about you. Personal information is data that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked (directly or indirectly) with you. Other information does not and cannot reveal an individual’s identity such as information that has been de-identified or aggregated.
We collect personal information about you in several ways from several sources. We collect personal information directly from you as part of our business relationship, including but not limited to personal information provided in connection with the onboarding, enrolling, referral and quoting processes, as well as information necessary to facilitate commission payments. We collect information automatically from you when you use our websites, view our emails or otherwise engage with us through a computer or mobile device (“Sites”). We also collect personal information about you from third parties such as consumer reporting agencies and data providers to run credit reports or do background checks. We do not knowingly collect any information from children under the age of sixteen.
The following are the categories of personal information we have collected and shared for at least the past 12 months, and examples of the personal information that fall into those categories:
Personal information categories
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Examples
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Personal identifiers
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Name, alias, postal address, email address, online identifier, internet protocol (IP) address, phone number, date of birth, Social Security number, driver's license number,
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Personal characteristics
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Age, marital status, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression),
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Professional information
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Producer number, agent number or other professional license number, bank account financial information, employer tax identification number, professional history or employment-related information.
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Internet or other electronic network activity information
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Information regarding your interaction with our website, application or advertisement, links you use or web pages you visit while visiting our site or applications, browser type, or internet service provider (ISP).
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Sensitive Personal Information
Some personal information we collect is defined under the law as sensitive personal information. Sensitive personal information we collect includes your social security number, driver’s license number, account log-in information, and financial account numbers.
We use sensitive personal information only as reasonably necessary to maintain our business relationship, to maintain your accounts, process payments, to detect security incidents, resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions and to prosecute those responsible for those actions, to ensure peoples’ physical safety, or other reasons that do not require an opt-out of this use.
USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We use personal information collected from or about you for business purposes including to:
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Process your information for onboarding including determining eligibility or qualifications for establishing our business relationship,
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Manage and maintain our business relationship including to identify and review your qualifications, process commission and other payments, update or correct our records, or provide you with applications needed for your agency role,
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Advertise or market to consumers about your professional services to generate business leads for you,
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Comply with legal requirements, assist in an investigation, comply with requests from regulatory and law enforcement authorities and meet contractual obligations,
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Communicate with you via email, mail or other methods about our business, including opportunities or other information relevant to our business relationship,
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Protect the safety and security of our business, services, and Sites including to prevent suspected fraud, threats to our network or other illegal activities, prevent misuse or for any other reason permitted by law, and
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Carry out other activities required in the normal course of our business relationship with you.
RETAINING YOUR INFORMATION
We retain personal information in accordance with applicable laws or regulatory requirements and also for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and to fulfill the business or commercial purposes that are explained in this Privacy Statement.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
We do not sell your personal information. We may share your personal information with our affiliates for business purposes consistent with the uses described in this Privacy Statement. We may also share information about you with third parties whenever you consent to or direct such sharing. We strive to work with companies that share our commitment to privacy. We may also share information with others in an aggregated or de-identified form that does not reasonably identify you.
We may also share your personal information with third parties for business purposes or as required or permitted by law including with:
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Service providers: We may share personal information with service providers who perform services on our behalf for business purposes described above in “Use of Your Information” such as advertising your agency on Google. We may also share personal information with marketing companies who will advertise your agency to generate business leads for you.
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Third parties in connection with a business transaction: Personal information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a merger, sale of any or all of our company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by an affiliate or third party, or in the event of a bankruptcy or related or similar proceedings.
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Law enforcement, regulators and other parties for legal reasons: Personal information may be disclosed to third parties, as required by law or subpoena, or if we reasonably believe such action is necessary to:
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comply with the law and the reasonable requests of regulators, court orders, law enforcement or other public authorities, such as a subpoena, government audit or search warrant,
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comply with a contract or as necessary to establish, exercise or defend against potential, threatened or actual litigation,
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protect us, your vital interests, or those of another person, and
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investigate fraud or to protect the security or integrity of our Sites, tools, facilities, or other individuals.
Depending on the circumstances, we may share any of the listed categories of personal information with the above categories of third parties.
Use of tracking technology information: We or our service providers may use the information collected through tracking technologies to improve, enhance and personalize your experience, to monitor and improve our Sites and for other internal purposes such as to:
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Provide and monitor the effectiveness of our Sites,
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Perform analytics and detect usage patterns on our Sites,
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Diagnose or fix technology problems,
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Detect or prevent fraud or other harmful activities, and
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Otherwise to plan for and enhance our Sites.
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