Privacy Policy
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PRIVACY STATEMENT
– PRIVACY STATEMENT
YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
1. Introduction
Thank you for your interest in SimpleHealthSaving (“SimpleHealthSaving,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting the privacy of those with whom we interact. This Privacy Statement (“Statement”) contains details about how we collect, use, and share Personal Information about you (defined below) that we obtain from you when you interact with us via our website, email, mobile application, and in other online and offline interactions, and from other sources.
Please read this Statement carefully. It applies to the following websites owned and operated by SimpleHealthSaving, and our other websites where we post this document as the applicable Privacy Policy, along with any related websites, mobile apps, networks, applications, insurance agent and representative services, and communication channels (including online chat and telephone call centers), and other services provided by us (collectively, the “Service”):
Applicability: We collect Personal Information in several
contexts as described below. However,
this Statement does not apply to the following information:
- Information
about our employees, contractors, agents, and job applicants. Such information is subject to a separate
privacy notice that we will make available to individuals.
- Information
we collect from individuals with whom we engage in solely business-to-business
communications and transactions, such as information about the employees of our
business partners and customers.
Changes: We may update this Statement
from time to time. The current Statement
will be effective when posted. Please
check this Statement periodically for updates.
If any of the changes are unacceptable to you, you should cease
interacting with us. When required under
applicable law, we will notify you of any changes to this Statement by posting
an update on this website. When required
under applicable law, we will seek affirmative consent from you before making
material changes to the way we handle Personal Information previously collected
from you. If you do not provide such consent, Personal Information will
continue to be used in a manner that is consistent with the version of this Statement
that was in effect when the information was collected.
2. Sources of Personal Information
We collect information about you and how you
interact with us in several ways, including:
- Information you provide to us
directly. We
collect information that you provide to us directly, such as when you register
with us through our Services or you apply for a health insurance or other
product through our Services.
- Information automatically collected
or inferred from your online interaction with us. We automatically collect technical information
about your online interactions with us (such as IP address and browsing
preferences).
- Information from public
sources, such as information from public records
maintained by government entities, andinformation you submit in public forums.
- Information from third parties. We receive information about you and your interactions
with us from third parties, such as pharmacies, healthcare providers, insurance
companies, credit reporting agencies , marketing and advertising providers,
social network services, data brokers, and companies that provide or sell lists
of potential purchasers. We also may
receive information about you from friends and family members (such as other
people insured under the same policy as you).
We may combine
information that we receive from the various sources described in this Statement,
including third party sources and public sources, and use or disclose it for the purposes identified
below.
3. Types of Personal Information We Collect
The types of Personal Information that we may collect
about you include:
- Identifiers, such as your name, alias, postal address, country of residence,
unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email
address, user name, phone number, social media identifiers (e.g., Twitter
handle, Instagram name, etc.), Social Security number, driver’s license number,
or other similar identifiers, including identifiers for family members who may
be insured under an insurance policy
- Customer records, such as your name, signature, address, telephone number, bank account number,
credit card number, or other payment information.
- Application and eligibility information for you and family members who may be
insured under an insurance policy, such as age, date of birth, gender, health
status, disability, medical history, military or veteran status, date of birth,
and financial and tax information (for government subsidies).
- Commercial information and
preferences, including product preferences,
advertising preferences, products or services purchased, obtained, or
considered, or other preferences or interests.
- Internet or other electronic
network activity information,
such as your browsing
history, search history, IP address, and information regarding your
interactions with us (including interacting with us online, by the mobile
application, and through advertisements).
- Geolocation information, such as approximate location based on your IP address.
- Audio, electronic, visual, or
similar information, such as call center recordings,
or customer support chat logs.
- Professional or employment
information, such as job title, employer, business
address and contact information.
- Inferences drawn from any of the information we collect to create a profile about
you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends,
predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
4. How We Use Your Personal Information
We may use each category of your Personal
Information described above in the following ways:
- To enable interactions between you and us, such as to facilitate online quoting,
applications for, and purchases of our products; to register and administer
your account, to support your interactions with us; to provide information
about insurance plans; to communicate with you about your policy or our data
practices; to install and configure changes and updates to programs and
technologies related to interactions with us; to authenticate those who
interact with us; and to respond to your requests, complaints, and inquiries.
- For our own internal business purposes, such
as to evaluate or audit the usage and performance of programs and technologies
related to interactions with us; to evaluate and improve the quality of your
interactions with us and the quality of programs and technologies related to interactions
with us; to design new services and products; to process and catalog your
responses to surveys or questionnaires (e.g., customer satisfaction reviews); to
perform internal research for technological development and demonstration; to conduct
data analysis and testing; and to maintain proper business records.
- For legal, safety, or security reasons, such as to comply with
laws and other legal requirements; to protect our safety, our property or the rights
of those who interact with us, or others; and to detect, prevent, and respond
to security incidents or other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal
activity.
- In a de-identified, anonymized, or aggregated format. We may
convert Personal Information into a de-identified, anonymized, or aggregated
format, and use such information for any legal purpose.
- For marketing. We may use your Personal Information to market our products or
services or those of third parties, such as our business partners. We may use
your Personal Information to invite you to participate in marketing surveys,
questionnaires, promotions, events or contests.
We may audit aspects of our ad impressions. We may use your Personal Information
for short-term transient use, including for contextual ad customization. We may
use your Personal Information to enhance our content and to deliver
advertisements to you, including in commercial emails. For more information about online marketing
activity, see Section 6 below.
- To fulfill other purposes disclosed at the time you provide Personal
Information or otherwise where we are legally permitted or are required to do
so.
- For any other purposes for which you provide consent.
5. With Whom We Share Your Personal Information
We may share your Personal Information with the categories of recipients
described below:
- Affiliates and subsidiaries: We may share your Personal Information
within the eHealth Insurance group of companies, which includes parents,
corporate affiliates, subsidiaries, business units and other companies that
share common ownership for the purposes described above.
- nsurance providers,
government health care exchanges, and related entities: In order to provide you with insurance you request, we may share your information with insurance companies, Federally-facilitated
Exchanges or State-based Exchanges, HSA Trustees or Administrators, and similar
entities.
- Service providers and other
third parties that help fulfill requests: We may share
your Personal Information with third-parties and service providers that facilitate
and support us in processing a request or transaction on your behalf; to
provide you with quotes, products, and services; and to process payments. We
may share your Personal Information with an insurance agent when you request to
be contacted by an agent, or when you request information about or an
application for insurance that is offered through an insurance agent with whom
we associate. If you are contacted by a
third-party, any additional information that you subsequently choose to provide
to any third-party entity will be governed by that entity’s privacy policy.
- Third parties that provide
business and professional services to us, such as web hosting
service providers, IT providers, operating systems and platforms, internet
service providers, analytics companies, and marketing providers (e.g., we may
share your email address with our outbound email marketing providers), our
attorneys, accountants, and auditors. We
take reasonable efforts to provide these companies with only the information
they need to perform services on our behalf and to limit their use and
disclosure of Personal Information.
- Business partners: We may also provide your
Personal Information or provide access to your Personal Information to our
business partners, including for third party marketing.
- For legal, security and safety
purposes: We
may share your Personal Information with third parties such as law enforcement,
regulators, or others to comply with federal, state, or local laws, a subpoena
or other legal process, and other applicable legal requirements; to protect the
confidentiality and security of our records; to protect against or prevent
fraud; for claims administration; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and
other agreements; and to protect our rights and our property or safety of our
users or third parties.
- In connection with a corporate
transaction: We
may transfer any information we have about you in connection with a change in
corporate control, including but not limited to a merger or sale (including
transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings) involving all
or part of SimpleHealthSaving and its business, or as part of a
corporate reorganization or stock sale.
- Organizations with which you
have a relationship: We may disclose Personal
information to an affinity group, employer, provider group, benefits
administrator or consultant, healthcare system, pharmacy, financial services
provider, or other entity with which you may have a relationship when such
entity referred you to us or when you use our website or call center in
connection with your relationship to such entity.
- To others with your consent.
We may also de-identity, anonymize, or aggregate
Personal Information to share with third parties for any purpose.
6. Security and Retention
We maintain reasonable security procedures and
technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Information against
accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, disclosure, access, alteration, or
use. Nevertheless, transmission via the Internet and online digital
storage are not completely secure and we do not guarantee the security of your
information collected through the Service.
7. Children’s Privacy
Interactions
with us are intended for individuals 16 years of age and older. Our interactions are not directed at,
marketed to, nor intended for, children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect any information,
including Personal Information, from children under 16 years of age. If you believe that we have inadvertently
collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 16, please contact
us at the address below and we will use reasonable efforts to delete the
child’s information from our databases.
8. External Links
When
interacting with us you may encounter links to external sites or other online
services, including those embedded in third party advertisements or sponsored
content which we do not control. We are
not responsible for the privacy practices and data collection policies for such
third party services. You should consult
the privacy statements of those third party services for details.
9. Your Rights
Upon request,
SimpleHealthSaving will provide you with information about whether we hold any of
your personal information.
Additionally, you may update your name, email address and password by clicking on the “Sign in” or “My Account” link on this website and signing in using your email address and password. We will respond to your request to access within a reasonable timeframe.
We will make
reasonable efforts to respond to your request, but cannot guarantee that we
will be able to honor your request. For
example, we generally will retain your information for as long as your account
is active, as needed to provide you services, or for other business purposes.
We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal
obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Please note that
once your application has been submitted to your chosen health insurance
company or any other relevant party (such as the federal government in the case
of an application involving advanced premium tax credits) you may have to
contact the insurance company or such other party directly to update your
application and/or exercise your individual rights under HIPAA.
10. Terms of Use
The Terms of Use for interactions with us is incorporated by reference into this Statement and can be found here.
11. Contact
If you have questions regarding this Statement or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
WebIT
Suite 306
5901 NW 183rd St,
Hialeah,
FL 33015
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