Privacy Statement
Thank you for visiting the CareNow Foundation, Inc. Web site. CareNow
has designed its Privacy Policy to inform you about our current data collection
and how we use your personal information. From time to time, CareNow may,
without notice, modify or eliminate all or a portion of this Privacy Policy.
The Privacy Policy is available on the CareNow Web site.
From time to time, you may click to other CareNow Web sites or pages that
have different privacy policies. When this happens, you may review the
privacy policies that relate to those pages or sites.
We obtain personal information that is needed to provide you with our goods and services.
When CareNow collects information directly from you, we obtain this personal
information in order to provide you with our goods or services, to provide
customer service and to fulfill any legal or regulatory requirements.
We also obtain personal information as a result of consumers' financial
transactions with CareNow or with CareNow merchants. When we obtain information
about consumers and merchants from third parties, we use sources that
we believe are reputable, including public repositories.
The only personal information we collect is information you provide us.
The only information we collect about you is information that you provide
us. This information may include, for example, your name, mailing address,
e-mail address and telephone number. If you supply us with personal data
and request information from us, we will contact you to provide you with
the information you requested. We may also contact you to follow up on
your job opportunity inquiries, volunteer service opportunities or other information about
CareNow and its products or services that we believe you would find interesting
or helpful.
We are committed to protecting the confidentiality of your personal information.
CareNow's policies limit access to the personal information we collect
to those CareNow employees and CareNow business relationships who need
the information to fulfill their business responsibilities. We require
our employees to adhere to CareNow's Privacy Policy. Employees who violate
the CareNow Privacy Policy are subject to disciplinary action, up to and
including dismissal.
When CareNow collects personal information about you, we handle this information
in accordance with the terms and conditions in our applicable merchant
agreement. When CareNow engages vendors and other outside contractors,
they are subject to our contractual requirements. For purposes of credit
reporting, verification and risk management, we may share information
about you with third parties. We also will disclose information in response
to a request issued by a court, government agency or regulatory authority.
We will inform you about the general uses of the information we collect about you.
When we have a direct customer relationship with you, we will strive
to make information available to you about the general uses of the information
we collect. This information is made available at the point of sale, through
privacy notices on our Web sites, in other formats that are publicly available
or through other means specified by applicable state and federal laws.
In addition, when CareNow obtains personal information about consumers
indirectly through our merchants, we require our merchants to provide
these consumers with their own timely and complete privacy notice.
We strive to give you choices about how your information will be used.
When we obtain personal information as part of our direct relationship with you, we will not share this information with nonaffiliated third parties, except in the following circumstances:
- In accordance with the CareNow Privacy Policy
- To facilitate and complete merchant-initiated or authorized transactions
- To comply with federal, state and local laws, including credit reporting laws and card association rules
- To combat fraud
- To offer products and services that CareNow believes may be of interest to you
Since your needs may change, and CareNow continuously develops new products and services, we may contact you to determine if we can provide you with additional services. Most of our customers appreciate hearing about our new products and services and prefer that we continue to contact them. If you would prefer not to be contacted we will make information available to you about how you may request to have your name removed from any CareNow owned marketing lists. You may also opt out of information sharing by providing CareNow the email address you wish to opt-out. Click here to process your request.
We maintain procedures to assure the quality of information we collect and, in some instances, we inform you how you can access your information and make corrections, if necessary.
CareNow employs appropriate measures to assure the quality of information
that we collect directly from you. In some instances, where CareNow collects
information directly from you, CareNow informs you how to correct any
erroneous or out-of-date information stored in our database. These requirements
and procedures may vary by each CareNow business activity.
We use appropriate security safeguards.
At CareNow, security is important. CareNow employs appropriate measures,
including advanced technology, to protect personal information collected
against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. These
measures may include, among others, encryption, physical access security
and other appropriate technologies. CareNow continually reviews and enhances
its security systems, as necessary.
CareNow's Web sites may be linked to other Web sites.
CareNow may create links to third-party Web sites. CareNow is not responsible
for the content or privacy practices employed by third-party Web sites
that are linked to our Web site. Neither does CareNow control or warrant
the utility, merchantability or workmanship of the products or services
offered at third-party Web sites.
We strive to maintain our privacy standards.
CareNow strives to meet our privacy program standards. In doing so, we do the following:
- Employee privacy training and employee compliance related to the Privacy Policy
- Periodic assessments of Care Now Foundation's compliance with this Privacy Policy
- Periodic management review to ensure that CareNow actively participates in appropriate privacy activities, including self-regulatory initiatives
How the CareNow Privacy Policy applies to you.
The examples contained in this Privacy Policy are illustrations only, and they are not intended to be all-inclusive. If you decide to close your merchant account or become an inactive customer, or if we close or suspend your account, our Privacy Policy, as it may exist from time to time, will continue to apply. We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time, and we will inform you of changes as required by California state and federal law. You may have other privacy protections under state laws; however, as a California based entity, we will only comply with California State and federal laws as a general rule. If you wish further protections that are awarded to you by your local state law, please make us aware of this fact and we will try and accommodate you as best we can. California State law will always take precedent where a conflict exists in matters of privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to all accounts you may have with us, and it replaces all our previous disclosures to you about our information practices.
If you have any questions or comments about the Care Now Foundation Privacy Policy, please contact:
CareNow Foundation, Inc.
Legal Department
PO Box 878
Agoura Hills, CA 91376-0878
This CareNow Privacy Policy is currently applicable only to CareNow's United States customers and visitors to our Web site. Cross-border transactions may have their own rules and practices.