Cookie Policy
Our websites use a number of different cookies and other tracking technologies. Cookies are pieces of information stored on your device about your visit to and use of our websites. Our websites use cookies to uniquely identify users’ machines so that we can monitor site usage, traffic and trends. We also use cookies to deliver more personalized content. We may engage with third-party vendors or partners to place cookies via our websites, and these third parties may collect information about your use of our websites through those cookies. Cookies may collect certain information about your use of the websites, including your IP addresses, browser type, language, operating system, geolocation data, the state or country from which you accessed the websites, the web pages visited, the date and time of a visit, and the websites you visited immediately before visiting the websites.
We collect information via the following categories of cookies:
Necessary Cookies. Necessary cookies enable the websites to function properly and will be loaded onto your browser automatically when you visit our websites. We use necessary cookies to perform services you have requested, such as log-in to the website’s features, or to record that you have refused non-necessary cookies.
Analytical Cookies. Analytical cookies evaluate the performance of our websites, including usage data and time you spend on a webpage, so that we can better understand our interactions with you and other visitors to make our site as efficient as possible. We use third-party analytics to better understand user engagement and metrics regarding the use of our websites. This can include the amount of time that you spend on a particular page, and may also reveal information about your location (e.g., what state or city you are located in).
Functional Cookies. Functional cookies allow the websites to remember choices users make and to provide enhanced, personalized features.
Targeting / Advertising Cookies. Targeting/advertising cookies are tracking technologies used to deliver advertisements relevant to the user. For example, we use cookies that remember what you viewed on our websites in order that we may serve you relevant advertisements for products that might interest you. We also use cookies that tell us whether you’ve seen an advertisement and interacted with it, for example, by clicking on it.
Analytical, functional, and targeted advertising cookies are sometimes referred to as “non-essential” cookies, to differentiate them as a collective group from “necessary” cookies. We use both first-party cookies and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are cookies placed on your device by the website. Third-party cookies are cookies placed by another website when you visit our websites. The Foundation has relationships with third-party advertising companies to place advertisements on the websites to perform tracking and reporting functions. These third-party advertising companies may place cookies on your computer when you visit our websites or other websites so that they can display targeted advertisements to you. Cookies placed by third parties also collect usage data about the use of the websites and provide services, such as remembering that you logged in.
Cookies can be categorized by how long they remain on your device. All cookies have expiration dates in them that determine how long they stay in your browser. There are two broad categories of duration:
- Session Cookies. Session cookies are temporary cookies that exist only during an online session and are not stored on your computer or mobile device.
- Persistent Cookies. Persistent cookies are those placed on your computer or mobile device for a pre-determined length of time when you visit our website. Persistent cookies remain on your device until deleted manually or automatically.
The following types of cookies may be used when you visit our websites:
| Category | Name Of Site, Cookie, and Duration or Expiration |
| Necessary Cookies | tfafroms.com AWSALBCORS (expiration: 7 days) AWSALBTGCORS (expiration: 7 days) FORMASSEMBLY (session cookie) loeysdietz.org crumb (session cookie) Google reCAPTCHA rc_c (session cookie) rc_b (session cookie) rc_a (persistent cookie) |
| Analytical Cookies | Google Analytics _ga (expiration: 2 years) _gid (expiration: 1 day) _ga_FOX23G66J3 (expiration: 1 year, 1 month) _ga_TY7DHS8T5Z (expiration: 1 year, 1 month) Twitter metrics_token (persistent cookie) |
| Functional Cookies | marfan.org PHPSESSID (expiration: 23 days) Word Press wpEmjiSettingsSports (session cookie) wp_conent (expiration: 1 month) Complianz cmplz_policy_id (expiration: 365 days) cmplz_marketing (expiration: 365 days) cmplz_statistics (expiration: 365 days) cmplz_preferences (expiration: 365 days) cmplz_functional (expiration: 365 days) cmplz_banner status (expiration: 365 days) cmplz_user_data. (expiration: 365 days) YouTube GPS (session cookie) YSC (session cookie) PREF (expiration: 8 months) VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (expiration: 6 months) _Secure ROLLOUT_TOK_EN (expiration: 6 months) Facebook fbm (exp. 1 year) datr (exp. 2 years) c_user (exp. 3 months) csm (exp. 90 days) sb (exp. 2 years) actpresence (session cookie) Twitter local_storage_support_test (persistent cookie) Vimeo _cf_bm (expiration: 30 minutes) _cfuvid (session cookie) |
| Targeting / Advertising Cookies | Google Fonts Google Fonts API (expiration: immediately) YouTube VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (expiration: 6 months) VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADTA (expiration: 6 months) Facebook _js_datr (expiration: 2 years) _fbc (expiration: 2 years) _fbp (expiration: 3 months) _fr (expiration: 90 days) _fbp (expiration: 3 months) |
Information collected by our cookies. Tracking technologies on the websites collect several types of information, including information about your usage of our websites, details about your device, and your IP address. Usage of our websites might include the time at which your device accesses our websites, the page you visit, how long you spend on each page, and the links you click. Cookies might also collect the link that brought you to our websites and webpage you visit after you leave our websites. Details about your device might include the type of browser you used to access the websites, the version of that browser, and what kind of device you use. An IP address is the number assigned to your device, for example your laptop or mobile phone, when your device accesses the Internet. Your device may have a static IP address, which means that your device always has the same IP address. Or it may have a dynamic IP address, which means that the IP address changes each time the device accesses the Internet.
To the extent that the information collected by our tracking technologies is personal information under applicable data protection law, we treat it as personal information. If we link information collected through tracking technologies with any personal information you provide to us through the websites, e.g., through submitting a form, we also treat that information as personal information. For more information regarding how we handle personal information collected through the websites, please see our Privacy Statement.
Cookies and Third-Party Advertisements. Third parties place cookies on the websites and collect information from those cookies. These third parties use tools including cookies and web beacons to provides services, such as remembering a user’s preferences, to analyze website usage, and to determine the effectiveness of their advertisements and the types of ads that would be of greatest interest to you. The tools allow them to track some data relating to your computer and your Internet browsing on our websites or other websites that participate in their networks. This data may include your computer’s IP Address, the website addresses visited, the browser type used, your computer’s operating system, and the date, time, and duration of the visit to each page.
Your Choices Regarding Cookies. We do not use any non-essential cookies until and unless you “accept” cookies when you first visit our websites. Additionally, at any time users may control how we use cookies via their browser’s security settings. You can manage your individual preferences with respect to each category of cookie that you agree to accept from our websites. By consenting to the use of cookies, you consent to our collection, processing, and disclosure of personal information collected through the cookies we have described herein.
Please be advised that users may withdraw consent at any time by changing their settings; however, if certain cookies are disabled, some features of our websites may not function properly or be available to you, and refusing all or certain cookies may result in a more limited experience. Users in the EEA and the UK have the right to reject the installation of all but essential cookies on their device. Users may withdraw consent at an time by changing settings here [add link]. Please note that our cookies options and tools vary by region and country in accordance with applicable law.
Last Updated February 25, 2025.