Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance does not read any of your private online communications.

Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance and Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance collects and uses your personal information to operate the Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance and its affiliates. Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance, in order to determine what Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance pages, or register with Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance site or services, a cookie helps Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Medicare Assurance - Your Choice - Our Guidance - Your Assurance at web@medicareassurance.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.