PRIVACY NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS
THIS NOTICE IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION. NO RESPONSE IS REQUIRED.
This Notice describes the privacy practices of American Exchange Life Insurance
Company, American Pioneer Life Insurance Company; American Progressive Life & Health
Insurance Company of New York; Constitution Life Insurance Company; Marquette
National Life Insurance Company; Pennsylvania Life Insurance Company; The Pyramid
Life Insurance Company; Union Bankers Insurance Company; SelectCare of Texas,
LLC; SelectCare Health Plans, Inc.; American Pioneer Health Plans, Inc.; Global
Health, Inc. and SelectCare of Oklahoma, Inc. ("we" or "us")
as wholly owned subsidiaries of Universal American, as well as the managed
care organizations owned or operated by Heritage Health Systems, Inc. (Abri
Health Plan, Inc.'s Medicare Advantage plans are administered by us).This
notice refers separately to each of the companies by using the terms "us," "we," or "our." This
notice describes our privacy policy and describes how we treat the information
we receive ("Information") about you.
Why We Collect and How We Use Information: We collect and use Information
for business purposes with respect to our insurance and other business relationships
involving you. These business purposes include evaluating a request for our insurance
or other products or services, evaluating benefit claims, administering our products
or services and processing transactions requested by you. We may also use Information
to offer you other products or services we provide.
How We Collect Information: We get most Information directly from you.
The Information that you give us when applying for our products or services generally
provides the Information we need. If we need to verify Information or need additional
Information, we may obtain Information from third parties such as adult family
members, employers, other insurers, consumer reporting agencies, physicians,
hospitals and other medical personnel. Information collected may relate to your
finances, employment, health, avocations or other personal characteristics as
well as transactions with us or with others.
How We Protect Information: We treat Information in a confidential manner.
Our employees are required to protect the confidentiality of Information. Employees
may access Information only when there is an appropriate reason to do so, such
as to administer or offer our products or services. We also maintain physical,
electronic and procedural safeguards to protect Information; these safeguards
comply with all applicable laws. Employees are required to comply with our established
policies.
Information Disclosure: We may disclose any Information when we believe
it necessary for the conduct of our business, or where disclosure is required
by law. For example, Information may be disclosed to others, including independent
agents who sell our products and services, to enable them to provide business
services for us, such as helping us to evaluate requests for insurance or benefits,
to perform general administrative activities such as maintaining existing accounts,
or to otherwise assist us in servicing or processing an insurance product or
service requested or authorized by you. Information may also be disclosed for
audit or research purposes, or to law enforcement and regulatory agencies, for
example, to help us prevent fraud. Information may be disclosed to others that
are outside of our family of companies, such as companies that process data for
us, companies that provide general administrative services for us, other insurers,
and consumer reporting agencies. We will make other disclosures of Information
as permitted by law.
Access to and Correction of Information: Generally, upon your written
request, we will make available Information for your review. Information collected
in connection with, or in anticipation of, any claim or legal proceeding will
not be made available. If you notify us that the Information is incorrect,
we will review it. If we agree, we will correct our records. If we do not agree,
you may submit a short statement of dispute, which we will include in any future
disclosure of Information.
Further Information: In addition to any other Privacy Notice we may provide,
federal law establishes privacy standards and requires us to provide this summary
of our privacy policy annually. You may have additional rights under applicable
laws. For additional Information regarding our Privacy Policies, please write
to us.