Privacy Policy
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation® is
committed to protecting your online privacy while providing you
with the most useful and enjoyable Web experience possible. While
you can use many features of Cardiovascular Research Foundation®
web sites anonymously, you are required to provide personal information
to gain access to some of our premium content and services.
How we collect and use personal information
Registering for membership on Cardiovascular Research
Foundation® web sites gives you access to all the sites' information
and features. The only information required is your name, e-mail
address, country, and ZIP/postal code. With your approval, we occasionally
will send e-mail to notify you about important changes to the sites,
new services, and special offers from us.
How we protect your personal information
All personal data you enter on Cardiovascular
Research Foundation® web sites is encrypted with secure server
software (SSL) that encodes the information before your Web browser
software sends it to us. The SSL software decodes the data only
after it reaches our server, meaning hackers can't snatch any of
your personal information while it is in transit. Once the data
reaches our site, the same state-of-the-art security software we
use to guard all of our company's essential business data protects
your personal data as well.
In addition to using the most secure technology
available, we work tirelessly to make sure that we use any information
you provide us only in ways you have approved. We send you only
the e-mail you have approved in your account information or on your
e-mail subscription sign-up page. And when you sign up for Free
Product Info, Postmaster Direct distributes all the announcement
e-mails you request directly without ever releasing your e-mail
address to a third party.
How we use "cookies"
As you probably know, "cookies" are
small pieces of information that some Web sites store on your computer's
hard drive when you visit them. Like many other Web sites, Cardiovascular
Research Foundation® web sites uses cookies to identify members
so they don't have to enter a user ID and password upon each visit.
Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies but allow you to
modify security settings so you can approve or reject cookies on
a case-by-case basis. Even if you do not use cookies, you can still
access all of the features on our sites by logging in manually with
each visit.
What we provide to third parties
While the Cardiovascular
Research Foundation® web sites do
not provide any third-party access to
your personal information except to facilitate
your own attempts to register with our
partners or receive offers from select
partners as mentioned elsewhere in this
policy, we may provide third parties with
aggregate statistics about our customers,
traffic patterns, and related site information.
These data reflect site usage patterns
gathered during millions of customer visits
to our Web sites each month, but they
do not contain behavioral or identifying
information about any individual member
unless that member has given us permission
to share that information.
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation's® web sites use a third-party
advertising company to serve ads when you visit our sites. This
company may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail
address, or telephone number) about your visits to our and other
Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services
of interest to you. In addition, we share Web site usage information
about visitors to our sites with this company for the purpose of
managing and targeting advertisements on our sites. For this purpose,
we and our third-party advertising company note some of the pages
you visit on our sites through the use of pixel tags (also called
"clear gifs"). If you would like more information about
the information collection practices of this third-party advertising
company or would like to know more about your option to not have
this information used by this company, click here [insert link here
to such information].
Obtaining your consent
By using our Web sites, you give Cardiovascular
Research Foundation® web sites permission to collect information
about the pages served to you as an anonymous user for the purpose
of calculating aggregate site statistics. If you register at Cardiovascular
Research Foundation® web sites, you authorize Cardiovascular
Research Foundation® web sites to use information you provide
to personalize the information we deliver to you and to use your
demographic information when calculating aggregate customer data.
As a registered member, you give Cardiovascular Research Foundation®
web sites permission to send you e-mails related to the subscription
e-mail services to which you subscribe and the Free Product Info
topics you select.
If you are under the age of 18, you must not provide
your name, e-mail address, or any other identifying information
without the consent of your parent or guardian, or as otherwise
provided for by applicable law.
Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted
on this page so that you are always aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose
it.
Tell us what you think
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation® welcomes
your questions and comments about our privacy policy. Please send
e-mail to privacy@crf.org.
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