The National Cancer Survivors Day® website (the Site) is wholly owned and operated by the nonprofit National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation, Inc. (NCSDF) – legal administrator for National Cancer Survivors Day® (NCSD). Information on the Site is not intended as medical advice, and NCSDF disclaims any liability for use of medical information or results thereof.
This Privacy Policy sets out how the Site uses and protects any information that you give the Site.
By accessing the Site, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, do not access the Site.
At no point will the Site ever sell any information you provide nor provide it to anyone else unless required to do so by law.
NCSDF is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and that we are fully compliant as far as is reasonably possible with current General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Information gathered by the Site will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The Site may change this Privacy Policy from time to time by updating this page as required. You should check this page periodically to ensure that you are happy with any changes and new versions thereof. By continuing to access the Site, you agree to accept any revised terms.
You as an individual using the Site have full and complete rights to:
• Be informed as to how your data is being collected and used
• Have full access to the data about you
• Ask the Site to change or delete the information about you
• Ask the Site to stop sending newsletters
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Site holds your information in the strictest confidence and will never sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
The Site may collect the following information:
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: The Site will collect information such as your name and email address when you voluntarily sign up to receive email newsletters. Email sign-ups will have a clearly identified double opt-in. The Site will collect personal/business information when you register your NCSD event.
Automatically-Collected Information: The Site will automatically collect certain information about you for use with third-party statistical analysis with Google Analytics, including your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, links clicked and the dates/times when you accessed the Site. It is important to note that there is no personal information attached to this data, it is completely anonymous and has only been collected for aggregate and statistical purposes.
Cookies: The Site may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Site and are used only to improve your user experience. The Site may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Site. You can decline or delete these at any time.
WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER
The Site requires this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
• To be able to send you newsletters. Each email will have a clear opt-out button if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter.
• To respond to your comments and inquiries via the Contact page
• To track and measure statistics on the Site• To maintain a list of registered NCSD events for legal, statistical, and promotional purposes
• To protect, investigate, and deter unauthorized or illegal activity
SECURITY
The Site is strongly committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
The Site uses traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
The Site may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
DISCLAIMER
National Cancer Survivors Day® and accompanying logo (survivor in circle) are federally registered trademarks licensed to the National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation, Inc. – legal administrator for National Cancer Survivors Day® – and may not be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission from the National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation, Inc.
NCSDF does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify, or agree with the content, comments, opinions, or statements made on the Site, or on any website linked to the Site, by any entity or entities. Information, products, and services offered, sold, or placed on the Site by other than NCSDF belong to the respective entity or entities and are not representative of NCSDF or NCSD. The user understands that NCSDF is not responsible for the content, quality, or merchantability of any information, product, or service offered on the Site, or on any website linked to the Site, and the user must assume full responsibility to evaluate independently the accuracy, completeness, quality, and usefulness of any information or other content.
NCSDF hereby expressly disclaims any and all warranties, expressed and implied, including but not limited to any warranties of accuracy, reliability, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose by any entity or entities offering information, products, and services on the Site, or on any website linked to the Site. The user agrees that NCSDF is not responsible, and shall have no liability to such user, with respect to any information, product, or service offered by any entity or entities on the Site, or on any website linked to the Site. NCSDF shall not be liable for any damages or alleged damages resulting from the use of the information, products, and services. NCSDF’s only liability in the event of errors shall be the correction or removal of the erroneous information after verification.
Nothing on the Site, or on any website linked to the Site, shall mean to imply that NCSDF and its national supporters, sponsors, underwriters, organizations hosting NCSD events, vendors, customers, banner participants, or any other entity or entities are joint venturers or partners in NCSD or NCSDF.
