Stanley Benefit Services is very sensitive to privacy issues on the Internet. We respect your right to privacy and want you to know how we handle the information we receive from you on our web sites.
Personal Information
By accessing and using our websites, you choose to provide us with certain personal information. The personal information you provide and the personalized data you create and save through our sites is used to provide our services to you and to inform you of the status of your account. Such information and data will also be used to administer our intended services in a manner consistent with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, or other legal obligations. We do not sell or market your personal information or personalized data to unaffiliated organizations.
Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to assist in the protection of the information we collect from you online. When you access your personal information, you do so through a server which has security safeguards. When your information is transmitted, it is encrypted.
If you provide us with your e-mail address, or have done so in the past, we may occasionally send you e-mail. E-mail sent to us through our sites will be maintained in a manner consistent with our legal and regulatory requirements regarding client and public communications. Please note that e-mail does not provide a completely secure and confidential means of communication. It is possible that your e-mail communication may be intercepted or viewed by another Internet user while in transit to us. Please avoid using email to transmit to us confidential information such as social security numbers or account passwords.
Website Links to Third Parties
For your convenience and for general informational use only, SBS may provide access to third party websites. Clicking on the link to third party websites will cause you to leave the SBS website. The third party linked sites are not under the control of SBS and SBS is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. By providing access to other websites, SBS does not recommend or support any third party, does not recommend the purchase or sale of any products or services of a third party, and does not endorse or acknowledge that it is affiliated with any website's sponsoring organization. However, SBS may receive direct or indirect compensation from third parties whose websites are linked.
SBS is not obligated to maintain, verify, update or post any corrections to such third party information for any reason. Nothing in the SBS website referencing any third parties with whom SBS conducts business shall be deemed to create any agency relationship, affiliation, or sponsorship among SBS and such third parties or you, or make the third parties or you partners or joint venturers with SBS, or otherwise provide you or any third parties with any rights to act on SBS’s behalf. SBS does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, completeness, timeliness, authorship, suitability of content, or reliability of communications posted by third parties. SBS does not endorse any opinions expressed by users or any third parties using the Site. Consequently, you agree that SBS does not guarantee, and is not liable to you for any third party content and/or actions you may take while accessing any such third party websites.
Securing Your Data
Our clients and their employees entrust us with sensitive information every day, and we take every possible precaution to justify their trust. The data we process is often subject to laws such as HIPPA, HITECH, FACTA, as well as state and other regulatory requirements.
As part of our commitment to securely handling this data, we engage an outside firm to perform an annual SOC audit of our internal processes. This SOC audit provides independent assurance that the methods we use to handle our clients’ data meets or exceeds industry standards for security.
Our clients and their employees can help protect their own data as well by following several simple steps:
Do not email sensitive data
Emails sent over the public internet generally do not employ sufficient encryption and can easily be intercepted and read by a third party.
Do not use FTP unless you take additional security measures
The FTP protocol does not provide any protection against the transmission being intercepted and read. FTP can be used, but you must employ an additional measure of protection such as PGP encryption of the file.
Use a secure upload method
We provide a secure upload site you may use to transfer sensitive files to us. This is an easy point and click upload form that most of our clients prefer. If you have special needs such as SFTP or FTPS, HTTPS transfer, file transfer automation, etc., our security team will work with you to set up a secure data connection that will work for you. Please contact your service representative for details.
