This Notice describes the way AXIS collects and uses information about individuals in all locations where AXIS conducts business except for Europe.

 

 

What type of personal information do we collect about you?

The types of personal information we collect about you depends on your relationship with AXIS.
If you are an insured person or potential insured, we collect personal information of the policyholder, prospective insured, and related individuals in order to determine eligibility for, underwrite, and administer insurance policies. In some instances, we may need to collect sensitive personal information, such as information about your medical and criminal history.
If you are a claimant making a claim under an AXIS policy, we may need to collect your contact information, as well as information about your claim and previous claims. We may also need to collect sensitive personal information, depending on the nature of your claim.
If you are a business partner, we will collect your business contact details.
The types of personal information we may collect include:

  • Name, address, phone number, email
  • Company affiliation
  • Gender
  • Marital status
  • Date and place of birth
  • Government identification numbers: social security, passport, tax, driver's license
  • Family information
  • Banking information
  • Health information/medical history
  • Criminal history
  • Credit history and credit score
  • Claims/policy numbers

 

 

 

How do we collect information about you?

If you are an insured or potential insured, we collect information from you or your representative through the policy application process. We may also collect information about you from your family members or employer, credit reference agencies, anti-fraud databases, sanctions lists, and relevant government agencies, including public registers or databases as well as credit reference organizations.
If you are a claimant, we will collect information about you when you notify us of a claim, or if the claim is made by someone with a close relationship to you or who otherwise has authority to make a claim on your behalf. We may also collect personal information about you from others who are involved in the claim, including lawyers, witnesses, experts, and adjusters. Finally, we may consult other public sources to validate the claim or protect against fraud or other financial crime.
If you are a business partner, we will collect information about you when you or your company provides that information to us as part of the business relationship.
We may also collect information about anyone who contacts us for any other purpose using the contact form on our website.

 

 

Why do we collect information about you?

We may collect your personal information for the following purposes:

If you are an insured or potential insured:

  • Account setup, including background checks
  • Evaluating risks to be covered
  • Risk modeling and underwriting
  • Customer service communications
  • Payments to/from individuals
  • Direct marketing
  • Complying with legal or regulatory obligations

If you are a claimant:

  • Managing insurance or reinsurance claims
  • Defending or prosecuting legal claims
  • Investigating or prosecuting fraud
  • Complying with legal or regulatory obligations

 

Information collected automatically online

Our website may use cookies and other technologies such as web server logs to collect information about website visitors automatically. The information collected does not directly identify anyone, but we or third parties who provide this technology may combine this information with other information about your online activities over time and across different devices and online properties. For more information on how these cookies work, please see our 'Cookies Policy.' Note that like many websites, our website is not designed to respond to "do not track" requests from browsers.

Our legal basis for processing your personal information

Where we process your personal information for the purposes set out above, we generally rely on one or more of the following legal bases.

For all personal information:

  • Performance of a contract – we must use your personal information to perform a contract with you – for example, to perform your insurance policy with us
  • Legitimate interests – as an insurance business, we have a legitimate interest in using your personal information to provide your insurance cover, manage our business relationship with you and protect ourselves from fraud
  • Legal obligation – we must use your personal information to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations – for example, in relation to carrying out background checks or reporting financial crime

For special category personal information:

  • Insurance purpose – it is necessary for us to use your special category personal information for an insurance purpose
  • Legal claims – it is necessary for us to use your special category personal information to establish, exercise or defend legal claims

In some instances, we may use your personal information on the basis of your express consent. Where we rely on your consent as a legal basis for processing your personal information, we will expressly inform you that we are doing so at the time that we request your consent. You do not have to give your consent and you may withdraw your consent at any time. However, if you do not give your consent, or you withdraw your consent, this may affect our ability to provide you with certain services. If you choose to withdraw your consent, we will inform you of the consequences of withdrawal.

Click HERE for further details about our legal basis for using your personal data.

Links to our website

 

Our website may offer links to other websites that are not maintained by AXIS. When visiting one of these linked websites, you are subject to the other organization’s privacy notice and other policies. We are not responsible for, or able to monitor or control, the policies and practices of other organizations.

 

 

Notices for specific United States locations

We do not “sell” “covered information” of Nevada “consumers” as those terms are defined by Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes. If you are a Nevada resident, you may contact us at [email protected] and register for us to provide you notice in the event that we change our practices in the future.
If you are a California resident, click below to review our California Privacy Notice.

 

California Privacy Notice
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Changes to this privacy notice

This Privacy Notice is subject to change at our discretion. We will indicate changes to the Privacy Policy by updating the “Last Updated” date at the bottom of the Privacy Notice. Your continued use of this Site after any update to this Privacy Notice will constitute your acceptance of the changes.

 

 

How to Contact Us

Please address all inquiries, requests, and other communications regarding your personal information or this Privacy Notice to:

Contact: Data Protection Officer
Email: [email protected]
Address: 10000 Avalon Boulevard, Suite 200, Alpharetta, GA 30009
Phone: 1 888 914 9661, PIN 292703

 

Published: 24 June 2022  v1.0