PRIVACY POLICY

The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, Inc. (the “Foundation”) is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to TicksSuck.org. The following privacy policy is designed to help you understand how we collect, use, share and protect information gathered from our website and through our services.

By visiting or using this website, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy and accepting the practices described in the current version of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any terms or practices described in this Privacy Policy, please do not use our website.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

Use of Information and Data

The Foundation collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address and ZIP code. The Foundation also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. 

In general, we use information and data that we collect to pursue our mission and operations and to engage in the activity (and related activities) for which we collect it. Specifically, we may use your personal information:

  • to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience;
  • to personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content in which you are most interested;
  • to improve our website in order to better serve you;
  • to send periodic emails regarding Foundation updates and recent news;
  • to fulfill our obligations to you and to respond to any questions or requests;
  • to contact you about material changes in our website terms or policies;
  • to comply with the law or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform with the requirements of law or to comply with legal process served on us;
  • if you sign up for a blog, feed or newsletter, we may put you on our mailing list or even the list of a third party who we think has a similar mission.

The Foundation does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent. 

Cookies

The Foundation and our third-party service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to support the operation of this website and provide customized content that is targeted to your interests. We use cookies to aggregate data about our users’ experience and whether our website is functioning properly.

Cookies are pieces of information that a website places on the hard drive of your computer when you visit the website. Cookies may involve the transmission of information from us to you and from you to us, to another party on our behalf, or to another party in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. If you refuse a cookie when on this website, or if you delete cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our website.

Additionally, you may encounter cookies or other similar devices on our website that are placed by third parties. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties.

Data Collection

In general, we automatically gather certain usage, technical and navigation information, such as the number and frequency of visitors to this website, what features of the website are most popular to our visitors, device type, browser type, Internet protocol address, pages visited, and the average time spent on our website. This information may include which URL you just came from, which URL you next go to, and what features you click on and read (in whole or in part). We use this information for a variety of purposes, such as maintaining the security of our website and your personal information, facilitating website navigation, and improving website design and functionality. This data helps us to determine how much our visitors use parts of the website, and to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior, so as to better understand and serve you. It’s also important to note that we allow third-party behavioral tracking.

Personal Information

We keep personal information for as long as we think is necessary or advisable and we reserve the right to retain it to the full extent not prohibited by law. We may discard personal information in our discretion, so you should retain your own records, and not rely upon our storage of any personal information or other data.

Sharing Information and Data

In general, we will not sell, share or rent information about you in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. However, we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances. We cooperate with governments and private parties to enforce laws such as those regarding intellectual property rights, fraud, data privacy and security. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to government officials and private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement or other activity connected to this website that is illegal or may expose us or you to liability. From time to time, the Foundation may also share information and data about you to third-party partners, as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate to pursue our mission and operations.

Information and Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information received from our users from unauthorized use or disclosure.

SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

We operate and maintain social networking pages and profiles on websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram and Tumblr. We will, from time to time, import comments and posts from these third-party websites to this website. If you post to any of our social networking pages or profiles on third-party websites, you are providing information to the public and do so at your own risk. Further, we may use these postings on our website without further notice or compensation to you. Please visit the privacy policies of any third-party websites before posting to our pages or profiles there.

PROTECTING CHILDREN’S PRIVACY ONLINE

Our website is not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (13). Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals who are under 13. If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personally identifiable information without verifiable parental consent, we will use our best efforts to remove such information from our files. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personally identifiable information without verifiable parental consent, he or she should contact us at the mailing address below.

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

We may establish links between our website and one or more websites operated by third parties. We have no control over websites owned or run by unaffiliated third parties, and your access to and use of such linked websites is governed by the terms of use and privacy policies of such websites. Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to this website and not to other companies’ or organizations’ websites, including any websites to which we link.

CONSENTS

The Foundation is interested in letting you know about, and receiving your particular consent to, a few activities relating to personal information that will help us to deal with personal information that is disclosed in furtherance of our mission, operations and programs. These are described immediately below.

Consent to Electronic Notice If There is a Security Breach: If we or a recipient is required to provide notice of unauthorized access or other invasion of certain security systems, you agree that we (or they) may do so when required (or voluntarily) by posting notice on our website or sending notice to any email address we have for you, in our (or their) good faith discretion. You agree that notice to you will count as notice to others for whom you are acting, and agree to pass the notice on to them.

AMENDMENTS

We reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time for any reason. Any changes to this Privacy Policy shall be effective immediately upon posting. You agree that this Privacy Policy amends and replaces any previous privacy polic(ies). The current version of this Privacy Policy can be accessed from the link on the bottom of our website.

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Thank you for visiting our website. If you have any questions about our website or Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, Inc.
46 Cummings Point Road
Stamford, CT 06902