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Terms of Use

Effective June 1, 2008

By using Cornerstone-underwriters.com in any manner (whether browsing, following a link, sending an e-mail to an Cornerstone-underwriters.com e-mail address, obtaining or saving or retrieving a premium estimate, making a purchase, or using any other content or materials on Cornerstone-underwriters.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 Cornerstone-underwriters.com and do not change or alter any other agreement or contract between you and Cornerstone Underwriters.

Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone-underwriters.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 Cornerstone-underwriters.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 Cornerstone Underwriters and is protected under United States and worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters. To seek permission for any other use, please contact Cornerstone Underwriters at 1-888-571-6160.


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 Cornerstone Underwriters customer information.
  • We do not share customer medical information with anyone within the Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters 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-Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters affiliates under common control and with Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters affiliates and sharing outside Cornerstone Underwriters. 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 Cornerstone Underwriters affiliates.

SPECIAL NOTICE REGARDING THE SHARING OF CERTAIN INFORMATION WITH CORNERSTONE UNDERWRITERS AFFILIATES

This special notice applies only to information sharing with Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters, including but not limited to:

  • American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., Inc. and its affiliates.
  • American Patriot Insurance Agency, Inc.
  • Hendricks Holding Company, LLC and its affiliates.
  • WRI Management Services, LLC.

If you are a new customer and you prefer that Cornerstone Underwriters not share your personal information among our family of companies, call or write your Cornerstone Underwriters agent or call us toll-free at 1-888-571-6160. Your choice will also apply to your joint account holders and/or policy holders.

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 Cornerstone Underwriters agent or call the toll-free number listed above.

Your choice does not limit Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters products that may suit your needs.


Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters. We value you as a customer and appreciate the opportunity to serve you.


Bulk E-Mail and Other Prohibited E-Mail

The Cornerstone Underwriters computer network (which includes, but is not limited to, the technology and applications which support the e-mail functionality Cornerstone Underwriters provides its officers, employees, independent contractor agents, and other authorized users) is the private property of Cornerstone Underwriters.

Cornerstone Underwriters prohibits any bulk e-mail transmissions to be sent, or caused to be sent, over the Internet to Cornerstone-underwriters.com e-mail addresses unless Cornerstone Underwriters, 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 Cornerstone-underwriters.com addresses in any 24-hour period.


Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone-underwriters.com e-mail addresses in any 24-hour period unless Cornerstone Underwriters, 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.

Cornerstone Underwriters prohibits any e-mail transmission to be sent, or caused to be sent, over the Internet to any Cornerstone-underwriters.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.

Cornerstone Underwriters prohibits any e-mail transmission to be sent, or caused to be sent, over the Internet to any Cornerstone-underwriters.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.

Cornerstone Underwriters prohibits the harvesting or collection of the e-mail addresses of Cornerstone Underwriters agents and/or personal financial representatives from the Cornerstone-underwriters.com web site for the purpose of sending bulk e-mail to Cornerstone-underwriters.com e-mail addresses.

Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters computer network.

Nothing in this policy is intended to grant any right to transmit or send e-mail to, or through, the Cornerstone Underwriters computer network. Cornerstone Underwriters’s failure to enforce this policy in every instance in which it might have application does not amount to a waiver of Cornerstone Underwriters’s rights.



Links to Other Web Sites

This Web site may contain links to other sites. Cornerstone Underwriters provides links to other sites as a convenience to persons who visit the Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters). Please be aware that Cornerstone Underwriters is not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites, even though Cornerstone Underwriters’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.

Cornerstone Underwriters is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site.


Links to Cornerstone-underwriters.com

Cornerstone Underwriters appreciates your interest in linking your Web Site (the "Linking Site") to Cornerstone Underwriters‘s Web site, located at www.Cornerstone-underwriters.com. In order to avoid misunderstandings regarding the use of Cornerstone Underwriters's trademarks, trade names and other proprietary information, Cornerstone Underwriters 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 Cornerstone Underwriters's "home page" at http://www.Cornerstone-underwriters.com.

    However, third parties may not include on their Web sites links to any other page maintained on the Cornerstone-underwriters.com Web site unless they have received prior written permission of an officer of Cornerstone Underwriters or unless the Linking Site is an Internet search engine.

  • Framing. Unless you have received specific written permission from Cornerstone Underwriters, 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 Cornerstone Underwriters Web site ("Cornerstone Underwriters Content"), (b) alter or modify Cornerstone Underwriters Content, or (c) "cut and paste" or otherwise reproduce Cornerstone Underwriters Content on the Linking Site.
  • No Archiving. Your link must be to the current Cornerstone Underwriters site only. In permitting linking, Cornerstone Underwriters does not grant you the right to reproduce, modify, cache or archive the Cornerstone Underwriters Content for any purpose.
  • Link At Your Own Risk. Cornerstone Underwriters makes no representations or warranties regarding the Cornerstone Underwriters Web site, which is provided "as is." Linking Sites link to the Cornerstone Underwriters Web site at their own risk. Cornerstone Underwriters is under no obligation to maintain the Cornerstone Underwriters Web site, provide or update Cornerstone Underwriters Content or otherwise support your link to the Cornerstone Underwriters Web site.
  • Termination. Cornerstone Underwriters may revoke this license immediately if you fail to follow these guidelines. Cornerstone Underwriters 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, CORNERSTONE UNDERWRITERS, INC. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CORNERSTONE UNDERWRITERS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONALITY OR OPERATION OF THE CORNERSTONE UNDERWRITERS 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.
CORNERSTONE UNDERWRITERS 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, CORNERSTONE UNDERWRITERS 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 CORNERSTONE UNDERWRITERS 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.

 

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