Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. Privacy Statement:

We respect your privacy rights. Any information gathered on this site will be kept strictly confidential. Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. will never sell, re-use, rent, loan or otherwise disclose any information on you to any third party. We will use the utmost care in protecting the sanctity and security of your information.

The guidelines at this site are applicable only to this domestic website. Information submitted solely in a business capacity is not covered by these guidelines.

Our privacy policy applies only to our website and not to sites that may be linked to ours. You should refer to those sites' own privacy policies to learn how they collect and use information about you.

Use of Information:

BENCHMAK COMMERICAL INSURANCE, INC. DOES NOT SELL, RENT, LOAN, TRADE, LEASE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED ON OUR SITE, INCLUDING FORMS OR E-MAIL LISTS, TO ANY THIRD PARTY. WE WILL TREAT ANY INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE AS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND WILL NOT DISCLOSE IT TO ANY THIRD PARTY.

Information Collected on Our Website:

Information is collected as part of the sign up process and consists of the following information: Name, e-mail address, physical address, country, and company-related information.

Browser Information Collected on Our Website:

Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc.'s website is operated by Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. and co-located with Pointivity (http://www.Pointivity.com), which is located at 4320 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite 205, San Diego, CA 92122. Pointivity's fax number is 858.777.6915.

Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. has entered into a contract with Pointivity regarding the operation of this site. The contract specifically provides that Pointivity will be bound by Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc.'s privacy policy when dealing with information gathered on this site.

As part of the operation of this site by and on behalf of Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc., Pointivity maintains server logs regarding visits to our website. Most companies and websites maintain such server logs as a function of operating websites. Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. and/or Pointivity analyze such logs in an effort to constantly improve the value of the materials on the site. The logs do not contain personally identifiable information. Neither Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc., nor Pointivity makes any attempt to link the traffic information on the site with the individuals who actually visit the site. From time to time, Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc., may break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser). Again, we make no efforts to associate this information with individual users.

Cookies:

A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your Web browser (your computer's hard drive) so it can later be read back from that browser. A cookie file can contain certain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you have visited on that site. If you are interested, more information on cookies can be found by visiting the Cookie Central website at http://www.cookiecentral.com/.

Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. uses session cookies, which are removed by your browser when the browser closes and which contains only a unique ID, which is not associated with any personally identifiable information. The cookie is placed on your system only after your log on and allows us to identify which services you are entitled to use during that session.

Privacy of Our E-mail Lists:

Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. maintains e-mail lists, but only of those individuals or organizations that contact, support, contribute, or work with us. These lists include Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc.'s volunteers, sponsors, contributors, and interested members of the general public who have contacted Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc..

We do not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease the addresses on our lists to anyone. In addition, we configure our list server software to refuse to divulge the e-mail addresses of our list subscribers to anyone but authorized Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. staff, including other list subscribers.

Correction and Update Policy:

Please send us an e-mail at info@benchcom.com to ask us for any information we may have collected about you during your visits to our site. You may also use that address to correct and/or update information that we may have on file.

Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. allows users to review the Privacy Policy before submitting any personally identifiable information. In addition, because at least one link to the Privacy Policy appears on each page of this site, it is readily accessible to users.

Delete/Deactivation Policy:

If you wish to completely delete any personal information you submitted to Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. you may do so by contacting us at delete@benchcom.com. We will notify you of our receipt of your request. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally delete all such information from our database within five working days from the date of the receipt of your request. Please note that it may be impossible to delete a user's entry without some residual information because of backups and records of deletions.

Children:

No part of this site is directed to children. We will never knowingly collect information from users under the age of 13.

Length of Time Data Will Be Stored:

Unless you request that we delete any of the information you submitted to Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. when you registered for any electronic updates and/or newsletters we may offer, we will store such information for a period of five years. At the conclusion of that time, all such information may be automatically deleted.

Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. will use industry-standard measures to protect the security of all personal information.

What Else Should You Know?

Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. While we strive to protect your personal information, Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc. cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. We respect your privacy rights. Any information gathered on this site will be kept strictly confidential. Benchmark Commercial Insurance Services, Inc., will never sell, re-use, rent, loan or otherwise disclose any information on you to any third party. We will use the utmost care in protecting the sanctity and security of your information.