Privacy Policy

Last updated: February 15, 2021

Compass to Care, the Mike & Sandy Ernsdorff Childhood Cancer Foundation, is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. We collect and manage your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy (the “Policy”). This Policy applies to all information collected through our website (https://www.compasstocare.org) and/or any related services, marketing or events (we refer to them collectively in this Policy as the “Services”).

Please read this Policy carefully. This Policy describes the information that Compass to Care may collect from you and how that information may be used. By using our website and interacting with our Services, you agree to the collection and use of your information in accordance with this Policy.

Information We Collect

We collect data about you when you interact with our website and participate in our Services, including when you create a user account or join our mailing list. If you do not provide us with the information we may request from time to time, we may not be able to provide you with the full range of our Services.

Information You Provide

Account Registration

If you register for an account through our website or otherwise engage with our Services, we may collect information about you, including personal identifiers (such as your name, physical address, email address, phone number) and other personal information you provide (such as your birthday and gender).

Contact Form

If you complete the contact form on our website, we may use the information you provide to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that pertains to receiving support from or providing support to our charitable organization. You can opt-out of receiving marketing information through any of the methods described in the “Your Privacy Rights” section in this policy.

Financial Transactions

If you submit a payment to Compass to Care online, we use a third party service provider to collect and process your information. Compass to Care does not store your financial or payment card information.

Cookies and Automatic Data Collection

A cookie is a small text file that can be sent to your browser and placed on your device that allows us to recognize and remember you. Our website uses cookies, tracking pixels and related technologies. Through these methods, we may collect information about you, including personal identifiers (such as your name and e-mail), IP address, web browser version, location of your browser or mobile device, and the actions that you take on our website.

You may adjust your internet browser to not accept or to delete our cookies at any time. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse to accept cookies, our system will issue cookies when you visit our website.

We use the following types of cookies:

Advertising

Tracking cookies enable us to identify your device when you move between different digital platforms, so that we can serve targeted advertising to you. We may also send cookies from our advertising partners, which vary depending on who the advertisers are. Additionally, we use non-tracking cookies to store user decisions related to your advertising and opt-out choices.

Comments

If you leave a comment on our website, you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website via cookies. This allows you to avoid having to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Articles

If you edit or publish an article on our website, a related cookie will be sent to your browser. This article-related cookie includes no personal information and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited or published. This article-related cookie expires after one day.

Third-Party Applications

As described above, our website contains cookies that may collect information about your visits to our website. In addition, our website employs the following third-party cookies:

  • Google Analytics: Our website uses Google Analytics to help us analyze how users use the website and target users with appropriate advertisements. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google. Information from Google Analytics is used to evaluate your use of our website.

 

  • Facebook Pixel: Our website also uses a Facebook pixel, which collects data to help us keep track of what users do after they see or click on a Facebook advertisement. This allows us to monitor the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements.

 

Managing Cookies

You can use the methods described below to manage cookies. You must take these steps on each browser or device that you use. If you replace, change or upgrade your browser or device, or delete your cookies, you may need to use these opt-out tools again.

If the browser you use is not listed above, please refer to your browser’s help menu for information on how to manage cookies.

Embedded Content From Third-Party Websites

Articles on our website may include embedded content (such as videos, images, or other media) that comes from other websites belonging to third parties. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website. This means that these other websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account with the third-party website and are logged in to that website.

Compass to Care is only responsible for this Policy and the content of our website. Our website may contain links to other third-party websites that are not under our control and that we do not sponsor, endorse or maintain. Compass to Care is not responsible for the content or the privacy practices of such websites, and they are not governed by this Policy. Please consult the privacy policies of those websites for information about their privacy practices.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We collect the Personal Information described above in order to:

  • Perform an action to which you have expressly consented;
  • Provide our Services;
  • Provide you with customer service and respond to your inquiries;
  • Improve our Services and website, including by researching how visitors use our website;
  • Protect our website and Services against fraud or other illegal activity;
  • Process and communicate with you about donations;
  • Serve targeted advertisements to you;
  • Connect our website to social media sites;
  • Ensure compliance with the terms of our Services and any other applicable rule or requirements;
  • Comply with our legal obligations;
  • Evaluate and negotiate a potential merger, sale of assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our operations to another company; and
  • Maintain the internal operations of Compass to Care.

Sharing of Personal Information

Compass to Care uses your personal information as set forth in this Policy but information is not shared or sold to external entities.

Keeping Your Information Safe

We have implemented controls in an effort to protect your information against unauthorized access. However, you can also help keep your data secure. You are responsible for choosing a secure password when creating your account to log into our website. You should keep this password confidential and choose a password that you do not use on any other website. You should not share your password with anyone else, including anyone who works for us.

Although we will do our best to protect your information, transmission of information to and from our Services is at your own risk.

Your Privacy Rights

If you register on our website, we store the information that you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit or delete that information, except for your username, at any time.

If you have registered for an account or left comments on our website, you can request to receive an exported file of the information we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we delete any information we retain about you, with the exception of any data we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Upon request, either by clicking the Unsubscribe button on the bottom of our email communication, or by sending an email to Info@CompassToCare.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line, we will remove your contact information from our databases, except where we are required to retain the data for administrative, legal, or security purposes (for example, charitable giving history tied to income tax receipts).

Notice to Residents of California

Our website does not respond to “Do not Track” signals sent by browsers.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits individuals who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about the categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

Notice to Residents of Nevada

We do not presently sell any of the information we collect about you to any third parties. If we were to do so in the future, we will update this Policy and provide Nevada residents with the opportunity to opt-out of the sale of your personal information.

European Union (“EU”) Residents

Compass to Care is a not-for-profit organization, and does not currently have any programs or operations in the EU. Should we obtain actual knowledge that any information we collect has been provided by a resident of the EU, we will promptly delete that information.

Personal Information of Minors

This website is not intended for use by minors, and we do not knowingly solicit or collect personally identifiable information from minors. If we obtain actual knowledge that we have collected information from someone under the age of 16, we will promptly delete that information.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We ask that you read this Privacy Policy from time to time. We may modify it at any time in our sole discretion. If we make material changes to this Policy that change our rights to use your information that we have previously collected about you, we will notify and/or obtain your consent, as required by law. Any changes to this Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on our website.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or privacy concerns after reviewing this Privacy Policy, please send an email to Info@CompassToCare.org or send a letter to:

Compass to Care
Attn: Website Privacy Policy
6323 N Avondale Ave, Suite 250
Chicago, IL 60631