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Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 16, 2018

St. Jude Pain Centers is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the a powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the St. Jude Pain Centers website and governs data collection and usage. By using the St. Jude Pain Centers website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

St. Jude Pain Centers collects personally identifiable information including, but not limited to your e-mail address, full name, address or telephone number. St. Jude Pain Centers also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by St. Jude Pain Centers. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring web site addresses. This information is used by St. Jude Pain Centers for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the St. Jude Pain Centers website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through St. Jude Pain Centers’ public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: St. Jude Pain Centers does not read any of your private online communications.

St. Jude Pain Centers encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites linked to from St. Jude Pain Centers so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. St. Jude Pain Centers is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the St. Jude Pain Centers and St. Jude Pain Centers’ family of websites.

Use of your Personal Information

St. Jude Pain Centers collects and uses your personal information to operate the St. Jude Pain Centers website and deliver the services you have requested. St. Jude Pain Centers also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from St. Jude Pain Centers and its affiliates. St. Jude Pain Centers may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

St. Jude Pain Centers does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. St. Jude Pain Centers may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, St. Jude Pain Centers may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to St. Jude Pain Centers, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

St. Jude Pain Centers does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

St. Jude Pain Centers keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within St. Jude Pain Centers, in order to determine what St. Jude Pain Centers pages are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within St. Jude Pain Centers to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

St. Jude Pain Centers websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on St. Jude Pain Centers or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of St. Jude Pain Centers; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of St. Jude Pain Centers, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The St. Jude Pain Centers website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize St. Jude Pain Centers pages, or register with St. Jude Pain Centers site or services, a cookie helps St. Jude Pain Centers to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same St. Jude Pain Centers website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the St. Jude Pain Centers features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the St. Jude Pain Centers services or websites you visit.

This site uses Google Analytics remarketing codes and logs when users view specific pages or take specific actions on this website. This will allow St. Jude Pain Centers to provide customized advertisements across the internet based on your specific interests. We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to St. Jude Pain Centers website. If you do not wish to receive this type of advertisement from us in the future you can opt out using the opt-out form provided by Google.

Security of your Personal Information

St. Jude Pain Centers secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. St. Jude Pain Centers secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

St. Jude Pain Centers will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. St. Jude Pain Centers encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how St. Jude Pain Centers is protecting your information.

Contact Information

St. Jude Pain Centers welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that St. Jude Pain Centers has not adhered to this Statement, please contact St. Jude Pain Centers. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.