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Your Privacy Matters: Cookie Policy
CareFirst Holdings, LLC along with its affiliated companies (CareFirst) is committed to providing you the best service while protecting your information and respecting your right to privacy. This site uses cookies and other technologies to improve your experience and to assist us enhance and manage the electronic services we provide to you. This policy provides detailed information about how and when we use cookies and applies to any electronic service provided by CareFirst and its related entities.
How we use Cookies
- Authentication: Cookies help us identify you after you log into one of our services and allows us to personalize the features and information available to you.
- Security: We use cookies to help us detect malicious activity. We may collect information including your device’s IP address and geographic region based on your IP address or GPS location if location services are enabled.
- Performance and Analytic: We use cookies to monitor the performance of our products which helps us improve our offerings. CareFirst uses Google Analytics and Hubspot to monitor our services. More information about their cookie policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Controlling Cookie
Most browsers and devices allow you to control cookies through their settings or preferences. We will only store cookies on your devices if your settings allow. If cookies are disabled, we cannot personalize the services or features we offer and it may prevent you from saving customized settings like login information.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about our privacy policies, please contact us. We support your right to protect the privacy of your information. Our privacy policy is available online. To request a copy of our policies or to report a concern, please contact our Data Protection Officer or Privacy Office:
CareFirst
Privacy Office CT 10-03
10455 Mill Run Circle
Owings Mills, MD 21117
DataProtectionOffice@carefirst.com
Internet Privacy Policy
CareFirst Holdings, LLC and its affiliated companies (CareFirst) have policies and procedures to protect the confidentiality of customer and partner information. Below are general guidelines for how we handle your information. It is important to note that all records containing confidential data are handled and discarded in a way that is designed to protect the privacy and security of the information.
How We Secure Your Personal Information
CareFirst respects the need for security regarding your personal information. Whenever you provide personal information, your information will be protected using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. SSL is an industry standard that encrypts the information you provide, to avoid the decoding of that information by anyone other than CareFirst. This technology, however, does not absolutely guarantee the total privacy of information that has been provided to this site.
Information you submit directly to us will remain on our servers or those of our affiliates, secured by various industry approved technologies to prevent unauthorized access to your personal information.
Access to Our Site
If you are using our site from locations such as your place of employment, you may run into problems with firewalls that the system owner has established for security reasons. If this is the case, you may need to complete the information from your home computer where you can control your security settings.
Cookies
Like most commercial websites, we use cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to learn about how you use our website so that we can improve the quality of our services. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser.
p>Our cookies will not provide any personally identifiable information about you and do not allow us to gain access to other information on your computer.
Information We Collect
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you visit our site.
CareFirst’s servers automatically record information including your domain name, the IP address from which you entered our site, your browser type and language, the pages you visit on our site, and the date and time of your request.
We do not collect any information that can reveal your personal identity unless you voluntarily provide it, for example when you register for or login to a specific feature of our site.
You may decline to provide personal information to us, block pop-ups and/or refuse cookies in your browser. However, this may result in some of our features or services not functioning properly.
How We Use Your Information
Personally-identifiable information you give us will be used only to provide the service or information you have requested.
We do not sell information about you to any third party and we do not share it with third parties unless it is necessary to complete a request you have made, process a transaction for you, or to comply with the law.
We won't send you any unsolicited e-mail ("spam").
We may combine personal information collected from you with information from other CareFirst services or third parties to provide a better user experience, including customizing content for you.
Links to Other Sites
CareFirst may provide links to other websites not owned or controlled by CareFirst that might be useful or of interest to you. The privacy policy of that site may differ from CareFirst’s. Please review the privacy policy of any site before providing any personal information.
Links to other non-CareFirst websites do not constitute or imply endorsement by CareFirst of the websites, material, products or services described on those sites.
Not Medical Advice
The content on our site is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Seek the advice of your physician with any questions you have about a medical condition.
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