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Viking Benefit Solutions Inc. has always been, and will continue to be, committed to protecting your privacy, ensuring your personal information remains confidential.<\/span><\/p>\n Our privacy practices are part of a larger corporate commitment to respect individuals, from plan sponsors and participants to our sales organization and our own employees. As a long-standing member of the financial services industry, we have always worked to ensure that our business practices prevent any breach of confidentiality and we work to maintain the highest standards of conduct. When you, as a company or an individual, apply for coverage under a group benefits plan, you share personal information about the company, yourself, and\/or family members. Viking Benefit Solutions Inc will only use, retain, and disclose such information to administer the terms of your group policies and plans, including:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u2022 confirming your eligibility for insurance coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 adjudication and processing the claims you send us.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 offering you complementary products and services; or<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 meeting regulatory requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n We will contact you and obtain your consent if it ever becomes necessary to use your information for any other purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n In most cases, when you sign up for your benefit program, we obtain all the information we need directly from your employer or from you (from the employer\u2019s application forms, or from your enrolment form). This may include name, address, phone number, age, occupation, salary, family status and answers to basic health questions. In some cases, we may ask for additional information from the insurance industry\u2019s MIB Group, Inc. (Medical Information Bureau), health insurance companies, licensed physicians and healthcare professionals or related institutions to determine your eligibility for coverage. When you make a claim for benefits, we may also collect information to determine the eligibility of the claim, and the nature of the expense. We may contact you, your healthcare professionals or other benefit providers. All this information will be collected with the individual\u2019s knowledge and consent. We will make every reasonable attempt to keep this information accurate and current, and we ask that you advise us of changes to keep our records up to date. This will allow us to provide you with the best service possible.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n We collect information from our website visitors to improve the navigation and overall user experience on our website, for marketing purposes, and to evaluate the operation and use of our website.<\/span><\/p>\n \n We employ best practices to protect collected information from loss and unauthorized access. Our systems are designed to prevent unauthorized access, and, within our organization, we limit access to your personal information to only those individuals who administer your group plan and benefits. Each employee in our organization has signed a confidentiality agreement further protecting your personal information.<\/span><\/p>\n Your personal information is kept only if we need it to administer your group plan and fulfill regulatory obligations. Our organization has policies and procedures in place to securely delete or physically destroy all personal information when it is no longer needed. When we deal with other persons or organizations (such as other benefit providers when settling claim payments, or when using cloud-based services), we protect the confidentiality of your personal information and ensure it is not used for any unauthorized purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n We use enrolment and claim information only to administer your group benefit plan and to ensure you receive all the benefits you are entitled to receive. As a result, we may disclose your personal information to:<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 insurance companies and service providers providing benefits under your group contract.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u2022 physicians or other healthcare institutions for the purpose of determining coverage eligibility, and processing and adjudicating your claims.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u2022 your authorized representatives, such as individuals with Power of Attorney or your insurance advisor or<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u2022 government and regulatory bodies where required by law or for the purpose of processing and adjudicating your claims.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n You may at any time ask us what information we have collected about you and why we have it. We will respond to your request within 30 days and provide you with access to the information we have on file. Your request should be submitted to us in writing, and you will be required to provide proof of your identity. This Privacy Policy has described the collection, protection, and disclosure of the personal information we need to administer your group benefit program. It is your right to choose not to provide us with some or all your personal information, or to deny us the use or disclosure of your information for certain purposes. If you exercise this right, please be aware that we may be limited in our ability or not be able to provide you with coverage under a group benefit program. It may also limit our ability to administer your group benefits, including adjudicating and processing your claims.<\/span><\/p>\n \n Please contact our Privacy Officer at the address below if you want to:<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 better understand the kinds of information we collect,<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 express any concern about our privacy policies or how we have handled information about you, or<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 ask questions about our privacy policies.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Privacy Compliance Officer [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Privacy PolicyViking Benefit Solutions Inc. has always been, and will continue to be, committed to protecting your privacy, ensuring your personal information remains confidential. 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Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.<\/p> These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.<\/p> Suggested text: <\/strong>If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.<\/p> Suggested text: <\/strong>If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.<\/p> For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). 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