California Auto Insurance California Department Of Insurance
Welcome California Auto Insurance
consumers. We understand
the concerns that you have trying to get insurance when you have had
a few tickets or accidents or even some credit problems that may put
you and your family in need of a different Insurance Policy with coverages
that may need to adjusted up or down. This website will help you locate
the appropriate free low cost auto insurance rate quote online that
you need regardless of what insurance record you have had. California
Certified Producer Agents are available to help you.
Privacy and Online Safety
Protecting your information
When you visit our web site/s to read pages or download information,
we automatically collect and store some of, or all of the following
non-identifying information:
The Internet protocol address from which you access our web site. An
IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to the
computer you are using whenever you are surfing the web
The type of browser, such as Netscape or Internet Explorer, and operating
system, such as Windows 98 or Linux, used to access our site.
The date and time site/s pages accessed, for the purpose of monitoring
demand.
The pages visited, for the purpose of improving the usefulness of our
web site by providing helpful links and removing pages that are not
visited.
This information does not identify you personally
We maintain the above information in typical system logs. We only utilize
this information to make our site/s more useful to visitors by learning
the number of visitors to our site, the number of pages served, and
the level of demand for specific pages. We do not track or record information
about identifiable individuals and their visits.
Federal law protects your information, and we have developed policies
and statistical safeguards to help us follow the law and further ensure
the confidentiality of your information. 1
Your Information Is
CONFIDENTIAL
We never identify you individually.
1. Federal Law
Title 13 of the U.S. Code protects the confidentiality of all your information.
Violating this law is a crime with severe penalties.
2. Privacy Principles
Our Privacy Principles are guidelines that cover all of our activities.
These principles encompass both our responsibilities to protect your
information and your rights as a respondent. They apply to the information
we collect and the statistics we publish.
3. Statistical Safeguards
Statistical methods ensure that the statistics we release do not identify
individuals or businesses. These methods include extensive review and
analysis of all our data products, as well as disclosure avoidance methodologies
such as data suppression and modification.
We recognize the value of your trust, and we believe that when you answer
our surveys we must serve as caretakers of your information. If you
would like to learn more about how we fulfill this responsibility, just
ask.
Confidentiality: How do we protect your information?
In addition to removing personally identifiable information, such as
names, telephone numbers, and addresses, from our data files, we use
various approaches to protect your personal information; including computer
technologies, statistical methodologies, and security procedures.
Our security measures ensure that only a restricted number of authorized
people have access to private information and that access is only granted
to conduct our work and for no other purposes.
Violating the confidentiality of a consumer could cause serious penalties
to assessed against website operators, so we take these statements seriously.
We promise that every person with access to your information is trained
to protect your confidentiality.
We promise that we will use every technology, statistical methodology,
and physical security procedure at our disposal to protect your information.
Cookies
We generally do not use "cookies," which are files or file entries placed
on your computer's hard drive by a web site, that allow monitoring of
your use of the site. Some activities, such as purchasing a product
do require the use of transient cookies.
Our web site/s do not use "persistent cookies" or other "persistent
tracking technology."
Transient Cookies
Transient cookies are used to keep track of user selections so that
new requests can be created more efficiently. No personally-identifiable
information is permanently retained on either the user's or our computers.
These transient cookies go away completely when you exit the browser.
When ordering products, transient cookies are enabled to track your
order through the process.
A federal law that took effect July 1, 2001 known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act (GLBA) imposed new restrictions on the sharing of non-public personal
information by financial institutions such as banks and insurers. It
also requires companies to share their privacy policies with customers
and to give customers the opportunity to tell the company not to share
their information with non-affiliated third parties. In addition, in
2003 Congress passed new legislation known as the Fair and Accurate
Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act), extending provisions of the Fair
Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) regulating the sharing of consumer report
information with affiliated entities. The FACT Act contains language
preempting state laws that restrict information sharing with affiliates.
