Privacy Policy

This is the website of The ALS Association Greater New York Chapter, http://www.als-ny.org.

Our postal address is:
The ALS Association Greater New York Chapter
42 Broadway, Suite 1724
New York, NY 10004

You can contact us via email at als@als-ny.org or by phone at (212) 619-1400.

We provide this notice to explain our online information practices. By visiting our site at www.als-ny.org, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy notice.

Privacy Policy Statement
The ALS Association Greater New York Chapter is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and donors. Information gathered by The ALS Association Greater New York Chapter is used to monitor the effectiveness of our site and respond to your questions and requests. The ALS Association Greater New York Chapter will never sell or share donor information.

Aggregate Information
When you visit our website, our server automatically logs (records) the domain name and standard anonymous information about the operating system and web browser you are using, as provided by your web browser. This automatically collected information is used for statistical purposes to help us manage our site and better serve the community, but it does not identify you in any way.

Identifiable Information

• Donors
  The ALS Association Greater New York Chapter respects the privacy of its financial supporters. The Chapter does not rent or exchange its donor list with any other organization. The ALS Association Greater New York Chapter will never sell or share donor information. This policy pertains to both online and offline donors.
• Patient & Family Information
  Patient and family information, including, but not limited to, name, physical address, email address, age, and telephone number, is confidential and will only be shared with ALS Association affiliate entities with written permission from a patient or their designee. Under no circumstances, will The ALS Association Greater New York Chapter provide or sell any of this information to outside entities, except where required by law and then only after providing notice to the patient and/or designee/caretaker. The Greater New York Chapter will, upon request of a patient or their designee/caretaker, serve as an intermediary between patients and outside entities where deemed appropriate.

The ALS Association Greater New York Chapter may provide to government agencies and outside entities aggregate data on ALS including incidence, prevalence, and number of patients served by the Chapter.

Data Security Statement
The security of your personal information is very important to us and we are committed to protecting the information we collect. Als-ny.org uses firewalls and has security measures in place at its physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you on our website. This includes the use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for processing contributions securely. SSL is the proven standard for secure web messaging transactions.

The ALS Association Greater New York Chapter reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Our privacy policy will be kept up-to-date and clearly posted on our website.