Where Your Details Go
Handing over a license number, a date of birth and an address to get a price is a real act of trust, and most explanations of what follows are written by lawyers for lawyers. Here is the plain version, and the questions worth asking anyone you quote with.
What a quote request is used for
To rate you with carriers, and to contact you about it. That is the legitimate scope. Your details go to the insurers being quoted, and a driving record and claims history may be pulled to verify what you provided.
The question that separates good actors from bad
Ask: is my information sold or passed to anyone other than the carriers you are quoting me with? The answer distinguishes an agency quoting you from a lead generator, whose actual product is your contact details. If you have ever filled in a comparison form and received eleven calls in an afternoon, you have met the second kind.
For our part: quote requests submitted here go to our agency for the purpose of quoting you. We are not in the business of selling contact details.
How contact should work
- You should have consented to it, knowingly, at the point of submitting.
- The consent language should say who is contacting you and how.
- You should be able to withdraw it in one sentence — please stop contacting me — and have that be the end of it.
- Consent to be contacted should never be a condition of being quoted.
Your rights in California
California gives residents rights over personal information held about them, including rights to know what is held, to request deletion, and to opt out of certain sharing. Any company you deal with should have a plain route to exercise those rights and should tell you where it is. Ours is on our privacy page, and asking us directly works too.
Protecting yourself while shopping
- Quote with companies you contacted, not ones that contacted you.
- Give the license number when you are ready to make it final, not to a first enquiry from an unfamiliar source.
- Never give payment details to secure a quote. A quote costs nothing.
- Read the consent line before ticking it. It takes ten seconds and it tells you what kind of company you are dealing with.
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Will I get called by lots of companies if I request a quote?
Not from us. That pattern comes from forms that sell your details onward, which is why it is worth asking directly whether your information goes anywhere beyond the carriers being quoted.
Can I ask you to delete my information?
Yes. California gives residents rights over personal information held about them, and you can make that request directly. There is no process to argue your way through.
Do I have to agree to phone calls to get a quote?
You should never have to. Consent to be contacted a particular way should be optional and revocable, and any form that makes it a condition of pricing is telling you something.