Privacy Policy

Last modified: March 13, 2012

This Privacy Policy is effective March 13, 2012, and replaces all previous versions of the Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy explains how Next Generation Insurance Group, LLC (“Next Generation Insurance Group”) collects, uses and shares your information. This Privacy Policy applies to all the products, services and websites listed here and offered by Next Generation Insurance Group or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies. Please carefully read our Privacy Policy and if you do not agree to our practices, please do not submit your information or otherwise apply to purchase our products or otherwise interact with Next Generation Insurance Group.

This Privacy Policy is organized in the following sections:

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers how Next Generation Insurance Group treats information about prospective, current and former customers, including Personal Information (which is any information that can be used to reasonably identify an individual such as your name, email address, or physical address), which is collected by us when you interact or otherwise do business with us. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the services and products offered by Next Generation Insurance Group and its affiliates, but it excludes services and products offered on other websites that have separate privacy policies and do not specifically incorporate this Privacy Policy.

The Information We Collect and Why We Collect It

We collect information to provide better services and products to all of our users - including processing your insurance quote, providing customer service regarding your insurance policy, advising you of products that you may find useful, and as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law. As a part of our business, we ask for your Personal Information. You may also be asked to submit information about other individuals for the purpose of insuring those individuals. In such instances we may collect third party Personal Information and we will assume that you have the authority to provide us the information.

We may collect information about you in several ways:

The Way We Use Your Personal Information

Some of the ways we may use your Personal Information include to:

Marketing Communication Preferences and Opt-Outs

You may unsubscribe or opt-out from receiving marketing communications by following the unsubscribe instructions included on a particular communication or by sending us a message at the address below. Please be sure to include your name, email address and specific information that you no longer wish to receive to: Next Generation Insurance Group, LLC, Privacy Department, 241 A Street, Suite 400, Boston, Massachusetts or you may email us at: privacy@nextgenins.com.

Please note that you may not elect to stop receipt of communications pertaining to the processing or servicing of your application, product, or account which you may receive periodically unless you cancel that product in accordance with that particular product’s terms and conditions.

Federal law also gives you the right to limit some but not all marketing from Next Generation Insurance Group’s affiliated companies. You may limit our affiliated companies, such as our financial services affiliates operating under the brand names listed at this webpage from marketing their products or services to you based on certain of your Personal Information that we share with them. This information may include your account history and credit history. Your choice to limit marketing offers from an affiliated company will apply for at least five (5) years from when you tell us your choice. Before your choice to limit marketing expires, you will receive a renewal notice that will allow you to continue to limit marketing offers from any Next Generation Insurance Group affiliated company for at least another five (5) years. If you have already made a choice to limit marketing offers from our affiliated companies, you do not need to act again until you receive the renewal notice. If you prefer to limit the marketing from an affiliated company, please contact us at privacy@nextgenins.com or 866-305-0063. Please note that your choice to limit marketing offers will not apply in certain circumstances as provided under applicable law, such as when you have an account or policy with the affiliated company that is marketing to you. An opt-out request from one joint customer will apply to all joint customers on the policy or account.

Non-Personal/Anonymous Information Collection

In some instances, we may collect non-personal (aggregate or de-identified) data through cookies, web logs, web beacons and other technologies. This information is used to better understand and improve the usability, performance, and effectiveness of our products, services and websites. For example, we may track X number of visitors to one of our website’s pages or that Y number of men and Z number of women applied for a quote. However, this use does not identify those individuals nor would we disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

Sharing Your Personal Information

We may share your Personal Information with authorized affiliates and unaffiliated third parties for our everyday business purposes, for example to provide a requested transaction, including processing insurance quotes and related insurance transactions and to provide customer service and support, and as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

We may also disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, to companies that perform marketing or other services on our behalf or with whom we have joint marketing agreements. We only provide these companies with the minimum amount of Personal Information necessary to perform the service and we require them by legal agreement to keep your Personal Information confidential and to use it only for the limited purpose of providing such service.

Some of the ways we may also share your Personal Information may be to:

We will ask for your consent before we share your Personal Information with an unaffiliated third party other than as described in this Privacy Policy.

As discussed above, we may share your Personal Information with our affiliates for a variety of purposes. If you prefer to limit the sharing of your Personal Information among our affiliates, please contact us at privacy@nextgenins.com or 866-305-0063. Please note that your choice does not limit us from sharing certain information about your transactions or experiences with us. An opt-out request from one joint customer will apply to all joint customers on the policy or account. If you have already opted out, you don't need to opt out again because your request will never expire.

We comply with any state laws and regulations that may impose additional restrictions on disclosure of Personal Information about consumers in those states for certain purposes.

We maintain the privacy of your personal health information, if any, that we collect as required by applicable state and/or federal law. We will keep confidential any personal health information you provide us, unless such disclosure is authorized by you or is otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

Security of Your Personal Information

Next Generation Insurance Group is committed to protecting your Personal Information. We restrict access to Personal Information about you to personnel who need to know that information in order to perform their job duties. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with state and federal regulations to guard your Personal Information.

Use of Cookies and Other Web Technologies

Next Generation Insurance Group uses various technologies such as cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, browser analysis tools, and web server logs so that we can collect information to improve user experience and to help us better understand user traffic, navigation and our email effectiveness. These tools collect certain standard information that your browser sends to our websites such as your browser type and your referral website address. We may also collect information about your Internet Protocol (IP) address and clickstream behavior on our websites (for example, the pages you view and the links you click). You can generally remove, block, or disable cookies by using the settings located in your Web browser.

Linked Websites

We may provide links to other third-party websites that are outside our control and not covered by this Privacy Policy. Next Generation Insurance Group is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites, and you are encouraged to review the privacy statements posted on these and any website you visit.

Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Next Generation Insurance Group does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13, and no part of our websites are structured to attract anyone under 13. Access to or Correct Your Personal Information

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect and maintain. You may correct factual errors by sending us a request that credibly shows error. Note that to protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and we will post a notice on this website page whenever it is materially changed.

How to Contact Us

Should you have any privacy-related questions or comments please send an email to: privacy@nextgenins.com.