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Legal & Privacy Policy
Our Commitment to Privacy
The Women's Health Foundation ("WHF") respects the privacy of every individual who visits
www.womenshealthfoundation.org ("website"). This notice explains our online
information practices. Because your privacy is important to us, we provide you
with notice and choices about the collection and use of your information. To
make this notice easy to find, links are provided at the bottom of our homepage
and on every page within our website. Additionally, each page that requests
personally identifiable information reminds you of the importance of your
privacy and provides a link to the privacy policy. By visiting WHF at
www.womenshealthfoundation.org, you accept the practices described in this
Privacy Notice.
Use of Cookies
We use cookies, small files that are sent to your Web browser and stored on your computer's hard drive, to
improve your website experience. The cookie is used to speed up your access to
the website and the information you wish to see, but it does not contain any
personal information. The majority of Web browsers accept cookies, but the
"help" menu on your browser should give you options for preventing, accepting,
or receiving notice of new cookies. However, please be aware that if you block
cookies, some website functionality may be lost.
Data Collection
We collect two types of information:
1. Standard Web server traffic pattern information. General traffic, site usage, and length of
stay information is collected and stored in log files. This type of information
is shared externally only on an aggregated basis.
2. Personal information. We do not collect personally identifiable information from you
unless you provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly. If you personalize a
website, volunteer, order a book, request information, or donate, for example,
we may collect the following information: first and last name, street address,
city, state, zip code, telephone number, email address, and subject of inquiry.
- Personal information may be needed for certain optional online activities:
- Purchase of online educational materials/subscriptions: In the future, if
you choose to order educational materials/subscriptions from our online store,
we collect standard credit card information (card number, card type, expiration
date) and keep a record of your financial transaction. Credit card numbers are
held only until the charge can be processed (usually several minutes), then the
number is only available to Customer Service for purposes of problem resolution.
- Contributions: If you choose to donate to our organization, we maintain a
record of your contribution. Your financial information will be treated as
described above in "Purchase of online educational materials/subscriptions."
- Requests: If you submit an online request for WHF products such as free
brochures, or submit a question through a "contact us" query, we may have to
gather additional information from you to respond to your request. Such
information will vary with the request but often includes name, shipping
address, telephone number, and email address.
- Public Forums: If you choose to participate in a chat room, discussion
board, news group or another public forum that we make available to our users,
please remember that any information that you disclose in these areas becomes
public information. You should exercise caution when deciding whether or not to
disclose your personal information.
- Letter to Congress: When available, if you choose to generate an email to
your Congressional representative on our site, we receive a blind copy of the
email. We may use your letter or information from your letter to further educate
Members of Congress about our incontinence advocacy priorities.
Data Use
We limit the use of information provided to us on
our website to the following:
Internal Use
- If you do not make a service request, donation, purchase, or otherwise
identify yourself, we will have no personally identifiable information about
you. We will only use aggregate information derived, in part, from your use of
our site to improve our site and our service to you.
- We collect the email addresses of those who communicate with us by email.
Inquiries may be forwarded to the appropriate WHF department for response and
may be entered into our constituent database. If your name is entered into the
database, we may contact you (see (3) below).
- If you provide personal information, we may enter your name into our
constituent database and contact you in order to:
- Complete voluntary surveys seeking feedback for quality and service
improvement purposes.
- Supply you with information including incontinence related health news, WHF
programs, events and services.
- Solicit newsletter subscriptions (when available).
- Solicit donations both privately and confidentially.
- Request voluntary time or monetary contributions to WHF.
External Use
Your health-related information is privileged and confidential and will not be shared or released to any organization or
business entity other than those affiliated with or working in conjunction with
WHF as follows:
- We occasionally use third parties to assist us in locating participants for
clinical trials for further research for the treatment of incontinence. We will
only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service
and prohibit them from using that information for any other purpose.
- We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our
behalf. We will only provide those companies the information they need to
deliver the service and prohibit them from using that information for any other
purpose.
- We have relationships with companies that conduct charitable sales
promotions and commercial co-ventures that support us in our mission and
activities. If you provide us with your mailing address, we may pass your
contact information to these companies so that they may ask you if you are
interested in receiving their services. Your choice to use their services will
benefit us; the amount of money we receive from these entities as a result of
your participation is disclosed at the time you are contacted about the service.
You are under no obligation to respond and the companies are restricted from
using your contact information for any other purpose.
Your Options
We respect your privacy and allow you to restrict internal and
external sharing of your personal information. We recognize that you may wish to
limit the ways in which we contact you and we offer the following options:
- Do not contact me by telephone.
- Do not contact me by postal mail.
- Do not contact me by email.
- Do not contact me with fundraising requests supporting the Women's Health
Foundation.
- Limit your fundraising appeals to semiannual solicitations only.
- Do not contact me or share my information with anyone.
For more information on how to inform us of any desired restrictions, please click on the
following link: opt out. If you contact us with an opt-out request, all
reasonable efforts will be taken to ensure that you will not receive any of the
selected communications from us in the future. If you do not wish to opt
out at this time, you may do so at a later date should you so
desire.
If you opt back into a specific service, you will receive
communication in that manner, regardless of your overall opt out selections.
These services may include newsletter subscriptions or email communication by
asking a question using "Contact
Us."
Access
Upon request, we will provide you with the information we maintain about you so that you may request corrections. This
information will be sent via postal mail, which we believe is the most secure
method of communication. Please contact us in writing at:
Women's Health Foundation Security and Privacy Requests
632 West Deming Place
Chicago, IL 60614-2676
To protect your privacy and security, we will
take reasonable steps to verify your identity before providing information or
making corrections.
Data Security
We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information and to honoring your
choices for its intended use. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data
accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we strive to maintain
physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards. We process your financial
transactions (donations and educational materials/subscriptions purchases) via
encrypted SSL sessions. SSL is the industry standard for securing Web-messaging
transactions. Inside WHF, data is stored in password-controlled servers. Our
staff and volunteers are educated about the importance of safeguarding your
information and we are committed to holding them accountable for protecting your
confidentiality. However, such precautions do not guarantee that our website is
invulnerable to all security breaks. WHF makes no warranty, guarantee, or
representation that the use of our Web site is protected from viruses, security
threats, or other vulnerabilities and that your information will always be
secure.
Whenever WHF permits an external third party to access
personally-identifiable information, appropriate procedures are followed to help
ensure that the information is used only for authorized purposes and by
authorized persons in a manner consistent with the choices WHF constituents have
made under this statement, and that the security, integrity and privacy of the
information is maintained. While WHF will employ procedures to help ensure that
your information is only used for authorized purposes as described above, we
cannot make any guarantees with respect to the actions or policies of such third
parties.
Internal Links
Because of the various programs and services at WHF, there are several privacy notices to inform our
constituents of policies specific to the activity in which they are
participating.
External Links
Our privacy policies apply only to your use of the WHF website. This site contains links to other
sites, including sites that have a special relationship with us. We do not
disclose personably identifiable information to those operating linked sites,
and we are not responsible for their privacy practices. Links to other sites do
not imply an endorsement of the materials or policies on those websites. You
should read the privacy policies of each site you visit to determine what
information that site may be collecting about you.
Contact Us
This privacy statement will be updated periodically and posted on our
website. It applies only to our online practices and does not encompass other
areas of the organization. We reserve the right to change this policy at any
time by posting revisions. You agree to review the Privacy Policies each time
you use our website so that you are aware of any modifications. By accessing or
using the website, you agree to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of
the WHF Privacy Policy as posted at the time of your access or use. If you have
any questions about our policy or our compliance, you may send us an email at info@womenshealthfoundation.org
or write to:
Women's Health Foundation
632 West Deming Place
Chicago, IL 60614-2676
Policy Updates
We reserve the right to update this policy at any time. If a material change is made to the
policy, we will email all registered users at the email address provided at time
of registration.
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