Privacy Policy
COG FOUNDATION Privacy Policy
Revised August 30, 2023
Revised August 30, 2023
The Children’s Oncology Group Foundation (“COG FOUNDATION”) respects the principle of individual, personal privacy and is committed to protecting privacy through our compliance with this policy (“Privacy Policy”) as described below.
By visiting the COG FOUNDATION Website, including thecogfoundation.org and cog-foundation.org, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Please read this policy carefully to understand applicable policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, other policies, and practices, your choice is to not use the COG FOUNDATION Website. By accessing or using the COG FOUNDATION Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies to all ways that the COG FOUNDATION Website is accessed and/or used, whether via personal computers, mobile devices or otherwise, that are operated by COG FOUNDATION (“we” and “us”) that are made available by us.
This policy may change from time to time. When it does, COG FOUNDATION will revise the date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the COG FOUNDATION Website after such changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
What information we collect
As a general matter, you can browse the COG FOUNDATION Website without submitting information by which you may be personally identified. However, there are circumstances in which you may elect to provide us with information such as your first and last name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, or information provided to one of our Service Providers (defined under “How we share your information” below), such as the Network for Good, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“Personal Information”). We also collect certain data automatically when you interact with the COG FOUNDATION Website, as described further below.
The following lists the most common ways in which we collect your Personal Information.
We also collect and store certain other automatically collected data regarding our users’ use of the COG FOUNDATION Website so that third parties may provide us with reports and analysis regarding usage and browsing patterns of the COG FOUNDATION Website.
How we combine your information
We may combine information gathered from the COG FOUNDATION Website and information that we have received, gathered, acquired, or stored from other sources, both information collected offline by COG FOUNDATION and information received from third parties—including information that currently exists in our files—into a single user record. We also may use and/or combine information that we collect offline or receive from third-party sources to edit, enhance, and/or check the accuracy of your user record.
How we use your information
We use the information we learn from our users to help us personalize and continually improve your experience on the COG FOUNDATION Website. We use Personal Information in the following ways:
How we share your information
COG FOUNDATION adheres to ethical standards and practices in our operations and is dedicated to protecting the privacy of all visitors to our COG FOUNDATION Website. We do not sell, barter, give away, or rent your Personal Information, except as disclosed below. We do not permit anyone outside COG FOUNDATION to use or access your Personal Information, and in all cases we only share your Personal Information where it is in the legitimate interest of furthering the mission of COG FOUNDATION. Furthermore, we may share your information with our sweepstakes, donation sponsors and partners for marketing and other purposes when you consent to us doing so.
COG FOUNDATION uses third-party service providers, independent contractors and/or event sponsors to help us operate the COG FOUNDATION Website and administer activities on COG FOUNDATION’s behalf, such as providing website analytics, maintenance or site improvement and operational support, as well as donation collections, fundraising activities, such as fundraising events, sweepstakes or contests (collectively our “Service Providers”). These Service Providers may have access to Personal Information necessary to perform their function, including fundraising activities, but they are required to protect the confidentiality of the information and to use it only for the limited purpose for which it was provided.
If you believe that Personal Information you provided to us is being misused by a Service Provider, please contact us at [email protected].
We may also use or disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or the COG FOUNDATION Website; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the COG FOUNDATION Website, or our users; and (c) act under emergency circumstances to protect the personal safety of us, our affiliates, our agents, or the users of the COG FOUNDATION Website or the public.
How long we keep your data
We retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary for the purposes described above. This means that we retain different categories of data for different periods of time depending on the category of user to whom the data relates, the type of data, and the purposes for which we collected the data.
How we use cookies
Like many websites, we use “cookies,” which are small text files that are stored on your computer or equipment when you visit certain online pages that record your preferences. We use cookies to track use of our COG FOUNDATION Websites and online services. We may also use cookies to monitor traffic, improve the COG FOUNDATION Website, and make it easier and/or relevant for your use. We use cookies to track individual sessions. The COG FOUNDATION Website is functional without the retention of cookies. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but, if you prefer, you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. For more information on cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information provided by the Interactive Advertising Bureau at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
We may use web beacons or flash cookies on our COG FOUNDATION Website. A web beacon or flash cookie (sometimes referred to as an “action tag” or “single-pixel GIF”) is an invisible graphic on a web page or email newsletter that is programmed to collect non-personally identifiable information about your use of a given website or newsletter, e.g., whether you opened the email. Like cookies, web beacons allow COG FOUNDATION and its technology providers to summarize overall usage patterns for our analysis and provide personalized services to you. We do not share or provide personally identifiable information we may collect through such web beacons, such as names or email addresses.
We do not allow third-party cookies.
COG FOUNDATION strives to protect the transmission and storage of any information submitted by visitors to the COG FOUNDATION Website. But no transmission and storage of data is completely secure, and submissions are at your sole risk.
The COG FOUNDATION Website may contain links to sites operated by third parties. Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy do not apply to information gathered through these other websites. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.
Children under the age of 16
Protecting the privacy of children is especially important. The COG FOUNDATION Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on the COG FOUNDATION Website through any of its features on the COG FOUNDATION Website, and do not provide any information about yourself to us, such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn that we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 16, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at [email protected].
Data security
COG FOUNDATION is committed to the security, integrity and confidentiality of private information. We have implemented technical, administrative and physical security measures that are designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, use and modification. We regularly review our security procedures to consider appropriate new technology and methods.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet and mobile platforms is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted through our COG FOUNDATION Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is made at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures we provide.
Your Data Privacy Rights
Various U.S. states provide specific rights to residents of the state regarding personal information, which includes allowing consumers in these states to opt out of certain sharing of their data. We do not purposefully reach out to or seek visitors from other parts of the world, such as Europe, Latin America or Asia, where the privacy and data transfer laws may differ from that of the U.S.
We do not track users over time and across apps or websites, and our website therefore does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
Depending on where you reside, your state may have enacted privacy laws (e.g., as of the date of this Policy California, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia) that may allow you make the following requests subject to the effective dates of these laws:
Residents of these states may exercise these rights by emailing us at [email protected]. Note that we do not collect sensitive personal information that would require an opt-in under Colorado law.
That said, in general, we, including our Service Providers, collect the following California regulated categories of personal information (PI) from you:
By visiting the COG FOUNDATION Website, including thecogfoundation.org and cog-foundation.org, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Please read this policy carefully to understand applicable policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, other policies, and practices, your choice is to not use the COG FOUNDATION Website. By accessing or using the COG FOUNDATION Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies to all ways that the COG FOUNDATION Website is accessed and/or used, whether via personal computers, mobile devices or otherwise, that are operated by COG FOUNDATION (“we” and “us”) that are made available by us.
This policy may change from time to time. When it does, COG FOUNDATION will revise the date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the COG FOUNDATION Website after such changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
What information we collect
As a general matter, you can browse the COG FOUNDATION Website without submitting information by which you may be personally identified. However, there are circumstances in which you may elect to provide us with information such as your first and last name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, or information provided to one of our Service Providers (defined under “How we share your information” below), such as the Network for Good, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“Personal Information”). We also collect certain data automatically when you interact with the COG FOUNDATION Website, as described further below.
The following lists the most common ways in which we collect your Personal Information.
- When you sign up to receive email newsletters, bulletins or other communications from us;
- When you participate in contests, sweepstakes, surveys, or research;
- When you donate to our organization;
- When you register for and participate in our meetings, programs, activities, initiatives, web forums and events;
- When you request information or assistance;
- When you send an email or call us through the contact information provided on the COG FOUNDATION Website;
- In conjunction with any verification of your account information;
- In conjunction with investigations into any activity that may violate the law;
- When you communicate with us through the COG FOUNDATION Website; and
- In conjunction with any other place on the COG FOUNDATION Website where you knowingly volunteer Personal Information.
- We collect and store certain information about the devices used to access the website, such as computer, mobile device, or other device. This information may include IP address, geolocation information, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language, and other transactional information;
- We automatically log certain information about use of the COG FOUNDATION Website. This information includes a reading history of the pages viewed by users;
- We collect and store additional “traffic data” such as time of access, date of access, software crash reports, session identification number, access times, and referring website addresses; and
- We collect and store search terms and search results.
We also collect and store certain other automatically collected data regarding our users’ use of the COG FOUNDATION Website so that third parties may provide us with reports and analysis regarding usage and browsing patterns of the COG FOUNDATION Website.
How we combine your information
We may combine information gathered from the COG FOUNDATION Website and information that we have received, gathered, acquired, or stored from other sources, both information collected offline by COG FOUNDATION and information received from third parties—including information that currently exists in our files—into a single user record. We also may use and/or combine information that we collect offline or receive from third-party sources to edit, enhance, and/or check the accuracy of your user record.
How we use your information
We use the information we learn from our users to help us personalize and continually improve your experience on the COG FOUNDATION Website. We use Personal Information in the following ways:
- Responding to your inquiries;
- Presenting our COG FOUNDATION Website and its contents to you;
- Providing you with information and services you request from us;
- Communicating with you about changes to our policies;
- Sending you newsletters, mailings, and information about sweepstakes, contests, initiatives, activities, and events by email or another medium;
- Meeting or event registration;
- Optimizing or improving our programs, services, and operations;
- Verifying your account and account activities;
- Notifying you about changes to our COG FOUNDATION Website or any services or information we offer or provide through it;
- Detecting, investigating, and preventing activities that may violate our policies or be illegal;
- Performing statistical and demographic analyses of users of the COG FOUNDATION Website and their usage patterns; and
- Managing our organization.
How we share your information
COG FOUNDATION adheres to ethical standards and practices in our operations and is dedicated to protecting the privacy of all visitors to our COG FOUNDATION Website. We do not sell, barter, give away, or rent your Personal Information, except as disclosed below. We do not permit anyone outside COG FOUNDATION to use or access your Personal Information, and in all cases we only share your Personal Information where it is in the legitimate interest of furthering the mission of COG FOUNDATION. Furthermore, we may share your information with our sweepstakes, donation sponsors and partners for marketing and other purposes when you consent to us doing so.
COG FOUNDATION uses third-party service providers, independent contractors and/or event sponsors to help us operate the COG FOUNDATION Website and administer activities on COG FOUNDATION’s behalf, such as providing website analytics, maintenance or site improvement and operational support, as well as donation collections, fundraising activities, such as fundraising events, sweepstakes or contests (collectively our “Service Providers”). These Service Providers may have access to Personal Information necessary to perform their function, including fundraising activities, but they are required to protect the confidentiality of the information and to use it only for the limited purpose for which it was provided.
If you believe that Personal Information you provided to us is being misused by a Service Provider, please contact us at [email protected].
We may also use or disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or the COG FOUNDATION Website; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the COG FOUNDATION Website, or our users; and (c) act under emergency circumstances to protect the personal safety of us, our affiliates, our agents, or the users of the COG FOUNDATION Website or the public.
How long we keep your data
We retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary for the purposes described above. This means that we retain different categories of data for different periods of time depending on the category of user to whom the data relates, the type of data, and the purposes for which we collected the data.
How we use cookies
Like many websites, we use “cookies,” which are small text files that are stored on your computer or equipment when you visit certain online pages that record your preferences. We use cookies to track use of our COG FOUNDATION Websites and online services. We may also use cookies to monitor traffic, improve the COG FOUNDATION Website, and make it easier and/or relevant for your use. We use cookies to track individual sessions. The COG FOUNDATION Website is functional without the retention of cookies. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but, if you prefer, you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. For more information on cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information provided by the Interactive Advertising Bureau at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
We may use web beacons or flash cookies on our COG FOUNDATION Website. A web beacon or flash cookie (sometimes referred to as an “action tag” or “single-pixel GIF”) is an invisible graphic on a web page or email newsletter that is programmed to collect non-personally identifiable information about your use of a given website or newsletter, e.g., whether you opened the email. Like cookies, web beacons allow COG FOUNDATION and its technology providers to summarize overall usage patterns for our analysis and provide personalized services to you. We do not share or provide personally identifiable information we may collect through such web beacons, such as names or email addresses.
We do not allow third-party cookies.
COG FOUNDATION strives to protect the transmission and storage of any information submitted by visitors to the COG FOUNDATION Website. But no transmission and storage of data is completely secure, and submissions are at your sole risk.
The COG FOUNDATION Website may contain links to sites operated by third parties. Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy do not apply to information gathered through these other websites. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.
Children under the age of 16
Protecting the privacy of children is especially important. The COG FOUNDATION Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on the COG FOUNDATION Website through any of its features on the COG FOUNDATION Website, and do not provide any information about yourself to us, such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn that we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 16, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at [email protected].
Data security
COG FOUNDATION is committed to the security, integrity and confidentiality of private information. We have implemented technical, administrative and physical security measures that are designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, use and modification. We regularly review our security procedures to consider appropriate new technology and methods.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet and mobile platforms is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted through our COG FOUNDATION Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is made at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures we provide.
Your Data Privacy Rights
Various U.S. states provide specific rights to residents of the state regarding personal information, which includes allowing consumers in these states to opt out of certain sharing of their data. We do not purposefully reach out to or seek visitors from other parts of the world, such as Europe, Latin America or Asia, where the privacy and data transfer laws may differ from that of the U.S.
We do not track users over time and across apps or websites, and our website therefore does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
Depending on where you reside, your state may have enacted privacy laws (e.g., as of the date of this Policy California, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia) that may allow you make the following requests subject to the effective dates of these laws:
- Disclose the sources, categories, and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, how that information is used, and with whom we share it
- Disclose the purpose for collecting personal information
- Disclose the categories of third parties with whom we share personal information
- Delete/rectify/restrict their personal information, subject to certain exceptions (right of rectification not applicable to Iowa and Utah residents)
- Disclose, for any “sales” of personal information, the categories of personal information collected and sold and to what categories of third parties it was sold
- Opt out of sales of your personal information (if any) or subject certain personal information to automated decision-making algorithms (not applicable to Iowa or Utah residents)
- Provide a copy of your personal information in a readily usable format that allows the information to be transmitted to others
- Residents in these states may not be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights described above.
Residents of these states may exercise these rights by emailing us at [email protected]. Note that we do not collect sensitive personal information that would require an opt-in under Colorado law.
That said, in general, we, including our Service Providers, collect the following California regulated categories of personal information (PI) from you:
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE HAVE SHARED FOR A BUSINESS PURPOSE
In the preceding twelve (12) months, the COG Foundation has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose with our Service Providers:
- Category A: Identifiers, which include only name, address, email and phone number
- Category B: California Customer Records, including information collected by our Service Providers such as the Network for Good that collects financial information
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity
Questions and comments should be directed to [email protected]. Our physical address is The Children's Oncology Group Foundation, 40 West Evergreen Ave., Suite 101 Philadelphia, PA 19118.
If you have any questions or requests regarding this policy, if you would like to change your preferences, if you no longer wish to receive email updates from COG FOUNDATION, or if you believe COG FOUNDATION has erroneous or incomplete information about you, please send an email to [email protected].