At Delta Dental of New Jersey, your privacy is important to us. The following information explains how we collect the information we receive about you and how we protect that information.

Confidentiality

The personal information we receive through your use of our Web services is not disclosed to other companies for marketing purposes, and eligibility and dental benefit information is released only to authorized individuals.

While our Web pages may contain links to other related Web sites, Delta Dental of New Jersey is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.

Security

Our site uses industry standards such as firewalls and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information. It encrypts all of your personal information including your Social Security number, name, and all of your plan coverage and benefit information. This means that your personal information displayed on our site cannot be read by unauthorized persons as it travels over the Internet.

Delta Dental of New Jersey uses "cookies" technology to provide session management. Session management allows the site to track which page a user was on after submitting a request for information. This technology prevents the user from having to re-enter information each time he or she looks at a page of output from a request.

There are some things you can do to help protect the security of your information; for instance, never give out your password. Also, remember to sign out of your computer so that other people using the same computer won't have access to your information.

Delta Dental of New Jersey is a licensee of the VeriSign program. For a full "secure site" disclosure, please click on the VeriSign icon located at the bottom of our logon page.

This information explains the precautions we have taken to protect your personal information; however, Delta Dental is not liable for any hardware or software problems you may experience while using the Internet.

E-mail

Please note that any information you send to Delta Dental of New Jersey in a public form (such as an e-mail) is not subject to the security and encryption procedures of this statement.

Notice of Privacy and Information Practices