Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Customers have trusted us with their insurance needs since 1936, and we take our obligation to safeguard and secure personal information very seriously. We want you to understand how we protect your privacy and when we collect, use, and share information.
Summary
The Information We Collect
The Information We Disclose
Confidentiality and Security
Additional Information for Our Website Users
Additional Information for Usage-based Insurance Program Users
California Residents
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Alternative Format
What to Do If You Have Privacy or Security Concerns
This summary tells you the basics of our privacy commitment to you-how we collect and use your information, how we protect it, and who can see it. You should read the entire privacy policy below for full details.
Non-public personally identifiable information ("Information") is information that identifies you and is not available to the general public. The following sections tell you more about how and when we collect your Information.
For California Residents, please click here to see the categories of personal information that we may collect.
During the quoting, application, or claims handling processes you may give us Information such as your:
If you give us your email address, GEICO may use it from time to time to notify you of such things as new services, special offers, or to confirm transactions. If you do not wish to be contacted by email for non-policy related communications, you may unsubscribe by following the instructions at the bottom of any GEICO email you receive.
If you are a policyholder, you can also log in to your account at geico.com, click on "Update Email Preferences" on the right side of the screen and choose the level of communication you'd like to receive from us. If you have not yet enrolled online, you will need to enroll with geico.com to update your email preferences.
We may collect Information about your transactions and experiences with us and others, such as your payment history, claims, coverage, and vehicle changes.
We may receive Information about you from consumer reporting agencies, which provide us with motor vehicle reports, claim reports, and/or credit information where permitted by law. When you ask for a rate quotation, we may obtain credit information if permitted by applicable state law.
Our sales and service representatives do not have access to the details of your credit information. Other companies who view your credit report will not see the GEICO inquiry. It will be visible only to you. Our inquiry will not affect your credit score or credit rating. If you commit to purchase a policy with GEICO, we will also confirm your motor vehicle record and claims history. As permitted by law, we may also review your motor vehicle record, claims history, and/or credit information in connection with any renewal.
Your current location is only collected and used by us if you permit our services to do so. If you allow your location to be collected using a GEICO app, or with a browser, we will use this information to determine your estimated location. We use this information to distinguish your current location and provide location-related services to you.
If you are a resident of Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, or Virginia, you have the right to request access to and correction of the personal information that we have collected from or about you. To do so, simply contact GEICO's customer service department. If you'd like to correct information that you provided to us, our representative will make the appropriate adjustments to GEICO's records. If you wish to correct personal information provided to GEICO by a third party (such as a credit rating agency) the representative will provide you with the applicable third party's contact information. Upon the request of residents of other states, we will take reasonable steps to verify the accuracy of the personal information in our records.
If you are a California resident, please go to the section of this policy titled "California Residents" for information regarding additional rights you may have, including the right to know and right to delete, designated methods for submitting requests, and the categories of information we collect.
The Information collected about our customers, former customers, applicants, and employees, will only be disclosed as permitted or required by law.
For our customers and former customers, much of this collected Information is maintained in your policy and/or claims records. We use this Information to process and service your policy; to settle claims; with your consent; or as directed by you.
Following are some examples of how we may disclose Information:
We restrict access to your Information to employees who we have determined need it to provide products or services to you. We train our employees to safeguard customer information, and we require them to sign confidentiality agreements.
We maintain a variety of physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your Information from unauthorized access by third parties.
Information about our former customers and about individuals who have obtained quotes from us is safeguarded to the same extent as Information about our current policyholders.
Your Security is Important
Please see our Internet Security Policy for further information on how we protect your information on the Internet.
We continuously improve geico.com. We are interested in how visitors use our website, what they like and dislike, and where they encounter problems. We may gather data on how users navigate our site so we can make geico.com an easier place to do business. We use various tools to gather data, such as what browser a person uses or even what pages are most popular. We may also use this data, in aggregated or anonymized form, to offer you content, products, or services we hope will interest you.
We use cookies to improve your experience while using geico.com and our mobile apps. Cookies are small files that are stored on your device used to access our services. They help us personalize your experience when you return to our website, and they are required for certain portions or functionality of our website. Most browsers let you determine whether to accept our cookies. If you don't use cookies, you won't be able to use certain geico.com features, such as the "remember me" function for policyholders that lets you store your User ID so you don't have to input it every time you log in from the same computer. Please see your browser settings for more information about managing cookies.
Geico.com may also place small pieces of computer code (embedded objects) on our pages to help our advertising partners count how many customers they referred to our site. We may use these objects to track how many referred customers actually get a rate quote. We may also use objects placed on other sites to monitor your exposure to our advertising or other offers online. These objects generally collect device identifiers, IP addresses, and similar identifiers, but do not collect things like your name or contact information. You can opt out of our advertising service provider(s) and other companies' tracking cookies used for interest-based ads by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance's aboutads.info choices page.
We also provide some links to third-party websites that are not owned by GEICO. GEICO has no control over their privacy practices and assumes no responsibility in connection with your use of these third-party websites. We recommend that you check the privacy policy of any website before you use it or provide any information.
Additional information for policyholders enrolled in our usage-based insurance program is included in the agreement provided upon enrollment in the program.
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), California residents have the following rights: (1) the right to know, which is the right to request that GEICO disclose information about, or a copy of, the types of personal information we collect, use, and disclose about them; (2) the right to delete, which is the right to request that we delete personal information that is collected or maintained by GEICO; and (3) the right to non-discrimination, which is the right to be free from discrimination for exercising any consumer rights under the CCPA. We may limit our responses to any requests under the CCPA as permitted by law. For example, we need to maintain certain information to provide our services to you or for legal and compliance purposes.
To exercise your rights to know or delete under the CCPA, please click here or call us toll-free at 877-832-0937. For verification purposes only, we will collect a limited number of personal identifiers, send those through a secure verification system, ask you follow-up questions through our online portal or representative, and then confirm whether your identity has been verified.
You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request to know or delete on your behalf. To designate an authorized agent, you must provide the natural person, or entity registered with the California Secretary of State, with written permission to submit such a request. You (or your agent) will still be required to verify your identity. However, if an authorized agent has been provided with power of attorney in accordance with the California Probate Code, then no additional written authorization is required. All agents must submit proof to GEICO that they have been authorized by any consumer(s) to act on their behalf.
NOTICE OF COLLECTION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS. We collect the following categories of personal information:
We collect each of the above categories from a variety of sources, including:
We collect each of the above categories of information for a variety of purposes, including:
We disclose all of the above categories of personal information to service providers that assist us in providing insurance-related services, which include offering quotes, processing applications (both employment and insurance), and claims handling. If you are involved in an accident with another insured individual, we may have to share your information for the permitted purpose of handling that incident. We may also have to share your information with our reinsurers, excess insurers, insurance-support organizations that help us detect and prevent fraud, state insurance departments and other governmental and law enforcement authorities (where required by law or to protect our legal interests or in cases of suspected fraud or illegal activities), with consumer reporting agencies as permitted by law, and if ordered by subpoena, search warrant or other court order. We may disclose personal information to service providers involved in our marketing, verification, data-processing, risk-assessment, security and antifraud efforts, and as required or permitted by federal or state law. For additional information regarding the categories of personal information we have disclosed and the categories of entities with which we have disclosed such information, please see "The Information We Disclose," above.
We have not sold consumers' personal information in the 12-month period preceding the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy.
Please feel free to contact us with questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy and practices by emailing us at [email protected] or calling us at 877-832-0937.
We may modify our privacy policy from time to time. The most recent version is always posted at geico.com. When we make changes, we will revise the date at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.
This policy can be accessed in an alternative format by contacting a GEICO representative at 877-832-0937.
If you have a concern about privacy or security at GEICO, we want to hear about it by mail or email.
Please write to us at:
Privacy Administration
GEICO
One GEICO Plaza
Washington, DC 20076
or email us at [email protected].
This Privacy Policy applies to all of the following GEICO companies:
The Effective Date of the revised Privacy Policy is July 1, 2021.