Last modified: November 18, 2022

Introduction

Child Care Providers United California Health Care Fund  (“CCPU”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Website Privacy Policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website, www.ccpuhealth.org (“Website“) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On this Website.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
  • Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy); your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us by email at [email protected].

California residents under 18 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, or telephone number (“personal information“); and/or
  • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
  • From third parties, for example, the Fund’s other brokers.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided when you request further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
  • Your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies 

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including the date and time of your visit, the pages you visit, the amount of time you spend on each page, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service; for example, it enables us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or for other related Website statistics, such as recording the popularity of certain Website content or verifying system and server integrity.

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

To change your cookie preferences, click the green cookie icon on the lower left of the Website to reach the Privacy Preference Center.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with benefits that we administer.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your written consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To our service providers and other third parties we use to support the Fund’s benefits and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes. The terms of use may be viewed at https://www.ccpuhealth.org/terms-of-use.

If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the CCPU Fund, our participants or others.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can change your personal information by sending us an email at [email protected] to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) website at www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa.

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits California residents who use our Website to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to [email protected] or write us at: Child Care Providers United – California Workers Health Care Fund, P.O. Box 57027, Irvine, CA 92619.

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any personal information will be encrypted.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website. See suggested ways to protect yourself on line below.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

Child Care Providers – California Workers United Health Care Fund

P.O. Box 57027

Irvine, CA 92619

or via our toll-free number:

833.714.6028

Protect Your Information!

You are responsible for taking reasonable measures to keep your on-line information secure.  The CCPU Fund is providing you with some tips to help protect the overall security of your personal and other sensitive information online.

  1. ROUTINELY CHECK YOUR ACCOUNT TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FRAUDULENT ACCOUNT ACCESS.
  • Carefully review and follow security requirements and recommendations in notices and alerts you receive from the Fund.

 

  1. USE STRONG AND UNIQUE PASSWORDS.
  • Don’t use dictionary words.
  • Use letters (both upper and lower case), numbers, and special characters.
  • Don’t use letters and numbers in sequence (no “abc”, “567”, etc.).
  • Consider using 14 or more characters.
  • Don’t write passwords down.
  • Consider using a secure password manager to help create and track passwords.
  • Consider updating passwords periodically.
  • Update passwords immediately if you’ve experienced a security breach.
  • Don’t share, reuse, or repeat passwords.

 

  1. ACTIVATE ENHANCED SECURITY FEATURES
  • Consider using multi-factor authentication, automatic account lock, and other enhanced security features where available.

 

  1. KEEP PERSONAL CONTACT INFORMATION CURRENT.
  • Update your contact information on file with the Fund Office when it changes.
  • Provide the Fund Office multiple options to communicate with you.

 

  1. BE WARY OF FREE WI-FI.
  • Free Wi-Fi networks, such as the public Wi-Fi available at airports, hotels, or coffee shops, pose greater security risks that may give cyber criminals access to your devices and personal information.
  • Always use secure, private network connections (e.g., a home, cellphone, or virtual private networks) when sending or receiving sensitive data.

 

  1. BEWARE OF PHISHING ATTACKS AND SCAMS.
  • Phishing and other social engineering attacks aim to trick you into sharing your passwords, account numbers, and other sensitive information, to enable cyber criminals to gain access to your accounts. A phishing message may look like it comes from a trusted organization to lure you into clicking on a dangerous link or sharing confidential information.
  • Common warning signs of phishing attacks include:
    • A text message or email that you didn’t expect or that comes from a person or service you don’t know or use.
    • Spelling errors or poor grammar.
    • Mismatched links (a seemingly legitimate link sends you to an unexpected address). Often, but not always, you can spot this by hovering your mouse over the link without clicking on it, so that your browser displays the actual destination.
    • Shortened or odd links or addresses.
    • An email request for your account number or personal information (legitimate providers should never send you emails or texts asking for your password, account number, personal information, or answers to security questions).
    • Offers or messages that seem too good to be true, express urgency, or are aggressive and scary.
    • Strange or mismatched sender addresses.
    • Anything else that makes you feel uneasy.

 

  1. USE ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE AND KEEP APPS AND SOFTWARE CURRENT.
  • Make sure that you have trustworthy antivirus software installed and updated to protect your computers and mobile devices from viruses and malware. Turn on your firewall.
  • Keep your software (apps, web browsers, operating systems) up to date with the latest patches and upgrades.

 

  1. SECURE AND PROPERLY DISPOSE OF SENSITIVE MATERIALS.
  • Securely store your sensitive information. Shred or otherwise securely dispose of all documents containing any sensitive or personal information.

 

  1. KNOW HOW TO REPORT IDENTITY THEFT AND CYBERSECURITY INCIDENTS.
  • The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have set up valuable sites for reporting cybersecurity incidents:
    • https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/cyber-incident-reporting-united-message-final.pdf/view
    • https://www.cisa.gov/reporting-cyber-incidents
  • The Federal Trade Commission encourages consumers to report identity theft and obtain a personal recovery plan at https://www.identitytheft.gov/#/
  • Immediately report any suspicious or unusual activity to the Fund Office.

 

If you have questions about these tips or the security of your Fund information, please contact the Fund Office at the website or number above.