Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information. When you visit and navigate our site and when you communicate with us via our site, we will not collect personal information about you unless you provide us that information voluntarily. You should be aware that when you visit our Site, we collect certain information that does not identify you personally, but provides us with "usage data," such as the number of visitors we receive, what pages are visited by a visitor or the ISPs or types of browsers most frequently used. This data helps us to analyze and improve the usefulness of the information we provide at this Site and our products and services.

Like most commercial website owners, we may also use what is known as "cookie" technology. A "cookie" is an element of data that a website can send to your browser when you link to that website. It is not a computer program and has no ability to read data residing on your computer or instruct it to perform any step or function. By assigning a unique data element to each visitor, the website is able to recognize repeat users, track usage patterns and better serve you when you return to that site. For example, a cookie can be used to store your preferences for certain kinds of information or to store a password so that you do not have to input it every time you visit our site. The cookie does not extract other personal information about you, such as your name and address. Most browsers provide a simple procedure that will enable you to control whether you want to receive cookies by notifying you when a website is about to deposit a cookie file. In addition, we may use cookies and/or devices called "web beacons" provided by our ad serving technology vendor to help manage our online advertising. The information collected via this ad serving technology is not personally identifiable. To learn more about this technology, or to opt out of the ad serving cookie, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.

Please note that in certain areas of this Site there may be additional information concerning the privacy practices applicable to the use of that area. You should also be aware that many ING companies have their own web sites to which we may provide a link. These sites may have different privacy policies and practices which you should review prior to using such sites.

Monitoring Use

ING reserves the right to monitor any and all use of this Site in its discretion. However, unless required by law, we do not have any obligation to you to conduct such monitoring or to take any action based on any monitoring we may conduct.

Security

You should be aware that in general information sent through the Internet is not secure. Email services that may be provided through this Site generally are not encrypted and do not provide a secure and private means of communication with us. Certain services offered on this Site do provide a secure means to communicate with us, (this is indicated by an icon that appears on your screen when you are using such a service).For certain types of communications through this Site, we may require the use of encryption technologies provided for your protection and/or require you to use user identification information and password. You are responsible for the confidentiality and use of your email and password. If you become aware of any loss, theft or unauthorized use of your email or password, immediately notify us. While we may provide those technologies and use other reasonable precautions to protect confidential information and provide suitable security, we cannot guarantee that information transmitted through the Internet is secure, or that such transmissions will be free from delay, interruption, interception or error. Please be aware that although passwords or other security protections may be in use, we reserve the right to monitor any and all transmissions, stored messages and routine backup copies of communications to ensure appropriate system usage.
 

Forward Looking Statements

Certain statements contained herein are statements of future expectations and other forward-looking statements that are based on management's current view and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Actual results, performance or events may differ materially from those in such statements due to, without limitation (i) general economic conditions, including in particular economic conditions in ING's core markets, (ii) performance of financial markets, including emerging markets, (iii) the frequency and severity of insured loss events, (iv) mortality and morbidity levels and trends, (v) persistency levels, (vi) interest rate levels, (vii) currency exchange rates, including the Euro - U.S. dollar exchange rate, (viii) increasing levels of competition, (ix) changes in laws and regulations, including monetary convergence and the European Monetary Union, (x) changes in the policies of central banks and/or foreign governments, and (xi) general competitive factors, in each case on a global, regional and/or national basis. ING does not undertake any obligation to correct or update any forward-looking statements on this site.