Thank you for visiting Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York's corporate website. Your privacy during your visit and through the course of any interaction with us via the site is very important to us. When you visit our site and communicate with us, we will not collect personal information about you, unless you provide us that information voluntarily.

If you provide personal information to us, we will not sell that information. We may share the information with our internal customer service representatives and other Security Mutual employees, or an agent, to enable them to address your question or concern. We will only disclose information in compliance with applicable laws and regulations and will require the recipient to protect the information and use it only for the purpose provided, for example, as necessary to provide service or products requested by you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with state regulations to guard your personal information.

Site Visitation

When you visit Security Mutual's website, we collect certain information that does not identify you personally, but provides us with usage data. This data is used to help us determine what pages are visited most often and the average time visitors spend at the site. The information is used for internal auditing and to help us improve our site.

Contact Us

Security Mutual welcomes your comments and questions, and we have supplied the Contact Us page and the Benefits Division Contact Page to help you communicate your needs to us electronically. In order to process any requests you may have, we will share the information you provide with our customer service representatives, other employees, or an agent, to enable them to address your questions and concerns.

Please note that the messages we receive from you are not encrypted. Therefore, your e-mail transmission to us, like most, if not all, non-encrypted Internet e-mail communications, may be accessed and viewed by other Internet users, without your knowledge and permission, while in transit to us. For this reason, we recommend that you do not include any information that you consider confidential (e.g., social security number) in your electronic communications with us. If additional information is required to process your request, a representative will contact you. Or, please feel free to call us at 1-800-346-7171.

Newsletter Update Notification

When you register to receive an e-mail notification of updates to Security Mutual's monthly Client Line newsletter service, we use your e-mail address for that purpose only. We will not share your address with anyone either inside or outside of Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.

Calculators

Security Mutual's on-line calculators are provided for your information only. We do not track, retain or use any of the data input into the calculators, nor is the data in any way linked to you as an individual.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information that Web sites can store on your computer. Security Mutual's Web site does not use cookies.

Third Party Sites

Various pages within Security Mutual's website provide links to other sites of interest. Security Mutual is providing these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply Security Mutual's endorsement of the site. These linked sites are not under the control of Security Mutual and, therefore, we are not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site.

Be aware that these third party sites may collect information about you. Security Mutual is not responsible for the action of these third parties and we encourage you to review their privacy policies to learn what type of personal information, if any, they collect.

Changes to this Statement

Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York may change this statement from time to time without notice. This statement and the use of our website are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.

Security Mutual strives to provide a comprehensive insurance-and financial-planning resource via our corporate website. We hope you will visit our site often, and we welcome your feedback. Through the course of your visits, we will continue to protect your privacy at our site.

Corporate Privacy Notice

At Security Mutual, providing for your security is our highest concern. We have been protecting policyholders since 1886, and that includes protecting the privacy and confidentiality of our customers’ and former customers' personal information. Therefore, we are pleased to publish Security Mutual’s Privacy Notice, which describes how Security Mutual and its subsidiaries* handle the information we receive about you.

Information Collection

• We collect and use information about you in order to provide you with insurance and other services.
• We obtain most of the information from you, primarily from the application you complete when you apply for our products or services. If we need additional information, we may obtain it from third parties such as employers, adult family members, other insurers, consumer reporting agencies and medical care providers.

• To guard the personal information of our customers and former customers, we maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with state regulations. Personal health information is accorded additional protection. We have also appointed a corporate privacy officer to monitor compliance with the Company’s privacy policy.
• All employees are required to protect the confidentiality of our customers’ and former customers' personal information, and they may not access that information unless there is a legitimate reason for doing so, such as responding to a customer request.
• View our Website Privacy Policy.

• We will not sell the personal information of our customers or former customers.
• We will not disclose the personal information of our customers or former customers except as necessary for conducting business or where permitted by law. For example, we may disclose your personal information to an agent, our employees or our service providers so they can service your business or respond to your questions or requests. We may also disclose your personal information (with the exception of nonpublic health information) to other financial institutions with which we have joint marketing agreements. We require the recipients of such information to protect the information and use it only for the purpose provided. Organizations from which we obtain information may retain and disclose such information as permitted by law.

Information Access and Correction

Should you wish to obtain a copy of your personal information, please write to us at the address shown below. If you believe that any such personal information is incorrect, please notify us.

Future Notification

Each year, we will provide you with a summary of our privacy policy.

For More Information

If you have any questions about Security Mutual's privacy policy, please contact us or write to our privacy officer at Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, P.O. Box 1625, Binghamton, NY 13902.

*Archway Technology Services, Inc.; National Security Life and Annuity Company; Security Administrators, Inc.; SML Agency Services, Inc.