This Privacy Notice describes the information collection, use, and disclosure practices with respect to American Senior Benefits (“we,” “us”, “our,” or the “Company”) and its website,www.americanseniorbenefits.com, and any other websites or platforms that the Company may create in the future (the “Platform”).
The purpose of the Platform is to provide information and tools to licensed insurance agents and prospective insurance agents (“Agents”). We also receive information about individuals who are interested in insurance or financial products (“Consumers”) and make such information available to licensed insurance agents who assist individuals with the purchase of the products. We may also work with “Lead Vendors” – companies that collect inquiries from Consumers and pass such inquiries to Agents and Company representatives. Lead Vendors must obtain appropriate consent from Consumers to be contacted regarding specific products before providing us with such Consumers’ information.
This Privacy Notice uses the term “Personal Information” to describe information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.
Since we facilitate the sale of a diverse range of insurance products, our processing of some information on behalf of our agents may fall under another state or federal regulatory framework, like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) and related state laws, or the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”) and related state laws.
Specifically, we act as a Business Associate (as defined by HIPAA) if we receive client Protected Health Information (“PHI”) from lead vendors or on behalf of a health plan that is a Covered Entity (as defined by HIPAA). In our role as a Business Associate we collect, use, and disclose PHI to provide services for or on behalf of health plans. For more information about how PHI is used and disclosed, please review the applicable health plan’s Notice of Privacy Practices.
When we receive client information pertaining to certain insurance or financial products, we may collect non-public personal financial information, which is regulated by GLBA. For more information about how non-public personal financial information is used and disclosed, please review the GLBA Notice provided by the financial institution that issued the clients’ policies or products.
This Privacy Notice applies to personal information that is not covered by HIPAA or GLBA.
The table below details the categories of Personal Information that we may collect or obtain through the operation of the Platform. In addition to the sources listed below, we may collect this information from third-party service providers or vendors, including data analytics providers.
Category | Examples & Sources |
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Contact Information | Consumers’ and Agents’ name, phone number, and email address, as well as Consumers’ postal address. We may collect this information about Consumers from Lead Vendors, Agents, insurance carriers, data brokers, and agencies. We collect this information about Agents from Agents or marketing organizations in the Agents’ product sale hierarchy. |
Login Credentials | This includes username and password* when Agents or Consumers choose to create an account with us. |
Identification Information* | Agents’ National Producer Number and Social Security number. We collect this information from Agents when they begin working with us. Consumers’ driver’s license, Social Security, and/or similar government-issued identification numbers. We collect this information about Consumers provided in the course of discussions with an Agent or representative, which is relevant to the processing of an application for an insurance or financial product. |
Demographic Information* | Consumers’ age, date of birth, marital status, language preference, ethnicity, race, and sex or gender. We collect this information about Consumers when Lead Vendors, insurance carriers, Agents, data brokers, or agencies provide it to us. |
Health Information* | Consumers’ health information provided in the course of discussions with an Agent or representative, which is relevant to the processing of an application for an insurance or financial product. For example, notes about a Consumer may state that the Consumer has diabetes, as is relevant for an application for a life insurance product. |
Sensory Information | Audio recordings of Consumer conversations with representatives and Agents in connection with inquiries regarding insurance and/or financial products. We may also have access to video snippets of user website activity evidencing consent to be contacted. This information is collected from Lead Vendors, Agents, insurance carriers, and agencies. |
Commercial Information | We collect information about the products requested by Consumers, including information entered into insurance and/or financial product applications, as provided by you, a Lead Vendor, Agent, data brokers, insurance carriers, advertising and/or social media networks, or an agency. We also collect information regarding your purchase of insurance and/or financial products, including the type of product purchased and the corresponding carrier. |
Internet or Other Similar Network Activity | Automatically collected information on users’ interaction with the Platform. This may include your browsing history (including the site you came from before visiting our website and the site you went to after leaving our website), duration of browsing session, device ID, and IP address. We may also collect this information from advertising networks. |
Geolocation Data | We collect geolocation, which may include precise geolocation,* from users. We automatically collect this information from you and may also collect this from advertising networks. |
Educational and Professional Information | We collect from data brokers Personal Information about Consumers’ educational background, profession, income, product preference, consumer behavior, and asset ownership. This information is used for offline marketing. We also collect this information from Agents when they begin working with us. |
Some or all of the types of Personal Information marked with an asterisk (*) may be considered “sensitive” personal information according to some state laws.
We may also partner with financial processors or payment vendors to provide services to Agents on the Platform.
We do not collect biometric information.
Your information may be provided to us by your spouse or other family member.
From time to time, we may contact users via email and mail, for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email or mail from us, you may opt-out of such communications by contacting us at the toll-free number or email address listed below.
We may also contact Agents, Consumers, and other users via text messaging, but only if such individuals opt-in to receive text messages and only within the scope of such consent.
We may partner with these third parties to tailor and customize our advertising to Users. The practice of targeted advertising may be considered a “sale” of Personal Information under some state laws. For more information about your choices related to this practice, please see “Your State Privacy Rights” below.
The website on which the Platform is hosted may use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and similar technologies to track and enhance user experience, including technologies placed on the website by third parties, such as advertising network partners. Users’ web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience on our website. We may use the following types of cookies: advertising and analytics and social media.
You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, some parts of the Platform may not function properly. Our Platform does not recognize “Do Not Track” signals, but it may recognize other opt-out preference signals, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC). You may set such a signal through your browser or browser extension.
Senior Insurance Brokers, LLC has licensed insurance agencies that are certified to sell Medicare products. SIB is a non-government website and is not endorsed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), or any other government agency.
We do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently, we represent 0-220 organizations that offer 0-2613 products in your area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-MEDICARE, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.
The exact carrier and plan counts are determined by your zip code and county.
To send a complaint to Medicare, call 1-800-MEDICARE (TTY users should call 1- 877-486-2048), 24 hours a day/7 days a week). If your complaint involves a broker or agent, be sure to include the name of the person when filing your grievance. For a complete list of available plans please contact 1-800-MEDICARE (TTY users should call 1- 877-486-2048), 24 hours a day/7 days a week, or consult Medicare.gov.
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