Huntsman Cancer Foundation Privacy Notice

 

Last updated: May 13, 2025

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Huntsman Cancer Foundation (“HCF,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respect your privacy. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) describes the processing of Personal Information (defined below) that is provided, collected, or disclosed while providing our products or services to you (“Services”) and our websites at hope.huntsmancancer.org and give.huntsmancancer.org (collectively, “Site”) , including when you apply for a job with us. It also describes rights you may have under applicable laws. Please read this Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your Personal Information and how we will treat it. To access this Notice in an alternative downloadable format, please click here.


Personal Information We Collect

We collect several categories of Personal Information from and about users of our Site and Services. “Personal Information” means information that uniquely identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you. The categories of Personal Information we collect may include:

  • Contact Information – If you submit an inquiry, register for an account (such as a Huntsman Heros account), or provide information on or through our Site or Services, we may collect your contact information including your name, mailing address, email address, and phone number.
     
  • Commercial Information – If you submit an inquiry, or provide information on our Site, we may collect commercial information including information about the Services you have shown interest in, such as using our Site to hold your own fundraiser (in which case we collect associated details like the campaign type) or collaborating with us on an actual or potential partnership.
     
  • Usage Information – When you use our Site, we may automatically record information, including your Internet Protocol address (IP Address), geolocation of your device, browser type, referring URLs (e.g., the website you visited before coming to our Site), domain names associated with your internet service provider, and any other information regarding your interaction with our Site.
     
  • Employment Information – If you apply for employment with us, we will collect Personal Information related to your potential employment, including your education and employment history, address and contact information, demographic information, and any other information included in your resume or application.
     
  • Communication Information – We may collect Personal Information contained within your communications with us via email, social media, telephone, or otherwise, and in certain cases we may use third-party service providers to do so. Where permitted by applicable law, we may collect and maintain records of calls and correspondence with our agents, representatives, or employees via message, chat, post, or similar functionality.
     
  • Health Information – Depending on how you use our Site and Services (such as our fundraising campaign pages) and the information you elect to disclose via those online features, we may collect health-related information about your experience with cancer (including, e.g., information about whether you or a family member have cancer).
     
  • Financial Information – If you use our Services, we may collect financial information such as credit card details via our third-party payment processor to facilitate online payments.
     

How We Collect Personal Information

  • Directly From You – We collect Personal Information that you provide to us directly, for example, if you choose to contact us, request information from us, sign up to receive updates, or otherwise utilize our Site or Services.
     
  • From Third Parties – We may collect Personal Information from third parties, including but not limited to business partners, advertising networks, social networks, data analytics providers, mobile device providers, Internet or mobile service providers, recruiters and job application portals, and background check providers.
     
  • Through Online Tracking Technologies – We use cookies and similar technologies to collect Personal Information automatically as you navigate our Site. For additional information regarding our use of these technologies, see the Cookies and Tracking Technologies section below.


How We Use Personal Information

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we use Personal Information:

  • To provide and personalize our Site and Services, such as processing donations, providing and personalizing our Services (including, but not limited to, campaign and fundraiser pages), providing customer service, maintaining or servicing accounts and campaign or fundraiser pages, verifying customer information, creating and maintaining business records and undertaking or providing similar services.
     
  • To optimize, improve, and maintain our Services, including understanding how users interact with our Services, gauging user interest in certain Services or Site functionality, assessing the efficacy of our outreach and marketing efforts, troubleshooting problems, and using donor information and trends to create targeted outreach and messaging designed to increase engagement in our mission.
     
  • For internal research and development, such as testing, verifying, and improving the quality of our Services or developing new ones.
     
  • For marketing and advertising, including using your information to send you messages, notices, newsletters, surveys, promotions, or event invitations about our own or third parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. We also use Personal Information to conduct interest-based advertising as discussed in the Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies section below. You can also unsubscribe from any marketing emails or text messages that we may send you by following the instructions included in the email or text correspondence or emailing us at [email protected].
     
  • For communicating with you, such as responding to your questions and comments or notifying you of changes to our Site or Services.
     
  • For legal, security, or safety reasons, such as protecting our and our users’ safety, property, or rights; complying with legal requirements; enforcing our terms, conditions, and policies; detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents; and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
     
  • As part of a corporate transaction, such as in connection with the sale of part or all of our assets or business, the acquisition of part or all of another business or another business’ assets, or another corporate transaction, including bankruptcy.
     
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, including purposes described when you provide the information or give your consent.

If you are applying for employment with us, we also use Personal Information to process your job application, to verify the information you have provided in your application, conduct interviews, perform background and reference checks, to communicate with you and answer your questions, to confirm your eligibility for employment, and improve our recruiting processes. We may also save your Personal Information for future employment opportunities with us.
 

How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. 

We may disclose your Personal Information with your consent or in the following circumstances:

  • Employees and Other Personnel – We may share Personal Information with our employees and personnel (such as contractors) who have a need to know the information for our business purposes.
     
  • Affiliates and Subsidiaries – We may share Personal Information within our family of companies for their and our business and marketing purposes, including providing you with information about the Services we think may be of interest to you. We share the name, contact information, and activity history of our donors and constituents with our affiliates—including the University of Utah, University of Utah Health, and Huntsman Cancer Institute—to collaboratively address our charitable mission and provide and administer associated Services.
     
  • Service Providers – We disclose your Personal Information with the service providers that we use to support our business, including but not limited to, data analytics providers, website hosting providers, and other technology providers. If you are applying for a job with us, this may include service providers such as background check providers and human resource providers.
     
  • Donor, Event, and Other Business Partners – We may disclose Personal Information with trusted donors and other business partners. For example, when we co-sponsor an event to raise donations, we may disclose registration information with our co-sponsor.
     
  • Ad Tech Companies and Other Providers – We may share or make available limited Personal Information (such as a mobile device identifiers) with ad tech companies and other online service providers. When we share your Personal Information in this context, we follow applicable legal requirements, which may require that we provide opt-out rights or other individual rights.
     
  • Legal Obligation or Safety Reasons – We may disclose Personal Information to a third party when we have a good faith belief that such disclosure of Personal Information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy or comply with any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of any agreement you have with us, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, (d) support auditing and compliance functions, or (e) protect the rights, property, or safety of HCF, its employees and clients, or the public against harm.
     
  • Merger or Change of Control – We may disclose Personal Information to third parties as necessary if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or any other transaction involving a change of control in our business, including but not limited to, a bankruptcy or similar proceeding. Where legally required, we will give you notice prior to such disclosure.
     
  • Other – We may disclose Personal Information to third parties when explicitly requested by or consented to by you, or for the purposes for which you disclosed the Personal Information to us as indicated at the time and point of the disclosure (or as was obvious at the time and point of disclosure).
     

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies 

We and our service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to collect usage and browser information about how you use our Site. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies and web beacons that permit us to verify system and server integrity and generate statistics around the popularity of certain content. We process the information collected through such technologies, which may include or be combined with Personal Information, to help operate certain features of our Site, to enhance your experience through personalization, and to help us better understand the features of our Site that you and other users are most interested in.

Website Delivery and Appearance – We may use third-party providers to enable certain customer interaction opportunities, content delivery (like audio or video), or other service capabilities. Examples include, but are not limited to, partnering with service providers like payment processors to facilitate online donations. Each of these offerings are governed by the terms, conditions, and policies of the underlying service provider. 

Website Analytics and Session Replay – We use analytics and session replay services, that use cookies and other technologies that collect your Personal Information, to assist us with analyzing our Site traffic and site usage to optimize, maintain, and secure our Site and inform subsequent business decisions (including, e.g., advertising). These include, but are not limited to, the following third-party services:

Interest-Based Advertising – We may also allow or enable third parties to collect Personal Information to provide their interest-based advertising on behalf of our products and services, or their own. Interest-based advertising occurs when advertisements are shown to you based on information collected from your online interactions over time and across multiple websites, devices, or online services that you visit or use. Some companies may engage in cross-context behavioral advertising to predict your preferences and show you advertisements that are most likely to be of interest or relevant to you. We do not control these third parties' collection or use of your information for these purposes, or the opt-out options they may individually offer you via their terms, conditions, and privacy policies. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. Examples of the third-party service providers we engage to serve interest-based advertisements include Google Ads and Meta Ads (including Facebook advertising services).

Cookie Choices – To manage your preferences with respect to these technologies, you can:

  • Customize your browser settings to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable certain cookies, please note that some parts of our Site may not function properly. These settings may be lost and require reconfiguration if you delete your cookies.
     
  • Block the collection and use of your information by online platforms and ad tech companies for the purpose of serving interest-based advertising by visiting the opt out pages of the self-regulatory programs of which those companies are members: National Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance. Please note that even if you opt out of interest-based advertising, you may still see “contextual” ads which are based on the context of what you are looking at on the websites and pages you visit.
     
  • Review and execute any provider-specific instructions to customize your preferences or opt-out of certain processing, including interest-based advertising, by third-party service providers. For example, to opt-out of this type of advertising by Google, customize your ad preferences, or limit Google’s collection or use of your data, visit Google’s Safety Center and Google’s Ad Settings and follow Google’s personalized ad opt-out instructions. Meta also offers an Ad Preferences center to customize your settings, as well as a Privacy Policy with additional information on how you can exercise your rights. 
     

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We retain your information for as long as needed: (i) to conduct business with you; (ii) fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy; and (iii) to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce any agreements. 
Criteria we will use to determine how long to retain your Personal Information includes the nature and length of our business relationship with you; our legal rights, obligations, and retention requirements; and if we have an ongoing business purpose for retaining your Personal Information, such as communicating with you about ongoing or prospective Services you requested.
 

Links to Third-Party Websites

We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from our Site, including the information or content contained within them. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing Personal Information to third parties, since any Personal Information disclosed will be handled in accordance with the applicable third party’s privacy policy.

In some cases, we offer links to social media platforms (like Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly known as Twitter) and YouTube) that enable you to easily connect with us or share information on social media. Any content you post via these social media pages is subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policies for those platforms. For example, for more information about how YouTube collects and uses your data, visit Google’s Privacy Policy.

We may also integrate with other websites to provide enhanced services, technological capabilities, or resources for you. These plug-in services and capabilities are governed by the terms, conditions, and policies of the underlying companies. Some of the integrations we currently offer include the ability to view our business and/or provider profiles on Google and Facebook, including the customer reviews publicly posted there. This hyperlinked content (including any embedded customer reviews) is governed according to the privacy policies for each platform, and the links to these external websites and services provided for your convenience. We may also give you the option to login to HCF platforms via third-party services like Facebook. If you choose to leverage this option to link your accounts, we will receive information associated with your account (such as your name and profile information) from that third-party service. This information varies and is controlled by that service or as authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service. We recommend reviewing the service’s privacy policy beforehand and managing your privacy settings on an ongoing basis.
 

International Use and Cross-Border Data Transfers

If you are visiting our Site from outside of the United States, please note that our Site is hosted in the United States. Where permitted by applicable law, we may transfer the personal data we collect about you to the United States and other jurisdictions that may not be deemed to provide the same level of data protection as your home country, as necessary for the purposes set out in this Notice. 
 

How We Protect Personal Information

We have implemented commercially reasonable measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Despite these efforts to store Personal Information in a secure environment, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information during its transmission or its storage on our systems. 
 

Children’s Privacy 

We do not knowingly collect or solicit any Personal Information from children, as defined under applicable law, without verified written parental consent, and we have no actual knowledge of selling such Personal Information of minors under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child, we will promptly take steps to delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child, please contact us at [email protected].


California Shine the Light

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, individuals who reside in California and who have an existing business relationship with us may request information about our disclosure of certain categories of Personal Information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, if any. To make such a request, please contact us at [email protected]. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by these California privacy rights requirements and only in-scope information will be included in our response. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year.
 

Changes to this Notice 

Please note that we may modify or update this Notice from time to time, so please review it periodically. If we make material changes to how we treat Personal Information, we will notify you according to applicable law. Unless otherwise indicated, any changes to this Notice will apply immediately upon posting to our Site. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Site and this Notice to check for any changes. 
 

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our practices or this Notice, please contact us at [email protected].