Privacy Statement & Security Policy

The Parkinson's Disease Association of San Diego is committed to protecting your privacy.  As such, and to guard against fraud or misuse of your confidential information, we strictly adhere to all federal and state requirements regarding secure data storage and consumer protection law.  Additionally, we do not generate, rent or sell mailing lists and will never share your personal information with any third parties.

The information you provide is used to deliver services and to keep you informed of the Association's activities, including special events and other fundraising and volunteer opportunities. Please call (858) 273-6763 or Click for Email Address to submit your request to be removed from our distribution lists.

The following Privacy Statement provides details about how your personal information is collected and used.

Information Collection and Use

We will not sell, share, or rent your personal information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.  PDASD collects information from our visitors at several different points on our website.  Our website offers several opportunities for visitors to register for events, seminars, workshops and informational e-mailings.

Our registration forms are often linked to PDASD's mailing lists and require users to give contact information (such as name and e-mail address).  We use this information to send information about our company, programs and services as requested by our visitors.  Visitors may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time (see the Choice/Opt-Out section below).

Sharing and Usage

We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information with third parties for commercial uses.  Occasionally, we enter into contracts with third parties so they can assist us in serving you (for example, customer service and technical support, which is provided by Priceless Possibilities, creator or the PDASD website technology).  Our contracts specifically prohibit the use of any of your personal information for their own purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information provided to them.

We may disclose or report personal information in limited circumstances where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required under the law.  For example, we may be required to disclose personal information to cooperate with law enforcement authorities to comply with a legal process such as a court order, subpoena, search warrant, or other law enforcement request.

Use of Web Technologies

We use a variety of technologies on our website. Among these are cookies; a piece of information that our website provides to your browser when you visit our site.  Cookies allow us to verify the login status of visitors linked directly with our website, or to track point of entry to point of registration for those signing up for workshops or seminars, our monthly newsletter, etc.  Cookies also allow us to track overall site usage to determine areas visitors prefer, enabling us to make your visit to our website easier by recognizing you when you return and helping to provide you with a customized experience.  Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site.

If you choose to disable cookies, you may still use our site however, you may have limited access to some areas within the site.  We may access and set cookies using web beacons, also known as single-pixel GIFs which are invisible graphical images.  These web beacons provide useful information regarding our site such as which pages are being viewed by our visitors.  When we send you e-mail, we may include a single-pixel GIF to allow us to determine the number of people who open our e-mails.

When you click on a link in an email, we record this individual response which allows us to customize our communications with you.  We also keep track of activity on our website via log files stored on our web servers.  We collect information such as IP address, browser type and version, and pages you view.  We also keep track of how you got to our site and any links you click on to leave our site.

Once you leave our site, we do not track you.  We use your website activity to assist us in offering you a personalized web experience, assist you with customer service and technical support, and to diagnose problems with our server.  Some of our pages provide links to third-party websites, such as national Parkinson's Associations and/or other Parkinson's websites we may be affiliated with, or websites providing valuable information on Parkinson's research and treatment options.

Because PDASD does not control the information policies or practices of these third parties, you should review their privacy policies to learn more about how they collect and use personally identifiable information.

Security

We take every precaution to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information by using industry-recognized security safeguards such as firewalls, coupled with carefully developed security procedures to protect your information from access, loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration.

When we ask for sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, we protect it through the use of encryption during transmission, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.  PDASD also takes care to reinforce the importance of our website visitors' security and privacy among its employees.

Our employees are trained and required to safeguard your information and, using physical, electronic and procedural safeguards, we restrict access to personal information to those employees and agents for business purposes only.  Additionally, we use internal and external resources to review the adequacy of our security procedures.

Choice/Opt-Out

PDASD provides its visitors the opportunity to opt-in, opt-out or change preferences via a link in the footer of our e-mail messages.  These options are made available when you sign-up for our informational e-mail campaigns and in e-mail messages delivered from our website.

Click for Email Address to have your personal information deleted from our database or call (858) 273-6763.

Notification of Changes

If we change our privacy policy, we post those changes on our website so visitors are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances (if any) we may choose to disclose it.