- Online Privacy and Security
Online Privacy and Security
Your Privacy is Our Priority.
At Farm Bureau
Financial Services, our focus on building trusted relationships is foundational
to our business. And we know that protecting your privacy is essential to
maintaining your trust. That includes the personal information you share as you
use our Websites, our emails, paperless, SMS texting, or electronic signature
services; and our mobile applications. The following privacy policy outlines
how FBL Financial Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively
FBFS) protect, collect, and use your information. This privacy policy is
governed by our Terms and Conditions.
Our Privacy
Principles
·
We
do not sell client/member information.
·
We
do not allow those who are doing business on our behalf to use our
client/member information for their own marketing purposes.
·
We
contractually require any person or organization providing products or services
on our behalf to protect FBFS client/member information.
·
We
afford our prospective and former client/members the same protections as
existing client/members with respect to the use of personal information.
Online Information
Collection
When an individual
consumer visits this Site, our Online Activities and/or Other Services
(collectively the “Services”) ("Visitor"), we may automatically collect
certain kinds of anonymous and personally identifiable information. The
information we collect will vary depending upon the function the Visitor
selects and the information the Visitor provides. We collect, use, and share
information we need to conduct our business, to advise you of our products and
services, and to provide you with client/member service. We may collect and
maintain several types of client/member information needed for these purposes,
as identified below. This information includes, but is not limited to, the name
of the website from which you entered our Site, if any, as well as the name of
the website to which you are headed when you leave our Site. This information
also includes the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer/proxy server
that you use to access the Internet, your location, access times, your Internet
or cellular provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and
computer operating system. We use all of this information to analyze trends
among our users to help improve our Services.
Safeguarding
Client/Member Information
FBFS understands the
importance of appropriately safeguarding the personally identifiable
information we obtain in the course of business operations. In order to protect
the safety of client/member information, we:
·
Maintain
physical, technical, and procedural safeguards
·
Review
our policies and practices
·
Monitor
our computer networks
·
Test
the strength of our security protections
·
Educate
our employees on the importance of keeping client/member data secure
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Maintain
an information breach response plan and client/member notification procedures
No method of transmission over the
Internet or cellular connections, including, but not limited to, via email, or
method of electronic storage is 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee the absolute
security of your information. You may contact Web Assistance if you have any questions or concerns
regarding the confidentiality and security of your information.
Children's Online
Privacy Protection
FBFS’ Services are
not directed toward children. We do not knowingly collect or post information
from children under the age of 13. Where information about minors is collected
in connection with insurance products or services (such as adding a minor to a
family policy), that information is used solely for providing and servicing the
insurance product and is not used for targeted advertising. FBFS does
not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18
for advertising or marketing purposes. You can learn more about children's privacy and the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) at the Federal Trade
Commission's website.
Visitor Data
Collected on the Services
Cookies and Other
Similar Tracking Technologies
We want to make you aware of how we use "cookies", including tags, pixels, SDKs and other similar tracking technologies to enhance your
experience when visiting FBFS Websites, email, texts, and applications. “Cookies” are small data files sent to your
browser from a web server and stored on your devices. We use “cookies” and
other technologies to help us track visits to our Website, applications and
Other Services and to find out how visitors use our sites. We routinely gather
information regarding activity using tags or pixels, or transparent GIF files
to help manage our online advertising and site visitor marketing efforts. This
information may be used to manage and customize our Website’s and application’s
content, layout, and services in order to improve our sites and enhance our
service to you. The information that we collect and share may include online
identifiers such as cookie IDs, device identifiers, and IP addresses, which may
be considered personal data. It does not contain a Visitor’s name, address,
telephone number or email address. These files enable our ad management partner
to recognize a unique cookie on your Web browser, which in turn, enables us to
learn which advertisements bring users to our Websites. The cookies are placed
by us or by another advertiser who works with our ad management provider. We
log your geolocation which includes IP address and location so that we may
tailor the content displayed on the Website to your current location.
Online Ads
Using "cookies" allows FBFS to manage our online advertising. We use third-party online advertising companies to provide ads on websites/platforms where we advertise. Some of these service providers may use "cookies" and other tracking technologies to collect information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, device information, and browsing activity. We use this information to analyze our marketing efforts and track visits to our Websites, and measure ad effectiveness. For more information about marketing "cookies" go to: https://business.safety.google/adcookies/. Notwithstanding any
other provision, we may work with third-party providers who may collect
information from you, such as your IP address and information about your
browser, operating system, or device, and may place or recognize a unique
cookie on your browser or device for the purpose of enabling interest-based
content or advertising to you, or measuring the success of advertising. The
cookies placed by our third-party providers
may contain demographic or other interest-based data in a de-identified
form. The information in these cookies may be linked to data you voluntarily
have submitted to us, such as your name, postal address, or email, which we may
share in hashed or encrypted form. To opt-out of these data provider cookies,
please go to http://www.aboutads.info/choices.
Information You
Provide
Through voluntary responses on FBDS' Websites and Services and email links found on our sites, we collect various personal information from visitors. We collect the email addresses of Visitors to our Websites and Services when Visitors provide them, we collect the email addresses of those who communicate with us via email, and information volunteered by the Visitor, such as survey information, contact information, and/or site registrations. Please note we do not automatically collect the email addresses form our Visitors. Visitors may be surveyed for feed back concerning their Website or Services visit.
If you supply us with your email address on www.fbfs.com or through our
Services, you may receive periodic messages from us with information on new
products and services or upcoming events. If you prefer not to receive periodic
messages with information on new products and services or upcoming events,
please select “No” when responding to the question asking whether you wish to
receive emailed communications from us when completing your site registration
or such other method for unsubscribing outlined in the applicable Service.
The following are examples of categories of personally
identifiable information that Visitors may voluntarily provide and which we may
collect:
·
Name
·
Physical
address
·
Email
address
·
Birthday
·
Phone
number
·
Policy
and/or account information
·
Last
four digits of your Social Security Number
· Information you allow a third-party service, such as Facebook
Text messaging
originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties.
Aggregated, Anonymized
& De-Identified Data
We may derive
aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified data from your personal data. Because
this data does not identify you, it is not considered personal data under the
law. We may use this data for any purpose. We commit to never attempting to
re-identify this information, and we will only share it with third parties who
are legally or technically bound to keep it de-identified.
Do-Not-Call Requests
FBFS complies with
all Federal regulations related to Do-Not-Call or Do-Not-Email requests by
client/members. We will not call or text client/members for the purpose of
product sales who have placed their number on the National Do-Not-Call list or
who have specifically asked to be added to our company-specific Do-Not-Call or
Do-Not-Email lists, which are maintained separately from the National
Do-Not-Call list, unless requested to do so by the client/member. We retain the
right to contact any client/member for service-related issues.
Social Network Information
We
may receive personal information you voluntarily share with third-party social
networking services, such as Facebook or X. For example, some social networking
services allow you to push content from our Site to your contacts. We may also
obtain social networking user IDs from those services. Visit your social
networking services’ privacy policies to learn more about the information they
make available to our Site or Services.
Use
of Information
Unless
prohibited by law, we may use and share information we collect about Visitors
with other member companies of FBFS or unaffiliated third parties for a variety
of purposes. Please be advised that all online payments will be processed using
our third-party payment processor. The payment information necessary to process
your transaction will be provided directly to the payment processor and will
not be retained by FBFS. For more information, please review our Privacy
Notice.
Changes
to Our Online Privacy Policy
FBFS
may make changes to our online privacy policies occasionally. We recommend that
Visitors to our Websites and Services review our online privacy policies from
time to time to learn of new privacy practices and changes to our policies.
Links
to Other Sites
The
online privacy policies of FBFS apply only to our Websites and Services and our
producer Websites that link to this privacy policy. Websites operated by non-FBFS
related entities may link to and from our Website and/or Services and may have
different privacy policies from the ones described here. Visitors should read
the privacy statements of other Websites they visit for information regarding
their specific privacy practices.
Effective: August 18, 2026
Last Updated: August 18, 2026