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Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndromes Foundation
Privacy and Security Statement

This Privacy and Security Statement applies only to www.thecasfoundation.org, and register.thecasfoundation.org, operated by Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndromes Foundation  In this Privacy and Security Statement, "CAS Foundation" refers to Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndromes Foundation, the operator of this website. CAS Foundation and its officers, directors, employees, volunteers, agents' contractors, subcontractors, and all other persons acting on CAS Foundation’s behalf are required to honor this Privacy and Security Statement.

This policy is not intended to govern any existing or future web sites and/or services operated by third parties or companies affiliated with CAS Foundation, including, but not limited to:
 
paypal.com¹                      rackspace.com²

allkids.org³

¹(Paypal, Inc. is Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndromes Foundation donation processor).
²(Rackspace, US Inc. is Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndromes Foundation website hosting company).
³(All Children's Hospital is Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndromes Foundation screening partner).

We suggest that you review the privacy policies of those websites to learn how they collect, protect and use your information about you collected on their sites.

Some Terms We Use in this Policy

Personal Information is any information that identifies you with the exception of professional information such as your business address, business telephone and facsimile numbers and business e-mail address. It also includes but is not limited to your credit card number, and health or medical history.

Cookies are small text files containing unique identification numbers that your web browser software transfers from our web site to your computer when you visit our site.  CAS Foundation uses cookies to help us recognize your browser, make it easier for you to use our site and to help us customize your experience. Our use of cookies is described more fully below.

A Business Partner is an entity or person with which or whom CAS Foundation has an ongoing business relationship to provide test and data analysis, to assist in developing our website or to provide marketing services or specialized products or services or information to visitors to our site.

Privacy

The Personal Information We Collect, How it is Gathered and Used

We begin collecting personal information from you when you schedule a screening appointment with us. You may schedule a screening appointment with us through our website by by providing certain personal or contact information (e.g., email address, phone number, gender, date of birth). You may also schedule a screening appointment with us through our Customer Care Center by providing the same personal or contact information to one of our customer service representatives.

If you choose a heart screening or other service through our website, we may ask you to provide us with personal information and/or health information relating to you and any family member. This information will be used as a component of the overall screening assessment by licensed cardiologists and physicians that are part of the CAS Foundation Business Partner network.

If you choose to obtain heart screening services via our site, you must provide the following information: your name, telephone number (in case our customer service personnel need to reach you about your apoointment), mailing and/or shipping address, email address (so that we may send an email message about your appointment and, if you opted-in, to send you our email newsletter and/or special offers). In the following paragraphs, we outline the services and activities in connection with which we gather your Personal Information and provide details on how that Personal Information is used.

All of the following services are optional; if you do not wish to provide Personal Information, you may simply decline to take advantage of that specific service.

Personal Information is collected in the following ways:

• Online Scheduling - To schedule your appointment, to contact you regarding your appointment, or to answer any questions/concerns you might have expressed.
• Email Newsletters - For your convenience, when you register as a member or schedule a heart screening, the option to receive our periodic email newsletter and special offers is pre-checked. If you do not want to receive this service, please un-check the "Yes" box when scheduling a heart screening or access the unsubscribe link provided in the email message.
• Surveys - Occasionally, CAS Foundation conducts voluntary surveys through its website or directly through emails. These surveys may ask customers for background information and about their preferences. You are under no obligation to be a part of any survey. You may at any time opt-out of an email survey by accessing the Un-subscribe link provided in the email message. The information CAS Foundation collects through surveys is aggregated and is used to better serve our customers' by helping us determine our customers' heart screening needs and improve customer satisfaction and this site. Again, participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose the information requested. We do not sell, transfer or otherwise disclose any of the information gathered in these surveys but may share the results of the survey with our Business Partners in accordance with this Statement.
• Promotions and Other Special Offers - We ask for only the Personal Information necessary to administer these special offers. You may be contacted about promotions and other special offers if you have opted to receive them. If you choose to opt-out of receiving such offers at any time after having chosen to participate in a promotion, raffle, or any other special offer it will not affect your chances of winning.  To stop emails about special offers, access the Un-subscribe link provided in the email message.
• Career Opportunities - We ask for only the Personal Information necessary for you to apply for employment. Personal Information submitted as part of a job application or in a résumé sent via email is not stored online and is shared only with persons involved in the hiring process at CAS Foundation.

The Personal Information We Share and Who We Share It With

CAS Foundation may make segments of your Personal Information available to organizations as noted below:

Business Partners

• We will share personal information and/or health information relating to you and any family member participating in our heart screening services with the licensed cardiologists and physicians that will review the screening results.  The licensed cardiologists and physicians will only access your personal information and/or health information to perform an interpretative assessment of the heart screening.  Your heart screening result will always include the electronic signature of the licensed cardiologist or physician that performed the interpretative assessment.
• If you have opted in to receive email from us we will share your name and email address with our email service provider that delivers our email newsletters and special offers, but its use of this information is only permitted in connection with their administration and delivery of our email program.

Disclosure Under Corporate Changes

• We may also sell, transfer or otherwise disclose Personal Information including but not limited to your name and mailing address, in connection with a fundamental corporate change such as a merger, consolidation, or the sale of substantially all assets.

Disclosure Under Legal Duty

• If compelled to do so by valid subpoena or court order or other governmental process, we may disclose your Personal Information as we are legally required to do. We may also use or disclose your Personal Information if necessary to protect the interests of CAS Foundation.

How You Can Control the Use of Your Personal Information

There are several methods to contact us listed in this section. If you would like to change your Personal Information in our records or remove your name from lists, contact us using one of the methods set out below. There are known methods that spammers can use to hide their identity by using other people's email address to send out emails.  If you have a question about the genuineness of an email you receive from CAS Foundation contact us using the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it email address.

• Email us at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and include your name, address, telephone number, email address, and a note of instruction; or
• Call us toll free at 1-866-722-8008 or
• Write to us at: CAS Foundation Inc., Attention:  Privacy Director, 100 Burtt Road, Andover, MA  01810, and include your name, address, telephone number, and a note of instruction; or
• To be removed from a "postal" mailing list, please use the contact information above.

How You Can Control Email Marketing You Receive From Us

You may cancel our email newsletters at any time by choosing the Un-subscribe link provided in each message or edit information as you schedule a heart screening at thecasfoundation.org.

Certain Technical Information You Should Know

Our Use of Cookies

"Cookies" are small files that are stored by your web browser to help a particular system recognize you and the pages you visited in a website. Our website uses cookies to make your online experience more convenient. For example, we may use a cookie to store your account information between sessions and to maintain information about the appointments you've requested during your session. Additionally, we may use data from cookies for a variety of internal purposes, such as studying how users navigate our website. We do not collect any personal information from cookies. Further, no other information we collect from cookies can be linked back to your personal information. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies. Even without a cookie, you can still use most of the features on our website, including scheduling and purchasing a heart screening appointment.

Collection of Analytical Data

We use third party web analytics services to track and analyze anonymous usage and volume statistical information from visitors to help us administer our website, improve our website's performance and to report website traffic. These web analytics services use cookies, and other web monitoring technologies to help track visitor behavior on our behalf. These services do not use these technologies to collect any personally identifiable information from website visitors.

Security

How We Strive to Protect Personal Information

At CAS Foundation, we have electronic and corporate policies and procedures in place for the security of every screening appointment scheduled online. We use Secure Socket Layer technology (SSL) to keep others from intercepting your information while it is being transmitted across the Internet. SSL technology is the industry standard method of communicating secure online transactions and is built into most major browsers. The secure mode begins when you initiate your appointment. All information, once on our server, is protected from any external intrusions.  Only CAS Foundation employees who require your Personal Information to serve you have access to your data, which is password protected. Employees who have access to Personal Information are trained in the privacy and security practices of this Statement.

CAS Foundation provides links to web sites outside of thecasfoundation.org as an added convenience to our users. CAS Foundation is not responsible for the privacy, terms of use or other policies of any other web site or their management of your Personal Information.

E-Mail Abuse

There are many unscrupulous individuals operating on the internet today who would think nothing of fabricating an email to make it appear that it comes from CAS Foundation. These individuals may be engaging in a practice know as "phishing" in which they attempt to trick unwary recipients of email into divulging Personal Information. CAS Foundation will rarely, if ever, request Personal Information in an unsolicited email message to you.

If you have any question about the genuineness of an email you receive that appears to be from CAS Foundation contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and do not furnish Personal Information in response to the email unless its authenticity can be verified.

Transaction Security

Secured communications on the web require attention to authentication, encryption and data integrity. All three are addressed by the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Authentication is the process of establishing that you are communicating with our web server, as opposed to another server assuming our identity. We have obtained a Verisign™ digital security certificate for thecasfoundation.org.  Verisign™ is an independent third party that authenticates the identity of others on the Internet. The Verisign™ certificate confirms that we are the recipients of your communication. Encryption is the process of scrambling data (through the use of keys and mathematical encoding algorithms) to prohibit anyone from understanding it if they intercept the data while it is on its way from your browser to our server. Encryption protects communications between your browser and our mainframe system. We have also implemented a firewall to protect all of our systems from intrusion. Data Integrity ensures the data passed between your browser and our server is not being tampered with while in transit. SSL protects information en route to us, and as mentioned, the Verisign™ certificate confirms that we are the recipients of this information. You can be assured that we strive to protect your data with the utmost care at all points in the process. However, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be absolutely secure. Therefore, we do not warrant or ensure the security of any information sent to us online. If you have questions, comments or concerns please contact us via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call us at 1-866-722-8008.

To ensure you are in SSL (Secure Socket Layer) or secure mode for your transactions, look at the address of the page. Secure pages will usually appear with an address that begins with https:// rather than the standard http://.

Other Matters You Should Know

Our Policies Regarding Children

We do not directly solicit our services to children; however, we do offer services to be administered to children for donations by adults. If you are under 18 years of age, please do not submit any information without the express consent and participation of a parent or guardian. We will not knowingly collect Personal Information about any person under 18 years of age without the express consent and participation of a parent or guardian.  If you believe that we have information from or about anyone under 18 years of age without the express consent and participation of a parent or guardian, please notify us immediately by email at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call us toll free at 1-866-722-8008.

Links to Other Sites

We provide links to other sites we think you may find informative. These sites operate independently of CAS Foundation and have established their own privacy and security policies. For the best online experience, we encourage you to review these policies before submitting any Personal Information through these sites.

Consent to Transfer

This web site is operated in the United States. Please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using this web site and/or providing us with your Personal Information through this web site, you consent to this transfer.

Updates to this Statement

We reserve the right to make changes at any time to our policies and/or alter the look and functionality of our web site. However, if we change how we use your Personal Information, we will post the policy change notification on the web site, and we will update this Statement accordingly. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement for the latest information on our privacy and security policies.

Our current Statement was last updated March 1, 2010.

For further information, about any of the information in this Statement, please contact the Privacy Director at the address listed above under the heading "How You Can Control the Use of Your Personal Information" or send an email to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .