Compliance & Integrity
Brighton Health Plan Solutions (“BHPS”) is founded on basic principles of ethical and legal business behavior. Among these principles are a commitment to the highest standard of business ethics and integrity, and strict observance of and compliance with the laws and regulations governing the business operations of BHPS and its subsidiaries. BHPS demands that all Company directors, officers and employees adhere to the highest legal and ethical standards to ensure and reinforce the Company′s status as a responsible corporate citizen and to maintain the utmost confidence of the Company′s customers, providers, employees and the public in its honesty and integrity.
In order to effect BHPS's commitment to the highest legal and ethical standards and establish an environment that promotes legal and ethical behavior, BHPS has adopted an Ethics and Compliance Program, which includes a "Code of Ethics and Standards of Business Conduct" ("the Code"). The Code incorporates the Company′s core values of integrity, responsibility, mutual respect, and corporate citizenship. These core values are the foundation of the requirements of the Code, all Company policies and procedures and the behavioral expectations for every employee of the Company. The Code is intended to reinforce, on a day-to-day basis, the Company′s commitment to a working environment, which encourages and requires ethical behavior, maintains the Company′s high standards for integrity and honesty and demonstrates the Company′s strong commitment to ethical and lawful conduct. The policy of BHPS is to deter the occurrence of unethical or unlawful behavior, to detect as early as possible such behavior whenever it occurs using, among other methods, a compliance hotline, to appropriately disclose such behavior to authorities and to actively and fully cooperate in any criminal investigation or regulatory inquiry undertaken by those authorities. To learn more about the Code, write to BHPS′s Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at BHPS's corporate offices located at 1600 Stewart Avenue, Suite 700, Westbury, NY 11590.
As resources to all aspects of our business, the Ethics and Compliance Program and the Code each dictate absolute compliance by its directors, officers, employees, agents, vendors and subcontractors with all ethical requirements, laws and regulations relevant to our business operations. In addition, BHPS continues to assist its clients in their compliance efforts, including as they pertain to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
Legal & Privacy
Brighton Health Plan Solutions (“BHPS”) 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 BHPS Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the BHPS website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
BHPS collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. BHPS 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 BHPS. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by BHPS for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the BHPS Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through BHPS public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: BHPS does not read any of your private online communications.
BHPS encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from BHPS so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. BHPS is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the BHPS and BHPS family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
BHPS collects and uses your personal information to operate the BHPS Web site and deliver the services you have requested. BHPS also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from BHPS and its affiliates. BHPS may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
BHPS does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. BHPS 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, BHPS 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 BHPS, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
BHPS does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
BHPS keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within BHPS, in order to determine what BHPS services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within BHPS to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
BHPS 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 BHPS or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of BHPS; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of BHPS, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The BHPS 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 BHPS pages, or register with BHPS site or services, a cookie helps BHPS 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 BHPS Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the BHPS 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 BHPS services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
BHPS secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. BHPS 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
BHPS will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. BHPS encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how BHPS is protecting your information.
Contact Information
BHPS welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that BHPS has not adhered to this Statement, please contact BHPS at . We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.