Madison

PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy Statement is designed to help you understand how we may use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us in this website. This Privacy Policy relates solely to information supplied by you on this Website. Madison Insurance Limited (“Madison”) takes every effort to protect the privacy of any information that you provide us with.

Information provided by you to Madison on this website will be used only for its intended purpose, that is, to provide you with the services you have requested at this website, to update and enhance Madison’s records, to advise you of other products and services which may be of interest to you and where applicable to consider your application for employment. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information otherwise provided by you to Madison.  

Transferability

The data and / or information provided by you on this Website may be transferred within Madison and by using this Website you consent to such transfer. In providing your telephone number, facsimile number and electronic mail address you agree that Madison may contact you by telephone, facsimile or electronic mail.  Other than to those individuals and entities listed below, your information will not be revealed by Madison to any external body, unless you permit Madison or Madison is under a legal obligation or any other duty to do so. The information provided by you at this Website may be disclosed by Madison to:-

• Other companies and branches in the same group
• Regulators
• Lawyers
• Auditors
• Third Party Service Providers
• Any Agent acting on our behalf
• Any referee whose details are provided to us by you.

Use of Information

The information collected from you by Madison will be valuable in improving the design and marketing of our range of services and related products for customer use. Madison assures you that your private information will be treated as confidential and with high standards of security. The Use of your information will be kept to the minimum required in order for Madison to continually monitor and improve its services to our customers and keeping you informed about our products, services and other opportunities within Madison.

Data Security

Madison pledges its intention to meet fully recognized standards of personal data privacy protection and to comply with the requirements of applicable data protection / privacy laws. In doing so, we will ensure compliance by our staff with the strictest standards of security and confidentiality. It is nonetheless your responsibility to maintain the secrecy of your user ID and login password.

Duration of Use

Data provided by you is retained for as long as the purpose for which the data was collected continues. Data is then destroyed unless its retention is required to satisfy legal, regulatory or accounting requirements or to protect Madison’s interests.

Use of Cookies

In order to improve our Internet service to you we will from time to time use a “cookie”. A cookie is a small amount of data that our web server sends to your web browser when you visit certain parts of our Website and the use of which is intended to assist our understanding of your interest in our Website.

A cookie is a piece of encoded information that is sent from the web site and stored in your computer's memory. This piece of information identifies who you are and therefore avoids the time-consuming process of checking your details against our user database each time a new page is requested. A few points on cookies:-

• Cookies only contain as much information as was disclosed to the site that sent it
• Cookies do not take information from your hard drive, delete files or contain viruses
• Cookies are small files (100s of bytes) and do not pose a disk space problem

The information in each cookie cannot be readily decoded or used in any other way.
Cookies can be turned off in the Options dialog of the Internet Explorer Web browser or any other browser that you may be using.

Disclaimer

Madison Insurance reserves the right to amend all or part of the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time. This Privacy Policy is not intended to, nor does it, create any contractual rights whatsoever or any other legal rights, nor does it create any obligations on Madison in respect of any other party or on behalf of any party. This website may contain links to other external sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by this site.

Madison Insurance Limited
Dated January 2010.

For any questions and further information that you may have please write to:-

Head of IT Department,
Madison Insurance Limited,
Madison Insurance House,
Upper Hill Road,
P.O. Box 47382,
GPO Nairobi 00100,
Tel: +254 (0) 20 272 1970/1, 286 4000
Fax: +254 (0) 20 272 3344
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