We know how important privacy is to your
business. Because of our interest in protecting your privacy and the privacy of
your members, we have adopted the following privacy principles:
1 - Recognition of Your
Expectation of Privacy. We recognize that you expect
privacy and security. We understand the need to safeguard sensitive information
about your members that you have entrusted to us. We maintain standards and
procedures designed to prevent misuse of this information.
2 - Our Collection, Retention, and Use of Information about Your Members.
We collect, retain and use information about your members
only when we have received this information from you with the express intention
to provide a service that you have requested. We collect and retain information
about your members only for specific business purposes. We will tell you why we
are collecting and retaining it upon your request.
3 - Limiting Employees Access to Information.
We have
procedures in place limiting access to your members’ information to those
employees with a business reason to know such information. We enforce this
through standard operating procedures and our policies on ethics. We take
appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce privacy responsibilities.
4 - Security Procedures to Protect Information.
We
maintain security standards and procedures to help prevent unauthorized access
to confidential information about your members. We update and test our
technology to improve the protection of your information and to assure the
integrity of our information.
5 - Restrictions on Disclosing Information to Third Parties.
We do not disclose to third parties or affiliates any information
about your members unless (1) you request or authorize it, or (2) the disclosure
is lawfully required.
6 - Restrictions on Interfacing with Members.
We do
not interface directly with your members for any reason. We will not accept any
information or requests from your members. We will not provide any advice,
support, or training to your members.