PIA/ Sierra Insurance
Truckee & North Lake Tahoe's PREMIER Independent Insurance Broker
Whats New:
The New Health Care Laws
January 21, 2011
Recent changes are causing the public fits. In September of 2010, lifetime medical limits were increased to 'unlimited'. Also, the age limit for dependents leaped to 26.
Then on January 1, 2011 more changes took place. Notably a gaurantee issue open window for all Children. Yes, GAURANTEE ISSUE. Here are key links if you need more information. Timeline: What's Changing When Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan About the New Law Medicare.Gov Website
CurrentNews:
PIA Sierra Insurance is now THE local State Fund Workers Compensation Office!
January 21, 2011
Is your business with State Fund for Workers Compensation? Now through PIA Sierra Insurance, you no longer have to rely on Sacramento staff to assist you with your questions. You can now transfer your policy to us, and we will do the hard work. NOTE: THERE IS NO CHANGE IN YOUR RATES OR PREMIUM!
RecentEvents:
Kevin C. Murphy, President of PIA/Sierra Insurance Re-Elected to Recreation Board Seat
November 7, 2010
After spearheading the local effort to design and construct the new Truckee Community Center which opened December 5th, 2009, Kevin was re-elected to another 4-year term. The new Community Center was completed $7 million UNDER budget.
Under Kevin's and the Board of Directors leadership, they are now working hard to finance a new Performing Arts Center, Trails System, and Aquatic Center. For more information on these important economic projects, please email Kevin.
Web Site Privacy Information
PIA / Sierra Insurance
recognizes that respecting user privacy over the Internet is of utmost importance. This privacy statement is designed to provide information about the privacy and data collection practices for the site: http://www.sierrainsurance.com. The Site is operated by Sierra Insurance.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact our site coordinator at kevin@sierrainsurance.com or by postal mail to:
- Sierra Insurance Associates, Inc.
- 122242 Business Park Dr., #24
- Truckee, CA 96161
Identifying Information. In general, you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or providing any information about yourself. In some areas of the Site, we ask you to provide information that will enable us to process an order, offer services that require registration, assist you with technical support issues or to follow up with you. Generally, Sierra Insurance, requests identifying information when you:
- Register on any of our web sites.
- Place an order.
- Provide feedback to an online survey or tell us about an idea or suggestion.
- Participate in a rebate program, contest, or other promotional offer.
- Request a SPECIAL SERVICE
- Request information or files from technical support or customer service.
In these instances, Sierra Insruance will ask for
your name, address, e-mail address, phone number and other appropriate
information needed to provide you with these services. In all instances, if you
receive a newsletter or other mailing from us, you will always be able to
"unsubscribe" to these mailings at any time.
What Sierra Insurance Will Do With Your Information. If you choose to give us personal information for any of the purposes above, this information is retained by Sierra Insurance and will only be used by Sierra Insurance to support your customer relationship with us. We will not add you to a mailing list, or newsletter without your registration for this service. We will only contact you if further information is required from you to complete a service.
What Others May Do With Your Information. Sierra Insurance does not share, rent, or sell any personally identifying information provided through our Site (such as your name or email address) to any outside organization for use in its marketing or solicitations. From time to time Sierra Insurance may use agents or contractors who will have access to your personal information to perform services for Sierra Insurance (such as DATABASE MAINTENANCE, FURTHER EXAMPLES), however, they are required by us to keep the information confidential and may not use it for any purpose other than to carry out the services for Sierra Insurance. In addition, Sierra Insurance may also share aggregate information about its customers and its web site visitors to advertisers, business partners, and other third parties. For example, we might share that our users are x percent PCs users and y percent Macintosh users. None of this information, however, will contain personal, identifying information about our users.
Sierra Insurance On-line Store. The Sierra Insurance On-line Store is designed to give you options concerning the privacy of your identifying information. If you choose, you can set up an account. This will allow you to have a customized order page for express ordering and to view your purchasing history. To protect your privacy, we have designed the Sites to include certain steps to verify your identity before granting you access or enabling you to make corrections in an account. You will always have access to this account information and can view it, update it or correct it at any time. To access your information, you will need to use a password.
When purchasing products through the our web site, the order form will also ask you to provide a daytime telephone number. However, the telephone number is only used to quickly resolve questions relative to an order, such as to clarify customer email addresses that are inactive, or entered incorrectly.
Third Party Links
sierrainsurance.com does provide links to other sites. Other Internet sites and services have separate privacy and data collection practices. Once you leavesierrainsurance.co, Sierra Insurance cannot control, and has no responsibility for, the privacy policies or data collection activities at another site.
Cookies
At times, we will use a feature on your web browser to send your computer a "cookie". We do not use cookies to retrieve any personal information from your computer. We only use cookies to learn ways to enhance our Sites, and to give you better, more personalized service while in our web site. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is sent. However, some functions of the Sites will not function if you refuse cookies. These areas of our web site will have information posted about cookies, and when a cookie will be uploaded to your computer.
Children's Privacy Protection
Sierra Insurance is sensitive to the heightened need to protect the privacy of children under the age of 13. The vast majority of the material on our web site is not intended for children and is not targeted to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children and, if we learn that we have received personal data from a child, we will remove this information from our database.
Changes to this Policy
Sierra Insurance may from time to time revise
its privacy policy. You should therefore periodically visit this page, so you
are aware of any such revisions. We will not, however, use your existing
information in a manner not previously disclosed. You will be advised and have
the opportunity to opt out of any new use of your information.
Contacting Us. If you have any questions about our privacy policy and/or the
practices of our web site, you can write to:
- Sierra Insurance Associates, Inc.
- 122242 Business Park Dr., #24
- Truckee, CA 96161
Credit Card Security
We know customers are concerned about credit card security. We use one of the
worlds largest funds transfer agencies - PayPal.
If you choose to use a PayPal account, your personal credit card information
will not be given to Sierra Insurance.

