Bail Bond Privacy Policy

This Privacy Notice applies to your non-public personal information (“personal information”) received by Allegheny Casualty Company and/or AIA Holdings, Inc., as applicable, (“Surety”), through that Surety's duly appointed independent bail producer (“Bail Producer”) (Surety and Bail Producer are sometimes together referred to as “Surety”), issuing, or causing to be issued, a criminal appearance bail bond described as: THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT: The Bail Producer is a licensed, independent contractor who is appointed by us to write bail. Prior to issuing a bail bond, the Bail Producer will collect, and in some cases, transmit to us your personal information. Your personal information is obtained from a variety of sources: • Applications and other forms (e.g., name, address, social security number, employment information, family member information, assets, income, and property locations and values) and electronically if you use our website or web-based applications (e.g., name of the internet domain, the IP address from which you accessed the site, and the time and date - our website uses cookies to collect individual information about you and your website usage); • Transactions and experiences with us and others, (e.g., credit card and account balances, and payment history); and • Consumer reporting agencies, medical providers, or others (e.g., credit score, background checks, and medical and employment information). HOW WE USE & PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION: Your personal information will be used to process the bail bond application, underwrite and post the bond and resolve bond claims or breaches of contract. We may provide your personal information to others working with us who need this information for these purposes, such as attorneys and investigators. Your personal information is used to assess the risk of the bail bond transaction, protect against fraud, or generally to effect, administer or enforce the terms of the bail bond transaction. Only authorized personnel are permitted to access your personal information. We convey to our employees and appointed Bail Producers the need to protect your personal information and require our outside vendors and service providers to keep your personal information confidential and to use it only to provide the services we have asked them to perform. PARTIES TO WHOM WE MAY DISCLOSE INFORMATION: We do not disclose your personal information to anyone except as permitted/required by law - for example, to industry regulators, law enforcement agencies, credit bureaus, subpoena, and third parties that assist us in the bail bond process and underwriting. We do not sell your personal information to anyone, and do not share your personal information with any companies or organizations that would use it to contact you about their products and services. CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY: We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information. We ensure that your personal information is treated responsibly and consistent with our privacy policies. We also restrict access to your personal information within our organization to those persons who must have the information to provide services to you or to conduct our business. Persons who have access to your personal information may use it only for our business purposes. We safeguard your personal information in accordance with applicable laws. You have a right to review your personal information and to request that we correct, amend or delete such information on file. WEB PRIVACY: When you visit AIA’s website at (www.aiasurety.com), the Web server automatically collects and maintains statistical information from our site’s data logs that concern network traffic flow and volume. The information that is collected does not identify personal information. The collected information is used to improve the usefulness of the web site. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Notice at any time. The most up to date version of our Privacy Notice can be found on AIA’s website. CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT: For California Residents, please visit www.aiasurety.com/CCPA to access our complete California privacy statement under the CCPA. If you would like a full copy of the policy, please contact the Surety at (818) 223-3308 or privacy@aiasurety.com. FURTHER INFORMATION: If you have any questions about how we use the information we collect, please write to us at: AIA Compliance Department, PO Box 5600, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359.