North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 58. Insurance § 58-39-76. Limits on sharing account number information for marketing purposes

(1) “Account number” means an account number, or similar form of access number or access code, but does not include a number or code in an encrypted form, as long as the insurance institution, insurance agent, or insurance-support organization does not provide the recipient with a means to decode the number or code.

(2) “Transaction account” means an account other than a deposit account or credit card account. A transaction account does not include an account to which third parties cannot initiate charges.

(1) To the insurance institution's, insurance agent's, or insurance-support organization's agent or service provider solely in order to perform marketing for the insurance institution's, insurance agent's, or insurance-support organization's own products or services, as long as the agent or service provider is not authorized to directly initiate charges to the account; or

(2) To a participant in a private label credit card program or an affinity or similar program where the participants in the program are identified to the customer when the customer enters into the program.