PRIVACY POLICY
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Introduction
At the Sun Life Financial group of companies, protecting your privacy is important to us. Whether you are an existing customer or considering a relationship with us, we recognize that you have an interest in how we may collect, use and share information about you.
Sun Life Financial has a long tradition of safeguarding the privacy of its customers' information. We understand and appreciate the trust and confidence you place in us, and we take seriously our obligation to maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal information.
We invite you to review this Privacy Policy which outlines how we use and protect that information.
Collection of Nonpublic Personal Information by Sun Life Financial
Collecting personal information from you is essential to our ability to offer you high-quality investment, retirement and insurance products. When you apply for a product or service from us, we need to obtain information from you to determine whether we can provide it to you. As part of that process, we may collect information about you, known as nonpublic personal information, from the following sources:
· Information we receive from you on applications or other forms, such
as your name, address, social security number and date of birth;
· Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates or others, such as other life insurance policies or annuities that you may own; and
· Information we receive from a consumer reporting agency, such as a credit report.
Limited Use and Sharing of Nonpublic Personal Information by Sun Life Financial
We use the nonpublic personal information we collect to help us provide the products and services you have requested and to maintain and service your accounts. Once we obtain nonpublic personal information from you, we do not disclose it to any third party except as permitted or required by law.
We may share your nonpublic personal information within Sun Life Financial to help us develop innovative financial products and services and to allow our member companies to inform you about them. The Sun Life Financial group of companies provides a wide variety of financial products and services including individual life insurance, individual fixed and variable annuities and group life, disability, dental, and medical stop-loss insurance.
We also may disclose your nonpublic personal information to companies that help in conducting our business or perform services on our behalf, or to other financial institutions with which we have joint marketing agreements. Sun Life Financial is highly selective in choosing these companies, and we require them to comply with strict standards regarding the security and confidentiality of our customers' nonpublic personal information. These companies may use and disclose the information provided to them only for the purpose for which it is provided, as permitted by law.
There also may be times when Sun Life Financial is required to disclose its customers' nonpublic personal information, such as when complying with federal, state or local laws, when responding to a subpoena, or when complying with an inquiry by a governmental agency or regulator.
Our Treatment of Information About Former Customers
Our protection of your nonpublic personal information extends beyond the period of your customer relationship with us. If your customer relationship with us ends, we will not disclose your information to nonaffiliated third parties other than as permitted or required by law.
Security of Your Nonpublic Personal Information
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal and state regulations to safeguard your nonpublic personal information from unauthorized use or improper access.
Employee Access to Your Nonpublic Personal Information
We restrict access to your nonpublic personal information to those employees who have a business need to know that information in order to provide products or services to you or to maintain your accounts. Our employees are governed by a strict code of conduct and are required to maintain the confidentiality of customer information.
Questions
Questions about this Privacy Policy may be directed to SLF_US_Privacy@sunlife.com.
SLPC 17844 (03/09) exp. 03/10
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