Privacy Statement

Illinois Self-Insurers Association is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Illinois Self-Insurers Association Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Illinois Self-Insurers Association website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information
Illinois Self-Insurers Association collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Illinois Self-Insurers Association also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Illinois Self-Insurers Association. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Illinois Self-Insurers Association for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Illinois Self-Insurers Association Web site.

We use “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of this site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use (as amended for government websites) and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.

Google Analytics employs cookies to define user sessions, which allows for the collection of data about how visitors are using the websites. Google Analytics uses only first-party cookies for data analysis. This means that the cookies are linked to a specific website domain, and Google Analytics will only use that cookie data for statistical analysis related to your browsing behavior on that specific website. According to Google, the data collected cannot be altered or retrieved by services from other domains.

We have also implemented Google Analytics feature Demographic and Interest Reporting based on Display Advertising to collect data from Google’s Interest based advertising or 3rd party audience data such as age, gender and interests to create, customize or modify content that attracts desired visitors and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Illinois Self-Insurers Association Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Illinois Self-Insurers Association public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Illinois Self-Insurers Association does not read any of your private online communications.

Illinois Self-Insurers Association encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Illinois Self-Insurers Association so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Illinois Self-Insurers Association is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Illinois Self-Insurers Association and Illinois Self-Insurers Association family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information
Illinois Self-Insurers Association collects and uses your personal information to operate the Illinois Self-Insurers Association Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Illinois Self-Insurers Association also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Illinois Self-Insurers Association and its affiliates. Illinois Self-Insurers Association may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Illinois Self-Insurers Association does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Illinois Self-Insurers Association may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Illinois Self-Insurers Association may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Illinois Self-Insurers Association, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Illinois Self-Insurers Association does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Illinois Self-Insurers Association keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Illinois Self-Insurers Association, in order to determine what Illinois Self-Insurers Association services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Illinois Self-Insurers Association to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Illinois Self-Insurers Association Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Illinois Self-Insurers Association or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Illinois Self-Insurers Association; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Illinois Self-Insurers Association, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Illinois Self-Insurers Association Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Illinois Self-Insurers Association pages, or register with Illinois Self-Insurers Association site or services, a cookie helps Illinois Self-Insurers Association to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Illinois Self-Insurers Association Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Illinois Self-Insurers Association features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Illinois Self-Insurers Association services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information
Illinois Self-Insurers Association secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Illinois Self-Insurers Association secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement
Illinois Self-Insurers Association will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Illinois Self-Insurers Association encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Illinois Self-Insurers Association is protecting your information.

Contact Information
Illinois Self-Insurers Association welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Illinois Self-Insurers Association has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Illinois Self-Insurers Association at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

Google Analytics Universal Privacy Policy Section by Wael Hassan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License and has been edited. Based on a work at transigram.com.

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