The Starkey Hearing Foundation (the “Hearing Foundation”) is sensitive to privacy issues on the Internet and is committed to protecting your privacy on our Web site. We recognize that visitors to our site may be concerned about the information they provide to us, and how we treat that information. We have established the following guidelines to explain the way in which we use information gathered from visitors to our Web sites. These guidelines may by changed or updated from time to time.
In general, you can visit us on the Web to access information while remaining anonymous and not revealing any personal information. At our site, we do not collect personally identifiable information from individuals unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly. This means we do not require you to register or provide information to us in order to view our site. The Starkey Hearing Foundation only gathers personally identifiable data, such as names, addresses, zip/postal codes, e-mail addresses, etc., when voluntarily submitted by a visitor in order to sign up for our mailing or emailing list, or to request certain information. Other than for the reasons stated above, any personally identifiable data submitted by a visitor is otherwise used solely by The Starkey Hearing Foundation for internal purposes. This information is not sold to third parties. We will only share personally identifiable information with third parties when (i) the person submitting the information authorizes us to share it; (ii) sharing the information is necessary to the operation of the site, or (iii) we are required to by law.
We maintain strict physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect your personal information from unauthorized or inappropriate access. We restrict access to information about you to those Hearing Foundation workers who need to know the information to respond to your inquiry or request.
Our Web site contains links to other non-Hearing Foundation Web sites. Although we try to link only to Web sites that share our concern for customer information privacy, we are not responsible for their content, security or privacy practices. This Web site also includes a link to www.sagepayments.net for use in processing donations. The financial information submitted to www.sagepayments.net is used solely by that site; only the donation amount is forwarded to The Starkey Hearing Foundation. www.sagepayments.net has an extensive privacy policy. You should review the applicable privacy statements of www.sagepayments.net or any other Web site before providing any site with personally identifiable information.
You may review and update the information that you provide to us through this Web site by contacting us. You may also contact us to remove your personal information from our mailing or emailing list at any time.
This Web site is not intended for persons under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from or about children, and we do not knowingly market our products or services to children. Thank you for visiting our site. Please contact us should you have any questions about the operation of the site.
Revised: January 9, 2009