BaseQuotes Insurance Comparisons Site: Privacy Policy / Terms & Conditions

BaseQuotes.com as an insurance comparisons site is highly committed to protecting your privacy of your information. This Privacy Policy will provide details of the information that we collect when you browse our site or partner sites.

Base Quotes reserves the right modify this Privacy Statement at any time.

Information That We collect From You

Information is collected from our users through cookies and when users make requests for insurance quotes from us or any of our insurance partners.

Like any other website information is also collected from you automatically through our site as well.

Examples include:

• IP address
• Browser types: Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, etc.
• Computer Operating System: OS9, Windows, Unix, Linux
• Internet Provider

This provides us insight to how our customers are discovering our site and the most viewed pages. We use this information to optimize our site to create a better user experience.

Information Received by you

Base Quotes Insurance Comparisons Site receives information provided by you when you request insurance quote information.

BaseQuotes.com (Insurance Comparisons Site)provides customers with the ability to input their information to retrieve insurance quotes from insurance providers and insurance brokers. In order to do so BaseQuotes.com collects users contact information and user's insurability information.

Base Quotes Insurance Comparisons site stores contact information from each user in the form of cookies. If the user inputs information or makes further inquiries for insurance quotes some forms may automatically be prepopulated with user's information.

BaseQuotes.com (Insurance Comparisons Site) will also collect customer contact/interest information when user provide their email address (when signing up for insurance newsletters, etc.).

By inputting and submitting your information for an insurance quote request you authorize BaseQuotes.com (Insurance Comparisons Site) to provide the same information to local insurance agents in your area and national insurance companies. With your request for an insurance quote you understand that our partner insurance companies will obtain a consumer report or credit report / credit score without your written instruction when you click on the Begin / Begin Quote / Submit button.

At the same time you submit your insurance quote request you are instructing the consumer report / credit reporting agency to provide a consumer report / credit report to the partner insurance companies on your behalf within a reasonable amount of time. When a partner insurance company receives your credit report or consumer report they will not share this information with any other insurance carrier or insurance company. Other insurance companies or insurance carriers may choose to request credit information through their own channels to provide you adequate insurance quotes. Depending on state law certain insurance carriers may use consumer reports / credit reports (that may have customer's credit information / driving details / driving records) to reconfirm customer's information.

If you provide contact information (ex. phone number) insurance carriers and insurance partners of BaseQuotes.com (Insurance Comparisons Site) may phone this number to confirm information or request additional information to complete your insurance quote request.

How Your Insurance Quote Inputted Information Is Used

When inputting insurance requested information on BaseQuotes.com (Insurance Comparisons Site) it is automatically collected which may result in follow-up contact.

Customer identifiable personal information may be shared with 3rd-Party businesses by Base Quotes for email marketing / direct marketing. All third parties are bound by the CAN SPAM Act (s 877) of 2003. Those 3rd party businesses are required to be fully compliant in consumer opt-in / opt-out rules and regulations.

How other Insurance Carriers / Our Insurance Partners may use this information

For the purpose of providing the most accurate quotes possible to our customers our insurance carriers / insurance partners may need to acquire more background information about you. As noted earlier, consumer reports / credit reports may be ordered in connection with your insurance application when you apply for an insurance quote.

Our Obligations / Customer Rights

As an insurance comparisons site customer privacy is important to us at Base Quotes and we will follow and applicable laws in regards to the release of customer's personal information. Certain information that has been collected from our customers may be used to update them with new information about insurance, our new product offerings or other services that we think may be of usage to them. If customers do not wish to receive this informaton we will respect your request. It is important that you contact Base Quotes (Insurance Comparisons Site) directly to be removed from our customer contact list. For customers who wish to be unsubscribed to our email marketing list please email us and include "Unsubscribe" in the subject line to be unsubscribed from Base Quotes email marketing list.

Terms Defined

IP Address (Internet Protocol)

This is the address of TCP/IP network attached computer which is unique to the computer. Each server stationand client has a unique IP address which is permanent or dynamic for each session. Example of an IP address includes 4 sets of numbers with periods in between.

Browser Session

Is the time from which a browser is used to when it is closed. Each time you open your browser you begin a new browser session.

Cookies

Cookies are stored on your computer and used to keep track of your information. "Cookie" is a small text file that holds your contact information that you inputted during the insurance quote request process. It may populate online forms (depending on the form) making it convenient for you when returning to our site to request new insurance quotes/ insurance information.

Cookies have web addresses or URLs and are activated when your browser goes to those web addresses again. Cookies then send the information (you inputted at a previous time) to the Web server of that site. This may prepopulate your information on certain forms each time you visit the site.

You have full control of cookies yourself on your browser. You can disable cookies anytime by going to your browser options or at the preferences menu and disabling them there. You can also have your browser warn you for cookie acceptance for each site as well.

SSL Encryption (Secure Sockets Layer) BaseQuotes.com (Insurance Comparisons Site), Base Quotes Insurance Partners and affiliated insurance carriers uses SSL technology to display customer information. SSL Encryption is provides solid protection of your information and is a leading internet security protocol for secure data exchange between customer's computer and servers.

Last Updated: November 20th, 2009