Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us at A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation (ABOH) we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Website Visitors
Like most websites abreathofhope.org collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. ABOH’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how ABOH’s visitors use its website.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to ABOH websites choose to interact with ABOH ways that require ABOH to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that ABOH gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who donate to provide a name and email address.
Those who wish to receive ABOH updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, ABOH collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with ABOH. ABOH does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
ABOH may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, ABOH may monitor the most popular pages on the abreathofhope.org site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. ABOH may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, ABOH does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
ABOH discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on ABOH ’s behalf or to provide services available at ABOH , and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using ABOH ’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. ABOH will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, ABOH discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when ABOH believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of ABOH, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an ABOHe website and have supplied your email address, ABOH may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with ABOH and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. ABOH takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. ABOH uses cookies to help ABOH identify and track visitors, their usage of ABOH website, and their website access preferences. ABOH visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using ABOH ’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of ABOH ’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If ABOH , or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that ABOH goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of ABOH may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Comments
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Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, ABOH may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy. may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in ABOH may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.’s sole discretion. ABOH may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy. encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Site Contact Information
Mailing Address:
A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation
PO Box 387
Wayzata, MN 55391