Privacy Policy

1. Information We May Collect

Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect:

2. How We Use Information

We may use information to:

• Respond to patient, caregiver, physician, investigator, sponsor, or CRO inquiries
• Conduct an initial review of possible clinical trial opportunities
• Contact you regarding information needed to evaluate a potential study opportunity
• Coordinate authorized collection or review of medical records
• Communicate with treating physicians or other health care providers when authorized or otherwise permitted
• Support clinical research operations
• Maintain, secure, and improve our website
• Measure website performance and effectiveness
• Detect fraud, security incidents, or misuse
• Fulfill legal, regulatory, contractual, and research obligations
• Protect the rights, safety, and security of patients, research participants, FCTG, and others

Submitting information through the website does not guarantee clinical trial eligibility, enrollment, availability of a study, access to an investigational product, safety, or medical benefit.

3. Health Information and Clinical Research

Information submitted through a clinical trial inquiry may include sensitive medical information.

When information is subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), it will be handled in accordance with applicable HIPAA requirements and our Notice of Privacy Practices, if applicable.

Clinical trial participation may also require separate informed consent documents, HIPAA authorizations, medical-record authorizations, sponsor or Institutional Review Board (“IRB”) approved documents, or other study-specific privacy notices.

This Website Privacy Policy does not replace those documents.

4. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising

We may use analytics and advertising technologies to understand how visitors find and use our website and to measure the effectiveness of outreach campaigns.

FCTG does not intentionally provide patient-submitted clinical information, such as diagnosis, cancer type, treatment history, biomarker results, medical records, medications, or similar health information, to advertising platforms for targeted advertising.

Where advertising conversion measurement is used, FCTG intends to limit such measurement to generalized website events, such as visiting a page or completing an inquiry, without intentionally transmitting the clinical contents of the inquiry.

We do not sell personal information submitted through our patient or clinical trial inquiry process.

5. When Information May Be Shared

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

• FCTG investigators and authorized research personnel
• Health care professionals involved in an authorized clinical review
• Service providers that assist with secure forms, communications, information technology, hosting, cybersecurity, record retrieval, or other operations
• Clinical trial sponsors, contract research organizations, laboratories, pharmacies, imaging providers, IRBs, or other research partners when appropriate and permitted by applicable authorization, consent, protocol, contract, or law
• Government agencies or regulatory authorities when required by law
• Law enforcement or other parties when disclosure is legally required or necessary to protect health, safety, or legal rights

Service providers are expected to use information only for authorized purposes and to maintain appropriate safeguards.

6. Data Security

We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, electronic transmission, or information system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Please do not send highly sensitive medical information through ordinary email unless specifically instructed to do so through an approved secure process.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and to satisfy applicable clinical research, regulatory, contractual, legal, security, and record-retention obligations.

Information that becomes part of a clinical research record may be subject to study-specific or regulatory retention requirements.

8. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on the nature of the information and applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal information.

You may contact FCTG to:

• Ask what personal information we maintain about you
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Ask questions about how information is used
• Withdraw a website inquiry
• Request that we stop non-essential communications
• Exercise applicable privacy rights

Certain information may need to be retained despite a request for deletion when required by law, regulation, clinical research obligations, or legitimate record-retention requirements.

HIPAA-related rights, where applicable, are described separately in our Notice of Privacy Practices.

9. Children

This website is not designed for independent use by children under 13.

A parent, legal guardian, or other authorized representative may contact FCTG on behalf of a minor where appropriate. Clinical research involving minors is subject to additional regulatory, consent, and assent requirements.

10. Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, including governmental, educational, clinical trial, sponsor, or other external resources.

FCTG is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party websites. Visitors should review the privacy policies of those websites separately.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or services.

The current version will be posted on this page with its effective date.

12. Contact Us

Questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

You may also contact us through the website's Contact section.