PHA Privacy Policy Statement
The Philippine Heart Association (referred to herein as “PHA”) is an organization of professionals committed to responsible practices concerning the collection, handling, storage, and dissemination of online, digital, and electronic information. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, share, and otherwise process the information through the main PHA Website, https://www.philheart.org/ (and each sub-domain associated with this URL) as well as other websites and digital platforms officially operated by or the PHA (collectively referred to as “PHA sites”).
The PHA remains committed to providing safe and meaningful online spaces for users of the PHA sites as they view, acquire, transmit or receive information. The PHA exerts reasonable efforts to assure users that such sites conform to minimum data privacy standards.
In certain PHA sites that gather particular information about users, the latter must be cognizant of the terms and conditions concerning the capture and use of such information. We use personal information that you voluntarily provide to us on the basis of PHA’s legitimate interests in ensuring the delivery of services through the PHA sites (e.g. processing of transactions, responding to online or electronic queries, communicating society-related activities, changes, and updates. For site administration, site usage, and quality control, we only use non-personally identifiable information in anonymized and aggregated user data
format.
The PHA recognizes the user’s right to: 1) request access to personal data held by PHA, 2) request amendments or updates in stored personal data, 3) request restriction or blocking of the processing of personal data, 4) to withdraw consent to processing of personal data.
The PHA does not endorse any third party entity which may have provided links to any of the aforementioned PHA sites, unless such an endorsement is explicitly stated by the PHA leadership. Thus, PHA will not be responsible for content of linked third party sites and under no circumstances should be held liable for such links or third party sites.
The PHA employs reasonable security measures to avoid unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of personal information of users. The PHA, however, acknowledges that no website nor online data transmission process can be 100% secure. To partially address this matter, certain PHA sites or domains may require a user ID and password as an additional layer of security to protect your personal information. Use of the various PHA sites is voluntary, and persons who do not agree with any of our conditions are advised to refrain from accessing services or information found on these sites.
This Privacy Policy Statement may evolve over time depending on the changes that happen within the organization and the relevance of such policies. As such, the PHA reserves the right to amend this policy statement at any time, for good reason, which such amendments being publicly disclosed in the designated PHA sites.
For any queries or concerns regarding this policy statement, please feel free to contact the PHA through the following official channels:
Philippine Heart Association, Inc.
Telephone: +63 2 8470-5525, +63 2 8470-5528, +63 2 8687-7797
Email:
Website: http://www.philheart.org
Office address: Suite 1108, 11th Flr. East Tower, PSE Centre, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center,
Pasig City, Philippines
Effective Date: February 2022
(jdam ver 1, 2-04-22)
PHA Online Payment Terms and Conditions
Please read these terms carefully before using the online payment facility. Using the online payments facility on this website indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these terms do not use this facility.
These terms and conditions apply to all online payments made to Philippine Heart Association (PHA).
All payments are subject to the following conditions:
- We cannot accept liability for a payment not reaching PHA due to a member quoting an incorrect account number.
- Neither can we accept liability if payment is refused or declined by the credit card supplier
- If the credit/debit card supplier declines payment, the PHA is under no obligation to bring this fact to the member's attention. Members should check with their bank/credit/debit card supplier that payment has been deducted from their account.
Confirmation of Payment
You will receive a confirmation of your payment on your screen after you make the payment.
Refund Policy
Should you have any queries regarding an overpayment on your account and think you may be eligible for a refund, please contact PHA office.
Limitation of liability
In no event will the PHA and any of its officers or directors be liable for any damages whatsoever, including without limitation direct or indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, losses or expenses arising in connection with this site or any linked site or use thereof or inability to use by any party, or in connection with any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus or line or system, whether based on warranty, contract, tort or any other legal theory and whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages.
Applicable laws
This site is administered by PHA from its offices in Pasig City, Philippines. These terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with Philippine law, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws.
Online Privacy Policy
Your right to privacy is very important to us and we recognise that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act in a responsible manner.
We believe this information should only be used to help us provide you with better service and that's why we have put a policy in place to protect your personal information.
We will not provide any of your personal information obtained via the web to other companies or individuals unless required to by law.
Under no circumstances shall PHA store sensitive card authentication data (i.e. card number, expiry date, validation code, personal identification number) prior to, during, or subsequent to authorization. Whenever you provide sensitive card authentication data, we will ensure all reasonable steps to protect it.