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Source-backed from Online Services Privacy Policy

This report covers UnitedHealthcare’s Online Services Privacy Policy, which applies to its websites and apps that link to it. It does not cover the separate notices, such as HIPAA Notices of Privacy Practices, that UnitedHealthcare says apply to some of its products and services.

45
reviewed findings
15
key findings
3
free to read here
16
verified controls

2 of them depend on where you live.

Privacy Snapshot

What the published policy covers, and how much we found under each. Tap one to read it.

  • Location 1 finding
  • Camera & Photos 2 findings
  • Messages 1 finding
  • Sensitive Data 4 findings
  • Tracking 6 findings
  • Advertising & Profiling 5 findings
  • Sharing 6 findings
  • Controls & Permissions 15 findings
  • Other 5 findings

3 findings, in full

The first 3 of this report’s 15 key findings, complete — claim, reasoning, and the policy’s own wording.

Sensitive Data No verified control UnitedHealthcare's apps may collect health, medical, therapy or financial information

What this means

UnitedHealthcare's Online Services Privacy Policy says that, through its mobile apps, it may collect health, medical, therapy or financial information.

Through its mobile apps, UnitedHealthcare may collect health, medical, therapy or financial information.

Why this matters

The policy lists health, medical, therapy and financial information among what its mobile apps may collect.

What the policy says

Health, medical, therapy, or financial information;

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What you can do

No verified user-facing control found.

In the UnitedHealthcare documents we searched for this finding, we did not verify a setting that directly changes this practice, or a wider option that reaches it.

Advertising & Profiling UnitedHealthcare may let third parties track your browsing across sites for targeted ads

What this means

Under its Online Services Privacy Policy, UnitedHealthcare may allow third parties to use cookies and other technologies to collect activity information, track browsing over time and across third-party websites, and deliver targeted advertisements to you.

UnitedHealthcare may allow third parties to use cookies and other technologies to collect activity information, track browsing over time and across third-party websites, and deliver targeted advertisements to you.

Why this matters

Third parties may track your browsing over time and across other websites, including sites that link to UnitedHealthcare's.

What the policy says

We may also allow third-parties to use cookies and other technologies to collect Activity Information and to track browsing activity over time and across third-party websites such as web browsers used to read our Online Services, which websites are referring traffic or linking to our Online Services, and to deliver targeted advertisements to you. We do not control these third-party technologies, and their use of such technologies is governed by their own privacy policies.

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What you can do

A privacy control may reduce part of this practice.

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Controls & Permissions Privacy control available You can withdraw consent to UnitedHealthcare's location use by turning location features off

What this means

UnitedHealthcare's Online Services Privacy Policy says you can withdraw consent to the use of precise, real-time or network location data at any time by turning off the location-based feature on your mobile device or by not using location-based features.

You can withdraw consent to the use of precise, real-time or network location data at any time by turning off the location-based feature on your mobile device or by not using location-based features.

Why this matters

This is a choice you can make yourself, on your own mobile device.

What the policy says

You may withdraw consent to use precise, real-time, or network location data at any time by turning off the location-based feature on your mobile device or by not using any location-based features. If you withdraw your consent, functionality associated with precise, real-time, or network location ( e.g. , navigation) will no longer work.

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What you can do

A verified privacy control can reduce this.

Plainlyst Premium shows where to find it, what it changes, what it doesn’t change, and what may stop working.

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12 more key findings a free account opens, by topic

  • Controls & Permissions 3
  • Advertising & Profiling 2
  • Camera & Photos 1
  • Location 1
  • Messages 1
  • Other 1
  • Sensitive Data 1
  • Sharing 1
  • Tracking 1

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  • Camera & Photos 1 more
  • Sensitive Data 2 more
  • Tracking 5 more
  • Advertising & Profiling 2 more
  • Sharing 5 more
  • Controls & Permissions 11 more
  • Other 4 more

  • Complete report

    30 additional reviewed findings, each shown with the policy wording behind it, like the 15 above.

  • Privacy Tune-Up

    16 verified privacy controls — where each one is, what it changes, and what may stop working.

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