Request to access your personal information
Thank you for your recent request to know about your personal information – your privacy is very important to us. Provided with this document is a file containing your specific pieces of personal information.
Your personal information file:
Per your verified request, we are providing you a file containing the personal information about you that is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).
Please note the following about your personal information file:
- The amount and type of personal information included in the attached file will vary based on your relationship with Allstate Investments. Based on the personal information about you that we located, it appears that you are an existing or former individual in a commercial relationship with Allstate Investments
- The way the personal information is presented will vary based on how the information is kept in each system. Some of your information has been redacted or not returned due to risk of fraud such as your social security number, drivers’ license number, financial account number or account passwords. We will let you know that we have collected it but will not provide you with the actual personal information in the response.
- For each piece of personal information returned, we have indicated the category to which that piece of personal information belongs. The categories are listed below with examples of the types of personal information that fall into each category. Those categories allow you to better understand the personal information that is shared and with whom it is shared.
- To protect individual privacy, we only return personal information that we are confident belongs to you. Data that might belong to an individual with a similar name or address will not be returned to you if we aren’t certain it is yours.
To view your personal information, please refer to the attached document titled with your name.
Categories of personal information, sources of personal information, business purposes and third parties:
The following response, together with the information contained in the personal information file, explains the following for the personal information collected:
- The categories of personal information collected;
- The categories of sources from which personal information was collected;
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting personal information;
- The categories of third parties with whom we disclose or share personal information; and
- The categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose and the category of third parties to whom the personal information was disclosed.
1. The categories of personal information collected:
The file of your personal information shows the category of personal information for each piece of information. These are the categories:
| Personal information categories | Examples |
|---|---|
| Personal identifiers | Name, alias, postal address, email address, online identifier, internet protocol (IP) address, phone number, date of birth, Social Security number, driver's license number, |
| Personal characteristics | Age, marital status, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression), |
| Professional information | Producer number, agent number or other professional license number, bank account financial information, employer tax identification number, professional history or employment-related information. |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information | Information regarding your interaction with our website, application or advertisement, links you use or web pages you visit while visiting our site or applications, browser type, or internet service provider (ISP). |
Sensitive personal information
Some personal information we collect is defined under the law as sensitive personal information. Sensitive personal information we collect includes Social Security number, driver’s license number, account log-in, and financial account numbers.
2. The categories of sources from which personal information was collected
We collect personal information about you in several ways from several sources.
- Directly from you as part of our business relationship, including but not limited to personal information provided in connection with the onboarding, enrolling, referral, and quoting processes, as well as information necessary to facilitate commission payments.
- Automatically from you when you use our websites, view our emails or otherwise engage with us through a computer or mobile device (“Sites”).
- From third parties such as consumer reporting agencies and data providers to run credit reports or do background checks.
3. The business or commercial purposes for collecting personal information
We use personal information collected from or about you for business purposes including to:
- Process your information for onboarding including determining eligibility or qualifications for establishing our business relationship,
- Manage and maintain our business relationship including to identify and review your qualifications, process commission and other payments, update or correct our records, or provide you with technology needed for your agency role,
- Advertise or market to consumers about your professional services to generate business leads for you,
- Comply with legal requirements, assist in an investigation, comply with requests from regulatory and law enforcement authorities and meet contractual obligations,
- Communicate with you via email, mail or other methods about our business, including opportunities, technology or services offered or other information relevant to our business relationship,
- Protect the safety and security of our business, services, and Sites including to prevent suspected fraud, threats to our network or other illegal activities, prevent misuse or for any other reason permitted by law, and
- Carry out other activities required in the normal course of our business relationship with you.
4. The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information and the personal information shared with those categories of third parties
We may share any of the categories of personal information described above with any of the following third parties:
- Service providers: We may share personal information with service providers who perform services on our behalf for business purposes described above in “Use of Your Information” such as advertising your agency on Google. We may also share personal information with marketing companies who will advertise your agency to generate business leads for you.
- Third parties in connection with a business transaction: Personal information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a merger, sale of any or all of our company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by an affiliate or third party, or in the event of a bankruptcy or related or similar proceedings.
- Law enforcement, regulators and other parties for legal reasons: Personal information may be disclosed to third parties, as required by law or subpoena, or if we reasonably believe such action is necessary to:
- comply with the law and the reasonable requests of regulators, court orders, law enforcement or other public authorities, such as a subpoena, government audit or search warrant,
- comply with a contract or as necessary to establish, exercise or defend against potential, threatened or actual litigation,
- protect us, your vital interests, or those of another person, and
- investigate fraud or to protect the security or integrity of our Sites, tools, facilities, or other individuals.
For more information about our privacy practices, please review our Privacy Statement.
Sincerely,
The Allstate Privacy Team