To use certain portions of this website, you will be asked to complete a profile information form and provide contact information (such as name, address and email address) and/or financial information (such as credit card information and expiration date). We use this information to provide certain website services, including the facilitation of online donations and resource purchase orders, keeping supporter and donor lists, maintaining statistics, providing you with Friends for Life Medical publications, and providing you with other information, education, and services. Financial information will be used solely to process donations and purchases.

A “cookie” is a small piece of data that can be stored by a website onto your computer. Friends for Life Medical uses cookies in order to enhance your online user experience, facilitate donations, and facilitate online purchases. Friends for Life Medical uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie is stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following Internet browser help file directions. Your browser may recognize when a cookie has been sent to your system and will give you an opportunity to allow or refuse it. Friends for Life Medical’s website uses cookies for interaction with our online bookstore and the creation and use of personal website accounts. These cookies are used to identify you as a registered user and to allow you to access your site information, subscribe to publications, and submit donations, purchases, and other such transactions. We do not use cookies to track your activities on our website.

If you submit a user registration, Friends for Life Medical may occasionally send you information on resources, services, news, and other issues. If you register to receive a Friends for Life Medical publication, we will ask for your contact information to send you that publication. We respect your privacy and you may request for any such communication to be discontinued by deactivating your personal information. Please see the “correcting, deleting and deactivating personal information” section.

From time to time, Friends for Life Medical may provide links to other websites maintained by individuals or organizations outside of Friends for Life Medical. Friends for Life Medical is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. You are encouraged to read the privacy policy of such websites prior to providing personal information. These links are not an endorsement of these external websites or the values or opinions expressed therein. Should you visit these external websites, you will then be under the terms of service and privacy policy maintained by the sites/owners.

All transactions accomplished through this website are secured using a SSL encryption to protect sensitive data transmissions from your computer to our website. Friends for Life Medical also uses password protection to secure personal information. Friends for Life Medical may use software to verify your address to avoid session hijacking hacking attempts or other attacks.

You may access, adjust, remove your personal information, or deactivate your user registration or account by contacting Friends for Life Medical at [phone].