What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form.

When Registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address or mailing address.  Aside from these specific instances however you may also, visit our site anonymously.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

A. To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature

B. To send periodic emails

The email address you provide in signing up for our eNewsletter will be used to receive occasional WORD news, updates, or other information.

Notice: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

C. To improve our website

(we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)

When you visit the WORD websites, we automatically collect Aggregate Information about your visit. We can tell the type of computer, browser, and web service that you are using. We also know the date, time, and pages that you visit. Collecting this information helps us design the Site and online tools to enhance your experience.

We also may use Aggregate Information for internal purposes, such as tracking demographic data and providing targeted content to make the Sites more useful to our visitors. The gathering of this Aggregate Information may be accomplished by the use of cookies or web beacons by us and its third party service providers. In particular, we may collect an IP Address from all visitors to the Sites. An IP Address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. WORD may share Aggregate Information with its, content providers, sponsors, service providers or other third parties to advance the goals of research, education, dissemination or information on our site. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Sites, analyze trends, track users' movement on the Sites, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the Sites, and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses, however, are not linked to Personal Information. WORD also may use a unique assigned number located with the Sites' URL to determine the website from which you navigated to get to the Sites. While this number may not be apparent to you, it does not contain your Personal Information.

How do we protect your information?

Your personal information is only accessed by those who are permitted by WORD's internal measures, and only for official WORD business.

Do we use cookies?

Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information

We use cookies to compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Children's Online Privacy Protection

Our website and online services are not specifically directed at children.  Because of this, we do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13.  If we come across Personal Information that we have inadvertently collected from a person under the age of 13, the information is deleted immediately.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and it's affiliated domain names.  It does not pertain to outside sites that we are linked to and it is not necessarily applicable to information collected offline.

Terms and Conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website at http://wordoncancer.org/policieslegal/termsconditions.html.

Your Consent

By using our site, you expressly consent to the use and disclosure of information, as described in our privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.  Any modified Privacy Policy is effective immediately upon being posted.

This policy was last modified on 12/29/09

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.

wordoncancer.org

450 E 96th Street., Suite 500

Indianapolis, IN 46240

United States

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