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Website Privacy Notice

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

Willis Towers Watson has been hired by your current or former employer who serves as the Plan Sponsor of the benefits for which you are eligible. We will provide this website and other benefits administration services. Your current or former employer as the Plan Sponsor for the benefits you are eligible for has hired Willis Towers Watson to provide this website and other benefits administration services. Willis Towers Watson cares about your privacy and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose information.

This Privacy Notice describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through this website; telephone service center; employer data import files; other third-party import files approved by the Plan Sponsor; mobile devices; and HTML-formatted email messages that may be sent to you (collectively, the "Services"). By providing Personal Information to us, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Notice.

Personal Information

"Personal Information" is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable person, including, but not limited to:

Name
Address
Social insurance number
Birth date
Gender
Telephone number
Email address
Hire date, and dates of other changes in employment status
Other information related to your benefit eligibility and election options

The information we collect is provided by the Plan Sponsor to confirm whether you, your spouse, and dependents are eligible for benefits. You may be asked to provide additional information about yourself, your spouse, your dependents, and beneficiary designations. You may also be asked to update or correct information about yourself, your spouse, or your dependents.

If you submit Personal Information relating to other people to us in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Notice. You represent that they consent to our collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information as disclosed in this Privacy Notice.

How We May Collect Personal Information

We and our service providers may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:

Through the Sponsor of the Applicable Plans: We may collect Personal Information on encrypted, periodic, data transmission files from the Plan Sponsor. For most participants, the sponsor is your current or former employer.
Through the Services: We may collect Personal Information through the Services; for example, when you process transactions through our online benefits portal.
Offline: We may collect Personal Information from you offline, such as when you contact the service center.
From Other Sources: You consent to us collecting your Personal Information from third-parties engaged by the Plan Sponsor as we reasonably require to provide benefits-related services. NOTE: A third-party's use of information you provide to the third-party shall be governed by the third-party's privacy notice. Our use of information received from the third-party shall be governed by this Privacy Notice.

How We May Use Personal Information

We may use Personal Information:

To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, including to process the transactions you request such as enrolling you in the insurance carrier(s) you select.
To generate your plan rates.
To send administrative information to you.
To track and record certain life status changes that enable you to make mid-year changes to your benefit elections.
To provide you with related customer service.
For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, enhancing, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, and operating and expanding our business activities.
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) as required by law; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, including you; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
For purposes of contacting you regarding the plan using an automated telephone dialing system and/or artificial or prerecorded voice.

How Personal Information May Be Disclosed

Your Personal Information may be disclosed or transferred:

To the Plan Sponsor (your employer): Limited information may be shared with the Plan Sponsor, including benefit elections; beneficiary information; and responses to questions to determine eligibility for certain benefits.
To vendor partners selected by the Plan Sponsor to allow them to provide you with services associated with your benefits. Use of your Personal Information by vendor partners is governed by the privacy policies of the Plan Sponsor or the vendor partner and not this Privacy Notice.
To our third-party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure, customer service, email delivery, and auditing.
To anyone to whom you send messages through the Services,
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) as required by law; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, including you; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
In connection with a prospective or completed merger or sale (including transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings) involving all or part of our business or as part of a corporate reorganization or stock sale or other change in corporate control.

OTHER INFORMATION

Other Information We May Collect

"Other Information" is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as:

Browser and device information
App usage data
Information collected through cookies and other technologies
Demographic information and other information provided by you
Aggregated information

If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Notice.

How We May Collect Other Information

We and our third-party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:

Through your browser or device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version, and the name and version of the Services you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.
Using cookies: Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other anonymous traffic data. We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, to personalize your experience while using the Services, and to recognize your computer in order to assist your use of the Services. We also gather statistical information about use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality, understand how they are used, and assist us with resolving questions regarding them. If you disable cookies on the site, the site may not function properly.
Analytics: We may use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google's practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/?partners/, and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
IP Address: Your IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP address may automatically be identified and logged in our server log files whenever you, as a user, access the Services. This log may include the time and the page(s) visited. We use IP addresses to calculate usage levels, derive your approximate location, diagnose server problems, and administer the Services. We do not use IP addresses for identification or direct marketing purposes. Collecting IP addresses is a standard industry practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications, and other services.
From you: Information such as your preferred means of communication is collected when you voluntarily provide it.
By aggregating information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Services (for example, we may aggregate Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code).

How We May Use and Disclose Other Information

We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except as provided under applicable law. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information. If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.

If you have provided us with Personal Information, we may associate that information with the information about your usage of our site that is collected automatically.

THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

We may include links in the Services to websites for third parties, such as government agencies, carriers, and health and wellness providers. When you access these links, you will be leaving the Services and your usage of those third-party sites will be governed by the privacy policies of such third parties, not by this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Services may link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service, by us or by our affiliates.

SECURITY

We seek to use reasonable organizational, physical, technical, and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization against loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, destruction, theft or unauthorized access, copying, use, alteration, destruction or disclosure. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of your account has been compromised), please immediately notify us in accordance with the "Contacting Us" section below.

CHOICES AND ACCESS

Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information

By agreeing with this Privacy Notice, you are providing us with consent to collect, process, use and disclose your Personal Information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Notice.

Our standard process is to send information regarding your benefits and other communications electronically via email or our online portal. You may request to receive communications by paper mail in accordance with the "Contacting Us" section below.

How you can access or change your Personal Information

If you would like to review, correct, or update Personal Information that we may be processing in as a service provider, you may do so by contacting your Human Resources contact or accessing your employer’s online benefits portal. If you reside in Canada, you have the right to request access to any additional information that we hold about you, subject to limited exceptions set out under applicable law. If you think any of the information we hold about you is inaccurate, you may also request a correction. To exercise these rights, please email or write to us at the address set out in in the “Contacting Us” section of this Privacy Notice.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began before you requested the change.

RETENTION PERIOD

We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS

Because of the nature of our business, we do not solicit or intentionally receive information from children under the age of 13, except that we do collect information regarding dependent children that pertains to their benefits coverage and to beneficiary designations. Parents and legal guardians are permitted to provide us with information about their children.

CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER

Your Personal Information may be collected, stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers. By using the Services you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have laws and data protection rules that are different from those of your country. While your information is in another jurisdiction it may be accessed by the local courts, law enforcement and national security authorities. To receive information regarding our policies and procedures with respect to service providers in different countries, please email or write to us at the address set out in in the “Contacting Us” section of this Privacy Notice.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (for example, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background, or trade union membership) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We may change this Privacy Notice. The "Last Updated" legend at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Notice was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Notice. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Notice.We strongly encourage you to refer to this Privacy Notice often for the latest information about our personal information practices.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or how your Personal Information may be used or disclosed, please contact us at privacy@willistowerswatson.com, or call toll-free at 888-471-4502.

Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your emails to us.

For all other inquiries, refer to the Contact Us information available on this website or customer service contact information provided by your Plan Sponsor.