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EquiTrust Life Insurance Company ("EquiTrust"), gives you the ability to access content on this website (“Site”), www.equitrust.com. You can use this Site for our product information, educational content, services, and self-help tools ("Online Activities"). You may use this Site only if you agree, without modification, to these terms and conditions of use (“Terms”). Please read the Terms carefully before continuing. If you do not agree to the Terms, you must leave this site. The Terms are in addition to any other agreements between you and EquiTrust.
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EquiTrust also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property as a result of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio form this Site. EquiTrust shall not be liable for any mechanical or electronic equipment failure, failure of communications lines, telephone or other interconnects, unauthorized access, theft, operational errors, strikes or other labor problems, or any force majeure.
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The materials on this Site are copyrighted and any unauthorized use of any materials on this Site may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. If you breach any of these Terms, your authorization to use this Site automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials.
This Site is owned and operated by EquiTrust. Except as otherwise expressly permitted by EquiTrust, no materials from this Site or any site owned, operated, licensed or controlled by EquiTrust may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way. You may download material displayed on this Site for your personal non-commercial reference only provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, repost, or use the content of this Site for public or commercial purposes, including the software, text, images, audio, and video without EquiTrust's written permission. EquiTrust neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on this Site will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with EquiTrust. Use of any EquiTrust trademarks as metatags on any third-party site is strictly prohibited. You may not Co-Brand the Site or display the Site in frames (or any of the content via in-line links) without prior written permission from EquiTrust. "Co-brand" means your display of any of the Intellectual Property, or your taking of other means of attribution or identification of EquiTrust in such a manner reasonably likely to give a third party the impression that you or such third party has the right to display, publish or distribute the Site or any of its content. You agree to cooperate with EquiTrust in causing any unauthorized co-branding, framing or linking to immediately cease. The Site and its content are not intended for children ages 13 and younger.
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This Site may be linked to other sites which are not maintained by EquiTrust. Links on this Site to such third-party sites are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave this Site. EquiTrust has not reviewed all of these third-party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites or their content, nor does the inclusion of any link to such sites imply approval of or endorsement by EquiTrust of the sites or the content thereof. Thus, EquiTrust does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them and disclaims all liability as to the content or material available at those sites. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites lined to this Site, you do so entirely at your own risk. This Site is intended to provide general information only and is not intended to assist in the solicitation, negotiation or sale of any insurance or security product.
EquiTrust administers this Site from its office in West Des Moines, Iowa. Unless otherwise expressly set forth herein, EquiTrust makes no representation that materials on this Site are appropriate or available for use in any location, including, without limitation, for use outside the United States, and access to the materials on this Site from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. You may not use or export or re-export the materials on this Site or any copy or adaptation in violation of any applicable laws or regulations, including, without limitation, U.S. export laws and regulations. Those who choose to access this Site do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. The appropriate Iowa Federal or State court shall have exclusive jurisdiction for any action or dispute arising out of this agreement or Site.
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If you submit material intended for display where technically permitted within the Site, you agree to abide by the terms set forth herein. Visitor Submissions will not contain any content that is illegal, indecent, profane (either directly or indirectly through partially obscured words, letters, phrases, terminology or the like), threatening, defamatory, derogatory, counter to EquiTrust's Privacy Policy or otherwise injurious to EquiTrust or third parties; and that will not consist of or invoke malicious software code, constitute commercial solicitation (except where pre-approved by EquiTrust), consist primarily of an unsolicited electronic mass mailing, be political in nature, or the like. Where an email address is required to upload Visitor Submissions, you agree to use a valid email address and represent that you are the individual identified by the address. If you wish to submit materials to the Site, you are prohibited from impersonating any other individual or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origination of the Visitor Submission.
Visitor Submissions will not be accepted that infringe in any manner on the copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights of any person or entity, or that contain privileged, confidential, proprietary or trade-secret information of any individual or entity, or that may violate the legal rights of any person or entity in any jurisdiction or locale. You may not submit materials that are or purport to be the personally identifiable information about others, such as full name, postal address, email address, telephone number or any other personal attribute which would constitute harassment or an invasion of privacy.
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Visitor Submissions used, displayed or propagated by EquiTrust or others licensed by EquiTrust to use Visitor Submissions may be attributed to you unless the visitor has expressly requested anonymity. EquiTrust reserves the right to select among the Visitor Submissions for the most appropriate material to be used, subject to EquiTrust's sole discretion and judgment. EquiTrust otherwise reserves the right to remove Visitor Submissions from the Site pursuant to its discretion and judgment, but maintains no obligation to do so.
Visitors also hereby agree to not redistribute or reproduce elsewhere Visitor Submissions in any manner or in any media, including the re-submission or republishing of any Visitor Submission on any other site not affiliated with EquiTrust.
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You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any account information, user names, logins, and passwords that you use to access any page or feature on this Site, and for logging off of your account and any protected areas of the Site. Further, you are fully responsible for all activities occurring under your accounts, user names, logins, and passwords that result from your negligence, carelessness, misconduct, or failure to use or maintain appropriate security measures. If you become aware of any suspicious or unauthorized conduct concerning your accounts, user names, logins, and passwords you agree to contact EquiTrust immediately. EquiTrust will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this paragraph.
Products and services provided to you through the Site may involve the electronic transmission, including via any email address you provide to us, of information that you may consider to be personal financial information or promotional and marketing information, and you consent to such transmission.
Product coverage, insurance terms, definitions, and other descriptions are intended for informational purposes only and do not in any way replace or modify the definitions and information contained in your individual insurance policies from EquiTrust which are controlling. Such product coverage and terms may vary by state and exclusions may apply. Product issue is subject to underwriting guidelines, review, and approval. Products are not available to all persons in all states.
EquiTrust Life Insurance Company is an Illinois domiciled life insurance company with offices located in West Des Moines, Iowa and Chicago, IL, and is a Magic Johnson Enterprises company. EquiTrust provides life insurance, annuities and services in the following states and the District of Columbia: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Not all of EquiTrust’s products are available in every state. The information provided on this Site does not apply to nor are the insurance products and services of EquiTrust available to residents of the state of New York.
The information contained herein is not intended to constitute tax advice. It was not written or intended to be used by any taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding tax penalties that may be imposed on the taxpayer, and cannot be used by any taxpayer for that purpose. You should seek advice on matters related to taxes specific to your situation from an independent tax advisor.
This material is not intended to provide investment advice to you or to your specific situation. EquiTrust does not offer investment advice to any individual and this material should not be construed as investment advice.
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You acknowledge that any software available or provided to you on this Site may contain technology that is subject to strict controls by various agencies of the United States Government pursuant to United States export control laws and regulations. You hereby agree that you will not transfer or export such software from the United States (including, for example, providing such software to any foreign person or entity in the United States) or re-export such software outside the United States in violation of United States export laws and regulations. EquiTrust does not authorize the downloading or exportation of any software or technical data from this Site to any jurisdiction prohibited by the United States export controls laws and regulations.
The rights granted to you herein terminate immediately upon any violation (as EquiTrust may determine in its sole and absolute discretion) by you of these Terms. EquiTrust, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to temporarily or permanently terminate your access to and use of this Site at any time and for any reason whatsoever, without notice or liability. EquiTrust will not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to or use of this Site.
We understand that privacy is an important issue for visitors to the EquiTrust Life Insurance Company website. Specifically, visitors to our website are concerned about what information is collected, how it is collected and how it is used.
Equitrust Life Insurance Company gathers information about website visitors to improve the quality of information and services offered on our website. This information includes visitor data and voluntarily provided personal data.
We routinely gather information regarding our website’s activity, such as how many people visit our sites, the pages they visit and where they come from. It does not contain any personal information regarding our website visitors. We gather this quantitative information through logs contained on the servers that support our sites. This information is for our internal use only. It is not sold to any third parties.
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If you are concerned about having cookies on your computer or other device, you can set your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being set, allowing you to decide whether to accept it. You can also delete cookies from your device. However, if you choose to block or delete cookies, certain features of the Site or mobile application may not operate correctly.
If you are an EquiTrust client who has registered secure online access, EquiTrust is able to combine the information we collect about your usage of EquiTrust’s website or mobile application during a secure (logged-on) session with other information EquiTrust knows about you. We can also identify your computer or device on each online visit to EquiTrust, even if you do not log on, and link information about the visit to you. Although the Site does not currently respond to “do not track” browser headers, you can limit tracking by taking the steps discussed above.
Through voluntary responses on the EquiTrust Life Insurance Company website and email links found on our site, we collect various types of personal information from visitors. This information is collected only when visitors voluntarily provide it. The following are examples of categories of personally identifiable information that may be voluntarily provided and which we may collect: name, email address, phone number, EquiTrust Contract/Policy number, social security number or taxpayer ID Number.
We may share your information with our affiliates to assist us in providing service for your products or accounts. This may include sharing information about your account history or experience with us. We may also share some of the information we obtain about you with certain business partners, such as:
We require our business partners to protect customers’ personal information and to limit their use of information shared to the purpose for which it was shared.
We may also disclose information to non-affiliated third parties as permitted or required by law, including in response to a subpoena, to prevent fraud, to comply with inquiries from government agencies or other regulators, or in order to process a transaction you request or authorize We may also disclose information to authenticate your identity.
We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with state and federal regulations to guard your personal information. Our internal procedures limit access to customer information, and those individuals permitted access are required to protect customer information and to keep it confidential.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us by sending an email to: EquiTrust Life Insurance Company.
EquiTrust’s website may include links to third-party sites or information that we think may be of interest to you. When you click these links and leave our Site, our Site’s terms and conditions of use and privacy policy no longer apply. You are responsible for complying with the third party site’s terms of use and understanding its privacy policy.
Except to the extent otherwise set forth in the Terms, the Terms set forth the entire understanding between EquiTrust and you with respect to your access to, and use of, the Site and its content and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous understandings regarding access and use.
If any portion of the Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining sections of the Terms will remain in effect.
Failure by EquiTrust, in any instance, to exercise any of its rights under the Terms will not constitute waiver of such right or any other rights under the Terms.
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You are prohibited from modifying, copying, distributing, transmitting, displaying, publishing, selling, licensing, creating derivative works, or using any content available on or through the Site for commercial or public purposes, without the prior written permission of EquiTrust.
Effective September 12, 2012Last Updated August 10, 2018
In the COVID-19 pandemic, we have implemented our business continuity plan, including successful implementation to a work-from-home environment – allowing employees to perform their jobs remotely. Administrative workflow levels are normal and telephone support teams are fully staffed; rest assured, we are prepared to serve you. Our leadership team is monitoring the situation closely in order to respond quickly as conditions evolve. Be safe and stay healthy. (Posted 7/27/20)
All calendar year end mailings, including December 31st value letters and 1099 tax forms, will be mailed by January 31st.
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