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PRIVACY POLICY |
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Healthcareshopper.com is a registered licensee of the
TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit
organization whose mission is to build users' trust and
confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair
information practices. This privacy Statement covers the site
www.healthcareshopper.com.
Because this website wants to demonstrate its commitment to your
privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and
have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
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If you have questions or
concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Phil
Daigle at
privacy@healthcareshopper.com.
If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your
inquiry has not been satisfactorily address, you should
contact TRUSTe. TRUSTe will then serve as a
liaison with us to resolve your concerns. |
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Security The security of your personal information is
important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to
protect the personal information submitted to us,
both during transmission and once we receive it.
No method of transmission over the Internet,
or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure,
however. Therefore, while we strive to use
commercially acceptable means to protect your
personal information, we cannot guarantee its
absolute security. If you have any questions about
security on our Web site, you can send email us at
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Personal Information
We collect personal information in the normal course
of business in order to provide
you with a health insurance quote and to
process your insurance application and to serve you
better.
Registering with us. We begin collecting
personal information from you when we provide you
with a health insurance quote. Under our current
process, you must supply certain personal or contact
information (e.g., name, email address, phone
number, gender, date of birth) to get
a quote.
Applying for Health Insurance and Other Products.
If you apply for a health insurance or other product
through our website, we may ask you to provide us
with personal information and/or health information
relating to you and any family member who will be
included on your application. This information will
be used by your chosen insurance company or HSA
Trustee or Administrator to process your
application. Additionally, we may ask you to provide
us with credit card or bank information, which will
be used by your chosen insurance company or HSA
Trustee or Administrator to process your application
or collect any fees associated with your application
or insurance premiums upon approval of your
application.
We may use your personal information to get in touch
with you when necessary to process your application or
to provide you with a quote. For example, emails will be
sent to you throughout the application process to inform
you of the status of your application and to seek
additional information that is requested as part of the
application process We may
also use your contact information to
provide other information about our products and
services by e-mail and/or telephone within 90 days of
registering.
You may opt out of receiving
information on additional products and services from us.
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1.You can send email to
privacy@healthcareshopper.com
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2.You can send mail to:
HealthcareShopper.com, 1891 South Coast
Hwy., Suite A, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
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3.You can call: 800-557-5693
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We do not sell, trade or give
away your personal information to anyone.
We do not disclose your personal
information to third parties, unless one of the
following limited exceptions applies.If
you submit an application for an insurance product
offered by us, then we will disclose your personal
information to your chosen insurance company to
process your application.
If you complete an enrollment form for a health
savings account ("HSA") offered through an
authorized HSA trustee or administrator with whom we
have associated, then we may disclose your personal
information to that trustee or administrator to
enroll you in an HSA. Please be assured that these
partners are only allowed to use your personal
information to process your application or
enrollment form.
Outside of these exceptions, we will not share your
personal information with third parties. |
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Cookies.
A cookie is a small
text file that is stored on a user's computer for
record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on
this site. We do not link
the information we store in cookies to any
personally identifiable
information you submit while on our site. We use
session ID cookies to gather
analytical information regarding how you navigate
our site. A session
ID cookie expires when you close your
browser. A persistent cookie remains on
your hard drive for an extended period of
time. Healthcareshopper.com does
not use persistent cookies.
Some of our business partners,
third parties like insurance carriers,
use
cookies. We have no access
to or control over these cookies. This privacy
statement covers the use of cookies by
Healthcareshopper.com only and does not cover
the use of cookies by any of our
business partners. |
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Anonymous
Information Anonymous
information is to broad demographic information that
does not personally identify you.
We gather anonymous information for our
internal purposes, and we may share this anonymous
information with third parties,
such as the number of visitors to our
website. We use anonymous information primarily for
marketing purposes and to improve the services we
offer you.
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Co-Branding
While navigating our
web site you may be directed to content or
functionality that we host on behalf of a
third party such as the
prescription discount section of the site. This
privacy statement does not
cover personal information collected on these pages.
On these pages the third
party is collecting your personal information and
their privacy
statement will be referenced on these pages. |
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Blogs
If you use
our
blog
site, you should be aware
that any personally identifiable information
you submit there can be read,
collected, or used by other users of these
forums, and could be used to send
you unsolicited messages. We are not
responsible for the personally
identifiable information you choose to submit
in these forums.
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Testimonials
If
we publish your testimonial on our site, you
should be aware that any
personally identifiable information you submit there
can be read, collected, or
used by other users of these forums, and could be
used to send you
unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for
the personally
identifiable information you choose to submit in
these testimonials. |
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Links HealthcareShopper.com contains links to other
sites. We are not responsible for the privacy
practices of such Web sites. We encourage you to
read the privacy statements of these linked sites as
their privacy policy may differ from ours.
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Legal
We reserve the
right to disclose your personally
identifiable information
as required by law and when we believe
that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights
and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court
order, or legal process served on our Web site. |
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Changes to Our
Privacy Policy If
we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post
those changes to this privacy statement, the
homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so
that you are aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any,
we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this
privacy statement at any time, so please review it
frequently. If we make material changes to this
policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by
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Correct or Update
HealthcareShopper.com gives you the following
options for changing and modifying information about
you regarding your application or to update your
contact information.
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1.You can send email to
service@healthcareshopper.com
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2.You can send mail to:
HealthcareShopper.com, 1891 South Coast
Hwy., Suite A, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
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3.You can call: 800-557-5693
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Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy
statement, our company policies and procedures or
your experience with HealthcareShopper.com, you can
contact:
HealthcareShopper.com
1891 South Coast Hwy., Suite A
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
privacy@healthcareshopper.com
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Last update 02/14/2007 |