This Privacy Policy is designed to assist you with understanding how Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG and its subsidiaries (collectively, "Allied World", "we", "us" or "our") collect, use and disclose the personal information you provide us when accessing or using the Allied World Website, www.awac.com.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Any revisions to this Privacy Policy will be posted on the home page of our Website. It is your obligation to periodically visit our Website to review any changes that may be made to this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Allied World Website constitutes your agreement to be bound by any such changes to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you are not authorized to use our Website and your sole recourse is to not use our Website.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit Allied World’s Website, you may provide us with two types of information: Personal information that you voluntary disclose that is collected on an individual basis; and Website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Website.
What is Personal Information?
Visitors are not required to register to access the public pages of our Website. Personal information is collected only when voluntary offered and solely for purposes that are clearly identified on our Website. Personal information means any information that is unique to you, such as:
Name
Mailing address
E-mail address
Home and business phone number
Other personal information
In addition to providing the foregoing information, if you choose to correspond further with us through e-mail, we may retain the content of your e-mail messages together with your e-mail address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.
Use of Personal Information
Allied World will only use personal information for purposes of: (i) fulfilling our legal or regulatory requirements; (ii) providing you with the information or services that you have requested; or (iii) to help improve our Website, products or services.
Allied World will never sell or distribute your personal information outside our group of companies unless: (i) you expressly provide us with consent to do so; (ii) it is necessary to allow our affiliates, attorneys, adjusters, contractors, vendors or agents to provide services to us; (iii) in order to provide our products or services to you; (iv) it is necessary in order to allow third parties to provide marketing services on our behalf; or (v) we are required to disclose such information because of legal or regulatory requirements.
Website Use Information
Similar to other commercial Websites, our Website utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below in the section "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information about how our Website is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Website and the Websites visited just before and just after our Website. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you personally.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers to recognize the computer used to access a Website. They are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s Web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Website or use the information to streamline the user’s transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from Web page to Web page. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
Use of Cookies and Other Data Collection Tools
We use Website browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather information about our Website users’ browsing activities. This information helps us to design and arrange our Web pages in a user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Website to better meet the needs of our clients and prospective clients. Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our Website and evaluate our Website’s visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual e-mail address or any personally identifying information about you.
Protection of Personal Information
Although we take appropriate measures to protect the security of the information communicated through our Website, no computer security system is entirely foolproof and the Internet is not a secure medium. As a result, Allied World does not assume any responsibility for the data you submit to us through the Internet and we cannot and do not guarantee that information communicated by you to us will be received or that it will not be altered before or after its transmission to us. You agree to not hold Allied World liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as a result of any misappropriation, interception, modification, deletion, destruction or use of information provided through our Website.
Hyperlinks and Third-Party Sites
This Website may contain links to other third party websites that may collect personal information about you, including through cookies or other technologies. If you link to another website, you will leave this Website and this Privacy Policy will not apply to your use of and activity on those other websites. Contacting Us If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at secretary@awac.com.
