Privacy Policy
OVERVIEW
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.
APPLICABILITY OF HIPAA AND GLBA
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.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT / SOURCES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
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 |
|---|---|
| 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.
HOW WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may use or disclose the Personal Information that we collect for one or more of the following purposes:
- Operate the Platform;
- Communicate with you regarding the Platform;
- Contact Consumers through our employed agents regarding insurance and/or financial products in which the Consumer expressed interest;
- Address users’ and Consumers’ inquiries;
- Process transactions;
- Tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you;
- Analyze use of our products and services;
- Develop new products and services;
- Comply with legal obligations;
- Protect our rights, property, and safety or the rights, property, and safety of others; and
- Evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our customers is among the assets transferred. You hereby consent to such transfers and we may assign and transfer all of the rights, benefits, duties, and obligations of this Privacy Notice, under the circumstances described in this paragraph.
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.
HOW WE SHARE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may disclose all categories of Personal Information described above in “Personal Information We Collect” to the third parties listed below for the purpose of facilitating the sale of insurance and/or financial products to individuals who are interested in purchasing such products.
- With Our Service Providers. We may share Personal Information about Consumers and Agents with third parties who perform services for us or on our behalf. For example, this may include payment processors and companies that send emails on our behalf or other operating systems or platforms that help us run our services.
- With Our Business Partners. This includes our affiliates in the insurance or financial industry, insurance carriers, and any other entities that are involved in the sale of insurance or financial products such as marketing organizations that specialize in the insurance or financial industry.
- With Law Enforcement, Government Agencies, or Parties to a Legal Proceeding. We may share Personal Information with such entities to comply with the law or assist in law enforcement.
- With Our Independent Agents and Advisors. Agents and advisors have access to the Personal Information about Consumers that is provided by the Consumers when requesting information regarding insurance and/or financial products.
- With Data Analytics Providers and Advertising Service Providers.
- Third-party data analytics providers may collect Personal Information about users over time and across different websites, applications, and devices for the purposes of targeted advertising. These providers may collect Personal Information, specifically Internet or other similar network activity information, your input on the website, social media information, and/or commercial information in this manner on our Platform. For more information on these third parties, please see the below “Cookie Policy.”
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.
COOKIE POLICY
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.
