Privacy Policy
Last updated: May 11, 2023
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
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Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
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Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
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Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to HypoPARAthyroidism Association, Inc., 1650 Double Falls Dr Frisco, TX 75036.
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Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
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Country refers to: California, United States
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Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cell phone or a digital tablet.
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Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
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Service refers to the Website.
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Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
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Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
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Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
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Website refers to HypoPARAthyroidism Association, Inc., accessible from https://hypopara.org/
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You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are files that websites send to your computer or other Internet-connected devices to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings on your device.
To control which web servers collect information by automated means, we place tags on our web pages called “web beacons,” which are small files that link web pages to particular web servers and their cookies.
See below for details on what information is collected by cookies and how we use that information.
How and why do we use Cookies?
We use cookies to improve the use and functionality of our Site and to gain a better understanding of how visitors use it. Cookies help us tailor our Site to your personal needs and to improve user-friendliness.
The cookies that we use
Our Site may use first-party and third-party cookies, as well as other types of tracking tools.
First-party cookies are set by our Site. When you visit the Site you may also receive cookies from third party websites or domains. We endeavor to identify these cookies before they are used so that you can decide whether or not you wish to accept them. More information about these cookies is available further in this Cookie Notice as well as on the relevant third party’s website.
The following table provides information about the cookies which we use:
| Host | Cookie Name | Description | Expiration | Type of Service |
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| hypopara.org | _ga | This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. | 2 years | Analytics/Performance |
| hypopara.org | _ga_E3HH52DNRK |
This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. |
2 years | Analytics/Performance |
| hypopara.org | _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. | 30 minutes | Analytics/Performance |
| hypopara.org | _hjFirstSeen | This cookie is set to identify a new user's first session. | 30 minutes | Analytics/Performance |
| hypopara.org | _hjIncludedInSessionSample_3479601 | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | End of Session | Analytics/Performance |
| hypopara.org | _hjSession_3479601 | This cookie is set to capture user behavior during a single session. | End of Session | Analytics/Performance |
| hypopara.org | _hjSessionUser_3479601 | This cookie is used to identify a new user's first session. | End of Session | Analytics/Performance |
| hypopara.org | klaro | This cookie is used to remember user preferences for cookie consent. | 1 year | Essential/Functional |
| .youtube.com | CONSENT | This cookie stores the user's preferences and other information, such as the preferred language and number of search results to be shown on Google's search page. | 20 years | Essential |
| .youtube.com | GPS | This cookie registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on GPS location. | 30 minutes | Analytics |
| .youtube.com | PREF | This cookie stores user preferences and other information, such as preferred language, how many search results to be shown on a page, and whether or not to enable Google's SafeSearch filter. | 10 years | Essential |
| .youtube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 179 days | Analytics |
| .youtube.com | YSC | This cookie registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | End of session | Analytics |
Local Storage and Session Storage
- Local Storage: Description of the local storage mechanism used by your website or application.
- Session Storage: Description of the session storage mechanism used by your website or application.
The following table provides information about the local and session storage which we use:
| Host | Storage Key | Description | Expiration | Type of Data | Type of Service |
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| hypopara.org | hjActiveViewportIds | This key is used by the Hotjar tracking script to store the ID of the currently active viewport on the page. | N/A | Alphanumeric string | Hotjar tracking script |
| hypopara.org | _hjRecordingEnabled | This key is used by the Hotjar tracking script to determine whether session recording is enabled for the current user session. | Until the end of the session | Boolean | Hotjar tracking script |
| hypopara.org | _hjRecordingLastActivity | This key is used by the Hotjar tracking script to store the timestamp of the user's last activity on the website, for the purpose of determining when to stop recording the user's session. | Until the end of the session | Timestamp | Hotjar tracking script |
| hypopara.org | hjViewportId | This key is used by the Hotjar tracking script to store the ID of the current viewport on the page. | Until the end of the session | Alphanumeric string | Hotjar tracking script |
| hypopara.org | campaign | This key is used to store a JSON object that contains referral and UTM attribution data for the current user session, which is passed to any form submissions. | Until the end of the session | JSON object | Functional |
Our content delivery network (CDN)
In addition to the cookies and other tracking technologies described above, our website works with a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that enables our website to load correctly and securely reach website visitors.
Our CDN is provided by Cloudflare, a company headquartered in the United States of America. You can see OneTrust Privacy Notice for more information about our vetted vendors. Because of the function of a CDN (secure delivery of website content to the right website visitor), Cloudflare's systems collect payload data from HTTP requests, including website visitors' IP addresses. Whereas payload is localized to the region where visitors come from, IP addresses are securely transferred to the Cloudflare servers in the United States, securely stored in volatile storage for a maximum of seven days, and then they are deleted.
Cloudflare uses the Anycast routing technology to enable its CDN functionalities without OneTrust needing to store or retain any payload data processed during an HTTP request and deliver content cached in the nearest Cloudflare's Edge Server. We receive only the communication from Cloudflare about what kind of element is necessary to load (e.g. HTML elements like text, fonts, and layout) due to a user's visit to our website.
Our CAPTCHA solution
Our website uses Turnstile, a security solution provided by Cloudflare, to protect against automated attacks such as brute-force attempts, credential stuffing, and other types of attacks that can harm our website and its visitors. When a visitor accesses our website, their device is checked against a reputation database maintained by Cloudflare to determine whether it poses a threat. If the device is deemed suspicious, Cloudflare Turnstile may present the visitor with a challenge, such as a CAPTCHA, to verify that they are a human. The challenges include proof-of-work, proof-of-space, probing for web APIs, and various other challenges for detecting browser quirks and human behavior.
Despite Turnstile being a cookieless solution, depending on how your browser console displays the network information, you might see a domain request on the cookies section from Cloudflare (challenges.cloudflare.com) indicating a potential nameless cookie. This behavior occurs as Cloudflare uses JavaScript challenges to gather the access signals about the visitor/browser from this domain to perform the validation process, and confirm data without actually collecting or storing that information. Turnstile might look to your session data (like headers, user agent, and browser characteristics) to validate users based on Cloudflare's information collected directly from the vendor (e.g., device details).
You can access more details about Turnstile here.
Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us by email: [email protected]