Charles B. Wang Community Health Center (CBWCHC) is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website and subscribers to our mailing lists. This privacy policy describes what information we gather from you through our website, how we use that information and what we do to protect it.

In this policy, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center refers to CBWCHC staff, board members, cooperating attorneys, interns, and consultants, all of whom are bound by law or contract to keep information they receive as part of their assistance to CBWCHC confidential.

This website, cbwchc.org (“website”), is operated on behalf of Charles B. Wang Community Health Center (“CBWCHC”, “we”, “us” and “our”). It is our policy to protect your Personal Information (as defined below) and to use it in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

What information do we collect?

cbwchc.org servers may record the numerical Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.

This information (“Non-Personal Information”) does NOT identify you personally. We use this Non-Personal Information to monitor the effectiveness of our site and identify areas of interest and improvements.

If you choose to use certain features and functions of the site, we ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”). By providing such information, you consent to our collection and use of it, as described in this Website Privacy Policy. We do not collect any Personal Information about you when you visit the site unless you give us that information. The Personal Information you provide includes information provided during any registration process, including contact information, such as your name, organization name, address and email address, and phone number. Any Personal Information is stored securely at an off-site location.

We collect information from you when you subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form.

When donating or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site without registering and entering personal information.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in the following ways:

• To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you);
• To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs);
• To process transactions;
• To send periodic emails;
• The email address you provide for payment processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your payment or request, in addition to sending occasional company news, updates, promotions, related product or service information, etc. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include an ‘unsubscribe from this list’ link at the bottom of emails.
• In connection with legal proceedings, such as to comply with any court order, legal process, or respond to any governmental or regulatory request. See section below on ‘Compelled Disclosure’
• To transfer information in the event of an organizational restructuring;
• For system administration and internal reporting purposes; and/or
• To monitor and evaluate our websites and identify where we should make changes or expand services.

Compelled Disclosure

If we are required by law to disclose the information that you have submitted, we will independently object to overly broad requests for access to information about users of our site. Unless we are prohibited by law. We will attempt to provide you with notice that a request for your information has been made in order to give you an opportunity to object to the disclosure. We will attempt to provide this notice by email, if you have given us an email address. If you do not challenge the disclosure request, we may be legally required to turn over your information.

Links

We provide links on CBWCHC sites to other sites of interest. We do not endorse the content of these sites or guarantee that they will abide by this Privacy Policy. Your use of such linked sites is subject to the terms and conditions and privacy policies of the providers of those sites.

Use of Cookies

We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each site that collects Personal Information.

The use of cookies enables us to enhance your visits to the site.

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser. Cookies enable us to recognize your browser and provide features that are tailored to your needs.

We may use information from cookies for purposes of planning and tracking, as well as assessing the technical function of the site. We may also use cookies to track information about which pages you visit within the site to help us gauge the effectiveness of the site or our content.

Changes to this Statement

We may amend this Privacy Policy at our discretion at anytime. If we make changes in any substantial way, we will notify you by posting a notice of the change on our website.  Your continued use of the Site after any update to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.