Privacy and How it Affects You
Your personal privacy is important. CapSpecialty®, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, “CapSpecialty”) recognize that you have an interest in how we collect, retain, and use information about you and your relationship with us.
This Privacy Policy is applicable to all the information collected by CapSpecialty from you during your use of the website https://www.CapSpecialty.com and any other websites, mobile apps, or other online products and services that display or link to this Privacy Policy (collectively the “CapSpecialty Websites”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to:
If you have any questions as to whether this Privacy Policy applies to you, please contact our Legal Department at [email protected].
By using the CapSpecialty Websites, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by CapSpecialty, as set forth in this Privacy Policy. CapSpecialty reserves the right to change the policy from time to time. If CapSpecialty does decide to change this Privacy Policy, such changes will be posted on the CapSpecialty Websites. Your continued access and use of the CapSpecialty Websites shall be deemed your acceptance of any changes and the reasonableness of these standards for notice of changes.
Collecting Information to Conduct Business
We collect, retain, and use information about you for the purpose of serving your insurance needs and administering our customer relationships. This information is collected in a number of ways, including exchanges of correspondence, by phone, or by personal contact. We may collect nonpublic personal financial information about you from the following sources:
Information Use
We will not sell, share, or rent the information to others. We will use the information that has been voluntarily provided by visitors to improve the content of our website and to contact visitors for marketing purposes. This information will not be shared with other organizations.
CapSpecialty may use your information to better understand your needs, to provide you with the appropriate insurance policy, or improve the quality of our products and services. The CapSpecialty Websites may also contain optional surveys and questionnaires asking for information. Taking part in any of these segments is generally optional. At a minimum, we will always give you the opportunity to opt out of receiving such direct marketing or market research contact.
If you supply us with your e-mail address or postal address, you may receive periodic e-mail or mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such correspondence, please let us know via the contact information provided below.
Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers online may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding their online information requests.
Some of our applications and mobile applications may have location-based features. To deliver these features, CapSpecialty may access and use location data provided by your mobile device, if you give us permission. Location information will be collected solely to deliver the requested feature, and it will not be further retained or stored by us.
CapSpecialty may also use your information for analysis and research, including assessing trends, usage, advertising-related services, as well as developing, delivering, maintaining, improving, and enhancing the CapSpecialty Websites and Services we provide.
CapSpecialty may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our artificial intelligence systems or some equivalent machine-based learning (“AI Systems”) for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, affiliated policy, or by agreement. These AI Systems may be used to provide Services. CapSpecialty will comply will all applicable laws and regulations governing the use of AI Systems. If you have questions about CapSpecialty’s use of AI Systems or wish to opt out of such use, you can contact us at:
CapSpecialty, General Counsel, 1600 Aspen Commons, Suite 300, Middleton, WI, 53562 or [email protected].
Other Information CapSpecialty Collects and its Use
CapSpecialty may gather and store aggregate information about visitors to our websites. The collection of this information allows us to measure the number of visitors to portions of the CapSpecialty Websites, diagnose problems with the server, administer the CapSpecialty Websites, and track visitor activity. CapSpecialty may use this information to learn more about what our customers are expecting from us and improve the CapSpecialty Websites. This information is not personally identifiable to you, therefore, CapSpecialty reserves the right to use this information for any purpose and share this information with third parties for any purpose. Such ways in which CapSpecialty may collect this information are:
CapSpecialty may also use service providers to help us develop websites and mobile applications. These service providers may use tracking pixels, agents, or other visitor identification technology to collect certain non-personal information, such as browser type, operating system, and other information that does not personally identify you. These service providers may also collect unique device IDs from mobile devices, mobile phone numbers, precise geo-location data, and call logs.
Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to websites which the browser communicates. As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy, an industry standard has not yet been established on how to respond to these signals. Therefore, CapSpecialty does not currently respond to these signals, but we may reassess our response approach if a standard is established.
Sharing Information Among CapSpecialty and its Companies
To the extent permitted by law, CapSpecialty may disclose the previously described information about our customers and former customers to other CapSpecialty companies so that they can provide services or account maintenance, and for any other purposes permitted by law. Employee access to customer personal information is authorized for business purposes only. We restrict access to nonpublic personal financial information about you to those employees who need to know such information in order to provide services to you. Employees who have access to customer information are required to protect it and keep it confidential.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
We are highly selective in choosing vendors and service providers that assist us in providing quality insurance services to our customers. We may share certain customer information with these third parties to facilitate the offering, administration, and delivery of these services under controlled circumstances designed to protect our customers’ privacy. CapSpecialty will not otherwise share your personal information with third parties unless you have granted us permission to do so.
We may, in compliance with state and federal laws, disclose nonpublic personal information about you to the following types of third parties:
We require third parties to comply with strict standards regarding security and confidentiality of your information. They are not permitted to release, use for their own purposes, or sell any customer information we share with them to any other party. Additionally, there may be occasions when we are legally required to disclose information about you to nonaffiliated third parties. For example, we may disclose information in response to a subpoena, to prevent fraud, or to comply with a legally permitted inquiry by a governmental agency or regulator. In addition, CapSpecialty reserves the right to cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting customers and insurance producers who violate our rules or engage in behavior that is illegal or harmful to others or their property.
Online Payments
The CapSpecialty Websites may allow you to pay insurance premiums or other charges due to CapSpecialty at various times. CapSpecialty may utilize third party payment processors to process your payment. However, CapSpecialty cannot be responsible for transactions handled by the third-party provider including your credit card account number, or any other information that you share with this provider to make a payment. As set forth in the CapSpecialty Terms and Conditions, CapSpecialty specifically disclaims liability for any transactions occurring with this third-party provider.
Social Media
CapSpecialty maintains profiles or pages on various social media sites including Instagram, LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube. If you choose to “Follow” CapSpecialty on Instagram, LinkedIn, X, or YouTube, or take any similar action on another social media site, you are providing your consent to receive information updates from CapSpecialty. To stop receiving this information from CapSpecialty on a social media site, you must follow the procedure established by the site, such as click “Unfollow” on CapSpecialty’s page on Instagram, LinkedIn, X, or YouTube.
Links to Other Websites
The CapSpecialty Websites may contain links to other websites. The operators of those other websites may collect information about you, through cookies or other technologies. If you link to another website, you will leave the CapSpecialty Websites and this Privacy Policy will not apply to your use of and activity in those other websites. If you provide personal information through any other website, your transaction will occur on that website and the personal information you provide will be collected and controlled by the privacy policy of that website operator. Links to these websites are provided as a convenience and should not be implied as an endorsement of the linked website. CapSpecialty has no responsibility or liability for your access or use of, and the data collection and use practices of the other websites.
Children’s Privacy
CapSpecialty does not knowingly collect or use any information from children, defined as minors younger than 13, on the CapSpecialty Websites. CapSpecialty does not knowingly allow children to order our products or services, communicate with us, or use any of the CapSpecialty Websites. If you are a parent and become aware that your child has provided us with information, please contact us at:
CapSpecialty, General Counsel, 1600 Aspen Commons, Suite 300, Middleton, WI, 53562 or [email protected].
California Privacy Rights
California legislation requires that certain disclosures be made available to California residents who provide information over the internet that is used for direct marketing purposes. Any business that discloses a customer’s personally identifiable information to a third party for direct marketing purposes is required to provide a method for the customer to obtain the name, address, and certain other information for such third parties. If you are a California resident, you may request this information from CapSpecialty by contacting:
CapSpecialty, General Counsel, 1600 Aspen Commons, Suite 300, Middleton, WI, 53562 or [email protected].
Security Procedures
CapSpecialty takes reasonable precautions to safeguard the personal information transmitted via the CapSpecialty Websites and the personal information stored on our servers, and we require third parties with whom we share personal information to use reasonable precautions to safeguard such information. Although we strive to protect your personal information, no method of storing or transmitting data can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and, therefore, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us through, or in connection with, the website. If you have reason to believe that the security of the information you have provided is no longer secure, you must notify us immediately at:
CapSpecialty, General Counsel, 1600 Aspen Commons, Suite 300, Middleton, WI, 53562 or [email protected].
In the unlikely event that we believe the security of your personal information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development as required by law.
If you receive an email or other correspondence requesting that you provide any sensitive information via email or to a website that does not seem affiliated with CapSpecialty, or that otherwise seems suspicious to you, please do not provide such information and report such requests to:
CapSpecialty, General Counsel, 1600 Aspen Commons, Suite 300, Middleton, WI, 53562 or [email protected].
Changes to Policy
CapSpecialty reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time in order to address developments at CapSpecialty, the CapSpecialty Websites, or changes in the industry or legal trends. By continuing to use the CapSpecialty Websites following such changes, you will be deemed to have agreed to such changes. If you do not agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy, you can choose to not continue to use or visit the CapSpecialty Websites. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact:
CapSpecialty, General Counsel, 1600 Aspen Commons, Suite 300, Middleton, WI, 53562 or [email protected].
Updated February 1, 2024