Privacy and Protection of Your Personal Data

User Terms & Conditions

MarketScout.com and the operations, services, and facilities related thereto are proprietary Internet services maintained and operated by MarketScout.com, for use solely by duly licensed and qualified insurance agents, and those employees of insurance agents, who are authorized by MarketScout.com to use these sites. These Terms set forth the terms and conditions on which MarketScout.com is willing to permit your use of MarketScout.com and your responsibilities as an insurance agent or an employee of an insurance agent. These Terms are between you, the appointed market, and MarketScout.com. Use of MarketScout.com signifies your agreement to all of the terms and conditions set forth in these Terms.

User Terms & Conditions

MarketScout.com and the operations, services, and facilities related thereto are proprietary Internet services maintained and operated by MarketScout.com, for use solely by duly licensed and qualified insurance agents, and those employees of insurance agents, who are authorized by MarketScout.com to use these sites. These Terms set forth the terms and conditions on which MarketScout.com is willing to permit your use of MarketScout.com and your responsibilities as an insurance agent or an employee of an insurance agent. These Terms are between you, the appointed market, and MarketScout.com. Use of MarketScout.com signifies your agreement to all of the terms and conditions set forth in these Terms.

MarketScout.com Services

1a. MarketScout.com provides authorized insurance agents with the opportunity to direct to Insurer(s), electronic underwriting requests, submissions or applications, completed by the insurance agent for insurance coverages. 1b. MarketScout.com provides an electronic communications channel for communications between insurance agents and insurance market(s), which may be used to transmit insurance submissions or applications, by the insurance market to respond to submissions or applications, and by insurance agents and insurance markets to correspond with each other prior to the binding of coverage on matters relating to the particular insurance transaction. 1c. MarketScout.com does not charge a fee to insurance agents for the use of MarketScout.com .

Intellectual Property

2a. MarketScout.com contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information, which will be referred to as "Proprietary Material" for the rest of this document, including, but not limited to, text, software, photos, video, graphics, image, music and sound. You agree not to modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works of, or in any way exploit, in whole or in part, any Proprietary Material. 2b. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no posting, copying, downloading, uploading, transmission, retransmission, distribution, redistribution, republication, publication, decompilation, disassembling, reverse engineering, or otherwise modifying or commercially exploiting of any Proprietary Material or material made available through MarketScout.com will be permitted without the express permission of the copyright owner. In the event of any copying, redistribution or publication of copyrighted material as permitted by law, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark, legend, or copyright notice shall be made. The obligation of determining that any material is not subject to intellectual property right(s) rests with you. 2c. The entire MarketScout.com web sites, and the MarketScout.com logo are service marks of Insurance Data Systems, Inc. Other trademarks, service marks and logos used in MarketScout.com are the trademarks, service marks or logos of their respective owners.

Disclaimer of Warranties by MarketScout.com

3a. Use of MarketScout.com is at your sole risk. 3b. MarketScout.com (Including all content, software, and other functions, materials, and information accessed by any means thereon) is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of title or interrupted or error free service, or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, to the fullest extent permissible by law. 3c. MarketScout.com make no warranty of any kind as to the results that may be obtained from use of MarketScout.com , or as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability or content of any information or material provided by or through Marketscout.com . The entire risk as to the quality, adequacy, accuracy, completeness, currency, correctness, or validity of any information or material provided by or through Marketscout.com rests with you. 3d. MarketScout.com is not and shall not be liable for any defamatory, offensive, illegal or other conduct of other users or third parties, and the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with you. 3e. MarketScout.com is/are not and shall not be liable for any claim, injury or damage arising from the use or inability to use MarketScout.com . This disclaimer of liability includes, but is not limited to, any failure of performance, omission, error, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission or delivery, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of records, programs or files, whether for breach of contract, tortious behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action. 3f. MarketScout.com have no control over the content of Internet sites that may be linked to MarketScout.com through hypertext links ("linked sites"), and is not responsible for their content. The linked sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. In no event will MarketScout.com be liable to any party or any general, special, indirect, direct, incidental, consequential, exemplary and punitive damages for any use of MarketScout.com , or any linked site, even if MarketScout.com is expressly advised of the possibility of such damages. 3g. MarketScout.com is/are not and shall not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, validity or completeness of any information provided by Insurers to insurance agents, or for any failure of any insurer to perform any duty, obligation or responsibility to any insurance agent or any client of an insurance agent, including, without limitation, the payment of any commissions or the performance by any insurer of its obligations under any policy of insurance. 3h. MarketScout.com is/are not and shall not be responsible for the solvency, stability or financial condition of the insurance carrier and/or the insurance company represented.

Insurance Agent's Responsibilities and Agreements

4a. You, the insurance agent, are responsible for complying with all terms and conditions of these Terms, and with all policies and guidelines posted on MarketScout.com . 4b. You are responsible for, and agree to comply with, any and all applicable Federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations relating to the conduct of insurance agents with respect to any insurance transaction commenced by you using MarketScout.com . 4c. You agree to promptly inform MarketScout.com if you suspect any breach of security, such as loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure or use of your User Name or Password. Until MarketScout.com is properly notified of a breach of security, you remain responsible for any unauthorized use of MarketScout.com occurring under your User Name and Password. 4d. You, the insurance agent, are fully responsible for any and all use of, and actions taken through, MarketScout.com by your employees. 4e. You, the insurance agent, agree that all communications between you and the insurance market representative concerning an insurance submission or application shall be made through MarketScout.com , until such time as the insurance market representative has responded to the insurance submission or application by submitting a quotation or requesting additional information. Thereafter, you may communicate with the Insurer, directly or indirectly, via other media, so long as all information reasonably necessary to provide MarketScout.com with a record of the transaction is transmitted through MarketScout.com . 4f. In no event shall MarketScout.com be responsible for the accuracy, validity or completeness of any information provided by an insurance agent to an insurance market representative, or by an insurance market representative to an insurance agent, or for any failure of any insurance market representative or their insurance carrier to perform any duty, obligation or responsibility to any insurance agent or any client of an insurance agent, including, without limitation, the payment of any commission or the performance by the insurance market representative or their insurance company of its obligations under any policy of insurance transacted through MarketScout.com . 4g. You are solely responsible for maintaining your own records of all communications transacted through MarketScout.com (including the content of communications) between you (the insurance agent), your assistants, the insurance market representative or their insurance company.

User Information

5a. For purposes of identification and marketing, you agree to provide MarketScout.com with accurate, complete, and updated information required at the time of registration as an insurance agent of MarketScout.com . You agree to promptly notify MarketScout.com of any change in your registration information. Failure to comply with this provision may result in termination of your right to use MarketScout.com . 5b. MarketScout.com reserves the right to reveal any registration information or other information in its possession regarding insurance agents in cooperation with a request or investigation by any governmental body or governmental agency, or as otherwise required by law.

Prohibited Uses

You agree:

6a. not to use MarketScout.com (i) in a manner that is prohibited by any law or regulation, or to facilitate the violation of any law or regulation; (ii) to invade the privacy of third parties; (iii) to impersonate MarketScout.com personnel or other parties or entities; (iv) to transmit unlawful, fraudulent, offensive, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, abusive, threatening, or otherwise objectionable material, or (v) to encourage conduct that would give rise to civil or criminal liability; 6b. not to violate, or assist in violating, the security of MarketScout.com , whether intentionally, negligently or otherwise; 6c. not to attempt to utilize another insurance agent's Account, User Name or Password without authorization from that insurance agent; 6d. not to transmit by means of MarketScout.com any data or material that contains software viruses or any other malicious code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; 6e. not to use MarketScout.com for any purpose other than that of submitting insurance submissions or applications that you intend to bind through MarketScout.com , provided satisfactory quotations are received. 6f. that, for each violation by you of these Terms, you will pay MarketScout.com damages including, without limitation, to compensate for the lost goodwill such a violation causes. Payment by you under this provision shall not prevent MarketScout.com from seeking to obtain other legal remedies against you, including other damages (including, without limitation, exemplary or punitive damages) and costs (including, without limitation, attorneys' fees), or an injunction.

User Name and Password

MarketScout.com will allow the insurance agent to pick the User name and Password of their choice. The insurance agent may change the Password at anytime for either site. The insurance agent may access MarketScout.com only using your User Name and Password, and may not allow any other person to access MarketScout.com using your User Name and Password. 7a. You agree: (i) not to disclose your Password to any other person or entity; (ii) to make all reasonable efforts to maintain your Password secret and confidential; and (iii) to promptly notify MarketScout.com of any actual or suspected breach of security, such as loss, theft or unauthorized disclosure of your User Name or Password. 7b. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Password, and personally responsible for all use, whether authorized or unauthorized, of MarketScout.com under your Password (including sending Submissions and binding insurance coverage). You agree that MarketScout.com will have no obligation with regard thereto. 7c. MarketScout.com , in its/their sole and absolute discretion, may terminate your access to MarketScout.com without notice or warning. 7d. It is solely your responsibility to remember your User Name and Password.

Termination

MarketScout.com may terminate the right of any insurance agent to access MarketScout.com at any time, with or without cause, in MarketScout.com 's absolute discretion and without notice. The recital in these Terms or elsewhere on MarketScout.com of specific grounds for termination of an insurance agent's right to access MarketScout.com shall in no manner whatsoever limit MarketScout.com 's absolute right to terminate any insurance agents access to MarketScout.com under this paragraph.

Confidentiality

9a. MarketScout.com will use reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of all information contained in MarketScout.com messages between an insurance agent and the appointed market representative, or between an insurance agent and MarketScout.com ; provided, however, that nothing herein shall preclude MarketScout.com from disclosing either the information or the content of any MarketScout.com message in connection with any subpoena, warrant or other judicial or governmental process. 9b. MarketScout.com shall have the right to intercept, read and disclose all MarketScout.com messages between insurance agents and an appointed market representative.

Indemnification

10a. You hereby agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless MarketScout.com, and its directors, employees, licensors, subsidiaries and affiliates, as well as appointed market representatives or Insurers, from and against any and all liability and costs (including attorneys' fees and costs) incurred in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you of any of these Terms. 10b. You shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any claims. MarketScout.com reserves the right, at its/their own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you and you shall not in any event settle any claim without the written consent of MarketScout.com .

Limitation of Liability

11a. Under no circumstances shall MarketScout.com, , its officers, directors or affiliates, be liable for any general, special, indirect, direct, incidental, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages arising out of or relating in any way to MarketScout.com , or service-related matters and/or content or information contained within MarketScout.com , even if MarketScout.com has been advised of the possibility of such damages. 11b. Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with MarketScout.com, and/or service-related matters is to stop using MarketScout.com

Creation of MarketScout Account

12a. This website stores user information.