{"id":432,"date":"2021-04-01T20:51:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T20:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buddy.ie\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2022-03-21T20:56:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:56:14","slug":"where-is-my-policy-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/2021\/04\/01\/where-is-my-policy-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is my policy number?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It feels very odd writing a post about something pretty straightforward&#8230; but last year we made a very easy decision to <strong>stop<\/strong> using a random set of characters (known as a policy number or policy reference). Now to identify your policy all you need to remember is your email address. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Why did we do this?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless you are Jimmy Magee&nbsp;trying to remember a random set of characters just to access your policy is madness&#8230; especially if you have multiple policies, sure it&#8217;s hard enough to remember my Netflix password on a good day \ud83d\ude05 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the bigger picture is that when you trust us with providing you with cover all your Buddy policies live under your email address, your <a href=\"http:\/\/buddy.ie\">Buddy<\/a> account makes it easier than ever to manage your policies, pause, cancel and renew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buddy.ie\/travel\/name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.buddy.ie\/travel\/name noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/970x250-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-308\" width=\"632\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/970x250-1-1.png 970w, https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/970x250-1-1-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/970x250-1-1-768x198.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels very odd writing a post about something pretty straightforward&#8230; but last year we made a very easy decision to stop using a random set of characters (known as a policy number or policy reference). Now to identify your policy all you need to remember is your email address. Why did we do this? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[19,18,17],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Buddy_Policy_Numbers.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.buddy.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}