Privacy Policy

Last modified: October 8, 2024

1. INTRODUCTION

World Child Cancer USA (“Corporation” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.cancelchildcancer.org (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On this Website.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Corporation or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
• Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

2. CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at 1301 Arapahoe St #105, Golden, CO 80401, United States or email us at [email protected]

3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• by which you may be personally identified, such as first and last name, postal address, email address, telephone number, professional title, business affiliation and address, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
• such as your age and gender, political and professional affiliations, interests in charitable causes, and occupation (“biographical information”);
• about where and when the event you sign up for through our Website is taking place, when you signed up for the event, the organizations affiliated with the event, the organization promoting the event, whether or not you actually attended the event, and any feedback you provide about the event (“event information”);
• that our payment service providers collect to process your donations or contributions to the Corporation. We do not store payment card numbers on our systems. The information you provide in connection with your purchases is handled by our third-party payment processors in accordance with their terms of service and privacy policies (“payment and transaction data”);
• about your donations or other engagement history, including but not limited to communications that we retain from any support requests you submit, and questions you may send us about marketing, volunteer opportunities, etc. (“transaction history”);
• about your preferences for receiving our marketing communications, and details about your engagement with those communications (“marketing data”);
• from cookies and other automated technologies, such as information about your internet connection, the devices you use to engage with our Website, and online activity data. For more details about the technologies we use, the categories of information we collect, and how we use this information, please review our Cookie Policy;
• from third party sources. In certain cases, we combine personal information we receive from you with personal information we obtain from other sources, including: (i) third parties, such as business data providers and public databases. For example, we may obtain information from public records in order to conduct due diligence or fraud prevention checks, or to supplement your profile (i.e., to complete your zip code); (ii) distribution list, to engage in an email, SMS, or calling campaign; and/or (iii) social media platforms. We may receive information about your activity when you follow us on social media and networking platforms such as Instagram or Facebook. Additionally, if you access our Website through a social networking site or a third-party login service (such as Google), we may collect information about you from that third party that you have made available via your privacy settings.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
• From third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our database and/or newsletter. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Collection Technologies

The information we collect automatically does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

For information about the technologies we use for this automatic data collection please review our Cookie Policy.

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie non-personal information collected automatically to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.

4. COOKIE POLICY

This Cookie Policy explains how the Corporation uses cookies and similar technologies in connection with our Website.

What are cookies and similar technologies?

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
• Local storage technologies. Local storage technologies like HTML5, provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data, including on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website, newsletter, and/or emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Corporation, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

How does the Corporation use cookies and other similar technologies?

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
• We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

What types of cookies and similar technologies does the Corporation use?

• Essential. These cookies are necessary to allow the technical operation of our Website (e.g., they enable you to move around on a website and to use its features).
• Performance. We use these cookies to enhance the functionality and performance of the Website.
• Analytics. We use these cookies to help us understand how our Website is performing and being used. For example, we may use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use our Website, which we then use to help us improve our Website. For more information on Google Analytics, click https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/. For more information about Google’s privacy practices, click https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can opt out of by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

How can you control the use of cookies?

Other than “essential cookies,” which are required to operate our Website, you can limit online tracking by:

• Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies, including cookies used for interest-based advertising. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit https://allaboutcookies.org/. Use the following links to learn more about how to control cookies and online tracking through your browser:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/learn-about-tracking-prevention-in-microsoft-edge-5ac125e8-9b90-8d59-fa2c-7f2e9a44d869

https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-sfri11471/mac

• Your mobile device settings can provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.
• You can block our websites from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features or installing browser plugins and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.
• You can limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by participating companies such as Digital Advertising Alliance for Websites or Network Advertising Initiative
• Some third-party ad networks, including third-party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms, allow you to opt-out directly by using their opt-out tools.

These opt out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised so you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.

Note, our Website does not currently respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals.

5. THIRD-PARTY USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

These third party links and integrations are not an endorsement of or representation that we are affiliated with any third party. We do not control websites or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

6. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To process your donations and complete your other transactions.
• To provide you with information or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To provide you with notices about your subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
• To personalize your experiences on the Website.
• To provide support, and respond to requests, questions, and feedback.
• To comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
• To protect our, your, or others’ rights, privacy, safety, or property (including by making and defending legal claims).
• To audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies.
• To enforce the terms of use that govern our Website.
• To prevent, identify, investigate, and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical, or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.
• To develop new features, products, and services.
• To create aggregated, de-identified, or other anonymous data or analytics.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own services that may be of interest to you, and we can do so through websites, events, programs, and other means. We may send you direct marketing communications promoting our events, programs, or other services that we believe are of interest. Where required by law, we will only send users marketing communications with your consent. Otherwise, we will market and advertise our Corporation on the basis of our legitimate business interests. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the registration form or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to [email protected]

We use cookies and similar technologies to engage in interest-based advertising. Please review our Cookie Policy for more information. Where required by applicable law, we will engage in interest-based advertising only with your consent. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the registration form or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to [email protected]

7. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Corporation’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Corporation about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the registration form or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to [email protected]

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Corporation or others.

8. CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the registration form. You can also always opt-out by sending us an email with your request to [email protected]
• Promotional Offers from the Corporation. If you do not wish to have your email address used by the Corporation to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the registration form or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to [email protected]. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
• Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the registration form or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to [email protected]

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

9. ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION

You may send us an email at [email protected] to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your subscription. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

10. DATA SECURITY

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

11. RETENTION

We retain personal information for as long as appropriate to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal information, the purposes for which we process personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

12. GEOGRAPHIC RESTRICTIONS

If you provide us with your personal information when using the Website, then please note that we are headquartered in the United States. To provide and operate our Website, it is necessary for us to process personal information in the United States. If you access the Website from outside of the United States, you do so at your own risk.

13. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

14. CONTACT INFORMATION

To ask questions or register a complaint or concern about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

You are entitled to exercise all rights described in the Privacy Policy free from discrimination.