{"id":3,"date":"2025-04-28T17:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/stars\/?page_id=3"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:34:55","slug":"privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stutteringresearch.org\/pt\/privacy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pol\u00edtica de Privacidade e de Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Effective Date: June 2, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At Stuttering Treatment and Research Society (STARS), we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, <a href=\"https:\/\/stutteringresearch.org\/pt\/\">stutteringresearch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Data Controller &amp; Contact Information<\/h2>\n<p>The Data Controller responsible for processing your personal information on this website is:<\/p>\n<p>STARS - Sociedade de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o e Tratamento da Gaguez<br \/>\n3151 Airway Avenue<br \/>Building 3<br \/>Costa Mesa, CA 92626<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your rights, or how we handle your data, please contact our privacy compliance team at: <a href=\"mailto:&#105;nfo&#64;&#115;&#116;utt&#101;ri&#110;gre&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;h.&#111;r&#103;\">info@stutteringresearch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Information We Collect and How We Use It<\/h2>\n<h3>Personal Data You Provide Volunteered<\/h3>\n<p>We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you interact with our website, such as when you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fill out a contact form or inquiry field.<\/li>\n<li>Register for research programs or clinical studies.<\/li>\n<li>Sign up for our newsletter or email updates.<\/li>\n<li>Register for continuing education (CEU\/CME) courses or events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This information may include your name, email address, phone number, professional affiliation, and any details you choose to include in your messages. We use this data strictly to respond to your inquiries, deliver requested services, and manage your relationship with STARS. For our newsletter and email updates, we partner with Mailchimp as our third-party data processor; your subscriber data is transferred and managed securely in compliance with <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchimp.com\/legal\/data-processing-addendum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mailchimp\u2019s Data Processing Addendum (DPA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Data Collected Automatically<\/h3>\n<p>When you access our website, certain technical information is automatically collected by our infrastructure and integrated third-party services. This data includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, device characteristics, and information about how you interact with our web pages.<\/p>\n<h2>3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (GDPR)<\/h2>\n<p>Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we only collect and process your personal data when we have a valid legal basis to do so. Depending on how you interact with our website, we rely on the following legal grounds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Your Explicit Consent:<\/strong> For tracking, analytics, and marketing cookies. You can withdraw this consent at any time via the Cookie Declaration dashboard at the bottom of this page.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legitimate Interests:<\/strong> To maintain website security, optimize performance, prevent fraud, and process general inquiries submitted through our contact forms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Performance of a Contract:<\/strong> If you register for research programs, courses, or memberships where processing your data is required to fulfill our direct service obligations to you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>4. International Data Transfers<\/h2>\n<p>Our organization and primary web servers are located in the United States. When you visit our website from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or other regions with comprehensive data protection laws, your data will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the US.<\/p>\n<p>We utilize standard contractual safeguards to ensure that your personal data receives an adequate level of protection consistent with EU and global data privacy standards.<\/p>\n<h2>5. Data Security &amp; Retention<\/h2>\n<p>We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the safety of your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.<\/p>\n<p>We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.<\/p>\n<h2>6. Children&#8217;s Privacy<\/h2>\n<p>Our website is designed for researchers, healthcare professionals, and adults seeking information about stuttering treatments. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal data from a child under 13, we will take immediate steps to delete that information from our records.<\/p>\n<h2>7. Your GDPR Data Subject Rights<\/h2>\n<p>If you are located within the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, you hold specific legal rights regarding your personal information under the GDPR:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Right of Access:<\/strong> You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Right to Rectification:<\/strong> You can request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Right to Erasure (The &#8220;Right to be Forgotten&#8221;):<\/strong> You may request that we permanently delete your personal data, subject to certain legal obligations that might require us to retain it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Right to Restrict or Object to Processing:<\/strong> You have the right to object to us processing your data for specific purposes (like analytics or direct marketing).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Right to Data Portability:<\/strong> You can request that we export your data in a structured, machine-readable format.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Right to Withdraw Consent:<\/strong> Where data collection is based entirely on your consent, you have the right to revoke that consent at any time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the privacy email address listed in Section 1.<\/p>\n<h2>8. Cookie Policy &amp; Dynamic Declaration<\/h2>\n<p>Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to improve site performance, remember your configurations, analyze traffic, and ensure you see relevant content.<\/p>\n<p>We categorize these trackers into:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Necessary:<\/strong> Required for basic site functions, such as maintaining your language preferences or remembering your privacy choices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Statistics:<\/strong> Handled via Google Analytics to understand user behaviors anonymously across web sessions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marketing:<\/strong> Handled via Google Tag Manager and embedded media players (such as YouTube Privacy Enhanced Mode) to measure the effectiveness of our outreach.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Manage Your Consent &amp; Tracker List<\/h3>\n<p>The section below is generated dynamically by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookiebot.com\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CookieBot<\/a>. It details every active cookie discovered on our domain, its expiration timeline, and its explicit purpose. You can use this interactive dashboard to instantly change or withdraw your consent at any time.<\/p>\n<p><script id=\"CookieDeclaration\" src=\"https:\/\/consent.cookiebot.com\/7335a116-72b2-4dd0-b53e-2a92fac9112b\/cd.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>9. Changes to This Policy<\/h2>\n<p>We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any significant updates by revising the &#8220;Effective Date&#8221; at the top of this policy. 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