Last Updated: November 11, 2024

The nccPA Health Foundation (“the Foundation,” “us,” or “we”) is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy, and we want you to understand how we may collect information about you including through our website (www.nccpahealthfoundation.net), any mobile version, portal, interface, or application in connection with such website (collectively, the “Website”), and how that information may be used, maintained, and in some cases shared.  This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) sets forth the privacy practices and policies governing the Website.

BY USING OR ACCESSING THE WEBSITE OR BY PROVIDING PERSONAL INFORMATION TO US ON OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF THAT INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND APPLICABLE LAW.

Please read our Privacy Policy to understand:

The following describes the types of personal and other information we may collect about you, and how we use and maintain that information:

Information You Provide to Us

The Foundation may gather and retain personally identifiable information about you, including name, email address, physical address, phone number or other background information (“Personal Information”), when you voluntarily submit it to us, including for the purpose of accessing certain features of the Website.

We may use any Personal Information that you provide for our general purposes, and may share it with third parties only as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you provide us with a telephone number, address or an email address, you expressly agree that we, or our authorized agents, can use that information to contact you about the Foundation and its associated activities (with the appropriate consent to do so, where required).

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may keep any information that you provide to us indefinitely.

Information Provided by Others

We may be provided with your Personal Information by third parties.  For example, if you make a donation to the Foundation via the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants then we will receive information about you and your donation (including the amount).

Site Use Information

Our web servers may collect technical information, including IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses of visitors to our Website. We may use this information to measure the use of our Website, including number of visits, average time spent on the Website, pages viewed, etc., and to improve the content we offer.

However, we do use technology that recognizes a “do-not-track” signal from your web browser, which allows us to exclude you from any analytics that collect information about your online activities over time and across third party websites if your settings indicate that to be your preference.

Use of Cookies

Like most websites, we may employ “cookies” or similar technologies on certain pages of our Website. Cookies make the use of the Website easier by, among other things, saving your preferences. We may also use cookies to deliver content tailored to your interests. For more information about how we use cookies and similar technologies, please see our Cookie Notice.

Financial Transactions

When you engage in any financial transaction with the Foundation, you may provide certain financial information. We will only keep this information as long as necessary to complete any transaction authorized by you.  We may also receive information about any donations you make from entities we are affiliated with (e.g., where you make a donation to the Foundation via the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, Inc. we will be informed of this and the donation amounts).

We may process your Personal Information for the following purposes in line with this Privacy Policy:

• to fulfill your requests, including the processing of donations;
• to communicate with you about grant information, applications, etc.;
• to manage the Website;
• to communicate with you about products, services, events and education;
• to monitor and protect the security of our information, systems and network;
• to notify you about changes to our Website or other services;
• to conduct research and analysis;
• to comply with our legal obligations;
• to protect your, our and others’ rights and safety;
• for our outside professionals, vendors or service providers to perform functions on our behalf; and
• to conclude a purchase, transfer or sale of services or assets (e.g., in the event that substantially all of our assets are acquired by another party, personal information may be one of the transferred assets).

If you have subscribed to or are otherwise receiving Foundation news or similar information from us by email and no longer want to receive such information in the future, you may opt out of receiving certain types of emails by replying to the email with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Please allow ample time for us to process your request. If you are having difficulty unsubscribing, please contact us via our Contact Us page.

Please note that even if you opt out of receiving emails, you may still receive communications related to your interaction with the Foundation (such as confirmation of a registration or form submission) or otherwise as required by law.

Also, note that we may need to keep information we have collected about you for record-keeping, research, and other purposes.

We will not share, rent, sell or otherwise disclose any Personal Information that we collect about you through our Website, except in any of the following situations:

• You request or authorize the release of your Personal Information.
• We may disclose Personal Information that we collect about you to our third-party contractors who perform services for us in connection with the Website. We may also disclose Personal Information to service providers or suppliers if the disclosure will enable that party to perform business, professional or technical support for us.
• We may provide your Personal Information to our affiliates and sponsors, so as to provide access to benefits and communicate important information about them.
• We may disclose Personal Information about you as part of a merger, acquisition or other sale or transfer of the assets or business of the Foundation. We do not guarantee that any entity receiving such information in connection with one of these transactions will comply with all terms of this Privacy Policy.
• We may disclose Personal Information about you to comply with the law, applicable regulations, governmental and quasi-governmental requests, court orders or subpoenas, to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, or to protect our rights, property or safety or the rights, property or safety of our users or others. We reserve the right to release information that we collect to law enforcement or other government officials, as we, in our sole and absolute discretion, deem necessary or appropriate.

We may also share aggregated or anonymous information that cannot identify you with third parties. For example, we may disclose the number of visitors to our Website or the number of people who have downloaded a particular document, and we may disclose statistical information based on responses to online surveys and other data collection tools on our Website.

The Foundation may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you (with your consent, where required by applicable law). In those cases, your Personal Information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.

We take steps to protect your Personal Information and keep it secure.  However, you should keep in mind that the Website is run on software, hardware and networks, any component of which may, from time to time, require maintenance or experience problems or breaches of security beyond our control.  We use reasonable technical, administrative, and physical measures to protect information contained in our system against unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, loss, or alteration.  We may use standard encryption technology to protect information being transferred to our Website, but no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure.

The Foundation cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or from our Website, and therefore you use our Website at your own risk.

These terms apply to Personal Information collected by the Foundation if you are an EU or UK resident. “Personal Information” as used in this section means any information that enables us to identify you either, directly or indirectly. Where the Foundation processes Personal Information about you, such information is controlled by the nccPA Health Foundation, which is headquartered in the United States at 12000 Findley Road, Suite 200 Johns Creek, GA 30097-1409.

Personal Information of EU or UK residents collected by the Foundation may be transferred for processing in third countries, such as the United States. Where required by applicable law, such transfers will be undertaken pursuant to an appropriate safeguard such as the EU Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses and/or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement.

We process your Personal Information for purposes described in this Privacy Policy where we have a legal basis under applicable European and UK data protection law (to the extent it applies).  Such legal bases may include: (i) where processing is necessary for performance of a contract with you; (ii) where processing is necessary for our legitimate interest (e.g. in maintaining the Website and responding to enquiries); or (iii) where processing is done with your consent (which can be withdrawn at any time).  We will store your Personal Information, in a form that permits us to identify you, for no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which the Personal Information is processed.

Subject to applicable law, in certain circumstances you may have the right to access, correct, restrict the processing of, delete or transfer the Personal Information we hold about you.

We will generally ask for your consent in line with the applicable law before sending you direct marketing communications related to third party products and services. You can choose to stop receiving direct marketing communications from us at any time by replying with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

Where you believe that we have not complied with our obligations under this Privacy Policy or applicable law, we ask that you contact us first to see if we can resolve the issue.  However, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with an appropriate supervisory authority.

Our Website contains links to other websites. However, this Privacy Policy only addresses the Foundation’s use and disclosure of your information collected on our Website, if any. If you choose to visit an external website linked from our Website, you will leave our Website.  We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties or the content of linked websites. We encourage you to read the applicable privacy policies and terms and conditions of such parties or websites.

The Website is not designed or intended to be attractive for use by children.  It is not our intention to collect Personal Information from anyone under 18 years of age, and we will not knowingly do so. If we are made aware that we have collected any Personal Information from children under the age of 18, and are asked to delete such information from our databases, we will promptly do so.

If you access the Website from outside of the United States, information that we collect about you will be transferred to servers inside the United States, which may involve the transfer of information out of your country of origin. By allowing us to collect information about you, you acknowledge such transfer and processing of your data.

We may occasionally amend this Privacy Policy to reflect the Foundation’s activities and user feedback, and we reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time. The use of your information is subject to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use in effect at the time of use. The provisions contained in this Privacy Policy supersede all previous notices or policies regarding our privacy practices with respect to our Website. Please check the “Last Updated” legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. We encourage you to check frequently to see the current Privacy Policy to be informed of how the Foundation is committed to protecting your information and providing you with improved content on our Website to enhance your experience.

If you have any questions or comments regarding our Privacy Policy or our Website, please contact us via email at [email protected].