Legal notices and privacy policy.
Website terms, privacy disclosures, and recruiting data practices for candidates, clients, and visitors who work with Hurrell Associates.
Website publisher
This website is published by Hurrell Associates, an insurance recruiting and executive search firm serving property and casualty insurance companies and insurance professionals.
Business and legal correspondence may be sent to info@hurrellassociates.com or by calling 847-401-2644.
Relationship to signed agreements
These website notices do not replace a signed client search agreement, candidate authorization, confidentiality agreement, or other written agreement with Hurrell Associates. If a signed agreement conflicts with these website terms, the signed agreement controls for that relationship.
Informational website content
Website content is provided for general business information only. Hurrell Associates makes reasonable efforts to keep information current, but does not warrant that the website is complete, error-free, uninterrupted, or suitable for any particular hiring or career decision.
Intellectual property
Unless stated otherwise, the text, design, branding, graphics, photographs, logos, and other materials on this website are owned by Hurrell Associates or used with permission. You may not copy, modify, scrape, republish, or commercially exploit website materials without written authorization.
Use of this website
By using this website, emailing career information, or otherwise communicating through this website, you agree to use the website lawfully and in a way that does not interfere with its operation, security, or intended recruiting purpose.
No guarantee of placement, hire, or search outcome
Hurrell Associates does not guarantee that any candidate will be presented, interviewed, hired, retained, promoted, or placed, and does not guarantee that any client role will be filled. Recruiting outcomes depend on market conditions, role requirements, compensation, timing, candidate interest, client decisions, references, background checks, and other factors outside Hurrell Associates' control.
No employment offer
Job postings, opportunity discussions, candidate outreach, and website content are not offers of employment. Employers make independent hiring, compensation, work authorization, background check, accommodation, and onboarding decisions.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Hurrell Associates will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from use of this website, reliance on website content, recruiting communications, candidate materials, client materials, or interruptions in website availability.
Governing law
These website terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and applicable federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, unless another law is required to apply.
Recruitment-specific responsibilities
Hurrell Associates works to support informed recruiting conversations. Clients and candidates remain responsible for their own independent decisions and for verifying information that matters to a hiring or career decision.
Candidate information
Candidates are responsible for providing accurate, current, and complete information about experience, licenses, education, work authorization, compensation expectations, references, restrictions, and availability. By sending a resume, profile, or career information to Hurrell Associates, you authorize Hurrell Associates to review, store, discuss, and use that information for recruiting purposes, subject to the confidentiality and privacy practices described on this page.
Client information
Clients are responsible for providing accurate role requirements, compensation information, location expectations, reporting relationships, hiring process details, and any legal or regulatory requirements associated with a role. Clients are also responsible for final hiring decisions, employment terms, background check compliance, offer documentation, onboarding, and employment law obligations.
Confidential searches
Hurrell Associates handles confidential search information with discretion. Candidates should identify any companies or individuals that should not be contacted. Clients should identify any search restrictions or confidentiality requirements in writing. Internet, email, phone, and text communications are not guaranteed to be perfectly secure.
Equal opportunity recruiting
Hurrell Associates supports equal opportunity recruiting. Clients should not ask Hurrell Associates to screen, exclude, classify, or prioritize candidates based on unlawful criteria, including protected characteristics under federal, state, or local employment laws.
Background checks and references
Unless separately agreed in writing, Hurrell Associates does not conduct formal consumer reports, credit checks, criminal background checks, licensing checks, immigration verification, or other regulated background reports. Clients that conduct background checks or use third-party background reporting providers are responsible for compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, equal employment opportunity laws, and applicable state or local requirements.
No sensitive documents through the website
Do not submit Social Security numbers, bank information, medical records, driver's license images, passport images, immigration documents, tax forms, or other highly sensitive documents through ordinary email unless Hurrell Associates specifically requests them and provides an appropriate transmission method.
How Hurrell Associates handles personal information
This Privacy Policy explains how Hurrell Associates may collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information from website visitors, candidates, prospective candidates, clients, prospective clients, referral sources, and business contacts.
Information we may collect
- Contact information, such as name, email address, phone number, company, title, and mailing address.
- Candidate and professional information, such as resume details, employment history, insurance specialties, licenses, education, credentials, compensation expectations, location preferences, work authorization notes, references, interview feedback, and career goals.
- Client search information, such as role descriptions, organization details, reporting structure, compensation range, search timing, hiring criteria, and interview feedback.
- Communications, including emails, form submissions, phone notes, text messages, calendar details, and other records related to recruiting conversations.
- Website and device information, such as IP address, browser type, pages visited, referring pages, and basic analytics or security logs.
- Publicly available professional information from business directories, company websites, professional networking platforms, insurance industry sources, referrals, and other lawful sources.
How we use information
- To respond to inquiries from candidates, clients, and website visitors.
- To evaluate candidate qualifications, interests, restrictions, and fit for insurance roles.
- To support client searches, market mapping, interview coordination, offer discussions, and placement-related communications.
- To maintain recruiting records, relationship history, internal notes, and business operations.
- To send business communications, recruiting updates, opportunity discussions, and follow-up messages.
- To protect the website, prevent misuse, troubleshoot issues, and comply with legal obligations.
How we disclose information
Hurrell Associates may disclose information to prospective employers, client companies, candidates, references, service providers, professional advisors, and legal or regulatory authorities when appropriate for recruiting, business operations, legal compliance, or protection of rights. Hurrell Associates does not sell personal information for money.
Candidate submissions to clients
Hurrell Associates may discuss candidate qualifications with clients and prospective clients when there is a recruiting purpose. Candidates should tell Hurrell Associates about confidentiality restrictions, off-limits employers, timing concerns, or other limits before information is shared.
Service providers
Hurrell Associates may use third-party providers for website hosting, email, phone, text messaging, forms, scheduling, analytics, document storage, security, customer relationship management, and other business operations. These providers may process information on Hurrell Associates' behalf.
Retention
Hurrell Associates may retain recruiting and business information for as long as reasonably needed for relationship management, future searches, business records, legal compliance, dispute prevention, and legitimate recruiting purposes. You may request deletion or correction as described below, though Hurrell Associates may retain information when necessary for legal, security, contractual, archival, or business record purposes.
Security
Hurrell Associates uses reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information. No website, email system, phone system, text message, or storage provider can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Your choices and requests
You may ask Hurrell Associates to update, correct, restrict, or delete personal information by contacting info@hurrellassociates.com. You may also ask not to be contacted about future opportunities or searches. Hurrell Associates will evaluate requests in light of applicable law, business record needs, contractual obligations, and recruiting context.
Email and text communications
If you provide an email address or phone number, Hurrell Associates may contact you about recruiting conversations, client searches, candidate opportunities, business updates, and related follow-up. You may opt out of nonessential communications by contacting Hurrell Associates or, for text messages where available, replying STOP.
Children's privacy
This website and Hurrell Associates' recruiting services are intended for adults and business users. Hurrell Associates does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16.
Updates to this policy
Hurrell Associates may update this Legal page from time to time. The updated version will be posted with a new last-updated date.
Summary of collection and use
Hurrell Associates collects contact, professional, recruiting, communication, client search, and website-use information for the recruiting and business purposes described above.
Sources
Information may come from you, your employer, client companies, candidates, referrals, public professional sources, business partners, and service providers.
Purposes
Information is used for candidate evaluation, client search support, relationship management, communications, website operations, security, legal compliance, and business records.
Disclosures
Information may be disclosed to prospective employers, client companies, candidates, references, service providers, professional advisors, and authorities where appropriate.
No sale
Hurrell Associates does not sell personal information for money. Recruiting-related sharing is used to provide recruiting and executive search services.
Website accessibility
Hurrell Associates aims to make this website usable and accessible. If you have difficulty accessing content, navigating the website, or using a form, contact info@hurrellassociates.com or call 847-401-2644 and describe the issue. Hurrell Associates will make reasonable efforts to provide the information or assistance you need.
Questions about this page
For privacy, legal, accessibility, or recruiting data questions, contact Hurrell Associates at info@hurrellassociates.com or 847-401-2644.
This page describes Hurrell Associates' website terms and privacy disclosures. It is not intended to provide legal advice to any visitor or create rights beyond those required by applicable law or a written agreement.