Privacy Policy

 

The Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE) hopes to deliver to you advertising for products and services you need or want. There are many ways to do this in the online advertising world. For example, CORE partners with websites and applications with whom you have shared your interests, conditions and concerns directly, and asks that they serve our ads to users who have expressed an interest in CORE’s services. We may also partner with advertising companies that may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel tags), or use other technologies to serve you ads based on your web browsing activity, purchases, interests and/or other information — a practice commonly referred to as interest-based advertising (IBA) or online behavioral advertising (OBA). These advertising companies may also use these types of technologies to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a mobile phone or a laptop, and serve you ads on websites you visit and applications you use. You can read more about IBA at a site offered by the advertising industry’s Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), aboutads.info.

 

We want it to be easy for you to understand how we and our business partners use information to serve ads tailored for you and to opt-out from targeting based on IBA. To this end, we have licensed the DAA Advertising Options icon, , which appears in our ads served using IBA, and agreed to adhere to the DAA Self-Regulatory Program for IBA.

 

Data retention

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

We may share information with third parties

We may share the information we collect about you with third parties who we have engaged to help us provide the services. In each case, we will ensure that these third parties have agreed to safeguard your data.

We may provide third parties with aggregate statistics about our visitors, traffic patterns and related site information. These data reflect site-usage patterns gathered during visits to our website each month, but they do not contain information that personally identifies you unless you have given us permission to share that information.

Interest-based advertising and your choices

Use of Cookies: Our sponsors and advertisers and their ad servers may use cookies when you view pages on our site. They use those cookies to collect information as a way of measuring the effectiveness of their advertising, or to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you or to avoid running the same ads to you over time. Such information may include your browser type, your operating system, web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed and other clickstream data. We do not control these third parties’ use of cookies or how they manage the information they gather through them. However, our sponsors and advertisers have agreed that they will not collect any personally identifiable information from our site visitors while they are on CORE.org.

 

To opt out: You can learn more about the companies we work with that collect information on our websites and who serve advertisements to you on our websites below. The below resources also contain opt-out links.

• Our advertisers who participate in the Facebook/Nielsen program:
  • https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=211774365532736#What-is-the-Nielsen-partnership-with-Facebook-and-how-does-it-affect-me
  • http://www.nielsen-online.com/privacy.jsp?section=leg_scs
• Participants in the Network Advertising Initiative (http://optout.networkadvertising.org) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (http://optout.aboutads.info).
• Opting out of mobile advertising:
  • Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228
  • Android: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
• CORE uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., on our sites. Google Analytics uses cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how users interact with and use the sites, compile reports on the sites’ activity, and provide other services related to sites activity and usage. The technologies used by Google may collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor and any referring website. The sites do not use Google Analytics to gather information that personally identifies you. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/?hl=en. To learn more about Google’s partner services and to learn how to opt out of tracking of analytics by Google, click here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
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Please note: Opting out of advertising networks services does not mean that you will not receive advertising while using our sites or on other websites, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from third parties that do not participate in these programs. It will, however, exclude you from interest-based advertising conducted through participating networks, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms. If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences.

If you have any questions about our use of IBA or participation in the DAA Self-Regulatory Program, please do not hesitate to contact us at contactcore@core.org.

 

 

Security

Whether you are visiting the CORE site or in one of our locations, we use reasonable security measures to protect the confidentiality of personal information under our control and appropriately limit access to it. We use a variety of information security measures to protect your online transactions with us. The CORE site uses encryption technology, such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), to protect your personal information during data transport. That being said, CORE cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. We have taken reasonable steps to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personally identifiable information that you may provide. You should understand, however, that electronic transmissions via the internet are not necessarily secure from interception, and so we cannot absolutely guarantee the security or confidentiality of such transmissions.

 

Protecting children’s privacy

We are committed to protecting children’s privacy on the internet, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Links to other websites

Our websites link to other websites, many of which have their own privacy policies. Be sure to review the privacy policy on the site you’re visiting.

Privacy policy updates

We may need to update our privacy policy as technology changes and CORE evolves. If we make significant changes to the privacy policy, we’ll post a prominent message on our websites.

Your privacy rights

We do not share your personal information with unaffiliated third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We may, however, share your personal data with any Mayo entity or affiliate. You have the right to contact us and opt-out of such sharing for marketing purposes.

Contact information

If you have a question or concern regarding your privacy, please contact us at contactcore@core.org.