Important Notice - Terms of Use
Effective October 20, 2005
By using ampatriot.com in any manner (whether browsing, following a link, sending an e-mail to an ampatriot.com e-mail address, obtaining or saving or retrieving a premium estimate, making a purchase, or using any other content or materials on ampatriot.com), you agree to all terms and conditions contained or referenced in these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use apply only to your use of ampatriot.com and do not change or alter any other agreement or contract between you and American Patriot Insurance Agency, Inc. ("American Patriot").
American Patriot reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify or change these Terms of Use at any time without prior notice to you. Your continued use of ampatriot.com following the posting of any changes to the Terms of Use constitutes acceptance of those changes.
If at any time you choose not to accept these Terms of Use, please do not use this Web site or send e-mail to any ampatriot.com e-mail address.
Jurisdictional Statement
This Web site is controlled, operated and intended for use only
in the United States of America. We do not represent that materials
on this Web site are appropriate or made available for use outside
of the United States of America.
Ownership of Materials & Restrictions on Use
The information on this Web site, along with any materials (including,
for example, press releases and product descriptions) is the copyrighted
work of American Patriot and is protected under United States and
worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. American Patriot
grants you permission to copy such materials so long as each copy:
(i) is solely for informational, non-commercial use and is not modified
or revised in any manner; (ii) plainly displays all copyright and
other proprietary notices, in the same form and manner as on the
original; and (iii) displays a statement that the materials are
used solely with permission of American Patriot. To seek permission
for any other use, please contact American
Patriot.
"American Patriot", "The Roofer's Advantage", and the shield design are federally registered service marks of American Patriot Insurance Agency, Inc.
Privacy Policy
We value you as a customer and we know how much privacy means to
you.
Our Privacy Principles:
- We do not sell customer information.
- We do not allow those who are doing business on our behalf to use our customer information for their own marketing purposes.
- We contractually require any person or organization providing products or services on our behalf to protect American Patriot customer information.
- We do not share customer medical information with anyone within
the American Patriot family of companies unless:
- You expressly authorize it.
- It is permitted or required by law.
- Your insurance policy contract with us permits us to do so.
- We afford prospective and former customers with the same protections as existing customers with respect to the use of personal information.
Information We May Collect:
We collect, use, and share information we need to conduct our business,
to advise you of our products and services, and to provide you with
customer service. We may collect and maintain several types of customer
information needed for these purposes, such as those below.
Types of information we may collect and how we gather it:
- From you, on applications for our insurance products, or on other forms, through telephone or in-person interviews, or your American Patriot agent, information such as your address and telephone number;
- From your transactions with us, such as your payment history, underwriting, and claim records; and
- From non-American Patriot companies, organizations, or consumer reporting agencies, such as your driving record, claim history, or credit history.
How We Use Information About You:
We use customer information to fulfill a transaction you may have
requested, underwrite your policies, process and investigate your
claims, ensure proper billing, service your accounts, detect or
prevent fraud, participate in insurance support organizations, comply
with lawful requests from regulatory and law enforcement authorities,
and offer you other American Patriot products we feel may suit your
needs.
Information Disclosure
We share information about our transactions (such as payment of
premium) and experiences (such as an accident claim) with you with
American Patriot affiliates under common control and with American
Patriot agents to better serve you and to help meet your current
product and service needs. We may share information about you with
persons or organizations inside or outside our family of companies
as permitted or required by law, including sharing with companies
that perform marketing or other services for us or with whom we
have joint marketing agreements. These agreements allow us to provide
a broader selection of insurance products to you. These persons
or organizations may include:
- Our affiliated companies
- Companies that perform services, such as marketing, on our behalf.
- Insurance companies. This would be done so they could perform their role in an insurance transaction involving you.
- Independent claims adjusters.
- A business or businesses that conduct actuarial or research studies.
- People who request information pursuant to a subpoena or court order.
- Repair shops and recommended claims vendors.
- Your agent or broker.
We may also share customer information with consumer reporting agencies and with other entities as needed to handle your claim and to protect against fraud and unauthorized transactions.
Your Choice to Share Information
There are two types of information sharing - sharing with American
Patriot affiliates and sharing outside American Patriot. We do not
sell customer information. We do not allow those who are doing business
on our behalf to use our customer information for their own marketing
purposes. The choice in the Special Notice, which follows, applies
only to the sharing of information with American Patriot affiliates.
SPECIAL NOTICE REGARDING THE SHARING OF CERTAIN INFORMATION WITH AMERICAN PATRIOT AFFILIATES
This special notice applies only to information sharing with American Patriot affiliates that does not involve your transactions or experiences with us.
WHAT INFORMATION WE SHARE: Unless you tell us not to, we
may share information with American Patriot affiliates that was
obtained from your application, such as your occupation; or business;
or information obtained from a consumer or business report, such
as your credit history.
We may also verify information provided by you, such as your loss
history. This sharing may take place unless you have told us not
to share this information.
WHY WE SHARE: We may share information about you with American Patriot affiliates:
- To enhance our service to you.
- To underwrite your policies.
- To measure your interest in our products or services.
- To improve existing products and develop new ones.
- To monitor customer trends.
WHO WE SHARE WITH: We may share information within the American Patriot affiliates, including but not limited to:
- American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., Inc. and its
affiliates.
- Insential, Inc.
- Hendricks Holding Company, Inc. and its affiliates.
If you are a new customer and you prefer that American Patriot not share your personal information among our family of companies, call or write your American Patriot agent or call us toll-free at 1-800-894-9091. Your choice will also apply to your joint account holders and/or policyholders.
If you are an existing customer and have already told us your sharing preference, no action is needed unless you want to change your information sharing preference. To change your preference at any time, call or write your American Patriot agent or call the toll-free number listed above.
Your choice does not limit American Patriot from sharing certain information about your transactions with us (such as your name, address, and payment history) or your experiences with us (such as your claim activity). This choice does not apply to our efforts to market products and services to you - you may receive information about American Patriot products that may suit your needs.
American Patriot Protects Customer Information:
In order to ensure the safety of customer information, we continually:
- Maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards
- Review our policies and practices
- Monitor our computer networks
- Test the strength of our security
Thank you for choosing American Patriot. We value you as a customer and appreciate the opportunity to serve you.
Bulk E-Mail and Other Prohibited E-Mail
The American Patriot computer network (which includes, but is not
limited to, the technology and applications which support the e-mail
functionality American Patriot provides its officers, employees,
independent contractor agents, and other authorized users) is the
private property of American Patriot.
American Patriot prohibits any bulk e-mail transmissions to be
sent, or caused to be sent, over the Internet to ampatriot.com e-mail
addresses unless American Patriot, through one of its officers,
has specifically requested or authorized the sending of such bulk
e-mail. For purposes of these Terms of Use, the word "bulk"
shall mean an e-mail message, or group of identical or similar e-mail
messages, sent to more than 20 different ampatriot.com addresses
in any 24-hour period.
American Patriot also prohibits any e-mail transmissions of the
following types to be sent, or caused to be sent, over the Internet
to more than 5 different ampatriot.com e-mail addresses in any 24-hour
period unless American Patriot, through one of its officers, has
authorized the sending of such e-mail: (1) commercial advertising;
(2) informational announcements; (3) political or religious tracts;
or (4) solicitations for funds or donations.
American Patriot prohibits any e-mail transmission to be sent, or caused to be sent, over the Internet to any ampatriot.com e-mail addresses if the e-mail is intended to, or appears intended to, harass, embarrass, threaten, defame or impersonate any person, or if the e-mail is pornographic, offensive, indecent, discriminatory or offensive on the basis of sex, color, national origin, race, age, religion, sexual orientation or disability.
American Patriot prohibits any e-mail transmission to be sent, or caused to be sent, over the Internet to any ampatriot.com e-mail address that makes use of a forged header or deceptive addressing, or which attempts in any manner to disguise the source of the e-mail.
American Patriot prohibits the harvesting or collection of the e-mail addresses of American Patriot agents and/or personal financial representatives from the ampatriot.com web site for the purpose of sending bulk e-mail to ampatriot.com e-mail addresses.
American Patriot reserves the right to take all legal and technical steps available, including pursuing civil remedies and criminal prosecution, to prevent bulk or other prohibited e-mail from entering, utilizing or remaining within the American Patriot computer network.
Nothing in this policy is intended to grant any right to transmit or send e-mail to, or through, the American Patriot computer network. American Patriot's failure to enforce this policy in every instance in which it might have application does not amount to a waiver of American Patriot's rights.
Links to Other Web Sites
This Web site may contain links to other sites. American Patriot
provides links to other sites as a convenience to persons who visit
the American Patriot Web site. If you choose to use the services
provided by those sites, you may be asked by those sites to provide
certain personally identifiable information (some of which may,
on an individual or aggregated basis, be shared with American Patriot).
Please be aware that American Patriot is not responsible for the
privacy practices of those sites, even though American Patriot's
name or logo may appear on those sites. We encourage you to be aware
when you leave our site and to read the privacy policies of each
and every Web site that you visit, as the privacy policies of those
sites may differ from ours. Our Privacy Statement applies solely
to this Web site.
American Patriot is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site.
Links to ampatriot.com
American Patriot appreciates your interest in linking your Web Site
(the "Linking Site") to American Patriot's Web site, located
at www.ampatriot.com. In
order to avoid misunderstandings regarding the use of American Patriot's
trademarks, trade names and other proprietary information, American
Patriot asks that you review and agree to the following guidelines:
- Third parties are authorized to include active links on Web
sites they control to direct a browser to American Patriot's "home
page" at http://www.ampatriot.com.
However, third parties may not include on their Web sites links to any other page maintained on the ampatriot.com Web site unless they have received prior written permission of an officer of American Patriot or unless the Linking Site is an Internet search engine.
- Framing. Unless you have received specific written permission
from American Patriot, you may not (a) "frame" or otherwise
impose editorial comment, commercial material or any type of identification
on (or in proximity to) content displayed on the American Patriot
Web site ("American Patriot Content"), (b) alter or
modify American Patriot Content, or (c) "cut and paste"
or otherwise reproduce American Patriot Content on the Linking
Site.
- No Archiving. Your link must be to the current American Patriot
site only. In permitting linking, American Patriot does not grant
you the right to reproduce, modify, cache or archive the American
Patriot Content for any purpose.
- Link At Your Own Risk. American Patriot makes no representations
or warranties regarding the American Patriot Web site, which is
provided "as is." Linking Sites link to the American
Patriot Web site at their own risk. American Patriot is under
no obligation to maintain the American Patriot Web site, provide
or update American Patriot Content or otherwise support your link
to the American Patriot Web site.
- Termination. American Patriot may revoke this license immediately if you fail to follow these guidelines. American Patriot may revoke this license upon ten (10) days notice without cause.
Disclaimers
THIS WEB SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. TO THE
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AMERICAN PATRIOT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. AMERICAN
PATRIOT DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONALITY OR OPERATION OF
THE AMERICAN PATRIOT WEB SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR FREE FROM
ERROR, THAT ANY DEFECTS IN THE WEB SITE WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT
THE WEB SITE OR THE SERVER(S) THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF
VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL CONDITIONS OR COMPONENTS.
AMERICAN PATRIOT MAY CHANGE THE PROGRAMS OR PRODUCTS MENTIONED AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE. ADDITIONALLY, ALL INSURANCE PRODUCTS REFERRED TO IN THIS WEB SITE ARE SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY AND QUALIFICATIONS. PRODUCT TERMS, CONDITIONS, AND EXCLUSIONS NOT DESCRIBED IN THIS WEB SITE MAY APPLY.
Limitation of Liability
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AMERICAN PATRIOT DISCLAIMS LIABILITY,
WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR
OTHERWISE, FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR
EXEMPLARY DAMAGES) IN ANY WAY ARISING FROM THE FUNCTIONALITY OR
OPERATION OF THIS WEB SITE (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES
ARISING FROM INTERRUPTIONS OF SERVICE OR DELAYS IN OPERATION OR
TRANSMISSION), EVEN IF AMERICAN PATRIOT IS EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF
THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Severability
If any provision of these Terms of Use is held invalid, void or
unenforceable, then that provision will be considered severable
from the remaining provisions, and the remaining provisions shall
remain in full force and effect.
