ChildrensHealthFund.org is a website providing information about The Children’s Health Fund, its programs, advocacy and health education materials. Since 1987 The Children’s Health Fund has been committed to developing health care programs and advocating for health care for the nation’s most medically underserved children. We welcome you to our website and provide this Online Privacy Policy to describe our commitment to protect your privacy online and treat your information with care and respect.
Our privacy pledge to you: We will not collect any personal information from you that you do not volunteer, and we are the sole owner of all information collected on this Site. We do not sell, share, or rent this information to others in any way that we have not mentioned in this statement.
In order to fully understand your rights we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use. The Children’s Health Fund reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this Privacy Policy simply by posting such changes on our Site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand our online privacy practices regarding:Much of the information on our Site is offered without our collecting any personally identifiable information from you. You can surf ChildrensHealthFund.org and view some of our content anonymously. For instance, you can access our research publications without giving out any personally identifiable information.
The information we gather on our Site falls into two categories: (1) personal information you supply when you register for an e-bulletin, provide your e-mail address or make a donation, and (2) tracking information collected as you navigate through our Site.
Personally identifiable informationTo access certain features on our Site or to make a donation, we ask you to register or complete a form. When you do this, we collect personally identifiable information about you such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card information (When making donations or purchasing merchandise), user name and password (if appropriate), and information about your interest in various initiatives and programs.
When personally identifiable information is collected, you will know because you will have to fill out a form.
Aggregate informationWhen you use our Site, we may collect tracking information such as your browser type, the type of operating system you use, the domain name of your Internet service provider, and pages visited on the Site. None of this information identifies you personally; we collect it for aggregate reporting on Site activity. For example, we may want to know how long the average user spends on our Site or which pages or features get the most attention. We use this information to make the Site more useful to you. We may also use third-party services to assist us with non-personal tracking.
We use "cookies" to store and sometimes to track user information. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering for The Children’s Health Fund e-bulletins. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie contains a unique number that allows our Site to recognize your computer. For example, cookies allow us to keep track of your user name and password so you don't have to re-enter that information each time you visit our Site. The help function on most browsers contains information on how to set your browser to notify you before accepting cookies or to disable cookies entirely. However, if you don't accept cookies, you won't be able to take advantage of various features on our Site that are available to other visitors.
HOW YOUR INFORMATION WILL BE USEDOur primary goal in collecting information is to provide you with a customized experience when visiting our Site and to make our Site more useful to you.
ChildrensHealthFund.org uses personally identifiable information in a limited number of ways. We use the information to complete transactions and fulfill requests for updates. For instance, if you make a donation online, we use your information to process your donation, or if you contact us for information, we will use the information to contact you. We also use the information you provide to send you e-mail and mail only for The Children’s Health Fund events, publications, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.
Sharing your personally identifiable informationIf you register for the online e-bulletin of the Children’s Health Fund, make a donation, or request information, ChildrensHealthFund.org will not sell, rent, swap, or authorize any third party to use any information that specifically identifies you.
In some instances, we use third party companies to help us provide our products and services to you, like a shipping company that delivers a package or an e-mail delivery service that sends out our e-mails and e-newsletters. In those instances we need to share your information with them. We require that those companies use the information only to deliver The Children’s Health Fund-related information.
We may occasionally release personal information as required by law, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena.
HOW YOU CAN CORRECT YOUR INFORMATIONThe Children’s Health Fund believes in providing you with the ability to access and edit the personal information that you have provided to us. To update the ChildrensHealthFund.org information retained about you, write to us at:
The Children's Health Fund 215 West 125th Street Suite 301 New York, NY 100271
To protect your privacy and security, we will also verify your identity before granting access or making corrections, so please include a telephone number at which we can reach you to verify your request.
OUR E-MAIL POLICIESE-mail updates: We offer several e-mail bulletins or updates. If you no longer wish to receive updates, you can follow the 'unsubscribe' instructions located near the bottom of each update or bulletin.
Promotional e-mails: We may also e-mail you messages that we think may be of interest to you about other Children’s Health Fund programs, events, and publications. You can choose not to receive additional types of messages in the future by following the 'unsubscribe' instructions located near the bottom of each e-mail.
Tell-A-Friend: If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our Site, we ask them for the friend’s name and e-mail address. The Children’s Health Fun will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit the Site. The Children’s Health Fund stores this information for the sole purposed of sending this one-time e-mail.
Other Web Sites: Our Site contains links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another Website for which The Children’s Health Fund has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.
HTML verification: When receiving an e-mail from The Children’s Health Fund, we may place a one-pixel gif in that e-mail to understand whether or not you can accept HTML images and, if you can accept HTML, whether or not you viewed the e-mail. This process does not leave any information on your computer, nor does it collect information from your computer. The Children’s Health Fund does not share or sell this information with others, and we only use it to improve our e-mail communications with you.
SECURITYWe maintain a secure process to collect, transmit and store your personally identifiable information. When you provide credit card information, we use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect it. SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us.
Look for one or more of these “secure connection” indicators on your browser:
We also protect account information by placing it on a secure portion of out Site that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of The Children’s Health Fund. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information.
DONATIONSIf you make a tax-deductible donation to The Children’s Health Fund, your name or any information from that donation will not be sold or exchanged with any other company or organization. Your name will be added to our general mailing list and you will begin receiving bi-annual newsletters and mailings regarding The Children’s Health Fund programs and services. If you do not wish to receive mail solicitations from us, please write:
The Children's Health Fund 215 West 125th Street Suite 301 New York, NY 10027HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about the ChildrensHealthFund.org Privacy Policy or its implementation, please feel free to contact us at The Children's Health Fund, 215 West 125th Street Suite 301, New York, NY 10027.
If you feel that we have not followed our privacy policy, please let us know.
This policy was last revised March 2005.
