Privacy Policy

Introduction
The mission of the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network is to raise public awareness, to provide advocacy and education, and to advance research on behalf of all those affected by food allergies and anaphylaxis. The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network website provides information, resources, referrals, and data intended to assist the public in managing life-threatening food allergies. The website also provides information for healthcare professionals and offers opportunities for volunteering in the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network fundraising events.

Contact Information, Accessing, and Correcting Your Personal Information
If you have any questions about this Policy or you wish to review or correct your or your child’s personal information, you may contact us by U.S. mail, e-mail, or telephone at the addresses and numbers listed below.

The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network
Attn: Privacy Manager
11781 Lee Jackson Highway, Suite 160
Fairfax, VA 22033

E-mail: ambassador@foodallergy.org
 
Telephone: (800) 929-4040

Our Commitment to Privacy
We at the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network recognize the importance of protecting your privacy. The purpose of this notice is to explain the practices and procedures we implement to protect your personal information, the way we use this information, and the choices you can make regarding our use of your personal information. This notice may be accessed by clicking on a “Privacy” link that appears on each page of our website. The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network is committed to protecting your privacy and will honor this Policy.

Changes to this Policy
The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network reserves the right to change this Policy at any time. To better serve you and your concerns about your privacy, we will notify you of any changes to this Policy by posting a notice prominently on the main page of our website (http://www.foodallergywalk.org/2010ambassador) indicating that there has been a change or update to the Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read this Policy.

The Information We Collect and How We Use It
You may browse the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network websites without submitting personal information. However, if you choose to participate in our Ambassador program, you will asked for applicable personal data such as your name, gender, postal address, e-mail address, phone number, fax number, and payment information. The purpose of collecting such data is to register your child as a candidate for the 2010 National Ambassador Program and to collect payments made online. The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network also uses this personal information to advise users of new online materials, activities, and events, and to provide users with the opportunity to contribute to local and national programs and research initiatives.

The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network also collects personal information offline from volunteers, donors, and event participants. Such information may include name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, age, and information regarding the donation. The information is collected through offline registration forms, telemarketing appeals, and postal appeals. The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network uses this personal information to inform volunteers and donors of new materials, and activities and events that offer the opportunity to contribute to local and national programs and research initiatives.

Personal Health-Related Information
Personal information included in specific questions submitted to the 2010 National Ambassador Program of the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network is used solely to promote your candidate during the voting process. All other information entered on this site is used for aggregate demographic analysis only and no personally identifiable information is included in these analyses. Records are used to create aggregate reports for internal use only and are purged after one calendar year from the date of entry. 

E-mail A Friend
In order to assist you in your child’s campaign, we offer a feature on our website that enables you to e-mail your nomination to a friend. This feature requires that you enter your name and e-mail address and the name and e-mail address of the recipient. The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network stores this information for the sole purpose of sending e-mail.

Payment Information
Payment information, such as credit card number and expiration date, is entered upon completion of the application process for a child ambassador candidate. The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network uses Global Payments and Verisign as third-party intermediaries to process your online donations and payments. Your credit card information is encrypted when submitted to the processor and transmitted over a secure connection between your computer and our server using Secure Socket Layers (SSL), the industry standard, to ensure protection of your private information. This sensitive personal information is not shared with third parties other than the processor and is stored by the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network for verification purposes or for recurring donations that you have authorized.

Cookies, Gifs, Logs
Cookies are small text files that a website can place on a visitor’s computer hard drive to recognize repeat visitors, to facilitate a visitor’s use of the site and to track a visitor’s access to and use of the site.

The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network uses cookies to collect demographic data that help us better advertise our mission, programs, and events to potential visitors and to improve the functionality of the website and the experience for those who use our site. We receive data that includes the IP addresses, browser types, date/time stamp, donations, and sign-up information of visitors to our site.

In addition, the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network uses cookies to allow us to track which other websites have linked visitors to our site, what pages of our site are used by and are of interest to those visitors, and to link to information those visitors provide to the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network when they donate or sign up to take part in our programs and events.

Cookies are used in the Ambassador site in order to remember the user’s name. Sites containing other programs run by the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network may contain information as to how cookies are used on those sites.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network never shares your e-mail addresses with third parties without your consent. Personal information collected from our donation pages is never shared with third parties.
If you are a California resident, please click here to view “Your Privacy Rights” under California law.

Public Forums
The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network advises users that personal information posted on the Ambassador site is accessible to the public. By posting information on this site, you may receive unsolicited messages from third parties unrelated to the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network. The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network monitors these sites, however it remains the responsibility of the site visitor to use his/her best judgment in choosing the information he/she will post.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act); we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

Opting-Out of Future Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network Communications
You may opt out of the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network communications at any time by contacting ambassador@foodallergy.org.

The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network reserves the right to acknowledge your donation. If you have subscribed to any newsletter published by the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, you may unsubscribe by following the instructions in the e-mail containing the newsletter. You may also remove yourself from the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network e-mail list by contacting us via e-mail at: ambassador@foodallergy.org. Your e-mail address is never shared with third parties without your express consent.

You may also notify us that you choose to opt-out of all communications from the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network by completing and sending the form available in this Privacy Policy. Please send us your name, phone number, and e-mail and postal addresses and check off the box indicating that you would like to opt-out of all communications from the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network.

Our Commitment to Data Security
The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network implements physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to ensure that your personal information is protected at all times. Our servers are housed in an off-site, secured co-location facility. Employee access to personal information is strictly on a need-to-know basis. All employees are made aware of the Privacy Policy and of any updates or changes to it. Employees are reminded of the importance of protecting the privacy of our donors and Internet site users.

Your Child's Privacy
We may collect your child’s personal information such as name, e-mail address, allergies, date of birth, gender, and postal address in order to register him or her in the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network activities such as the Ambassador Program.

Your child’s personal information is subject to all of the terms of this privacy policy.

Online Fundraising Tool (The Ambassador Program)
The Online Fundraising Tool is intended to help users maximize their fundraising efforts; therefore, the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network has made every effort to provide an application that is safe and secure.

Collection and Use of Personally Identifiable Information.
The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network does not retain names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of persons invited to use the Online Fundraising Tool system but who do not actually participate by creating pages or donating funds. For persons who do participate, their personal information is retained by the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network. Users and the participants that they recruit may opt-out of communications with the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network according to the procedures outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Your Privacy Rights Under California Law
Websites owned by organizations that operate in California must comply with the privacy practices outlined in California privacy bill S.B.27 pertaining to the collection and use of personal information in direct marketing activities.

As discussed throughout this Policy, the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network honors your requests concerning your own personal information as it pertains to online and postal, and telemarketing communications as well as list rentals and exchanges.