Privacy Policy

This policy applies to the Gift of Life Alliance website. It is a website privacy policy, not a clinical privacy notice for patient, donor, or transplant records.

When you follow a link to another website or service, that destination’s privacy practices apply. Review its privacy and consent information before providing personal or medical information.

You do not need to provide personal information to read this website. If you choose to contact us or participate in a program, you may provide your name, address, email address, phone number, or other information relevant to your request. Participation is voluntary.

Registration, volunteer, story-sharing, and correspondence links currently open separately hosted services. Information is submitted through those services, not through a form on this website. Include only information you feel comfortable sharing and review the applicable privacy and consent requirements.

Website hosting and technology providers may receive or store technical information when you visit, including your IP address, browser and operating system, referring website or internet domain, pages requested, time of access, and files downloaded. This information may appear in server logs and may be used to operate, troubleshoot, and protect the website.

Technical identifiers such as an IP address may be considered personal information under applicable law. This website also loads fonts from Google Fonts, which involves requests to Google’s servers. Third-party services have their own privacy practices.

Where applicable and permitted by law, information you choose to provide may be used to:

• Respond to questions and contact you about your request.
• Support organ, eye, and tissue donation and related education or services.
• Evaluate community education and public awareness efforts using de-identified, aggregated information as permitted by Texas law.
• Conduct research where permitted and subject to any applicable authorization requirements.
• Prepare anonymous reporting for internal and external use and educational materials.
• Maintain the website and improve its reliability, accessibility, and usefulness.

We do not sell, rent, or market your personal information. Information may be shared in the following circumstances, as permitted or required by law:

• To further organ, eye, or tissue donation, subject to applicable requirements.
• With agents, website vendors, or contractors providing services on our behalf or in connection with their relationship with us.
• In response to a valid subpoena, court order, or other legal process.
• To establish or exercise legal rights or defend against legal action.
• When you ask us to share it.
• When we believe in good faith that sharing is necessary to protect our rights or property.
• As required by law, including matters of public safety or public policy.

This website stores your English or Spanish language preference in your browser using local storage so it can remember your choice on later visits. The preference is not a donor registration or a record of your medical information.

You can clear or restrict local storage through your browser settings. If storage is unavailable, the website can still be used, but it may not remember your language preference.

Hosting providers and separately hosted services may use cookies or similar technologies under their own policies. You can manage or refuse cookies in your browser settings; features of those services may be affected.

Our website links to donor registration, educational resources, support organizations, online forms, course libraries, and scheduling tools. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of independently operated websites. Review their policies before using them.

Reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards are important to protecting information. However, no website, security system, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that information will never be intercepted or accessed without authorization.

Before sending sensitive information, ask our team or your transplant center which secure communication method is appropriate.

This policy may be updated from time to time. Updates will be posted on this page. Please review it periodically to understand the current policy.