Responsible Business

Sustainability at Assurant

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Our sustainability commitments are powered by our commitment to responsible business, and we lead with ethics and integrity to ensure accountability and trust across our operations and throughout our customer relationships.

At Assurant, we adhere to unwavering standards of integrity, ethics, governance, privacy, and information security. We do this through strong corporate governance practices, ethics and compliance training and development, deep investments in cybersecurity, and carefully managing risk across the enterprise. With a focus on transparency, compliance with policies and procedures, and a skilled Board that brings a unique skill set and expertise, we solve tough challenges with integrity.

Highlights:

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Received the World’s Most Ethical Company designation by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices
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Enhanced our enterprise sustainability governance practices through our European ESG Advisory Group to coordinate our sustainability strategies across our European operations.
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Governance

Transparency and honesty are the foundation of Assurant’s long-standing client relationships and crucial for continued success. This starts with strong governance across the enterprise to ensure oversight and accountability, critical factors to delivering on Assurant’s value proposition, maintaining client trust, and reaching our goals. For more detailed information read our Governance section in the sustainability report.

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Code of Business Conduct and Ethics

Our reputation reflects a promise to our customers, shareholders, and to one another that we will act with honesty and integrity, and uphold the highest legal and ethical standards. The cornerstone of our compliance program, our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (Code) helps to guide our actions and reinforces Assurant’s commitment to integrity and ethical business conduct. Within our Code, we define our responsibilities and commitments, including those that address:

  • Anti-bribery and anti-corruption.
  • Avoiding conflicts of interest.
  • Safeguarding our assets and responsibilities concerning accounting standards.
  • Fair competition and antitrust.
  • Commitment to preventing money laundering.
  • Insider trading and our whistleblower programs.
  • Commitment to prohibit discrimination and harassment within Assurant.
  • Zero-tolerance commitments for threats or acts of violence in the workplace.
  • Human Rights

Data Security, Privacy, and Cybersecurity

Data Privacy

Assurant earns trust and provides the best customer experience by embedding privacy principles into our operations.

For more information related to our Private Policy or Commitments please visit our Privacy Policy page.
Privacy Policy

Data Security

Assurant is committed to maintaining a secure environment that protects information assets from unauthorized use, modification, disclosure, or destruction, whether accidental or intentional. We follow a multidisciplinary approach to information security by defining roles and responsibilities specific to job function and through a security governance model that identifies accountability within the corporate structure.

Cybersecurity

Our Assurant Information Security Management System (ISMS) provides a comprehensive set of written policies and standards for 100 percent of our operations and is modeled after the International Organization of Standards (ISO) 27001, with mapping to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States. We also maintain ISO27001 certification in our U.K. subsidiary and have active membership affiliations across multiple information-sharing and continuing education forums including FS-ISAC, ISC2, Gartner, Knowledge Connect, Security 50, ISACA, and others. Integral to our ISMS is our comprehensive information security incident response framework, which leverages people, processes, and technology to detect and minimize the impact of potential incidents and data breaches.

Code of Conduct & Ethics

We always must act with honesty, integrity and uphold the highest legal and ethical standards.
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What Our Teams Say

Integrity and ethics is a key pillar of employee conduct across every team at Assurant.
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2024 Report

At Assurant, our global commitment as a sustainability company is stronger than ever.
2024 Sustainability Report