2023/10/06
North American Taiwanese Medical Association (“NATMA”) and North American Taiwanese Medical Association Foundation (“NATMA Foundation”) are committed to protecting your privacy. Our goal is to keep your information safe while also improving your experience.
This Privacy Policy applies when you make a donation to NATMA or NATMA Foundation, or when you visit our site natma.org. It also applies if you share your personal information with NATMA or NATMA Foundation. By visiting our websites, you are accepting this Privacy Policy. If you’d like a hard copy of our Privacy Policy, you can request one by contacting us.
We may use your submitted information to improve our promotional efforts, keep you updated about our work, analyze website usage, and improve our website’s content, layout, and services.
If you believe someone other than yourself has given your personal information to us, and you do not wish to be in our files, please contact us. We may receive information from other sources to improve our work, and it may lead to you receiving information we think you would find of interest.
DONOR INFORMATION
If you make a donation, either online or otherwise, we’ll request certain personally identifiable information about you (such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card information). This information ensures that we can securely process your donation and communicate with you about it. We may also use your information to keep you updated about our work and to improve our services. Rarely, it may also be used to improve our marketing initiatives. We do not sell or rent our mailing list to other organizations that solicit donations or sell any products.
MEMBER DIRECTORY INFORMATION
If you have used our website to join our directory, you may have submitted (through our site or otherwise) personal identifiable information. This might include your name, mailing address, contact number, email address in online or offline forms, as well as an electronic (or paper copy) of your resume and/or curriculum vitae. This information is strictly private. No information stored or submitted in such forms will be used for any purpose other than to assess your eligibility. By submitting this information, you are agreeing to have your information included in this directory, and the directory may be searchable by other members.
VOLUNTEERING INFORMATION
If you have used our website to signup for a volunteer position, you may have submitted (through our site or otherwise) personal identifiable information. This might include your name, address, telephone number, email address in online or offline forms, as well as an electronic (or paper copy) of your resume and/or curriculum vitae. This information is strictly private. No information stored or submitted in such forms will be used for any purpose other than to assess your eligibility.
OTHER INFORMATION
If you shared personal information (e.g. name, mailing address, and email address) for purposes other than donating or for the exchange directory (e.g. receiving an email newsletter or invitations to events), we collect, store, and use this information primarily for the purposes it was submitted. We may also use this information to improve our communication with you and provide additional information about our work that we think would be of interest to you. We may share this information and material with you via online social platforms, websites, phone, text/SMS, postal mail, or email, as permitted by applicable law. We do not share this information with any third parties except those that provide us with certain services like database hosting.
We may receive information about you from other sources (e.g. publicly-available databases), and this may be combined with other information we already have about you.
We may work with other companies to manage our databases, and that may include processing and handling of donations or payments. These companies may need to access personal identifiable information for our work, and we require them to keep all of your personal information confidential. They are only authorized to use this information as necessary to provide their specific services to us.
As is the norm nowadays, typical browsing may come with information being collected about you (e.g. IP address, mobile-related information if relevant, referring site, pages visited, etc.). This information is standardly collected, and the information is used to improve your experience navigating the site. Cookies and other tracking technologies are used to help you find the information you are looking for. Cookies are only used to obtain non-personal information. If you prefer, you can usually set your browser to refuse cookies. Please keep in mind that if you disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website.
Our website may also have social media features. Use of these features may lead to collection of your IP address and other browsing information. These social media features/widgets may fall under the privacy and security policies of other companies. Interaction with these social media features may result in targeted promotions or advertisements through online or offline means.
Our website includes social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button, and widgets, such as the “Share This” button. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies providing them. We may work with data providers to target advertising to you personally through online and offline methods including email, display media, and direct mail. This advertising may be directed to you because you visited or logged in to our website. When we generate this advertising, data we collect from you through online cookies and other technologies may be combined with other de-identified data (such as a hashed, non-readable email, or postal address) in order to tailor ads to you based on your preferences and other information.
SECURITY
We do our best to protect your personal information. If you have questions or concerns about the security of your personal information, please contact us.
