She was told, “enjoy the time you have left with your family; there’s nothing more we can do.” These are words no cancer patient hopes they’ll ever hear. But those were the words Annette Osborne heard from her oncologist. After battling cancer, …
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This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for The Markey Cancer Foundation ("MCF"). MCF is sincerely committed to your privacy. This statement explains what personally identifiable information we collect, how it's used and shared, what choices you have in disclosing your information, security, and how you can correct inaccuracies.
MCF is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. MCF collects information from our users at several different points on our website.
In using this website, a user may be asked to give their contact information (such as email address). This information is used to contact users and verify the authenticity of the information they have submitted. You will also have the option at that time to join our email mailing list. It is optional for users to provide additional personal information.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. We may, in the future, use cookies to store your login information on your computer. You can access much of our site without cookies, but there are some areas may require cookies. However, we do not use cookies to track your browsing history or match it with your identity for any purpose such as market research or advertising.
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
We may share aggregated demographic information with funders and other organizations. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
This website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. We do not use encryption or SSL and users should be aware that it is possible for information submitted to be intercepted by other parties. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our organizational administrators and webmasters) are granted access to personally identifiable information.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to marykay@markeycancerfoundation.org.
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that MCF is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
While it is not currently in place, we may, in the future, send an email newsletter to those users who have signed up to be on our mailing list. Every email from MCF will contain an option for the user to unsubscribe.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it.