American Express Travel Insurance

Sharing & Disclosure · Context

How to read the sharing table

American Express explains that all financial companies need to share customers' personal information to run their everyday business. The notice then lists the reasons financial companies can share, the reasons American Express chooses to share, and whether you can limit that sharing. The table has three columns: the reason, whether American Express shares, and whether you can limit this sharing.

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All financial companies need to share customers' personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers' personal information; the reasons American Express chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

Reasons we can share personal information | Does American Express share? | Can you limit this sharing?

Not stated here

• The table is read as three columns (reason, does American Express share, can you limit) from the column-header row in the saved text.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

Everyday business sharing cannot be limited

American Express shares personal information for its own everyday business purposes, such as processing your transactions, maintaining your accounts, responding to court orders and legal investigations, and reporting to credit bureaus. The table answers "Yes" to "Does American Express share?" and "No" to "Can you limit this sharing?", so this sharing is not one you can opt out of through this notice.

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For our everyday business purposes – such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus | Yes | No

Qualifications & exceptions

• The listed purposes follow "such as" and are examples.

Not stated here

• The notice does not say which recipients receive information for these purposes.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

Own marketing: shared, no sharing opt-out, but marketing choices exist

American Express shares personal information for its own marketing purposes, to offer its products and services to you. The table answers "Yes" to sharing and "No" to limiting this sharing, with a pointer to the "To limit direct marketing" box for additional privacy choices. That box lets you tell American Express you do not want your personal information used to communicate with you about offers by mail, telephone and/or e-mail.

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For our marketing purposes – to offer our products and services to you | Yes | No (but please see the "To limit direct marketing" box below for information about additional privacy choices)

To let us know if you do not want us to use your personal information to communicate with you about offers by mail, telephone, and/or e-mail: • Call us at 1-800-228-6855

Qualifications & exceptions

• The "No" in the table is for limiting the sharing; the separate direct-marketing box offers a different choice about being contacted.

Not stated here

• The saved text does not say whether the direct-marketing choice also stops the sharing itself.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

Joint marketing with other financial companies

American Express shares personal information for joint marketing with other financial companies. The table answers "Yes" to sharing and "No" to limiting this sharing. The notice defines joint marketing as a formal agreement between nonaffiliated companies that together market financial products or services to you, and says its joint marketing partners include financial companies.

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For joint marketing with other financial companies | Yes | No

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated companies that together market financial products or services to you. • Our joint marketing partners include financial companies.

Not stated here

• The partners are not named in the saved text.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

Affiliates' everyday business: transactions and experiences, no opt-out

American Express shares information about your transactions and experiences with its affiliates for the affiliates' everyday business purposes. The table answers "Yes" to sharing and "No" to limiting this sharing. Affiliates are defined as companies related by common ownership or control, financial and nonfinancial, including companies with the American Express name and others such as AMEX Assurance Company.

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For our affiliates' everyday business purposes – information about your transactions and experiences | Yes | No

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies. • Our affiliates include companies with the American Express name, including financial companies such as American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. and nonfinancial companies. Affiliates may also include other companies related by common ownership or control, such as AMEX Assurance Company, a provider of American Express Card-related insurance services.

Qualifications & exceptions

• "Affiliates" includes nonfinancial companies, not only financial ones.

Not stated here

• The affiliates that receive the information are not named beyond the examples given.

Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice

Creditworthiness information to affiliates: you can limit it

American Express shares information about your creditworthiness with its affiliates for the affiliates' everyday business purposes. The table answers "Yes" to sharing and "Yes" to limiting, so this is a sharing you can limit. Federal law gives you the right to limit only this sharing, affiliates using your information to market to you, and sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you. If your American Express account has a Vermont billing address, American Express says it will automatically treat your account as if you have directed it not to share creditworthiness information with affiliates.

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For our affiliates' everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness | Yes | Yes

Call us at 1-800-228-6855

Vermont: If your American Express account has a Vermont billing address, we will automatically treat your account as if you have directed us not to share information about your creditworthiness with our affiliates.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The Vermont rule applies to accounts with a Vermont billing address.
• The limiting method stated in the "To limit our sharing" row is a phone call.

Not stated here

• Whether the Vermont treatment also covers anything other than creditworthiness information is not stated.

Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice

Affiliates marketing to you: you can limit it

American Express shares personal information so that its affiliates can market to you. The table answers "Yes" to sharing and "Yes" to limiting, so you can limit this sharing. Federal law gives you the right to limit affiliates from using your information to market to you.

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For our affiliates to market to you | Yes | Yes

affiliates from using your information to market to you

Not stated here

• The notice does not say how the "Yes" limit for this row differs from the phone-based direct marketing choice, beyond the "To limit our sharing" instructions.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company commitment

Nonaffiliates marketing to you: not shared

American Express answers "No" to sharing personal information for nonaffiliates to market to you, although it says it may share aggregated or de-identified data. For this row the "Can you limit" column reads "We don't share personal information."

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For nonaffiliates to market to you | No (although we may share aggregated or de-identified data) | We don't share personal information

Qualifications & exceptions

• The commitment is about nonaffiliates marketing to you; sharing with service providers is described separately in the definitions.

Not stated here

• The notice does not define aggregated or de-identified data or say who receives it.

Cross-references

• contrast (model-proposed): Nonaffiliates that receive information include service providers — The table says American Express does not share personal information for nonaffiliates to market to you, while the Definitions row says the nonaffiliates it shares with include service providers such as direct marketers performing services on its behalf. The notice does not say how these fit together; the first is about nonaffiliates marketing to you, the second about service providers acting on American Express's behalf.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

Nonaffiliates that receive information include service providers

The notice defines nonaffiliates as companies not related by common ownership or control, which can be financial and nonfinancial. It says the nonaffiliates with which American Express shares personal information include service providers, for example direct marketers, that perform services or functions on its behalf.

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Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies. • Nonaffiliates with which we share personal information include service providers, including, for example, direct marketers, that perform services or functions on our behalf.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The list of nonaffiliates is introduced by "include" and "for example", so other nonaffiliates may be covered.

Not stated here

• The notice does not say which row of the sharing table covers sharing with these service providers, so how it relates to the "No" for nonaffiliates marketing to you is not stated.

Cross-references

• contrast (model-proposed): Nonaffiliates marketing to you: not shared — The table says American Express does not share personal information for nonaffiliates to market to you, while the Definitions row says the nonaffiliates it shares with include service providers such as direct marketers performing services on its behalf. The notice does not say how these fit together; the first is about nonaffiliates marketing to you, the second about service providers acting on American Express's behalf.

Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license

AMEX Assurance customers: when information may be disclosed

For AMEX Assurance Company customers, personal information may be disclosed by American Express to detect fraud or misrepresentation, to verify insurance coverage, to an insurance regulatory authority, to law enforcement or other governmental authority pursuant to law, or to a group policyholder for purposes of reporting claims experience or conducting an audit.

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Personal information may be disclosed by us to detect fraud or misrepresentation, to verify insurance coverage, to an insurance regulatory authority, law enforcement or other governmental authority pursuant to law, or to a group policyholder for purposes of reporting claims experience or conducting an audit.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Disclosure to government authorities is "pursuant to law"; disclosure to a group policyholder is for reporting claims experience or conducting an audit.

Not stated here

• Whether these disclosures can be limited is not stated; the sharing table does not mention them separately.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company commitment

California billing address: sharing limited to what California law permits

If your American Express account has a California billing address, American Express says it will not share your personal information except to the extent permitted under California law.

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California: If your American Express account has a California billing address, we will not share your personal information except to the extent permitted under California law.

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Applies by billing address on the account, not by residence.

Not stated here

• What California law permits is not stated in the saved text, so what remains shareable is unknown.

Sharing & Disclosure · Company commitment

Vermont billing address: creditworthiness not shared with affiliates

If your American Express account has a Vermont billing address, American Express says it will automatically treat your account as if you have directed it not to share information about your creditworthiness with its affiliates. Affiliates are companies related by common ownership or control.

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Vermont: If your American Express account has a Vermont billing address, we will automatically treat your account as if you have directed us not to share information about your creditworthiness with our affiliates.

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Automatic; no request by you is described as needed.

Not stated here

• Other affiliate sharing for Vermont accounts is not addressed in this paragraph.