PRIVACY POLICY
Thanks for visiting HFSBenefits.com and reviewing our Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy is plain and simple. We collect NO personal information, such as names or addresses, when you visit our website. If you choose to provide personal information to HFS Benefits, your information is only used to fulfill your request. We do not sell any obtained personal information.
HFS Benefits complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), as amended, and it's implementing regulations (“the Privacy Rule”) which restricts the ability to use and disclose your protected health information ("PHI"). Under that law, you have the right to:
- restrict the use and request confidential communications
- request for alternative communication means or locations
- an accounting of disclosures of your PHI
- inspect and copy your PHI
- amend your PHI
HFS Benefits complies with the requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009, or the HITECH Act. This federal law requires HFS Benefits to utilize state of the art security programs to protect your health information maintained on our server. It also requires state of the art security programs to protect the transmission and destruction of your protected health information.
If You Send HFS Benefits Personal Information
If you choose to provide HFS Benefits with personal information — requesting information or submitting a claim to your flexible spending account — HFS Benefits will only use that information to respond to your request or to process your claim for benefits. HFS Benefits will never give or sell any of your information to any private organizations.
HFS Benefits Site Security
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. We also monitor visits for marketing analysis purposes.
Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
HFS Benefits Linking Policy
HFS Benefits links to websites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. HFS Benefits provides these links as a service to our users. When users link to an outside website, they are leaving the HFS Benefits site and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside website(s).
HFS Benefits does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness or completeness of information contained on a linked website.
HFS Benefits does not endorse the organizations sponsoring linked websites and we do not endorse the views they express or the products/services they offer.
HFS Benefits does not and cannot authorize the use of copyrighted materials contained in linked websites. Users must request such authorization from the sponsor of the linked website.
HFS Benefits is not responsible for transmissions users receive from linked websites.
HFS Benefits will not link to any website that exhibits hate, bias or discrimination. Furthermore, we reserve the right to deny or remove any link that contains misleading information or unsubstantiated claims, or is determined to be in conflict with HFS Benefits' omission or policies.