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Questions and Answers About Privacy

What information is collected by thenautilusgroup.com and how is it used?
You can use most of our site without submitting any personal information. The on-line calculators and information about our products and services can all be accessed without providing any personally-identifiable information about yourself. When you do choose to provide us with information at the site, we will use it in the following restricted ways:

When You Request to be Contacted
If you would like to receive any additional information, such as a brochure, you will need to provide us with your contact information. We will use this information only to fulfill your request. When you ask to be contacted by an agent, we will identify an appropriate New York Life agent to whom we will relay your request.

Technical Information
Like many Web sites, we collect limited anonymous information about our users and their systems. When users come to our site, we collect their IP addresses, browser types, the domain they came from, and their likely country of origin. This anonymous information is aggregated and is not associated with individual users. It is collected to help us analyze usage patterns, improve the site's overall performance, and provide information useful to our users.

How long will thenautilusgroup.com maintain information about me?
The information you supply in the Personal Folder will be maintained until you decide to discontinue using that functionality or we remove this functionality from our site. In addition, we will maintain the information regarding our policyholders for as long as the policies remain in force and for the legally required time thereafter.

How does nautilusgroup.com use cookies?
Like other Web sites, thenautilusgroup.com uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identifier that is placed on a your computer when you visit our site. We use cookies to create a variety of personalized features, such as displaying your screen name when you come back to our site. In addition, we use cookies to generate meaningful usage statistics by identifying how many unique visitors entered the site and the specific pages that they visited. Cookies do not damage your system or files in any way.

Most browsers recognize when a cookie is offered and allow users to opt-out of receiving them. If you are not sure whether your browser has this capability, you should check with the software manufacturer or your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Please be aware that if you choose to disable cookies, some of the site functionality, such as greeting you by screen name and automatic access to your Personal Folder, will not be operational when using that browser.

What privacy rules apply when I visit other Web sites?
Our site provides links to other Web sites, including our subsidiaries and affiliates, our business partners, and third party sites containing information that we believe you may find useful. When you visit those sites, you will be operating under their individual privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully review the respective privacy policies.

What security measures does the site maintain to protect my personal information?
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personally identifiable information collected online from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. All information you supply on the site is encrypted during transmission and then stored on a secure server. However, you should be aware that our return e-mail messages to you cannot be encrypted and thus cannot be considered fully secure. Non-encrypted e-mail can be intercepted and viewed by other Internet users without your knowledge or consent.

New York Life employees follow a company wide security policy. Only authorized personnel are allowed access to personally identifiable information collected online and these employees have been trained to safeguard the confidentiality of this information.

How does the site protect children's privacy?
Our products and services are not designed for or directed at children 13 years of age or younger. It is our policy never to knowingly collect or maintain personal information about anyone 13 years or under.

How can international visitors use the site?
New York Life sells its products and services throughout the world. Although thenautilusgroup.com only addresses products sold to residents of the United States, we welcome visitors from other countries. You can review our products and services, use our calculators, and access articles that may be of interest to you. As a company based in the United States of America, we operate under United States laws and regulations and information received from international users will be stored and processed in the United States.

How will I know if the site changes its Privacy Policy?
New York Life reserves the right to change this privacy policy. If we do so, we will post notification on the site at least thirty days before the new policy goes into effect. To ensure you are aware of changes to our policy, we post the effective date of our policy. No data collected under this privacy policy will be used in a manner inconsistent with our stated policy, unless we provide you with the opportunity to tell us you would not like to participate in any programs we may establish.

Our Commitment to You
At New York Life, we strive to provide you with the most comprehensive source of life insurance and financial products information on the Web. When we ask for personal information of any kind, or give you with the opportunity to supply such information, it is solely to improve our ability to meet your needs and respond to your requests. We will continue to do whatever we can to protect your privacy at our site.

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