THE NATIONAL HEART INSTITUTE PRIVACY COMMITMENT
This privacy policy was last updated August 2022
The National Heart Institute will collect personal information through its website such as your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, company name and position. The National Heart Institute may use this information to respond to your requests for information, products or services. The National Heart Institute may also collect information that in most cases willnot allow us to directly identify you, such as information gathered through "cookies" (see below).
When you contact the National Heart Institute via its website to request or to access information, you are asked to provide your personal information. By providing your personal information to the National Heart Institute via its website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and to receive communications from the National Heart Institute.
The information you provide to us will be available to the National Heart Institute, its subsidiaries and third parties working with or on behalf of the National Heart Institute. Access to your information and the equipment processing it, is at all times restricted to appropriate staff. Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, the National Heart Institute will not trade, sell, release, share or transfer your personal information for use by any business outside the National Heart Institute organization without your consent, or in a form other than what was disclosed to you at the time the information was collected, unless permitted or required by law.
The National Heart Institute reserves the right to disclose all information collected to the extent required by law or to respond to the judicial process. The National Heart Institute may also provide any or all collected information to a third party in connection with the sale, assignment, or other transfer of the business of the particular website to which the information relates if such third party agrees to treat all such information substantially in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The National Heart Institute takes reasonable measures to maintain the confidentiality of your personal information regardless of the country where such information is stored or transferred to.
In jurisdictions with data protection and privacy laws, and where contractual commitments require, the National Heart Institute ensures that individuals can exercise all relevant rights with respect to their personal information collected by the National Heart Institute via its websites, including, but not limited to, the right of access and correction, to withdraw consent at any time, object to data processing, request data deletion, restrict aspects of data processing, and request transmission of provided personal information in a common digital format (e.g., pdf) to themselves or another organization.
Information Security
The National Heart Institute maintains a reasonable level of physical, electronic and managerial procedures in order to protect the information that it collects from its website. This includes maintaining computer equipment, networks, programs and documentation to a common standard and restricting access to equipment and information to appropriate staff.
Sale of Personal Information
In the preceding twelve (12) months, the National Heart Institute has not sold personal information.
Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights
You have the right to request that the National Heart Institute disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will disclose to you the information requested, including:
- The categories of personal information we collected about you.
- The categories of sources of the personal information we collected about you.
- Our business purpose for collecting that personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected.
- Information about any sales of your personal information.
In addition, upon request we will provide you with a copy of all of your personal information (Data Portability).
Deletion Request Rights
You have the right to request that the National Heart Institute delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will delete your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. If an exception applies, you will be notified that the data will not be deleted, along with specific information about the basis for the exception.
Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a request to us by either:
- Calling us at 310 289- 5224
- Sending an email to info@NationalHeartInstitute.org
- Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your personal information. You may also make a request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period.
Your request must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
- Describe your request with sufficient detail to allow us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
- Provide a means to contact you.
We will only use personal information provided in a CCPA request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
Response Timing
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
Fee
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your CCPA request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this Notice, the ways in which the National Heart Institute collects and uses your information described above, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us by either:
- Calling us at 310 289- 5224
- Sending an email to info@NationalHeartInstitute.org
Cookies and Other Web Tracking Techniques and How We Use Them
When you use our sites, the National Heart Institute will assign cookie files (“cookies”) to you, which are a small amount of information we send to your web browser. Cookies enable the computers operating our websites to differentiate between visitors and to track the patterns of activities engaged in by different visitors. By tracking such activities, the computers operating our websites can recognize a visitor and customize certain features for that visitor. We may also use aggregated, non-identifiable information regarding persons who visit our site in order to learn more about the use of the site and how we can improve it.
You may be able to modify your browser preferences to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose not to accept cookies, you may not be able to use those functions of the websites that require registration.
We may also receive IP addresses in the normal course of the operation of our website. An IP address is a number assigned to you by your Internet service provider so you can access the Internet. Although we do receive IP addresses, we do not use them to identify you personally or disclose them to others.
This website uses the following web analytic tools. The tools use cookies to help the web team analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by the following companies under their privacy policies:
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
Cookie List
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different from the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts.