PRIVACY STATEMENT

Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation (PCRF) is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. To that end, we have prepared this privacy statement which applies to our online visitors and donors, and to disclose and describe our information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY

In general, you may visit this web site without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. This web site collects contact information when you donate, register or purchase items from the site. In such cases, we will need personal information such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and credit card number, so that we can process your donation or order, notify you of order status or provide a receipt. We may use this information you provide to share information about services or products you have requested or to inform you of promotional offers that might be of interest. PCRF’s intent is to strictly protect the security of your personal information; honor your choice for its intended use; and carefully protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. To prevent unauthorized access, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information we collect online, including the use of encryption when collection or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information.

THIRD PARTY RELEASE PROTECTION

Except as provided herein, PCRF will not sell to any third party your name, address, e-mail address and member name, except to the extent necessary to comply with applicable laws, police investigations, or in legal proceedings where such information is relevant. PCRF allows access to database information by third parties providing technical services, such as e-mail. In those instances, the third party is bound by terms and has agreed to hold this information in confidence. PCRF periodically performs statistical analyses of aggregate user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of various areas on our web site and to use such information to improve on our web site’s ability to serve you better. Personally identifiable information collected in these surveys will not be shared.

WEB LINKS

This web site contains links to other websites. PCRF is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

COOKIES

We use cookies to store visitor preferences, alert visitors to new areas of the site, customize Web page content based on visitor interests, and record past activity in order to provide better service. Cookies are small text files that do not damage a visitor’s system or files. Most browsers will allow a user to accept or deny cookies. If a visitor rejects our cookies they may still use our site. PCRF also uses IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the web site, track End User movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, the information we have collected from you online, the practices of this site, your interaction with this web site or to correct and/or change contact information, please contact us via e-mail at admin@pcrf-kids.com with the word “PRIVACY POLICY” in the subject line.

PCRF reserves the right to modify or update this privacy statement at any time without prior notice.

ADOPTED OCTOBER 4, 2005