Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice for California Residents

Effective Date:  January 1, 2020

This Privacy Notice for California Residents (“California Notice”) supplements the information contained in our Notice above and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”).  We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this California Notice.

This Notice does not apply to employment-related personal information collected from California-based employees, job-applicants, contractors, or similar individuals.  Our privacy practices for these individuals will be separately provided as applicable.

Where noted herein, the CCPA temporarily exempts personal information reflecting a written or verbal business-to-business communication (“business-to-business personal information”) from some requirements.

Information We Share

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose or share your personal information with a third party subject to your right not to provide your information in those circumstances (see Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights below).  When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

We share your personal information with the following categories of parties:

  • To our service providers.
  • To a third party, for example, when you sign up for an event, we may provide the information submitted on the registration form to the speaker(s) or host of the event.

Disclosures of Information for a Business Purpose

In the preceding twelve months, Alera has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

Identifiers, such as name, postal address, IP address, email address, phone number.

We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of parties:

  • Service providers.

Sales of Personal Information

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Alera has shared the following categories of personal information:

  • Identifiers, such as name, postal address, IP address, email address, phone number.
  • Consumer Records, such as name, postal address, telephone number, name of school attending, job title, employer name.
  • Professional or employment related information, such as job title and employer name.
  • Non-public education information, such as school attending.

We share your personal information to the following categories of third parties:

  • To a third party, for example, when you sign up for an event, we may provide the information submitted on the registration form to the speaker(s) or host of the event.

Your Rights and Choices

If you are a California resident, the CCPA provides you with specific rights regarding your personal information.  This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Accessing Your Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that Alera disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months.  Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

  • The categories of personal information we collected about you.
  • The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
  • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
  • If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose,
  • Sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
  • Disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

We do not provide these access and data portability rights for business-to-business personal information.

Requesting Deletion of Information

You have the right to request that Alera delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.  Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

  • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
  • Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Coe § 1546 et seq.).
  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
  • Comply with a legal obligation.
  • Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

We do not provide these deletion rights for business-to-business personal information.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information.  You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.  If you submit a request on behalf of another person, we may require proof of authorization and verification of identity directly from the person for whom you are submitting a request.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period.  The verifiable request must:

  • Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, which may include your name and email address;
  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.  However, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to personal information associated with that specific account.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer within 45 days of its receipt.  If we require more time (up to 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.  If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account.  If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.  Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt.  The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.

For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance, which may include either a screen shot of the information or a pdf.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded.  If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Personal Information Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights

We do not share your information with a third party unless you complete a form.  The form will be self-evident regarding the information collected, the purpose for the collection, and how the information will be shared.  If you do not agree to the sharing of such information, you should not complete and submit the form as the form’s submission will act as an “opt-in” for the sharing of such information.

Under the CCPA, if you are 16 years of age or older, you have the right to direct us not to sell your personal information at any time (the “right to opt-out”).  To exercise the right to opt-out, you, or your authorized representative, may submit a request to us by visiting Do Not Sell My Personal Information.

Once you make an opt-out request, we will wait at least 12 months before asking you to reauthorize personal information sales.  However, you may change your mind and opt back in to sharing personal information by filling out a form with the requested information and submitting that form.

You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your opt-out rights.  We will only use your personal information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).  Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

  • Deny you goods or services.
  • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
  • Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.
  • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Changes to the Privacy Notice

Alera reserves the right to change this Notice.  If we decide to make changes, we will post the updated notice on our website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and the circumstances, if any, we disclose it.  The date this Notice was last revised is identified at the top of the page.  You are responsible for ensuring that we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our website and the Notice to check for any changes.  Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes acceptance of such changes.  Where required by applicable data protection laws, we will also seek your consent to any material changes that affect how we use your information.

Help

If you need help with unsubscribing or have questions regarding this Notice, the ways in which Alera collects and uses your information as described in this Notice, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please unsubscribe here, email us at privacy@aleragroup.com, call (866) 226-8343, or you can contact us by regular mail addressed to:

3 Parkway North
Suite 500
Deerfield, IL  60015
Attn: Privacy Request

For more information: https://aleragroup.com/privacy-policy/#your-california-privacy-rights

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST

Enter your email and sign up to receive updates on the latest news and happenings at Landmark Benefits.