Online privacy

Referring URLs

Whenever you visit a web page or download a file, your computer "asks" the web server to send the requested data via a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). It is possible for the server to record this "referring URL" -- the URL of the last web page you were visiting -- as it helps to provide a useful picture of where visitors are, and are not, coming from.

When you submit information to or request information from Performins Group Benefits Canada, we keep a record of this information. No personally identifiable information is extracted from the referring URL.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that a web server sends to your computer containing information that the web server recognizes. This information can include login information, records of previous visits to the site, and other details.

When you log in to the Performins Group Benefits Canada web site, our server places cookies on your computer containing your login username and encrypted password. On subsequent visits to a secure page such as the member area this information is compared to the login data contained in our database. They contain no personally identifying information and pose no security risk.

These cookies exist only during the current browser session. They are destroyed when you click "Log out", or when you close all instances of your web browser.

It is recommended that you end your session by logging out.

Your IP address

When your computer connects to the Internet, it is assigned an IP address. This is a unique number that online devices -- printers, computers, modems -- use to communicate with each other.

It is possible to determine certain information about your computer from your IP address (geographic location, ISP etc.). It can also help us learn which pages within our site are useful to our clients. This information can be useful for determining demographic information and other statistical analysis.

No personally identifiable information is extracted from your IP address.