UFCW Employers Benefit Plans of Northern California Group Administration, LLC dba UFCW & Employers Trust, LLC (the "Trust Fund Office", "us" or "we") is concerned with your privacy when you visit this website, just as we are concerned with your privacy in all of your dealings with the Trust Fund Office and the Trust Funds: UFCW & Employers Benefit Trust, UFCW Comprehensive Benefits Trust, UEBT/UCBT Retiree Health Plan, UFCW Northern California and Drug Employers Health and Welfare Fund, UFCW - Northern California Employers Joint Pension Trust Fund, UFCW - Northern California Food Employers Joint Individual Account Trust Fund, UFCW Pharmacists, Clerks and Drug Employers Pension Plan, and Retail Clerks Specialty Stores Pension Fund (collectively, the "Trust Funds"). While visiting this website, you may have the opportunity to volunteer personal information. If, for example, you choose to communicate with us and/or our authorized vendors by e-mail and/or through this website and/or the websites of such authorized vendors, we or they may need information from you, such as your name and address, payment information or other personal information, in order to answer your questions and communicate with you, to process a payment made by you, and/or to provide you with services and/or materials requested by or available to you, including, without limitation, enrollment and benefits related services, offers and opportunities. Further, if you elect to make an online payment when visiting this website, you will be redirected to our third party payment vendor to process such payment and such vendor will collect the credit card, debit card or other payment information provided by you to process such payment.
Except as set forth below, or as otherwise authorized by you, we will not use or disclose this information to a third party unless it is necessary for the business operations of the Trust Fund Office and/or the Trust Funds (including the payment activities of the Trust Fund Office and/or the Trust Funds, and the healthcare operations and administration of the Trust Funds), to respond to your inquiry, to process a payment made by you, to provide you with your applicable benefits, other services and/or materials requested by you, and/or other opportunities that may be useful to you (including opportunities offered by the business partners, business associates and vendors of the Trust Funds and/or the Trust Fund Office), or to inform you of such benefits, services and opportunities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may disclose your contact and demographic information to the union locals and contributing employers for their internal administrative purposes to the extent permitted by applicable law.
In the course of ensuring network security and consistent service for all users, we employ software programs to do such things as monitor network traffic, identify unauthorized access or access to nonpublic information, detect computer viruses and other software that might damage our computers, this website or our network, and monitor and tune the performance of this website or our network. In the course of such monitoring, these programs may detect such information as e-mail headers, addresses from network packets, and other information. Information from these activities is used only for the purpose of maintaining the security and performance of our network and computer system.
We may also, without your consent, access and disclose your personal information, any communications sent or received by you, and any other information that we may have about you as may be permitted or required by law, regulation, rule or court order pursuant to requests from governmental, regulatory or administrative agencies or law enforcement authorities; or to prevent, investigate or take any other lawful action regarding suspected fraud, violations of this website's Terms of Use, potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or other activity that we believe to be illegal or may expose us and/or the Trust Funds to legal liability.
You can visit us at this website and choose not to share any information about yourself or reveal any information about who you are. The numbers of visitors to our site may be collected automatically. Further, the use of your "protected health information" (as such term is defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the regulations issued thereunder ("HIPAA")) by the Trust Fund Office, the Trust Funds and the Trust Funds' providers is subject to the applicable Trust Fund's HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices.
We reserve the right to change this website's privacy statement from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on this website. This website's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are not intended to and do not confer you any contractual or other legal rights in respect to the Trust Fund Office, the Trust Funds or any other party.
In the course of ensuring network security and consistent service for all users, we employ software programs to do such things as monitor network traffic, identify unauthorized access or access to nonpublic information, detect computer viruses and other software that might damage our computers, this website or our network, and monitor and tune the performance of this website or our network. In the course of such monitoring, these programs may detect such information as e-mail headers, addresses from network packets, and other information. Information from these activities is used only for the purpose of maintaining the security and performance of our network and computer system.
Links on this website to third-party websites are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links (including to make an online payment), you will leave this website. Linking to such third-party websites (including third party payment processors) does not create any relationship or partnership between the third party website's operator or sponsor, and the Trust Fund Office or Trust Funds. Neither the Trust Fund Office nor any of the Trust Funds reviews, assesses or controls any of these third-party websites, or endorses or makes any representations about any such third-party websites or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, neither the Trust Fund Office nor any of the Trust Funds nor any of their respective employees, directors, officers, trustees, agents, contributing employers or representative unions shall be liable or responsible for any such third-party websites, or the content, products, privacy practices or other acts and omissions of such websites or their operators. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked on this website (including to make an online payment), you do this entirely at your own risk. The Trust Fund Office encourages you to review the privacy policies and terms of use of such third-party websites.