TS Alliance Information/Donor Privacy Policy
The TS Alliance respects your privacy. We protect your personal information and adhere to the highest standards in gathering, using and safeguarding constituent information, including all donor personal and gift information. The TS Alliance does not rent, sell or trade our mailing lists. Information you provide – such as name, physical address, phone number or email address -- will be used only to deliver services and to keep you informed and up to date on TS Alliance activities, including programs, services, special events, funding needs, opportunities to volunteer or legislative alerts. The TS Alliance does not knowingly solicit information or contributions from minors under the age of 18 without the consent of a parent or guardian, and we request that anyone with knowledge of information or contributions from a minor immediately advise us. If at any time you wish to receive less information via mail or online, or wish to be removed from any or all of our communications, or have any concerns with respect to this policy or any information provided or obtained by the TS Alliance, simply contact us by phone at 800-225-6872 or via e-mail at . We will gladly accommodate your request.
Website Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on and retrieved from your computer by our website for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is an industry standard and you will find them in use at most major websites. The TS Alliance website uses cookies in a variety of ways. For example, cookies are the simplest way for us to track user trends and patterns, such as how many people use different parts of the website. This helps us better understand which parts of our site users find valuable and know what areas to improve. Most computers are set up to automatically accept cookies. However, you can reset your browser settings to refuse cookies, or alert you when a cookie is being sent so you can choose whether to accept it. Unfortunately, if you choose to refuse our cookies, some parts of our site, in particular the Search function, may not function properly.
Traffic Data
Each time a visitor comes to , we collect some basic technical information. We use software to keep track of traffic to our site and acquire such information as the location from which the traffic originates and which particular pages within the site are being viewed and for how long. We may know for instance, that we had 10,000 hits and 2,000 individual visitors to our website today, but we do not know their names, addresses, or other personal information.
Online Security
The TS Alliance takes online security of information very seriously. Physical and electronic procedures have been put in place to safeguard the security and integrity of personal information. The TS Alliance encrypts billing information wherever requested on the website. Any TS Alliance agent and/or contractor with access to personal information obtained on our website is also bound to adhere to these procedures as part of his/her contract or by the policies within our employee manual.
Third Parties
Your name or other information will not be shared with third parties unless you have specifically requested or agreed for us to do so, such as when you choose to participate in our TSC Connect, Step Forward to Cure TSC recognition programs, donor match programs or research programs, or when disclosure may be required by law.
Updated and approved by the TS Alliance Executive Committee on August 18, 2017.