PRIVACY POLICY

Research Foundation to Cure AIDS, Inc. is concerned about privacy issues and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through ResearchFoundationtoCureAIDS.org (the “Website”), through our social media pages located at https://www.facebook.com/rftca/, https://twitter.com/RFTcureaids, https://www.instagram.com/rftcureaids/, and https://www.flickr.com/photos/139882983@N02 (collectively, our “Social Media Pages”), as well as through HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, including the Website and our Social Media Pages, the “Services”). By providing Personal Information to us, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal Information We May Collect

"Personal Information" is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable person, including:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Postal address
  • Telephone number
  • Profile picture and other photos posted on our Services
  • Any other information that you choose to share on our Services

We may use a third-party payment service to process payments made through the Services. If you wish to make a payment through the Services, your Personal Information may be collected by such third party and not by us, and will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Policy. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information.


If you submit any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

How We May Use Personal Information

We may use Personal Information:

  • To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you newsletters.
  • To send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the Services and changes to our terms, conditions and policies.
  • To send you communications that we believe may be of interest to you.
  • To complete and fulfill your online donation, for example, to communicate with you regarding your donation.
  • To facilitate social sharing functionality.
  • For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding our business activities.
  • As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

How Personal Information May Be Disclosed

Your Personal Information may be disclosed:

  • To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
  • To our third party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other services.
  • By you, on message boards, chat, profile pages and blogs and other services to which you are able to post information and materials (including, without limitation, our Social Media Pages). Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to other users and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose any information on the Services. Any Personal Information you post or disclose on our Social Media Pages may also be disclosed on our Website.
  • To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business or assets (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
  • As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

OTHER INFORMATION

Other Information We May Collect

“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as:

  • Browser and device information
  • Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies
  • Demographic information and other information provided by you
  • Aggregated information

If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Policy.

How We May Collect Other Information

We and our third party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:

  • Through your browser or device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Services you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.
  • Using cookies: Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other anonymous traffic data. We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, to personalize your experience while using the Services and to recognize your computer in order to assist your use of the Services. We also gather statistical information about use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality, understand how they are used and assist us with resolving questions regarding them.
    If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular site. You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer, and you may need to log in every time you visit.
  • Using pixel tags and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used in connection with some Services to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates.
  • Analytics. We use analytics services, including Google Analytics, which use cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. These analytics services may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources.
  • Using Adobe Flash technology (including Flash Local Shared Objects (“Flash LSOs”)) and other similar technologies: We may use Flash LSOs and other technologies to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of the Services. If you do not want Flash LSOs stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash LSO storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash LSOs by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash LSOs (referred to as “information” on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash LSOs that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time). Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash LSOs may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including those used in connection with the Services.
  • IP Address: Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services. We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels, diagnosing server problems and administering the Services. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.
  • From you: Information such as your preferred means of communication is collected when you voluntarily provide it.
  • By aggregating information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Services (for example, we may aggregate Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code).

How We May Use and Disclose Other Information

We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your location). If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.

THIRD PARTY SERVICES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure or security policies or practices of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, Google, Microsoft, BlackBerry or any other social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with our Social Media Pages.

SECURITY

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of your account has been compromised), please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.

CHOICES AND ACCESS

If you no longer want to receive promotional emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out of receiving these promotional emails by using the unsubscribe feature contained in each of these emails.

We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please also note that if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, and you cannot opt-out from receiving administrative messages.

If you would like to update Personal Information that you have provided to us, you may contact us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.

If you are under 18 and a registered user of the Services, you may ask us to remove content or information that you have posted to the Services by writing to info@rftca.org. Please note that your request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information, as, for example, some of your content may have been reposted by another user.

USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS

The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (13), and we request that they not provide Personal Information through the Services.

JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES

The Services are controlled and operated by us from the United States and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States. Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Services you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this Privacy Policy. The “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Polic

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@rftca.org.

Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your emails to us.

FAQs

HIV stands for human immuno-deficiency virus. AIDS stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

HIV is transmitted through blood, semen, vaginal secretion, and breast milk. You can become infected with HIV in the following ways:

  • Having unprotected sex with an infected person
  • Sharing sharp objects, such as needles, with an infected person
  • Receiving a blood transfusion
  • Being born to or breastfeeding from a mother who is HIV+

Stigma and discrimination are the main reasons people resist getting tested, which leads to late diagnoses and a greater chance for HIV to progress to AIDS, making treatment less effective and increasing the likelihood of transmission to others. People who have experienced stigma are four times more likely to report poor access to care. Stigma also affects the emotional well-being of those with HIV, as it leads to loss of hope and feelings of worthlessness.

Standard AR therapy consists of a combination of at least three AR drugs that work to suppress the virus and stop the progression of the disease.

Side effects can include nausea, vomiting, bleeding events, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and toxic epidermal necrosis. If you or someone you know is taking ARs and experiencing side effects, talk to your doctor to figure out the best treatment plan.

People are resistant to HIV if they have a natural genetic mutation on their cells that doesn't allow HIV to latch on.

The cure method used for the Berlin Patient would involve a stem cell transplant. Since stem-cell transplants can cost up to $250,000 and is not viable for many people, the Delta 32 mutation would have to be given without a transplant. This means the Delta 32 mutation would have to be created, instead of donated.

It is extremely rare to find someone who is a bone marrow match and rarer still to find someone who is also HIV-resistant. Therefore, the Berlin Patient’s procedure method is not broadly applicable. This is why our Chromovert® technology is so important in creating curative stem cells, alleviating the need to find rare matches.

Chromovert® is a proprietary cellular technology that can isolate and enrich rare cells with optimal, desired genetics. It has successfully isolated cells that mimic human taste buds for leading food companies like Coca-Cola®, Nestle®, and Kraft®, as well as pain-blocker cells that allowed the discovery of new drugs that surpass the effects of morphine. It is now being used to create the Delta 32 mutation, which would give rise to an HIV-resistant immune system, ultimately curing the person of AIDS.

RFTCA President Kambiz Shekdar realized that the biotechnology he invented called Chromovert® Technology can create curative stem cells and replicate the cure used on the Berlin and London Patients. Once Kambiz realized his technology may hold the keys to a cure, he sought out organizations and experts that could help him achieve it.

We welcome people from all walks of life to help us in our cause for a cure. Go to the Get Involved page to donate, volunteer, and share your story.

An alliance such as ours reflects diverse thinking and experiences. We believe we need experts from scientific, clinical, manufacturing, medical, legal, financial, philanthropic, creative, artistic, and other areas in order to succeed. We welcome those living with AIDS, taking care of someone with AIDS, or affected by AIDS in some other way to take a seat at the table and join us. We need to hear stories from different people from all walks of life to make the most meaningful impact.

They don’t teach you the truth about HIV

CONTACT US

If you have a question or comment, please write to us using the contact information below. We'd love to hear from you.

Email
cure@RFTCA.org

Address Research Foundation to Cure AIDS
c/o Kambiz Shekdar
40 Remsen Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201