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Privacy Policy
Teb's Troops, Inc. ("Teb's Troops") has created this policy to
demonstrate our commitment to privacy. The following policy
explains our information-gathering and dissemination practices for our
web site at www.tebstroops.org
(the "Site"). This policy may change from time to time, so please
check back periodically. Throughout this policy, "we," "us," and "our"
will mean Teb's Troops. This policy does not apply to the practices of persons
or entities that Teb's Troops does not control, manage or employ.
What information does Teb's Troops collect from me as an end user?
You can browse our Site without telling us who you are or giving us
any personally identifiable information about yourself. When you
interact with us through your computer, our website does record certain
non-identifying site usage data, such as the number of hits and visits
to our Site.
Teb's Troops provides information that may be relevant to individuals with a
history of cancer. The goal of this information is to educate cancer
survivors and their caregivers about topics related to cancer
survivorship in order to help them more effectively advocate for
themselves and participate in making decisions with their health care
team. The information in the Site is not intended to substitute for
information provided by health care professionals. In order to tailor
the information to your specific needs, you may, at your sole
discretion, elect to complete a profile or register with Teb's Troops in order
to purchase products, make donations or participate in events on-line.
If you elect to complete a profile or register with Teb's Troops, you will be
asked to provide personal information that may include among other
things your name, address, age, gender, e-mail address, phone-number,
fax number, date of birth, whether you are a cancer survivor, type of
cancer, phase of survivorship and other healthcare information
(collectively referred to as "Profile Information"). Once you provide
us with this information you are no longer anonymous to us. We also
collect personally identifiable information, such as your user name and
password, whenever you login to your account and may in limited
circumstances ask you to provide credit card information and other
personal information when purchasing items that are offered for sale or
when making a donation. We reserve the right to request any additional
information necessary to establish and maintain your account.
Some of the programs and activities on our Site could require the
provision of personally identifiable information about you beyond what
it is in your Profile Information and/or the sharing of materials such
as your stories, drawings or photographs. Participation in these
programs may require the public release and dissemination of the
information and materials you provide. Participation in these programs
is voluntary and may require your consent to certain terms before
participation is allowed.
Additionally, our Site employs "cookies," which are alphanumeric
identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your
web browser. We employ "cookies" to perform these functions: to let us
know how long you are logged on to our Site and to automatically log
you out if you are inactive for over thirty minutes; to store your user
ID and password so that when you return to our website you won't have
to re-enter some or all of that information; and to provide us with
statistics regarding what pages of our Site you visited, and how long
you spent there. You may configure your browser to accept all
"cookies," reject all "cookies," or notify you when a "cookie" is sent.
However, when accessing an area that requires a password for entry,
"cookies" are not optional and continued paths through the password
area will not continue if cookies are not enabled. Teb's Troops
reserves the right to use cookies for other reasons, as necessary.
Does Teb's Troops track my IP address?
When you visit the Site, our web servers automatically collect
limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet,
including your IP address (which is a number that lets computers
attached to the Internet know where to send you data). Your IP address
does not identify you personally. We log your IP address to help maintain
our site, including (i)
deliver our web pages to you upon request; (ii) tailor our Site to the
interests of our users; (iii) help diagnose problems with our server;
(iv) administer our Site in order to constantly improve the quality of
the Sites; (v) measure traffic within our Site; and (vi) prevent
fraudulent use of the Site by others.
How does Teb's Troops use my information?
On behalf of Teb's Troops various persons
and entities may perform functions, such as fulfilling
merchandise orders, sending mail and email, processing credit card
payments or helping with the maintenance or set up of our servers or
computers. Such persons or entities have access to personal
information needed to perform their functions, but may not use such
information for any other purposes.
Teb's Troops does not otherwise sell, share or disclose personal information
with persons or entities not affiliated with or employed by Teb's Troops, except
with your consent or when we reasonably determine it is necessary to do
so in order to comply with the law or protect the safety, property or
legal rights of Teb's Troops or others.
Participation in certain programs available on the Site means that
information you provide may be distributed or released publicly. Your
participation in these programs is voluntary.
When you create a profile or register with the Site, you become a
registered user with password access and we use your Profile
Information to verify your identity, create your user account, and help
us to offer you more personalized features, improve our Site, and
provide you with information that is of the most interest to you. Such
Profile Information is also compiled and analyzed on an aggregated
basis that does not reveal your personal identity ("Aggregated Data").
We may share this Aggregated Data with business partners, content
providers or other third parties to advance goals of research,
education, dissemination of information, and the provision of services
and support for the treatment of cancer patients. In addition, you may
from time to time be provided with or given the opportunity to obtain
additional information of interest, updates, surveys, bulletins or
other communications from Teb's Troops or its partners ("Communications") via
e-mail. You may select to opt out of future Communications by
following the opt-out provision below.
How does Teb's Troops protect my information?
Teb's Troops and/or its subcontractors institute various electronic and
administrative safeguards to protect your information from unauthorized
access, including firewall technologies to help protect your data from
hackers and other unwanted visitors. Also, access to the Profile
Information contained in your account is protected by use of a
password, so keep your password private and secure. In the event that
we collect your credit card information, we will additionally utilize
Secure Sockets Layer Software to encrypt your credit card information
you input. Despite use of these safeguards, there are inherent risks
in transmission of electronic information. We cannot guarantee and do
not represent that your information will always be secure from
unauthorized access.
We also may use a managed hosting provider and/or other
subcontractors to assist us with the provision and maintenance of the
Site. If we do, we will impose on such provider confidentiality
obligations for the treatment of information. However, Teb's Troops
will not be responsible for for failures by these entities to
comply with these obligations.
What about the privacy policies of sites linking to the Site or to which the Site links?
We provide links on our Site to other web sites provided by third
parties. In addition, some users access our Site via another site or
a link on another site. We have no control over the sites that link to
our Site or to which our Site links. We are not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of any site other than our Site. The
existence of a link between our Site and other third party sites does
not imply an endorsement of these other sites. We are not responsible
for the content of such other sites, nor for the treatment of personal
information you might provide while visiting such other sites.
What constitutes my acceptance of this privacy policy?
By using the Site, you expressly consent to the use and disclosure
of information as described in this Privacy Policy. Your continued use
of the Site after the effective date of any modification to the
Privacy Policy will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed
terms. You agree to review the Privacy Policy each time you use the
Sites so that you are aware of such modifications.
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