Mills-Shellhammer-Puetz & Associates,
Inc.
Privacy Policy Notice
As of 4/8/2003
PURPOSE OF THIS NOTICE
Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) generally prohibits
any financial institution, directly or through its affiliates,
from sharing nonpublic personal information about you with
a non-affiliated third party unless the institution provides
you with a notice of its privacy policies and practices, such
as the type of information that it collects about you and
the categories of persons or entities to whom it may be disclosed.
In compliance with the GLBA, we are providing you with this
document, which notifies you of privacy policies and practices
of Mills-Shellhammer-Puetz & Associates, Inc.
OUR PRIVACY POLICIES AND PRACTICES
1. Information we collect:
We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the
following sources:
" Information we receive from you on applications or
other forms.
" Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates,
and others.
" Information we receive from a consumer-reporting agency.
" Driver record information.
Unless it is specifically stated otherwise in an amended
Privacy Policy Notice, no additional information will be collected
about you.
2. Information we may disclose to third parties:
We may disclose the following kinds of nonpublic personal
information about you:
" Information we receive from you on applications or
other forms, such as your name, address, social security number,
assets, income, and beneficiaries;
" Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates
or others, such as your policy coverage, premiums, and payment
history; and
" Information we receive from a consumer-reporting agency,
such as your creditworthiness and credit history.
3. Nonaffiliated third parties to whom disclosures may be
made:
We disclose nonpublic personal information about you only
to nonaffiliated third parties as permitted by law.
4. Our practices regarding information confidentiality and
security:
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about
you to those employees who need to know that information in
order to provide products or services to you. We maintain
physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply
with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal
information.
5. Our policy regarding dispute resolution:
Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to our
privacy policy, or the breach thereof, shall be settled by
arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration
Association, and judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitrator(s)
may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof.
6. Reservation of the right to disclose information in unforeseen
circumstances:
In connection with the potential sale or transfer of its
interests, Mill-Shellhammer-Puetz & Associates, Inc. and
its affiliates reserves the right to sell or transfer your
information (including but not limited to your address, name,
age, sex, zip code, state and country of residency, and other
information that you provide through other communications)
to a third party entity that (1) concentrates its business
in a similar practice or service; (2) agrees to be Mills-Shellhammer-Puetz
& Associates, Inc.'s successor in interest with regard
to the maintenance and protection of the information collected;
and (3) agrees to the obligations of this privacy statement.
Mills-Shellhammer-Puetz & Associates, Inc.