With regard to the website http://www.flmedicaidtplrecovery.com, we at HMS Holdings Corp. (HMS) are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information collected through your visits to this website (the “Site”). This online Privacy Policy sets forth our policies and practices with respect to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in connection with the Site. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact Alexandra Holt, HMS Chief Compliance Officer, at aholt@hms.com or 212-857-5337.
What is “Personal Information?” For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information that could identify you personally, such as your name, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, or photograph.
What Personal Information Is Collected Through the Site? We collect a limited amount of Personal Information, including names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses, from those users of the site who wish to receive information or services from us.
What Other Information Related to Users Is Collected Through the Website? In addition to the Personal Information we collect as described above, we log Site visitors’ Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (which identify computers or networks on the Internet), both for security reasons and to evaluate how our website is being used. We do not use IP addresses to identify individuals. But we may use IP addresses to transmit information to persons who have identified themselves to us as interested in receiving further communications and information, such as by filling out a form. We also collect aggregate numbers of page visits (sessions) in order to track the popularity of certain pages and improve the value of the Site. We also may use “cookies,” which are tiny pieces of data stored by a user’s browser that helps a website or service recognize that user’s unique computer. Most web browsers can be set to inform you when a cookie has been sent to you and provide you with the opportunity to refuse that cookie. However, you should be aware that refusing a cookie may, in some cases, preclude you from using, or negatively impact the display or function of, the Site.
How Is the Personal Information That Is Collected Used? We use the Personal Information we collect through the Site to provide individuals with timely information via e-mail regarding events, resources and issues of interest to them.
With Whom is the Personal Information That Is Collected Shared? It is our general policy not to make Personal Information available to anyone other than our employees, staff, contracted agents, and service providers. Our service providers use the Personal Information we share with them to assist us in sending authorized communications to Site registrants and other Site users who request to receive communications from us, including information on webinars we may host or financial or other reports on HMS Holdings Corp. and its affiliated companies.
What Choices Do You Have Regarding the Site’s Collection and Use of Your Personal Information? Other than browser information collected automatically (discussed above), which does not include Personal Information, you may chose whether to submit information to us. If you wish to register for our services or to receive notices or other information from us, we will need to collect from you the limited amount of Personal Information required to fulfill your requests. You may ask us to delete or correct inaccuracies in the Personal Information we have collected from you by contacting Alexandra Holt, HMS Chief Compliance Officer, at aholt@hms.com or 212-857-5337. And if you subscribe to our e-mail list, you may at any time request to be removed from the list by also contacting HMS’s Chief Compliance Officer.
Posting of Content: Certain portions of this Site may permit users to post messages, comments, or other content. Any such content represents the opinion of the poster only, and HMS Corp. bears no responsibility for or relationship to that content. You should not post any content:
- Which is profane, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable; or
- The transmission of which could violate, or facilitate the violation of, any applicable law, regulation or intellectual property rights.
You are solely responsible for the content of any postings you submit and we assume no responsibility or liability for any content submitted by you. We may, but are not obligated to, restrict or remove any and all content from a posting that we determine in our sole discretion violates these guidelines or is otherwise harmful to us, our customers or any third party. We reserve the right to purge the content you provide after 90 days of its posting, as well as the right to access, preserve, and disclose the content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, preservation or disclosure is required or permitted by law.
Children’s privacy: This Site is intended for use by individuals 18 years of age or older. We do not knowingly solicit or collect information from individuals under 18 years of age. If we learn that we have collected information from an individual under 18, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in and monitor the online activities of their children. If you believe we may have received information from an individual under age 18, please contact Alexandra Holt, HMS Chief Compliance Officer, at aholt@hms.com or 212-857-5337.
Information Security: We maintain a variety of physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect the privacy and security of your Personal Information. For example, we use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to our systems. Also, we restrict access to Personal Information to those who need such access in the course of their duties for us. We configure our list-server software not to divulge the email addresses of our list subscribers except to authorized persons, such as our service providers who assist with our communications to subscribers. However, we are not the author of this software and are not responsible for any failures in the software to preserve subscriber anonymity. And, while we aim to protect the security and integrity of all Personal Information collected through the Site, we cannot absolutely guarantee that any information transmitted through the Internet or stored in our systems will be completely safe from intrusion by unauthorized persons, such as hackers. In this regard, your own efforts to protect against unauthorized access play an important role in protecting the security of your personal information. For example, you should be sure to log off completely when finished using a computer, never share your passwords with others or store them where they could be accessed by others, and carefully guard any mobile devices in which you store any Personal Information, including website passwords.
Links to Other Websites: Our Site may provide links to other, non-HMS websites. We cannot control any such other websites and we are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of those websites. If you visit any of those other websites, please be sure to review their privacy policies, as this Privacy Policy will not apply to any collection, use, or disclosure of your information in connection with those other websites.
Changes to this policy: We may revise or update this Privacy Policy from time to time, as we develop better ways to serve our Site users. If we make any material revisions to the Privacy Policy, we will post a new version of the Policy and change the date at the bottom of the Policy (see below). Any revised version of the Policy will be effective as of the date of posting, so you should refer back to the Site often for the latest information. Your continued use of the Site following our posting of a new Privacy Policy will constitute your consent to the terms of the new Policy. However, absent your express agreement, changes to the Privacy Policy will not apply retroactively to Personal Information collected prior to our posting of the revised Policy incorporating those changes.
Updated: November 11, 2015