Privacy Policy — New York Alliance

NEW YORK ALLIANCE AGAINST INSURANCE FRAUD WEBSITE PRIVACY STATEMENT AND COOKIE POLICY

This Privacy Statement and Cookie Policy is intended to summarize the New York Alliance Against Insurance Fraud (“NYAAIF”) data protection practices and to generally advise website visitors, and other third parties about the NYAAIF’s privacy policies that may be applicable to them. The NYAAIF is dedicated to providing reasonable safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of website visitors’ private and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies website visitors outside the NYAAIF, as that term is defined under applicable law). The NYAAIF does not guarantee that such safeguards will always work. This privacy statement relates to the collection and use of your information collected through this website (the “Website”). This Statement is also specifically addressed to parties outside the firm who provide Personal Information to NYAAIF or visit or use the NYAAIF’s website (collectively, the “Internet Services”). This Statement also describes how the NYAAIF collects, processes and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of Internet Services. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS THIS WEBSITE.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When accessing this Website, we may collect Personal Information, including but not limited to your name, address, email address and phone number. We may also automatically collect certain usage information when you use our Website, such as Internet Protocol addresses and other usage information collected from cookies and other tracking technologies.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use your information, including your Personal Information, for the following purposes, unless such use is prohibited by law:

(i) to improve, develop and/or enhance your experience with the NYAAIF website;

(ii) to carry out, monitor and analyze our website operations to provide you with services;

(iii) to communicate with you about our services or third-party services that may be of interest to you;

(iv) to personalize your user experience within the Website; and (v) to provide you with technical support or customer service.

ABOUT "COOKIES" AND THIRD PARTY SITES

Cookies are pieces of data stored on your device. Browser cookies are assigned by a web server to the browser on your device. When you return to a site you have visited before, your browser gives this data back to the server. The NYAAIF’s Internet Services use cookies. The NYAAIF uses cookies in connection with its Internet Services to provide you with customizations of your experience, track your activities on the Internet Services, to understand the number of unique users that have visited a specific page. Similarly, we may use or receive reporting from tracking scripts that recognize unique cookies issued by another website. These tracking scripts are not used to gather information on your use of the Internet unrelated to the NYAAIF, and they do not identify you unless you choose to provide Personal Information to the NYAAIF.

None of these cookies are strictly necessary to access our Internet Services. You may reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to allow your browser to alert you when a cookie is set, however, certain parts of the Internet Services may function differently and not as well. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our Internet Services will issue cookies when you logon to the firm’s Internet Services. For more information about how to manage your cookies preferences, you should use the “help” menu of your web browser or explore the customer support sections of your web browser. Please note that you need to configure each browser on each device that you use if you wish to opt-out or block some or all cookies.

Although the NYAAIF uses the services of third parties in connection with these cookies, we do not allow the third-party service provider to use Personal Information about the users of our Internet Services.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use “Google Analytics” in order to collect information about the use of this Website. Google Analytics is a service that collects information such as how often users visit the Website, what pages are visited and what other websites users visited before navigating to this Website. Google Analytics does not collect your name or other identifying information, but instead, only collects the IP address used by you when visiting this Website. Your IP address will only be used by us for the purpose of improving this Website and is never combined with personally identifiable information. When visiting our Website, Google Analytics places a cookie on your web browser in order to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit, and that cookie can only be used by Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics is limited by the Google Analytics Terms of Use as well as the Google Privacy Policy. If you wish to prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you as a unique visitor when you return to this Website, you may disable cookies on your browser.

SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION

On a periodic base, we may need to share your Personal Information with third-party service providers that perform services that enable us to operate this Website, perform analytics, and communicate with you. To the extent that we share your Personal Information with third-party service providers, our contracts with them will require them to maintain the confidentiality of the your Personal Information, only use such Personal Information based upon our instructions, and not use such Personal Information for any purpose other than the product or service they are providing to us or on our behalf.

In addition, to the extent required by law, we may share your Personal Information with law enforcement, courts or other governmental institution, such as to respond to a subpoena or court order.

Other than for the reasons identified above, we will provide you with written notice and the opportunity to choose whether or not your Personal Information is shared with others.

MANAGING YOUR PRIVACY

We will respect your choices in connection with how we communicate with you for the purposes of marketing. If you so not wish to receive marketing emails from us, you may click the "unsubscribe " link in the email we send.

DATA RETENTION

We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in the Statement and in our applicable policies.

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We provide reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards in connection with securing Personal Information we collect, and will comply with all applicable data protection and privacy statutes relating thereto.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT

We may change this Privacy Statement from time to time, and reserve the right to do so. If material changes are made to the way we process your Personal Information, notice will be provided to you by the updating of the “Last updated” date of this Privacy Policy. Any changes made to this Privacy Statement are effective immediately upon posting, and your use of the Website after subsequent to such posting shall constitute your consent to all changes.

COLLECTION AND USE OF CHILDREN'S PERSONAL INFORMATION

In order to respect the privacy of minors, the NYAAIF does not knowingly collect, maintain or process Personal Information submitted online via our Internet Services by anyone under the age of 18.

HOW TO CONTACT US

In connection with your right to manage the Personal Information that you provide to us, you may access, update, change, correct or request deletion of your information by contacting us at info@fraudny.com.