We use the information you provide to personalize your experience, run surveys, improve our services or website functionality, provide a service you request, and share important information with you (such as details about programs and events), or similar activities.
We specifically want to draw your attention to how we use cookies. We use information gathered through cookies—such as details about which pages you visit, where you click, and what you search for—to enable website functionality and refine our understanding of how you engage with our website. This helps us improve your experience and show you personalized content.
Sometimes we share information with trusted third parties, including our analytic vendors, to help us carry out the above purposes. For example, we may have our vendor set a cookie and receive the resulting information because they can provide specialized insight and analysis to guide us in our work. But any vendor with whom we share information can only use the information in connection with our specified purpose and at our direction. Except in limited circumstances described below, we do not sell your personal information to marketers, and we never share identifiable information collected from surveys.
Our disclosure practices for information you provide when you donate online to us or register for a fundraising event, however, are slightly different than our practices for other information. Our philanthropy department, the Boston Children’s Hospital Trust (“the Trust”), may share relevant data with vendors to help with donation and event processing. The Trust may also contact you directly about opportunities to support the hospital. The Trust may also share our donor lists with a few, selected organizations. If you don’t want your name and address included in this list-sharing program, you can opt-out by emailing privacypolicy@chtrust.org or sending a letter to Privacy Policy, Children’s Hospital Trust, 401 Park Drive, Suite 602, Boston, MA 02215. You may also opt out using any of the options provided by the Trust, such as check-box opt-outs, included in any outreaches by the Trust.
It is possible that we could be forced to disclose visitors’ information in response to a search warrant, subpoena, court order, or other legal process. Disclosures may also be appropriate to protect our legal rights and the security or integrity of our website, or to avoid liability. Those kinds of disclosures are highly unlikely, but possible.
