Privacy, form data and photograph credits

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Contact form data

The contact form collects a name, an email address, an optional telephone number, the cover needed, how to meet, an optional best time to call, preferred day and renewal date, and the message written. Nothing else is collected by the form, and there is no hidden field.

Do not send card numbers, bank details, passwords, identity documents or any other sensitive material through this form. Once a review begins, policies and renewal letters are shared by email or in person, as described in Oakmere's reply.

02

Subscribe form data

The subscribe form at the foot of every page except this website's not-found page collects one email address, and the address of the page the form was sent from. No name and no other detail is requested.

03

Why Oakmere collects it

Contact form data is used to answer the enquiry and, where a review follows, to keep a record of what was agreed. Subscribe data is used only to send the seasonal notes described beside the form.

Neither set of data is sold, rented or used to build a profile, and neither is used for advertising. Policy notes are kept on a client file in the office, are used only to review and service that client's cover, and are never passed to anyone outside it except the insurer the client chooses to apply to.

04

Who receives it

Messages reach the four people who work at Oakmere Insurance Agency. Delivery depends on an email provider and a form-handling service, which process the message in order to deliver it and act only on Oakmere's instruction.

The names of those processors are published in the launch checklist for this website and are confirmed on request.

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How long it is kept

An enquiry that does not become a review is kept for twelve months and then deleted. Where a review follows, the record and the client file are kept for as long as the client keeps coming back.

A subscriber address is kept until the subscriber asks for it to be removed, or until the notes stop being sent.

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Insurance disclosures

Oakmere Insurance Agency is an independent insurance agency licensed in Iowa. It is not connected with or endorsed by the U.S. government or the federal Medicare programme. Oakmere does not offer every plan available in your area; please contact Medicare.gov or 1-800-MEDICARE, or your local State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP), to get information on all of your options. Quotes are estimates until an insurer accepts the application; cover, prices and discounts depend on the insurer and on your circumstances.

Traffic to this website is encrypted in transit, and access to messages is limited to the four people whose roles are set out on the Staff page. No website form is secure enough for card numbers, bank details or identity documents, which is why the form asks visitors not to send that material.

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Visitor choices

A visitor may write by email instead of using the form. Every subscribe email carries an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing takes effect on the next send.

This website sets no advertising cookie and runs no third-party analytics script. Its two typefaces, Libre Baskerville and Nunito Sans, are self-hosted and served from the website's own files, so reading a page makes no request to any third-party font service.

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Asking for deletion

A deletion request can be made by email. Oakmere confirms in writing what was deleted and what, if anything, it still needs to keep, such as records an insurer or the state of Iowa requires.

A request is answered within thirty days.

09

Business contact

Oakmere Insurance Agency, Downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Email [email protected]. Telephone (000) 000-0000.

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Photograph credits

Twelve photographs from Wikimedia Commons supply the fourteen image files on this website, the social card included, so some photographs appear more than once. Four are licensed CC BY 2.0, all credited below as that licence requires; four are dedicated to the public domain under CC0, and four are in the public domain. Every image was cropped and resized for this website and is displayed with a colour treatment, and one has a number plate and house numbers blurred; none shows Oakmere's own clients, staff or premises.

• hero-studio: “Closeup of black umbrella in rain” by Shixart1985, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized.
• doc-index: “Stethoscope No.120” by Tama998, Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Cropped and resized.
• srv-rule: “FEMA - 34508 - Flooded street in Missouri” by Jocelyn Augustino, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Cropped and resized.
• srv-detail: “Rain Above the City - Flickr - skylerorking” by Skyler King from Taichung, Taiwan, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized.
• about-desk: “Close-up of the key with house keychain” by Shixart1985, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized.
• gal-cloth: “Health Health - Stethoscope - 50191694581” by formulatehealth, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized.
• gal-drawing: “Taking it back, Help prevent prescription abuse 150820-D-RT812-001” by Christine Cabalo, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Cropped and resized.
• gal-files: “Senior-3336451 1920” by pasja1000 (Pixabay), Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Cropped and resized.
• gal-keys: “Rain Above the City - Flickr - skylerorking” by Skyler King from Taichung, Taiwan, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized.
• gal-window: “Blood pressure monitoring” by rawpixel.com, Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Cropped and resized.
• gal-lamp: “FRONT VIEW OF THE SOLAR PATRIOT HOUSE” by ENERGY.GOV, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Cropped and resized.
• gal-pen: “Someone handing a key over” by @kaboompics, Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Cropped and resized.
• gal-facade: “Dayton Ohio Tornado Damage” by Wes Farnsworth, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Cropped and resized, with a number plate and house numbers blurred.
• social-card: “Closeup of black umbrella in rain” by Shixart1985, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized.