Thank you for visiting Benefits.com (the “Site”), which is owned and operated by Benefits Media, a limited liability company (“Benefits”). Benefits Media takes privacy and transparency very seriously. Please read the following Benefits.com Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) to understand how your personal information will be collected and treated as you make full use of the Site.
Your Acceptance of this Privacy Policy/Modifications to this Privacy Policy
You agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy when you: (a) access the Site; (b) access links to our social media pages on third party social media websites, such as Facebook®, Twitter® and YouTube® (“Social Media Pages”); and/or (c) submit a request form (“Application Services” and together with Site, Content and Social Media Pages, the “Benefits Offerings”) to be contacted by Benefits Media, and Benefits.com. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. Subject to the conditions set forth below, all changes to this Privacy Policy will take effect immediately upon their posting to the Site. Please check this page periodically for changes. If you do not agree to these terms or future changes, please immediately exit the Site and do not use the Benefits Offerings. If the manner in which we use personally identifiable information changes, Benefits will notify users by: (i) sending the modified policy to our users via email; and/or (ii) by any other reasonable means acceptable under applicable state and federal law. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner, and we will only use your information in this different manner where you opt-in to such use.
Benefits.com and its Services are not substitutes for the federal or local governmental services and resources available to you. Benefits.com is in no way or fashion sponsored, sanctioned, endorsed or affiliated with any federal or local governmental agency or offices. Benefits.com is in no way or fashion an agent of any federal of local governmental agency and Benefits.com does not provide its Services on behalf of any governmental body or office.
You understand that this Site or its products are not endorsed or affiliated with any government entity, including any federal, state, county, city department, bureau, division, association, or agency. By using the acronyms “SSD”, “SSA”, and “SSDI” or the phrases “Social Security” or “Social Security Disability” we are not claiming any affiliation with any government run agency.
Benefits Media strives to keep its documents, study guides, test materials, checklists and developed forms accurate, current and up to date. However, because the law changes rapidly, Benefits cannot guarantee that all of the information on the Site is completely current, correct or up to date. Furthermore, the information contained on the Site is not legal advice and is not guaranteed to be correct, complete or up to date. Benefits is not a law firm, and the employees of Benefits Media are not acting as your attorney.
Benefits will not check the accuracy of the information that you provide. You are responsible to ensure that the information provided to Benefits is accurate with respect to both detail, spelling and grammar and you represent to Benefits that your submissions are accurate and ready for use as submitted.
Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a resident of the State of California and would like to learn how your “personal information” (as defined in the Shine the Light Law, Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83) is shared with third-parties, what categories of personal information that we have shared with third-parties in the preceding year, as well as the names and addresses of those third-parties, please contact us at: service@benefits.com.
Further, if you are a resident of the State of California and would like to opt-out from the disclosure of your personal information to any third-party for marketing purposes, please contact us at: service@benefits.com. Please be advised that where California State residents opt-out from permitting their personal information to be shared, such individuals may still receive selected offers directly from us, in accordance with applicable law.
Informed Consent to Be Contacted by Telephone
By registering on the Site, you agree that such act constitutes an inquiry and/or application for purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 CFR §310 et seq.), as amended from time to time (the “Rule”) and applicable state do-not-call regulations. As such, notwithstanding that your telephone number may be listed on the Federal Trade Commission’s Do-Not-Call List, and/or on applicable state do-not-call lists, we (and the Advocates along with the Marketing Partners) retain the right to contact you via telemarketing (where you supply your telephone number to us) in accordance with the Rule and applicable state do-not-call regulations.
In addition, where you provide “prior express written consent” within the meaning of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (47 USC § 227), and its implementing regulations adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (47 CFR § 64.1200), as amended from time-to-time (“TCPA”), you consent to receive telephone calls, including artificial voice and pre-recorded messages and/or calls delivered via automated technology, MMS messages, and SMS messages to the telephone number(s) that you provided, even if that number is a wireless number or on any federal or state do-not-call list. You understand and agree that this consent applies even if your telephone number is a wireless number. You further acknowledge and agree that you are not required to consent to the above-stated terms to gain access to the Benefits Offerings.
Collection of Personal Information
We collect your personally identifiable information when you utilize the Application Services and other Benefits Offerings featured on the Site. We may also collect your personally identifiable information when you otherwise agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, but do not complete the applicable registration process in full. The types of personally identifiable information that we collect at the Site and/or when you utilize the Application Services include, without limitation: (a) your full name; (b) mailing address; (c) home and mobile telephone numbers; (d) email address; (e) age; (f) gender; (g) whether you are a U.S. citizen; (h) preferred and alternate contact methods; (i) highest educational level attained; (j) details of your disability; (k) 10 year work history; (l) medical history; (m) whether you served in the military; (n) year graduated from high school; and/or (o) any other information requested on the applicable application.
Collection of Anonymous Information and Cookies
If you do not provide us with any of your Personal Information, we are limited in the information that we may collect from you. For example, we may be able to determine your IP address when you access the Site for the purposes of administering the Benefits Offerings and tracking Benefits Offerings usage. However, your IP address may vary each time you visit the Site or it may remain the same depending on the type of Internet connection you are using or the location from which you access the Site. We may also collect information about the websites that directed you to the Site after you clicked on a text or banner link or an ad from another website, or the day and time you visited the Site and how long you spent on the Site. We aggregate such information to help us to compile reports as to trends and other behavior about users of the Benefits Offerings; however, such information is anonymous and cannot be tied directly to you.
We may also use “cookies” to enhance your experience with the Benefits Offerings and to provide you with personalized offers. A cookie is a small data file placed on your computer’s hard drive that contains information that allows us to track your activity in connection with the Benefits Offerings. To find out more about Cookies, please visit www.cookiecentral.com. The cookie itself does not contain any personal information; however, if you provide us with any personal information, the cookie may act as an identifier to tie your personal information to your IP address or computer. The Site’s cookies cannot be used to read data from your hard drive and cannot retrieve information from any other cookies created by other websites. Additionally, our cookies cannot be used as a virus, Trojan horse, worm or any other malicious tool that could impair your use of your computer. You may choose to delete cookies from your computer’s hard drive at any time, or to disable cookies on your computer, by following the instructions associated with your Internet browser. If you delete cookies that relate to the Site, we may not be able to identify you upon your return to the Site. Additionally, if you disable your computer’s cookies, you may not be able to access certain features of the Benefits Offerings that require that cookies be enabled. We reserve the right to retain cookie data indefinitely.
We reserve the right to transfer and the aforementioned anonymous, aggregate and/or group data about our users for lawful purposes.
Benefits Media and Third Party Behavioral Tracking/Do Not Track
We also share Site usage information with third parties interested in running targeted promotional campaigns on the Site. For this purpose, us and our advertisers track some of the pages that you visit on the Site through the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs).
Additionally, we may use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements when you visit the Site. These advertising companies may use information about your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, visit http://networkadvertising.org. Google, as a third-party advertising provider, uses a cookie known as the “DART cookie” to serve ads. Google’s and DoubleClick’s use of the DART cookie enables them to serve ads to you based on your visit to the Site and other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting these advertising privacy policies.
In addition, if you select the “Do Not Track” or similar option within the following Internet browsers Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, we will not track your Site usage.
Information Sharing, Use and Disclosure
The personal information that you submit to Benefits remains your property, but by submitting your personal information to Benefits , you grant us the right to use your personal information for marketing purposes including, but not limited to, lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation, email marketing, and telemarketing.
We will also use your personal information for customer service, to provide you with information that you may request, to customize your experience on the Site and/or to contact you when necessary in connection with transactions entered into by you on the Site. We may also use your personal information for internal business purposes, such as analyzing and managing the Benefits Offerings.
We also reserve the right to release current or past user information in the event that we believe that the user is using, or has used, the Benefits Offerings: (a) in violation of the Benefits.com Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy or any other of our operating rules, policies, price schedules and other supplemental terms and conditions or documents that may be published by us from time to time; (b) to commit unlawful acts; (c) if such information is subpoenaed; provided, however, that, where permitted by applicable law, we shall provide you with e-mail notice, and opportunity to challenge the subpoena, prior to disclosure of any personal information pursuant to a subpoena; (d) if we are sold or acquired; provided, however, that if we are involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of all or a portion of our assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on the Site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices that you may have regarding your personal information; and/or (e) when we deem it necessary or appropriate including, without limitation, sharing your e-mail address with other third parties for suppression purposes in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended from time to time, and Federal Trade Commission implementing regulations. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, we reserve the right to share, and/or otherwise distribute any and all personal information with/to any third party for any and all uses permitted by this Privacy Policy and applicable law.
Sharing Your Information with Our Service Providers
We hire third-party service providers to execute specific functions on our behalf. Examples include conducting marketing campaigns via email, direct mail, telemarketing, SMS text-messaging, removing duplicate information from customer lists, analyzing data and providing marketing analysis. While performing these services, our service providers may have access to your personal information as needed to complete their functions for us.
Security
We endeavor to safeguard and protect our users’ personal information. When users make personal information available to us, their personal information is protected both online and offline (to the extent that we maintain any personal information offline). The privacy of your personal information is very important to us.
Access to your personal information is strictly limited, and we take reasonable measures to ensure that your personal information is not accessible to the public. The servers that we store personal information on are kept in a secure physical environment. We also have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of personal information under our control. Please be advised, however, that while we take every reasonable precaution available to protect your data, no storage facility, technology, software, security protocols or data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Computer hackers that circumvent our security measures may gain access to certain portions of your personal information, and technological bugs, errors, and glitches may cause inadvertent disclosures of your personal information; provided, however, that any attempt to breach the security of the network, our servers, databases or other hardware or software may constitute a crime punishable by law. For the reasons mentioned above, we cannot warrant that your Personal Information will be absolutely secure. Any transmission of data at or through the Site is at your own risk.
All of our users’ personal information is restricted in our offices. Only employees or third party agents who need the personal information to perform a specific job are granted access to personal information. Our employees are dedicated to ensuring the security and privacy of all user personal information. Employees not adhering to our firm policies are subject to disciplinary action. In compliance with applicable federal and state laws, we shall notify you and any applicable regulatory agencies in the event that we learn of an information security breach with respect to your personal information. You will be notified via e-mail in the event of such a breach. Please be advised that notice may be delayed in order to address the needs of law enforcement, determine the scope of network damage, and to engage in remedial measures.
Opting Out
This Privacy Policy describes the potential ways that we may use and share your personal information. If you do not agree to our potential uses of your personal information as we have described in this Privacy Policy, you are not required to provide your Personal Information to us. In addition, to opt-out of having your information shared with third parties, please email us at: info.com. To opt-out of receiving e-mail advertising, SMS text-based marketing (where and to the extent permitted by applicable law), telemarketing and direct mail marketing from us, you can follow the instructions at the end of the applicable marketing message or email us at: services@benefits.com.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may continue to contact you for the purpose of communicating information relating to your use of any Benefits Offerings and to respond to any inquiry or request made by you. To opt-out of receiving Benefits Offerings-related and inquiry response-related messages from Benefits, you must cease utilizing the Benefits Offerings and submitting inquiries to Benefits, as applicable.
Deleting and Updating Your Information
At your request, we will inform you of what personal information we have on file for you. In addition, at your request, we will remove and/or modify the personal information that you have provided to us, or that we have collected. You may do so by contacting us via e-mail at: service@benefits.com; provided, however, that we ask individuals to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes).
Please be advised that deleting your personal information will terminate your access to some or all of the Benefits Offerings. If you wish to continue using the Benefits Offerings, you may not delete the personal information that we have on file for you.
Please be further advised that, after you delete your personal information, residual copies may take a period of time before they are deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems. In addition, this deletion will not change or delete personal information, which may have already been shared with third parties, all as provided above in this Privacy Policy. You will need to contact the third parties that contact you directly to change your preferences regarding their use of your personal information.
Minors
Visitors under eighteen (18) years of age are not permitted to use and/or submit their personal information at the Site. Benefits Media does not knowingly solicit or collect information from visitors under eighteen (18) years of age. Benefits Media encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate and monitor the interactive activities of their children.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices or legal issues pertaining to the Benefits Offerings or your use of the Benefits Offerings, please contact us:
Benefits Media LLC
699 Industrial Ave
Isabela, PR 00662
service@benefits.com
