WELCOME TO SAFECO AGENT PORTAL

Safeco Insurance owns the Safeco agent agency portal, which provides independent agencies with the use of tools and information to help them sell and service insurance policies and surety bonds sold by Safeco Insurance and other Liberty Mutual Agency companies.

 

ANY USE OF THE SAFECO AGENT PORTAL IS SUBJECT TO AND CONDITIONED UPON THESE TERMS OF USE.
This document is known as the "Terms of Use." Your use of the Safeco agent portal is subject to, and conditioned upon your compliance with, the terms and conditions set forth in these Terms of Use. The words "use" or "using" means any use of or access to the Safeco agent portal, including access or use through any device or program. To use the Safeco agent portal, you must accept and agree to these Terms of Use. You accept and agree to these terms if you use the Safeco agent portal, or if you click to accept and agree to these Terms of Use where this option is made available to you. A principal's acceptance of these Terms of Use constitutes acceptance by the agency for itself, its principals, and its employees.

 

DEFINITIONS.
“Safeco agent portal" means Safeconow.com, now.agent.safeco.com and also means any web pages, services, tools, applications (including web widgets), files, documents, forms, templates, reports, information, or images, audio, video, or other media, provided on, or accessed via SafecoNow.comnow.agent.safeco.com (such as safesite.com and safeco-msc.com), or that you access or use using your SafecoNow.com, now.agent.safeco.com login credentials or other login credentials provided to you by Safeco Insurance or another Liberty Mutual Agency company.

 

"Safeco Insurance" or "Safeco" means those companies now or in the future owned or controlled by or under common control with Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation and operated collectively as Safeco Insurance.

 

"Liberty Mutual Agency company" means those insurance companies now or in the future owned or controlled by or under common control with Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation and operated collectively as one or more of the business segments of Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation, including Safeco Insurance, American First Insurance, Colorado Casualty, Golden Eagle Insurance, Indiana Insurance, Liberty Mutual Surety, Liberty Northwest, Liberty Surety First, Montgomery Insurance, Ohio Casualty, or Peerless Insurance.

 

"Liberty Mutual Group" means Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, its parent, Liberty Mutual Group, Inc., and any company now or in the future owned or controlled by or under common control with Liberty Mutual Group, Inc., including Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation.

 

"You" and "your" refer to the person accessing or reading these Terms of Use, or using the Safeco agent portal. If you are the owner of, or an employee of, a company, than "you" and "your" also refer to your company.

 

THE TERMS OF USE MAY BE REVISED.
Revisions to these Terms of Use may be posted on the Safeco agent portal at any time. Your subsequent use of the Safeco agent portal is subject to, and conditioned upon your compliance with, the revised Terms of Use. You should periodically visit this page to review the most recent Terms of Use. You may find the date of the most recent version of the Terms of Use at the bottom of this document.

 

YOU MUST BE AN AUTHORIZED USER.
Only Authorized Users are allowed to use the Safeco agent portal. No one else may use the Safeco agent portal. You are an Authorized User only if all of these provisions apply to you:
A. Your agency has a valid license to sell insurance in the jurisdictions in which it does business;
B. Safeco or another Liberty Mutual Agency company has provided you with authorized login credentials for your personal use; and
C. You either are a producer for this agency, and you have both a valid producer license in the jurisdictions in which you do business and a current appointment by Safeco Insurance or other Liberty Mutual Agency company, or you are an employee working on behalf of such a producer.

 

If you are not an Authorized User, you must immediately stop your use of the Safeco agent portal.

 

USING THE SAFECO AGENT PORTAL.
The only uses of the Safeco agent portal that may be made are those expressly permitted in these Terms of Use. No other use is permitted. Except where otherwise indicated, all materials contained in the Safeco agent portal, including but not limited to graphics, text, software, audio, video and files, are either the property of, or used with permission by, Safeco, and are protected by intellectual property laws. Safeco reserves all rights in these materials. If you are permitted to download material accessed via the Safeco agent portal, you may not remove any copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials.

 

Nothing contained on the website should be construed as granting, by implication or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark, service mark, trade name, logo, icon and domain name displayed on this website without the written permission of Safeco or third party that may own such marks or names displayed on this website. Your use of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, icons and domain names displayed on this website, except as provided herein, is strictly prohibited.

 

You may only use the Safeco agent portal for the purpose of doing business with Safeco Insurance or other Liberty Mutual Agency company. You may not use the Safeco agent portal for any other purpose. Regardless of whether you think your use of the Safeco agent portal is for the benefit of Safeco Insurance or other Liberty Mutual Agency company, the Safeco agent portal may never be used:

• In a manner that is prohibited by any law or regulation;
• By using another person's login credentials, or impersonating or otherwise misrepresenting your identity or affiliation;
• To access accounts that you are not authorized to access;
• To invade the privacy of third parties, including consumers;
• In a manner that infringes or misappropriates any patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights of any third party;
• To violate, or facilitate or assist in violating, the security of the Safeco agent portal, whether intentionally, negligently or otherwise; or
• To transmit by means of the Safeco agent portal any data or material that contains software viruses or any other malicious code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.

 

Except as expressly provided herein, you shall not use any portion of the Safeco agent portal, or any intellectual property contained within the Safeco agent portal (including but not limited to Liberty Mutual Group trademarks), on any other website, in the source code of any other website, or in any other printed or electronic materials. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the software code contained in the Safeco agent portal. Except as expressly provided herein, you shall not modify, publish, reproduce, republish, create derivative works, copy, upload, post, transmit, distribute, or otherwise use any of the Safeco agent portal's content.

 

ADDITIONAL LIMITS ON TERMINATED AGENCIES.
If your agency's Agency Agreement (as defined below) has been terminated, then you and your agency may only use those parts of the Safeco agent portal that are needed to service your existing book of business with Safeco Insurance or another Liberty Mutual Agency company. Your permission to use the Safeco agent portal ends when you have no more policies in your book of business that are underwritten by Safeco Insurance or another Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation insurance company.

 

If your agency's or producer's license is suspended or has been revoked, you have no permission to use the Safeco agent portal and you must immediately stop your use of the Safeco agent portal.

 

USE OF PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.
When you use the Safeco agent portal, you may receive access to nonpublic personal information ("NPPI" ") of consumers. Safeco's obligations regarding personal information are set out in Safeco's consumer privacy policy. You must treat consumer NPPI as if Safeco's obligations under its consumer privacy policy applied to you. Safeco updates its consumer privacy policy from time to time. Your use of the Safeco agent portal after the consumer privacy policy has been updated will be subject to the updated policy. Safeco's current privacy policy can be found here.

 

The Safeco agent portal contains information that is confidential and proprietary to Safeco Insurance and/or other Liberty Mutual Agency companies. You agree not to use this information for any purpose other than for the benefit of Safeco Insurance or other Liberty Mutual Agency company. You agree not to disclose this information to any third parties. In particular, systematic retrieval of data or other content from the Safeco agent portal to create or compile, directly or indirectly, an algorithm, or a collection, compilation, database or directory is prohibited.

 

Your use of personal and confidential information is also governed by your agency's agreements with Safeco Insurance and/or other Liberty Mutual Agency companies ("Agency Agreement(s)"). If there is any inconsistency between your obligations set forth in these Terms of Use and your obligations set forth in an Agency Agreement, the obligation that provides the greater protection for the information controls, unless Safeco or another Liberty Mutual Agency company expressly informs you in writing otherwise.

 

Unauthorized use of NPPI, or confidential or proprietary information, may subject the user to federal and state civil and criminal penalties.

 

PASSWORDS AND ACCOUNT USERS.
The Safeco agent portal is a secure portal. Access is based on login credentials, consisting of a userid/password combination identification procedure. It is your responsibility to establish one or more accounts, and login credentials for each account, in connection with your use of the Safeco agent portal. You agree to maintain the confidentiality of your login credentials and not to allow use by anyone other than you. You agree to immediately report to Safeco at 877-566-6001 any loss of confidentiality of your login credentials or any unauthorized access to the secure portal using your login credentials that may come to your attention. You shall be responsible for any damage to Liberty Mutual Group, or any Liberty Mutual Group subsidiaries, affiliates or customers, including but not limited to: any denial of service; deletion or modification or creation of data; unauthorized access to Safeco Insurance's or Liberty Mutual Agency companies' data; or, any other action directly or indirectly related to unauthorized or improper use of your login credentials by you, or by any other person, or by your failure to terminate access to the Safeco agent portal by any person who does not retain authority to access the Safeco agent portal on your behalf. Safeco Insurance reserves the right to terminate your access for any reason without liability and without prior notification to maintain system security.

 

For appointed agents and advisors, if you are a principal in the appointed agency, you agree to accept sole responsibility under this section for any login credentials used by your employees. You agree to monitor access to the Safeco agent portal by your employees and to promptly terminate access by any person who does not retain authority to access the Safeco agent portal on your behalf.

 

Safeco reserves the right to examine your records of user activity and/or account activity for any accounts registered to you.

 

SOFTWARE LICENSES.
You acknowledge that any software available or provided to you on this website 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. Safeco Insurance does not authorize the downloading or exportation of any software or technical data from this website to any jurisdiction prohibited by the United States export controls laws and regulations.

 

INDEMNIFICATION.
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Liberty Mutual Group, their officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to the Safeco agent portal; (ii) your violation of any term of these Terms of Use; or (iii) your violation of any third party proprietary right. This defense and indemnification obligation will survive these Terms of Use and your use of the Safeco agent portal.

 

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES.
THE SAFECO AGENT PORTAL IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE SERVICE, OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

 

DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITIES.
YOU AGREE THAT LIBERTY MUTUAL GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SAFECO AGENT PORTAL, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, USE OF DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF LIBERTY MUTUAL GROUP HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES). IN THE EVENT THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS HELD TO BE INAPPLICABLE OR UNENFORCEABLE FOR ANY REASON, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, THEN THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF LIBERTY MUTUAL GROUP FOR ANY REASON AND UPON ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE SAFECO AGENT PORTAL SHALL BE LIMITED TO DIRECT DAMAGES ACTUALLY INCURRED UP TO TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS ($250.00).

 

OTHER DISCLAIMERS.
The Safeco agent portal is provided for your convenience. The Safeco agent portal may contain or present to you information about your transactions with Safeco Insurance or Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation. If there is any discrepancy between information presented in the Safeco agent portal and Safeco Insurance's or Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation's internal system records, the internal system records will be considered authoritative and controlling.

 

Liberty Mutual Group does not warrant that the Safeco agent portal will operate error free or is free from viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other destructive or harmful code. Liberty Mutual Group also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to your computer equipment or other property as a result of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Safeco agent portal or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from this website or arising in connection with any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, defect, computer virus, delay in operation or transmission, or line or system failure.

 

Safeco may make services available through the Safeco agent portal that are provided by a third party. Liberty Mutual Group cannot and does not take responsibility for third party services.

 

For your convenience, the Safeco agent portal may contain links to other websites. The inclusion of any links to such websites does not imply approval of or endorsement by Liberty Mutual Group of those websites, their content or their products and services. Liberty Mutual Group is not responsible for the content of these websites, or problems you may encounter at other sites. These websites may also have their own terms and conditions, which you may be subject to.

 

PRIVACY OF YOUR INFORMATION.
Safeco and other Liberty Mutual Agency companies collect information about your use of the Safeco agent portal when you use it. This information helps Safeco to better understand how the Safeco agent portal is being used and what Safeco can do to make it more useful to users.

 

JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES.
Governing Law. These Terms of Use and all other aspects of your use of the Safeco agent portal shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Massachusetts and such laws will apply without regard to principles of conflict of laws.

 

Waiver. The failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.