PRIVACY POLICY
We at EPOCH Insurance Brokers have an established track record of maintaining the
confidentiality of any information that our clients share on our various platforms.
Objective:
EPOCH Insurance Brokers may collect and store information about you when you visit our site, use our
services, or view our online advertisements. The information which EPOCH Insurance Brokers collects
and stores during normal use of the site is used to monitor use of the site and to help further
development of our products and services. We use this information to improve our Web-based
offerings.
Scope:
This policy applies to information collected by EPOCH Insurance Brokers through its websites.
Collected Information:
EPOCH Insurance Brokers may collect personal information that you submit to us through the Services,
which include:
Personal Information Collected:
Depending on the purpose(s) for which we need to collect it, we may ask for the following personal
information about you including
- Basic information such as your name, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail id, birth
details
- date and marital status.
- Employment information
- Guardian's name (if minor);
User credential, or any information that you submit to us. Other personal
information
we collect may include:
- financial information such as income, assets and your financial investment
strategy and
investment background;
- documents that you provide to us to verify your identity, such as copies of
your passport,
utility bills, and/or bank statement or your company incorporation details.
EPOCH Insurance Brokers also may collect some information automatically, which
include:
- IP address
- Information about your web browser software and version;
- General geographic location indicated by your IP address;
- Website that referred you to us, and similar information.
We also may collect information about your activity on our websites, which might
include:
- frequency of visits to our web site.
- frequency of visits to our web site.
- Pages viewed during a visit.
We may use various technologies to collect information about your activities on
our
websites, including:
- Cookies (If not selected may affect certain or all functionalities);
- Web Beacons / Web bugs (Measures user experience on our website).
We may combine your information, automatically gathered information and the information we
collect through cookies/web beacons / web bugs, including information that we have collected
about you, or information that we have obtained from other sources. We may aggregate any
statistics or data that are collected, but we are under no obligation to do so.
Use of collected Personal Information
EPOCH Insurance Brokers may use the personal information that is collected from you to provide
requested products and services and for our internal business purposes, including, but not limited
to:
- Responding to your requests for our unique products and services;
- To process your transactions and to provide you with transaction and post
transaction-
related services, providing, improving, and marketing our products and services,
including
site content and performance;
- Evaluating your use of the services;
- Providing advertising for products and services that might interest you;
- Responding to your requests for information;
- Communicating with you by e mail, postal mail or courier, and/or telephone
about
products or services that may be of interest to you;
- Maintaining and managing your account with us;
- Keeping you updated on the issues that are relevant to your business
relationship with us;
- Monitoring your compliance with any terms and conditions associated with our
products
and services, including to confirm your identity;
- Performing other functions as described to you at the time of collection or
pursuant to
your consent.
In addition, certain information we collect, such as the IP address of any computer or other device that
you use to access our website and any other domains that may be operated by EPOCH Insurance Brokers,
will be used to monitor and investigate possible violations of and enforce any terms and conditions
associated with our products and services or other applicable agreements between you and EPOCH Insurance
Brokers. Our use and sharing of your personal information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy
may involve the transfer of your personal information to EPOCH Insurance Brokers or to third parties, as
described in this Privacy Policy, that are in countries outside your country of residence, which may not
have the same privacy legislation as your country of residence.
How We Share Personal Information:
Service Providers
We may share personal information with organizations or individuals that perform functions on our behalf.
For example, service providers may process payments for our products and services or may store and
process data on our behalf. These service providers are granted access to personal information for the
purpose of performing their functions for EPOCH Insurance Brokers.
Marketing
EPOCH Insurance Brokers may share collected personal information with group companies whose products and
services we believe you may find of interest. If you would prefer that we not share your personal
information with any third parties for the third parties' marketing purposes, you can notify us of your
preference by contacting us as described in the "Contact Us" section.
Legal Matters
EPOCH Insurance Brokers may share personal information in response to a court order, a request for
cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency, or as otherwise required by law; to
persons acting as representative capacity on your behalf; to defend against legal claims; to
investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud, suspected
violations of terms and conditions associated with any of our products or services, or other wrongdoing;
or to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or
others.
Transactions
EPOCH Insurance Brokers may share personal information in connection with a substantial corporate
transaction, such as mergers, acquisition, the sale of our business, a divestiture, consolidation, or
asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
Other Purposes
EPOCH Insurance Brokers may share personal information as otherwise described to you at the point of
collection or pursuant to your consent.
Third Parties
For our website users' convenience, EPOCH Insurance Brokers may provide links or otherwise refer you to
third parties, such as operators of Internet services linked to from our websites, that may collect
personal information from you. In addition, EPOCH Insurance Brokers may invite your participation in
various promotional initiatives through its presence on social networking websites and blogs operated by
third parties, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress etc. Personal information collected by
these third parties is not covered by this policy.
In addition, EPOCH Insurance Brokers may provide you with links to "share" any EPOCH Insurance Brokers
content with other third parties via email or certain social networking websites for your convenience.
Data transmitted during such linking, including but not limited to your email address or the email
address of the party receiving such data, shall not be tracked by EPOCH Insurance Brokers. Use of EPOCH
Insurance Brokers data by any third party shall be at their discretion and risk. Personal information
collected by these third parties is not covered by this policy, and EPOCH Insurance Brokers shall not be
bound in any manner by any claims and/or liabilities arising thereto.
If we share information with third parties (other than our service providers) as described above, we
cannot control the privacy practices of those third parties, and they may not comply with the
restrictions that we describe here.
Personal Information Protection:
EPOCH Insurance Brokers use commercially reasonable security measures (including physical, electronic and
procedural measures) to help safeguard personal information against loss, misuse, damage or modification
and unauthorized access or disclosure. However, no system for transmitting or storing information
electronically can be completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that personal information or
other communications will always remain secure.
Minor's Privacy:
We do not knowingly collect personal information from minor children. If we learn that we have collected
personal information from a child who are in the minor category, we will delete that information from
our database.
Privacy Policy Changes:
This policy provides a general statement of the ways in which EPOCH Insurance Brokers aims to protect
your information. You may, however, in connection with specific products or services offered by EPOCH
Insurance Brokers, amend statements to this privacy policy or supplement this policy with another.
We may also occasionally update this privacy policy to reflect changes in our practices concerning the
collection and use of your information. As a result, we encourage you to review the privacy policy
before accessing the websites or otherwise furnishing data to EPOCH Insurance Brokers. In order to
assist you in determining whether our policy has changed, we will list at the top of the policy the most
recent date on which we updated it. If we make any material changes to this policy, we will notify you
by posting notice of the changes on the websites or by other appropriate means.
Policy Review:
We reserve the right to change or update this policy at any time by placing a prominent notice on our
site. Such changes shall be effective immediately upon posting to this site.