ANNUAL NOTICE OF PRIVACY POLICY AND PRACTICES OF THE LEWER AGENCY, INC. AND ITS AFFILIATES
The Lewer Agency, Inc. and Lewer Life Insurance Company have established and continue to maintain this Privacy Policy in recognition of Lewer's obligation and desire to safeguard and secure its clients' nonpublic information. In the ordinary course of business, we collect, retain and use information about you to administer your Health Plan, accounts and benefits. This notice describes our policy regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of this personal information.
- Personal information, for the purposes of this notice, includes any information that identifies you personally and is not otherwise available to the public. Examples of personal information include name, social security number, and address, as well as financial information such as credit history, income, financial benefits, and policy and claim information. Also included is health information such as your medical records, and other information about any illness, disability or injury.
- Access to customer information is authorized for business purposes only. We permit authorized employees to have access to customer information only when they need to know such information in order to provide products or services to you, or to otherwise conduct our business. Employees who have access to customer information are required to protect and keep such information confidential. Any employee who violates this policy will be subject to our disciplinary policies and procedures.
- We may share personal information with our affiliates in order to serve you more efficiently and make it more convenient for you to do business with us.
- In order to administer and/or service the accounts of our clients, we may share information with unaffiliated third parties that provide services on our behalf. Their use of such information is limited to completion of the service for which they are contracted. Additionally, we may disclose information to unaffiliated third parties as allowed by law, for example, in response to a subpoena, to prevent fraud, or to comply with an inquiry by a governmental agency or regulator.
- We will not share, internally or externally, personally identifiable health information for any purpose other than as needed in the ordinary course of conducting our business, or with your consent after full disclosure.
- The Lewer Agency, Inc. will continue to follow the policy regarding personal information even when a customer relationship no longer exists.
- If you would like to inquire about the personal information we have retained in our files, or have any other questions concerning the privacy of such information, please contact the Privacy Officer at the address listed below.
- The Lewer Agency, Inc. will provide this notice to its clients and potential clients at the inception of our business relationship and annually thereafter. Due to the rapid changes occurring in the financial services industry, we reserve the right to revise our privacy policy as necessary. If and when amendments are made to our privacy policy, we will send you a revised notice and will post the revised notice on our website.
Privacy Officer
The Lewer Agency, Inc.
4534 Wornall Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64111
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