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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".13" citation="COMAR 31.16.08.13" title_num="31" subtitle_num="16" chapter_num="08" heading="Limits on Sharing Account Number Information for Marketing Purposes.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Scope. This regulation does not apply to the disclosure of a policy number, or similar form of access number or access code, that is in an encrypted form, as long as the licensee does not provide the recipient with a means to decode the number or code.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Policy or Transaction Account Defined.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>In this regulation, the following term has the meaning indicated.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Term Defined.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“Policy or transaction account” means an account other than a deposit account or a credit card account.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>“Policy or transaction account” does not include an account to which third parties cannot initiate charges.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>A licensee may not, directly or through an affiliate, disclose, other than to a consumer reporting agency, a policy number or similar form of access number or access code for a consumer's policy or transaction account to a nonaffiliated third party for use in telemarketing, direct mail marketing, or other marketing through electronic mail to the consumer.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Section C of this regulation does not apply if a licensee discloses a policy number or similar form of access number or access code to:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The licensee's service provider solely in order to perform marketing for the licensee's own products or services, as long as the service provider is not authorized to directly initiate charges to the account;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>A licensee who is a producer solely in order to perform marketing for the licensee's own products or services; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>A participant in an affinity or similar program where the participants in the program are identified to the customer when the customer enters into the program.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>