Notice of Web Site Privacy Practices
Wellmark's Mission
This is the Web site of Wellmark, Inc. We understand and respect your
concern about the privacy of information. We recognize your need for protection
and management of personally identifiable information you share with us
(such as name, address, and telephone number). Wellmark offers its Web
site privacy practices below to:
· Demonstrate our commitment to your privacy
· Help you understand the care with which we intend to treat your
information
· Assure you that we take reasonable steps to see that these practices
are followed
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-Administrative Simplification (HIPAA-AS)
HIPAA-AS focuses on:
- Protecting workers who changed jobs against loss of health insurance coverage or from being subject to new health insurance coverage exclusions for pre-existing medical conditions.
- Provisions addressing health care fraud and abuse
- Revisions to the federal tax code A
- Administrative simplification
Wellmark has completed implementation of these requirements. Please reference the HIPAA-AS Resource Center on this site for more information.
Web Site Privacy Statement
This notice of Web site privacy practices pertains to, and governs, only
information Wellmark collects from you through this Web site. It does
not pertain to, or govern, Wellmark's collection, use, storage or protection
of any personal information you submit to us via any other means, including,
without limitation, by phone, e-mail other than through this Web site,
and the U.S. Mail. Wellmark cannot control the privacy policies of Web
sites you may access through this Web site that are not owned or operated
by Wellmark. In order to determine the privacy practices of those Web
sites, you must refer to the privacy policies, if any, associated with
those Web sites.
Use of Personal Information from the Web
In general, you can visit wellmark.com without telling us who you are
or revealing any personal information about yourself. We track the Internet
address of the domains from which people visit us and analyze this data
for trends and statistics, but the individual user remains anonymous.
The information we collect and analyze is used to improve our service
to you. If you provide information to Wellmark through one of its Web
site applications, that information shall be used in the normal course
of business to provide services to you or on your behalf. The information
will not be shared with any non-affiliated third party, other than for
health care payment, treatment, or operations.
Change in Web Site Privacy Practices
Wellmark reserves the right to make changes to its Web site privacy practices
and the terms of this notice at any time, in its sole discretion. Before
Wellmark makes a significant change in its Web site privacy practices,
we will change this notice and post it on this site at the time of the
change. Wellmark reserves the right to make the new terms effective for
all personal information which Wellmark maintains, including personal
information that we created or received before Wellmark made the changes.
This notice is not intended to and does not create any contractual or
other legal right in or on behalf of any party, including you. Wellmark
recommends that you revisit this notice from time to time to determine
what, if anything, has changed since your last visit.
Accuracy
We do our best to maintain the accuracy of personal information you supply
to us; we are working on tools that will allow you to review and update
your information in the future.
Commitment
We are committed to privacy and are dedicated to preserving your privacy
rights on the Internet. If you have any comments or questions regarding
our Web site privacy practices, please contact us at InternetTeam@wellmark.com.
We will address any issue to the best of our abilities.
Thank you for your support of these practices and of Wellmark, Inc.
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