Privacy Policy
Employee Health Benefits Privacy Policy
Protecting your privacy is very important to us. We’re telling you about our privacy policy so you know what information we collect, why we collect it, and what we do with it. This privacy notice is for employeehealthbenefits.com and other Healthcare sub domains such as. These sites are referred to as throughout the rest of this notice and are maintained and operated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This privacy notice aligns with the CMS Privacy Policy.
CMS, operating Employee Health Benefits, does not collect name, contact information, social security number or other similar information unless you choose to provide it. We do collect other limited information automatically from visitors who read, browse, and/or download information from our site. We do this so we can understand how the site is being used and how we can make it more helpful. See the Types of information we collect section below for more information.
Personally identifiable information (PII), defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), refers to information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, such as their name, social security number, biometric records, etc. alone, or when combined with other personal or identifying information which is linked or linkable to a specific individual, such as date and place of birth, mother’s maiden name, etc.
If you create a user account, fill out an application for health care coverage, and use other tools on the site (such as identity verification), CMS collects personally identifiable information. This information is collected in order to provide the services Employee Health Benefits is designed to offer – to compare health insurance plans based on costs, benefits, and other important features; to determine eligibility for health coverage and cost-sharing reductions; to choose a plan, and to enroll in coverage.
CMS does not sell any information entered into employeehealthbenefits.com For information on how we share information, see How CMS uses information collected using https://employeehealthbenefits.com
Sorts of data we gather
Data which is naturally gathered:
When you peruse
Certain data about your visit can be gathered when you peruse sites. When you peruse employeehealthbenefits.com, we, and now and again, our outsider specialist organizations can gather the accompanying sorts of data about your visit, including:
Space (for instance, comcast.com, in the event that you are utilizing a Comcast account) from which you got to the Internet
IP address (an IP or web convention address is a number that is naturally doled out to a gadget associated with the web)
Inexact geographic area in light of the IP address of the client’s neighborhood framework
Working framework (which is programming that coordinates a PC’s essential capacities, for example, executing programs and overseeing stockpiling) for the gadget that you are utilizing and data about the program you utilized when going to the site
Date and time of your visit
Pages you want to
Address of the site that associated you to Employeehealthbenefits.com, (for example, google.com or bing.com)
- Gadget sort (desktop PC, tablet, or kind of cell phone)
- Screen determination
- Program dialect
- Geographic area
- Time spent on page
- Parchment profundity – The measure of the amount of a website page was seen
- Client occasions (e.g. clicking a catch)
Cookies. Third parties may be placing or reading “cookies” on your web browser. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable its systems to recognize your browser. These cookies are persistent, identifying cookies that remember your information and link your activities to you. While you can take steps to warn off, block or disable these cookies, if you do, this website may not function and appear as it is designed. Nonetheless, if you want to take these steps, you can do so by following the instructions associated with your browser. These cookies collect information such as the following:
- the domain name and host from which you access the Internet and the Internet address of the site from which you direct-linked to ours;
- the date and time you access the website and pages you visit;
- your computer’s IP address and information about its operating system, platform and the web browser type and version you use;
- demographic and other non-personally identifiable profile information about you; and
- information to combat fraud or misuse
Collection of Information by Third Parties. This website may include third-party advertising, links to other websites, and other content from third party businesses. The content posted by these parties will be reasonably identifiable as coming from a third party. The operator of this website may share non-personally identifiable (e.g., demographic) information to facilitate delivery of relevant advertisements. These third-party websites, businesses, and advertisers, or advertising companies working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to deliver (or “serve”) the advertisements that appear on our website directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize or optimize advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other technologies that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites or businesses are not covered by this Privacy Policy but are covered by their respective privacy policies. Some, but not all, third party advertising companies provide a mechanism to opt-out of their technology. For more information and an identification of advertisers that provide an opt-out mechanism, please click the following: https://employeehealthbenefits.com/broker/