Information about our use of cookies

Effective Date:
October 4, 2018

Websites operated by Starr Insurance Companies* (or “Starr”) use cookies for various purposes including to distinguish you from other users of our website, to assist with navigation between pages, to remember users’ preferences, to allow us to improve our websites over time, and to improve your experience while using our websites. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser, computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer or device’s hard drive.

When you visit a website operated by Starr, we may use cookies and these cookies maybe downloaded to the device from which you access the website. The cookies may collect information including but not limited to your use of the site, your interactions with the site, and the internet protocol (“IP”) address(es) associated with your use of the site. You may be unable to use some or all websites operated by Starr and/or features of those websites unless cookies and similar technologies are installed and active. Further, access to Starr’s websites may be limited in certain countries and geographical locations.

Starr uses cookies for the following purposes:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, by way of illustration, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical/performance cookies. These are cookies that allow us to recognise, record and/or count the number of visitors and to see how visitors navigate through our website. These cookies assist Starr as we develop ways to improve how our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are able to locate what they are looking with ease.
• Functionality cookies. These are cookies that are used to recognise you when you return to our website. These cookies allow us to personalise our websites’ content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These are cookies that record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

You may be able to block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our websites.

*Starr Insurance Companies (or Starr) is the worldwide marketing name for the operating insurance and travel assistance companies and subsidiaries of Starr International Company, Inc. and for the investment business of C. V. Starr & Co., Inc. and its subsidiaries. Starr is a leading insurance and investment organization with a presence on five continents; through its operating insurance companies, Starr provides property, casualty, and accident and health insurance products as well as a range of specialty coverages including aviation, marine, energy and excess casualty insurance. Starr’s insurance company subsidiaries domiciled in the U.S., Bermuda, China, Hong Kong, Malta, Singapore and U.K. each have an A.M. Best rating of “A” (Excellent). Starr’s Lloyd’s syndicate has a Standard & Poor’s rating of “A+” (Strong).