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The Children's Tumor Foundation is committed to protecting your privacy. Whether collected by phone, website, mail or personal meeting we will not sell, rent, barter or in any way share any information you have provided us with any person or entity outside of the Foundation. The Children's Tumor Foundation is the sole owner of the information collected. Personal information is collected to process on-line donations through our website. The information collected includes: name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. We only collect e-mail addresses for general inquiries made through our website, unless additional personal information is provided.
The Foundation does not engage third parties, i.e. professional fundraising groups, to solicit on our behalf. All of our fundraising is done through our paid staff or our volunteer Chapter and Affiliates. Most states do not consider United Way (UW), Community Health Charities (CHC) or the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) third party fundraisers. However, some states have taken this position that organizations like these that process contributions through payroll deduction constitute third parties. We are members of UW, CHC and CFC and continue to work through them to offer our donors convenient opportunities to continue their support.
We do not solicit by phone.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes the browser, the cookie simply terminates.
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you begin service with an Internet Service Provider. We may collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration and to audit the use of our website. Each time you log into our website and each time you request one of our pages, our server logs your IP address. Although we log our session with us, we will not normally link your IP address to anything that can enable us to identify you. Exceptions to this are the use of our Discussion Board and Chat Rooms. These services require separate registration to establish a username and password and consent to our forum policy and content restrictions. In policing the content of these forums we may link your IP address with the identification information you provide as part of our regular maintenance of the forums.
Our Chapters and Affiliates have signed agreements with us and are an integral part of our mission. Unless you request otherwise (see options below) we share information with our Chapters and Affiliates. They are bound by this privacy policy. Our Chapter and Affiliates use this information for local newsletters and event announcements.
Our website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that the Children's Tumor Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices of such sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of every website that collects personally identifiable information.
Our maintenance contractors may have access to your personal information in the course of maintaining our website or providing its end users with products or services. These contractors include the organizations that provide us with technology and with services and/or content related to better operation and maintenance of our website. Access to your personal information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform their work. We also require that our maintenance contractors protect the privacy of your personal information consistent with this Privacy Policy and to not use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than providing us and/or our end users with products and services.
Email is a very efficient and timely means of communicating with our constituents, both individually and in mass. We respect their desire not to be bombarded with emails and reserve their use for important updates. We produce and distribute by email a bimonthly NF Research Newsblast to all of our supporters who have provided us with an email address. Our program groups, i.e. NF Marathon Team, Research and Chapters and Affiliates etc., regularly communicate with their constituents by email. All emails sent to multiple addresses include an unsubscribe button. A constituent may at their option opt out of our email distribution list.
Mail solicitations are a very important part of our fundraising. We mail conduct two direct mail campaigns per year, May (to coincide with NF Awareness Month), and November for our annual appeal. Our letters include information on our programs and accomplishments that we hope even non-donors will find informative.
We have several levels of coding our database to provide our supporters with their preferred amount of information:
Do Not Solicit (DNS): Donors requesting DNS may receive our quarterly print newsletter and bimonthly email research NewsBlast, but will not receive direct mail solicitation letters.
Do Not Contact (DNC): Donors requests no newsletters or solicitations.
Do Not Email (DNE): Donor requests no email
Annual Solicitation Only (ASO): Donor prefers only one end of year fundraising letter.
We may release your personal information to third parties to comply with legal requirements such as law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your personal information to a third party, we will attempt to give you prior notice unless doing so would violate the law or court order, so that you can contest the disclosure.
We are committed to properly securing the information we collect online. To help us accomplish this, we take the following steps:
-We employ internal access controls to ensure that the only people who see your information are those with a need to do so to perform their official duties;
-We train relevant personnel on our privacy and security measures;
-We physically secure the areas where we hold hard copies of the information we collect online;
-We regularly back up the information we collect online to insure against loss;
- We use technical controls to secure the information we collect online as appropriate, including but not limited to: Secure Socket Layer (SSL), encryption, firewalls, password protections;
-We periodically test our security procedures to ensure personnel and technical compliance.
If you have any questions about this Policy or you wish to review or correct your personal information that we may have on file, you may contact us by U.S. mail, email or telephone at the addresses and numbers listed below. Children's Tumor Foundation
Attn: Frederic Sinclair, Database Manager
95 Pine Street, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Telephone:(212) 344-6633 or Toll Free at 1-800-323-7938
If we change our Privacy Policy we will post changes on our home page. Last updated 9/13/2007.
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