LEGAL

Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement

Thank you for choosing Star Assurance. We value you, respect your privacy, and we shall work hard to protect your personal information. We confirm that we shall keep your information secure and that we shall comply fully with the provisions of the Data Protection ACT 2012 (Act 843) and related Legislation and Regulations.




OUR PRIVACY ASSURANCE

  • We do not share your information with non-affiliate companies that may use it to contact you about their own products and services unless permitted by you following a joint marketing agreement.
  • We require persons or organizations that represent or assist us in servicing your policy and handle claims to keep your information confidential.
  • We require employees to protect your personal information and keep it confidential.
  • Our privacy practices continue to apply to your information even if you cease to be Star Assurance’s client.


COLLECTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

While using our website, and our social media handles to buy insurance policy on online portals and or making enquires, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This information may include but not limited to: Email address, Full name, Phone number, Postal Address, GPS, Ghana Card, Photograph identification etc.

All personal information that you may provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

HOW WE USE AND SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION


In the course of normal business activities, we use and share your personal information with persons or organizations within and outside of Star Assurance Co. Ltd. This would be done as required or permitted by law. For example, we may do this to:

  • Process and execute transaction you requested or service your Insurance policy
  • Handle your claim processing

In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful request by public authorities, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements.

We may disclose your personal information as required by law, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others.

PUSH NOTIFICATIONS

We may sometimes communicate with you via your mobile device through Short Messages etc. If you no longer wish to receive these types of communications, you may turn them off at the device level. To ensure you receive proper notifications, we will need to collect certain information about your device such as operating system and user identification information.

The persons or organizations with whom we may share your personal information may include:

  • Your insurance agent, broker, repair garages or affiliated companies
  • Companies that provide services in respect of your transaction, e.g risk assessors, Loss adjustor, investigators and lawyers etc.
  • Other insurance companies such as Coinsurers, Reinsurers etc.  

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy statement.

COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our site and store certain information.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our site or services.

These Cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the Website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

These Cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of Cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use our site.

MOBILE ANALYTICS

We use Mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our Mobile Software on your phone. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We will link the information we store within the analytics software to any personally identifiable information you submit within the mobile app.

HOW YOU CAN REVIEW AND CORRECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You can request to review your personal information contained in our records at any time. To do this, please complete Data Subject Request form and send it to the address below:

The Data Protection Supervisor

Star Assurance Company Ltd

1st Floor Stanbic Height Building, Airport City,

P. O. BOX 7532, Accra -North

Ghana.

E-mail: sac@sacassurance.com

If you believe that our information is incomplete or inaccurate, you can request that we correct it. Please note we may not be able to provide information relating to investigations, claims and litigation. We will be happy to make corrections whenever possible, we shall respond to all such requests within 21 working days after receipt.

RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will retain your Personal Data only as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations as under the Data Protection Act, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and internal policies. All your information will be kept in line with our Data Retention Policy.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We have taken to protect your personal information against unauthorized access or processing, of personal data. We have implemented appropriate policies and procedures to protect all your personal information held by us.

The security of your Personal Data is important to us but no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we use commercially acceptable means to protect and secure your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Please take note to access our sites within a secure environment.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children (any person under 18 years of age). If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

By using our site, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor’s use of the Site.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our site may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our website

If we make a material change to the policy, we will let you know via a notice on our website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.








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