Please view the following terms and conditions website disclaimer and privacy policy for using this site.
Last updated: February, 2021.
Terms of Service Website Disclaimer
- Introduction
1.1 This disclaimer shall govern your use of our website.
1.2 By using our website, you accept this disclaimer in full; accordingly, if you disagree with this disclaimer or any part of this disclaimer, you must not use our website.
1.3 Our website may use cookies; by using our website or agreeing to this disclaimer, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of WordPress’s privacy and cookies policy.
- Credit
2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal http://www.seqlegal.com.
- Copyright notice
3.1 Copyright (c) 2011-2021 The Salgi Esophageal Cancer Research Foundation.
3.2 Subject to the express provisions of this disclaimer:
(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and
(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.
- License to use website
4.1 You may:
(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;
(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser; and
(c) print pages from our website,
subject to the other provisions of this disclaimer.
4.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of this disclaimer, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.
4.3 You may only use our website for your own personal purposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.
4.4 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:
(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
(c) show any material from our website in public;
(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
(e) redistribute material from our website.
4.5 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.
- Acceptable use
5.1 You must not:
(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;
(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
(c) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
(d) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;
(e) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;
(f) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; or
(g) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).
5.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.
5.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.
- Limited warranties
6.1 We do not warrant or represent:
(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
(b) that the material on the website is up to date; or
(c) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.
6.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in this disclaimer, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.
6.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 7.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of this disclaimer, our website and the use of our website.
- Limitations and exclusions of liability
7.1 Nothing in this disclaimer will:
(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
7.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 7 and elsewhere in this disclaimer:
(a) are subject to Section 7.1; and
(b) govern all liabilities arising under this disclaimer or relating to the subject matter of this disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in this disclaimer.
7.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
7.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
7.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
7.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.
7.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.
7.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a Domestic Non-Profit Corporation; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or this disclaimer (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the Domestic Non-Profit Corporation itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
7.8 We will not be liable to you in respect by any donations made to our charity via our website, mail, in person or including but not limited to any third-party donation site/company/method.
- Variation
8.1 We may revise this disclaimer from time to time.
8.2 The revised disclaimer shall apply to the use of our website from the time of publication of the revised disclaimer on the website.
- Severability
9.1 If a provision of this disclaimer is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
9.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of this disclaimer would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
- Law and jurisdiction
10.1 This disclaimer shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the United States of America.
10.2 Any disputes relating to this disclaimer shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the United States of America.
- Statutory and regulatory disclosures
11.1 We are registered in Rhode Island; you can find the online version of the register at http://ucc.state.ri.us/, and our identification number is 000722184.
11.2 We are subject to nonprofit laws, which is supervised by the Internal Revenue Service.
11.3 We are registered as a 501(c)(3) with nonprofit, charitable status in the United States and are subject to regulations, which can be found at https://www.irs.gov/.
11.4 Our EIN number is 45-3633809.
- Our details
12.1 This website is owned and operated by The Salgi Esophageal Cancer Research Foundation.
12.2 We are registered in the United States of America and our registered mailing address is PO Box 1912 East Greenwich, RI 02818.
12.3 You can contact us:
(a) by mail, using the postal address given above;
(b) using our website contact form: salgi.org/contact.
Privacy Policy
- Introduction
1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; in this policy we explain how we will treat your personal information.
1.2 By using our website and agreeing to this disclaimer, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of WordPress’s privacy and cookies policy.
- Credit
2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (http://www.seqlegal.com).
- Collecting personal information
3.1 We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
(a) Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths);
(b) Information that you provide to us when registering with our website (including but not limited to: your email address and any other personal information you willingly provide);
(c) Information that you provide when completing your information/donation/sign-up on our website (including but not limited to: your name, email, phone, address, gender, date of birth, educational details and employment details);
(d) Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including but not limited to: your name and email address);
(e) Information that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services (including but not limited to: the timing, frequency and pattern of service use);
(f) Information relating to any purchases you make of any goods OR services OR goods and/or services; any other transactions that you enter into through our website or any donations made through our website (including but not limited to: your name, address, telephone number, email address and card details);
(g) Information that you post to our website for publication on the internet (including but not limited to: your name, family/friend/loved ones name, location, date, the content of your posts);
(h) Information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (including but not limited to: the communication content and metadata associated with the communication); and
(i) Any other personal information that you choose to send to us].
3.2 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
- Using personal information
4.1 Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
4.2 We may use your personal information to:
(a) Administer our website and business;
(b) Personalize our website for you;
(c) Enable your use of the services available on our website;
(d) Send you goods purchased through third-party websites;
(e) Supply to you services purchased through third-party websites;
(f) Send statements, invoices, donation acknowledgements and other reminders to you, and collect information from you;
(g) Send you non-marketing communications;
(h) Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
(i) Send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
(j) Send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
(k) Provide third parties with statistical information about our users but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information nor will we ever give them your personal email, phone, name, etc…;
(l) Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
(m) Entrust WordPress.com to keep our website secure and prevent fraud; and
(n) Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website.
4.3 If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.
4.4 Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on WordPress.com’s website, and can be adjusted using privacy controls on their website.
4.5 We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.
4.6 All our website financial transactions regarding donations are handled through our payment services provider, PayPal. You can review the provider’s privacy policy at https://www.paypal.com/. We will share information with our payment services provider only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments and/or donations you make via our website and dealing with queries relating to such payments and donations.
- Disclosing personal information
5.1 We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
5.2 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
5.3 We may disclose your personal information:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
(e) to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
5.4 Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
- International data transfers
6.1 Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
6.2 Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the United States of America: the United Kingdom, Russia, Japan, China and India.
6.3 Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
6.4 You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 6.
- Retaining personal information
7.1 This Section 7 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
7.2 Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
7.3 Without prejudice to Section 7.2, we will usually delete personal data falling within the categories set out below at the date/time set out below:
(a) Personal data not pertaining to the use and standards of our website or social media websites will be deleted as we deem necessary.
7.4 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we will retain documents including electronic documents containing personal data:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk.
- Security of personal information
8.1 WordPress.com and other third-party websites will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
8.2 WordPress.com and other third-party websites may store all the personal information you provide on their secure servers.
8.3 All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by PayPal and other third-party websites.
8.4 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet via third-party websites.
8.5 You are responsible for keeping passwords you use for accessing websites confidential; we will not ask you for your passwords.
- Amendments
9.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
9.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
9.3 We may notify you of changes to this policy by email.
- Your rights
10.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:
(a) the payment of a fee (currently fixed at $10 which is tax-deductible); and
(b) the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity, for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
10.2 We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
10.3 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
10.4 In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
- Third party websites
11.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
11.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
- Updating information
12.1 Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
- Cookies
13.1 WordPress.com website may cookies. Please refer to: https://en.support.wordpress.com/cookies/.
13.2 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
13.3 Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
13.4 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
13.5 Please refer to WordPress.com for cookie usage: https://en.support.wordpress.com/cookies/..
13.6 The Salgi Esophageal Cancer Research Foundation is not responsible for WordPress.com’s cookie policy.
13.7 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:
(a) in Internet Explorer (version 11) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
(b) in Firefox (version 44) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
(c) in Chrome (version 48), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
(d) View your browsers settings for personal control over the cookies that you share.
13.8 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
13.9 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
13.10 You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:
(a) in Internet Explorer (version 11), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11);
(b) in Firefox (version 44), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, clicking “Show Cookies”, and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
(c) in Chrome (version 48), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.
(d) View your browsers settings for personal control over the cookies that you would like to delete.
13.11 Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
- Data protection registration
14.1 We are registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity with the Internal Revenue Service of the United States of America.
14.2 Our tax identification number is 45-3633809.
- Our details
15.1 This website is owned and operated by The Salgi Esophageal Cancer Research Foundation.
15.2 We are registered in the United States of America and our registered mailing address is PO Box 1912 East Greenwich, RI 02818.
15.3 Our principal place of business is within the United States of America.
15.4 You can contact us:
(a) by mail, using the postal address given above;
(b) using our website contact form: salgi.org/contact.
The Salgi Esophageal Cancer Research Foundation 