California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Disclosure

Although not required by California State law as not-for-profit entities are not subject to the CCPA, the Council of Young Filipinx Americans in Medicine (CYFAM) has elected to publish a CCPA Disclosure, as outlined below.

Rights for California Residents

To exercise one or more of your rights, you or someone you authorize, may email us using our Contact Form. For the purposes of this Disclosure, “business” and “commercial” purposes shall pertain to the operations required to maintain CYFAM and not the sale or dissemination of your personal data and the like.

If you are a California resident you may have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.100 et seq.) regarding your personal information, including:

  • the right to request the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you; the categories of personal information we collected; the categories of sources used to collect the personal information; the business or commercial purposes for collecting your personal information; and the categories of third parties with whom we share your personal information each as it pertains to our activities in the preceding twelve (12) months

  • the right to request, on legitimate grounds, deletion of your personal information that we collected;

  • the right to have someone you authorize make a request on your behalf; and

  • the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights.

We also must provide in this online disclosure certain details about our collection and handling of categories of personal information. The information that follows shows the types of personal information we may collect about California residents who are subject to the CCPA, the sources from which we collect it, and the ways in which we use and disclose it.

Personal Information

Categories of Personal Information

  • Personal identifiers, including those listed in other California statutes: Real name; alias; telephone number; email address; postal address; online identifier; device identifier; IP address

  • Characteristics of protected classifications: date of birth/age; gender; military or veteran status; marital status; nationality; citizenship; request for family care leave; request for leave for employee’s own serious health condition; request for pregnancy leave

  • Professional or Employment: title; references

  • Education information: details of your education and qualifications

  • Communications, recordings, images: audio, electronic, visual

Our Sources of Personal Information

Category of Sources from which we Collect Personal Information

  • We obtain your personal information when you provide it to us (e.g., where you contact us via email or telephone, or by any other means)

  • We collect or obtain personal information when you visit any of our Sites or use any features or resources available on or through a Site. When you visit a Site, your device and browser may automatically disclose certain information (such as device type, operating system, browser type, browser settings, IP address, language settings, dates and times of connecting to a Site and other technical communications information), some of which may constitute Personal Data

Use of Information

Not-For-Profit Purposes for Use of Personal Information

  • Marketing/Prospecting: communicating with you via any means (including via email, telephone, text message, social media, post or in person) subject to ensuring that such communications are provided to you in compliance with applicable law; and maintaining and updating your contact information where appropriate

  • Operation of our Site: operation and management of our Site; providing content to you; and communicating and interacting with you via our Site

  • IT operations: management of our communications systems; operation of IT security; and IT security audits

  • Investigations: detecting, investigating and preventing breaches of policy, and criminal offenses, in accordance with applicable law

  • Legal compliance: compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations under applicable law

  • Legal proceedings: establishing, exercising and defending legal rights

  • Improving our offerings: identifying issues with existing offerings; planning improvements to existing offerings; and creating new offerings

  • Risk Management: Audit, compliance, controls and other risk management

  • Fraud prevention: Detecting, preventing and investigating fraud

Disclosure of Information

Categories of Third Parties to Whom Personal Information is Disclosed

  • You and, where appropriate, your family, your associates and your representatives

  • Anti-fraud services

  • Accountants, auditors, financial advisors, lawyers and other outside professional advisors to CYFAM, subject to confidentiality

  • Accreditation bodies

  • Educational institutions, when provided a written request and where required by law

  • Governmental, legal, regulatory, or other similar authorities and/or local government agencies, upon request or where required

  • Other third parties to comply with legal requirements such as the demands of applicable subpoenas and court orders; to verify or enforce our terms of use, our other rights, or other applicable policies; to address fraud, security or technical issues; to respond to an emergency; or otherwise to protect the rights, property or security of our members or third parties

Sale of Personal Information

CYFAM does not sell your personal information.

Changes to this Disclosure

We may change this disclosure from time to time. When we do, we will let you know by appropriate means such as by posting the revised disclosure on this page with a new “Last Updated” date. Any changes to this disclosure will become effective when posted unless indicated otherwise.

This Statement was last updated on February 5, 2024.