Healthfirst, Inc. is a not-for-profit health insurer that offers high-quality, affordable plans to fit every life stage for its New York member base. We value your relationship with us and are proud to respect your privacy and protect your personal information.
This website is owned, operated, licensed, and controlled by Healthfirst, Inc. (“Healthfirst,” and together with Healthfirst, Inc., “Healthfirst”, “we,” “us,” or “our”). This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) describes the types of personal information we collect from our plan members (“Members”), website visitors, and other individuals (collectively, “you”) when they visit our website at https://healthfirst.org and all related websites and applications (collectively, our “Sites”), as well as over the course of providing our member benefits and other products and services, whether that personal information is collected online, via other electronic communications or telephone, in paper correspondence, or in person (collectively, the “Services”). This Policy also describes how we use your personal information, under what circumstances we may share it and with whom, and your rights and choices.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual. It does not include publicly available information or information that has been de-identified or aggregated.
Please note that your health and medical information and other personal information collected for purposes of providing healthcare or managing your health insurance are regulated by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and similar federal and state laws (collectively “protected health information”), including the privacy and security protections of those laws. Accordingly, this Policy does not pertain to protected health information. Any coverage of protected health information in this Policy is incidental and provided merely to enhance your understanding of our data collection and use practices and does not waive or override our obligations under other laws. Please visit https://healthfirst.org/privacy-notices for more information regarding our collection and use of protected health information. To the extent your use of the Sites are subject to a separate agreement, in the event of a conflict between that agreement and this Policy, the agreement will govern.
This Policy also does not apply to third-party sites, products, or services, even if they link to our Sites or Services, and we encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party site with which you choose to interact. Where links to third-party sites are integrated in our Sites or Services, we will make every effort to clearly mark them as such.