Effective date January 1st, 2024
This notice describes how the South Shore Insurance Underwriters (SSIU) (also referred to herein as “we” or “us”) collects, uses, shares and retains the personal information you provide when you make an inquiry relating to your policy. SSIU is committed to ensuring that any personal data it receives is protected and handled in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
SSIU who is incorporated in the state of Alabama whose principal place of business is at 26179 Suite A Capital Drive Daphne, AL 36526.
The personal information we collect, which we need to provide an informed response to your inquiry, includes the following: your name, contact details, details of your insurance policy together with any additional personal details required to assist you with your inquiry. We use this personal information to respond to your inquiry and to reference in regard to our prior communications with you should you wish to contact us again.
We share the personal information you provide for purposes of our responses to your inquiries within the SSIU's internal organization, and with any of our service providers whose input may be needed or helpful to us in responding to your inquiries.
To help manage our business and deliver services we may share your personal information with third party service providers such as IT suppliers, document management providers and others. We require all our service providers to respect the confidentiality and security of personal data. Finally, we may be under legal or regulatory obligations to share your personal data with courts, regulators and law enforcement bodies.
We will retain your personal information for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfil the relevant purposes for which we collect it, as set out in this Privacy Notice.
The retention period will primarily be determined by relevant legal and regulatory obligations and/or the duration of our business relationship with you, your employer or another associated party. We maintain and update regularly our data retention policy with a detailed retention schedule.
We will delete or erase your personal information if there is no valid business reason for retaining your data. In exceptional circumstances, we may retain your personal information for longer periods of time if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation, in the event of any complaints, or if there is another valid business reason to believe the data will be needed for a longer period.
If you have any questions relating to data protection, please contact SSIU at:
SSIU
26179 Suite A
Daphne, AL 36526
Email: info@ssiuw.com