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Northern Health Insurance Services and its affiliated companies
are committed to maintaining the privacy of those who communicate with us through
our Web site (the "site").
We have created this Privacy Policy, effective February 1, 2004, in order to demonstrate
our firm commitment to your privacy and to make clear what happens to any information
we collect. This Policy also discloses our information gathering and dissemination
practices for the site.
Northern Health Insurance Services has a Notice of Privacy Practices that describes
how it uses and discloses protected health information; the individual's rights
to access, to request amendments, restrictions, and an accounting of disclosures
of protected health information; and the procedures for filing complaints.
You may
view the Notice of Privacy
Practices.
Occasionally, the terms of this Policy may change. We reserve the right to change
this Policy without notice to our users.
Your use of our site is also subject to the
Terms of Use
Security
Our site requires users to give us unique identifiers in order to log into many
areas of the site. These identifiers include, as appropriate, the subscriber identification
number, provider identification number, employer identification number, and/or an
assigned personal identification number (PIN). We utilize these unique identifiers
to verify the user's identity and eligibility, in order to protect our members from
the release of sensitive or personally identifiable information to unauthorized
users.
You must take responsible and appropriate steps to safeguard your identification
numbers to help protect your privacy.
Our site has additional security measures in place to protect against the loss,
misuse and/or unauthorized alteration of the information under our control, including
but not limited to:
Built-in firewalls (a combination of computer hardware and software) to keep unauthorized
users from accessing information through Northern Health Insurance Services computer
network.
Encryption technology, including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for certain communications.
We aim to protect and keep confidential all information which is voluntarily provided
to Northern Health Insurance Services through this site, and to treat such information
with the same consideration and confidentiality as any information sent to us by
the US mail or communicated to us by telephone. The nature of the Internet, however,
prevents us from guaranteeing the confidentiality of information we receive through
the site or via e-mail. If you wish, you may contact us instead by telephone at
the telephone number listed below.
Please note that this site contains links to other parties' websites.
Northern Health Insurance Services is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content
of such other websites.
Information Gathering:
Personally Identifiable Information. Personally identifiable information means data
unique to the user, such as a name, address, email address, social security number,
date of birth, or telephone number. Northern Health Insurance Services will not collect personally identifiable
information about you unless you provide us that information voluntarily.
Northern Health Insurance Services may collect personally identifiable information about you from you on
an application and order forms, through requests for information, products or services,
or in order to fulfill orders, deliver requested materials and information about
health insurance carriers to you, respond to your questions, or deliver a product
or service. We also use your contact information to get in touch with you when necessary.
Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the "Opt-Out/Changes" section
below.
If you provide personally identifiable information to us voluntarily through our
site, we will not sell, license or transmit that information outside Northern
Insurance Services and those affiliated companies involved in administering
or providing services for our health benefits plans, unless you or your representative
expressly authorize us to do so.
We will disclose personally identifiable information in compliance with applicable
laws and regulations and will require the recipient to protect the information and
use it only for the purpose provided.
Internet Protocol Addresses:
An Internet Protocol address is a number that automatically identifies the computer/machine
you have used to access the Internet, the way a phone number identifies you on the
phone system. The address enables our server to send you the web pages that you
want to visit, and it may disclose the server owned by your Internet Service Provider.
We utilize your Internet Protocol address to help diagnose problems with our server
and to administer our site.
Cookies:
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to a user's computer
for purposes of storing information about a user's preferences. Just as many major
Web sites use cookies as a standard practice to provide useful features when a user
visits the site, we use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests. Cookies
in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify
a user's computer. A user can set his or her browser to refuse cookies, but then
he or she may not be able to take full advantage of the site.
General Information:
Northern Health Insurance Services routinely gathers quantitative information
on website activity, including the number of users to the site, and the pages visited.
No personally identifiable information is collected in this routine activity, and
Northern Health Insurance Services reserves the right to share such information with others.
Opt-Out/Changes:
At certain locations on our site where we request information about the user, our
site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from
us. Users may also review and request changes to their personally identifiable information
that Northern Health Insurance Services has collected, including removing their
information from our database in order to prevent receipt of future communications
or to halt receipt of our website services, using any of the following options:
- You can submit your request online at
http://www.norinsco.com
- You can mail your request to the following postal address:
IT Department
Northern Health Insurance Services
500 E. Esplanade Drive, Suite 950
Oxnard, CA 93036
- You can submit your request by calling the following telephone number: 1-800-227-6474
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Contacting the Website Administrator
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If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the practices of this site,
or your dealings with this site, please contact:
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IT Department
Northern Health Insurance Services
500 E. Esplanade Drive, Suite 950
Oxnard, CA 93036 |
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