Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

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Stroke Awareness Oregon (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, https://strokeawarenessoregon.org (the “Site”). This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, and how you can manage them.

1. Who We Are

Organization Name: Stroke Awareness Oregon
Address: 695 Southwest Mill View Way, Bend, OR 97702
Email: admin@strokeawarenessoregon.org
Phone: 541-323-5641

Stroke Awareness Oregon is a nonprofit organization providing informational and educational resources related to stroke awareness and prevention. We also collect donations to support our programs.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help the website function properly, improve user experience, and provide information about how visitors use the site.

Some cookies are set by us (first-party cookies), and others are set by third-party services we use (third-party cookies).

3. Types of Cookies We Use

We use the following categories of cookies:

a. Essential / Functional Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to work properly. They enable core functions such as page navigation, security, and saving your preferences.

Examples include:

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These cookies cannot be disabled through our system.

b. Preferences Cookies

These cookies remember your choices and preferences, such as cookie consent settings.

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c. Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors use our site so we can improve content and performance.

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These cookies do not identify you personally and are used only for statistical purposes.

d. Embedded Content Cookies

Some pages may include embedded content from third-party services, which may set their own cookies, such as:

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These services may collect data according to their own privacy policies.

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4. Advertising

Stroke Awareness Oregon displays sponsor banner advertisements on its website. These ads are:

  • Not served by ad networks

  • Not behaviorally tracked

  • Not targeted using cookies

We do not use Google Ads, Meta ads, or remarketing technologies on this website.

5. Personal Information

We collect personal information only when voluntarily submitted by users through:

  • Contact forms

  • Tribute accounts (user-created content honoring loved ones)

Newsletter signups are handled by a third-party platform and are not processed directly through our website.

Any personal data collected is used solely for nonprofit operations and communication purposes.

6. Cookie Consent

We use a cookie consent tool that allows visitors to:

You can manage your cookie preferences using the “Manage Consent” link available on the site.

7. How to Control Cookies

You can:

  • Adjust cookie preferences through our consent banner

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  • Opt out of certain analytics tracking

Please note that disabling some cookies may affect site functionality.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, laws, or our practices. Updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact:

Stroke Awareness Oregon
695 Southwest Mill View Way
Bend, OR 97702
Email: admin@strokeawarenessoregon.org
Phone: 541-323-5641

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Story Preview | A DRIVING FORCE – Alesha Goodman

by Jake Sheaffer

“I once threw a canister of my supplement powder at the wall and dented it. That’s something I can’t imagine ever doing before my stroke, but it’s just another part
of my recovery to work on.”

______________________________

On an early October weekend in 2019, Alesha Goodman and her longtime boyfriend Drew hiked over 50 miles of rugged desert landscape in the Ochoco National Forest in Central Oregon. They were on a nine-day hunting trip they’d been planning for months. While Drew streaked up the steep slopes of sagebrush and loose rock, Alesha tarried behind breathing heavily, fighting the searing pain radiating from the base of her skull. An active thirty-four-year-old who frequented local gyms, walked her dog daily, and hiked on weekends, Alesha never suspected the severe neck pain and nausea she’d had for the past week and a half were signs of an impending stroke. And not just one stroke, but two. Two potentially fatal strokes that would occur within an hour of each other the day after she returned from the Ochocos.

An only child, Alesha was close to her parents and her grandmother who lived on her parents’ property later in life. As a kid, she delivered newspapers in her Bend, OR neighborhood, and in her spare time, she wrote children’s books for fun and read voraciously, prompting close friends to refer to her as a “living encyclopedia of odd information.”

On the Monday morning after she got home, Alesha sat in traffic at a parkway off -ramp, still in discomfort from the neck pain and the nausea. She had new symptoms, too, dizziness and feeling faint. Regardless of the pain, she readied herself for work, but she had an uneasy feeling about her job.

Over the weekend, Alesha had received multiple text messages from her employer, a jewelry company in Central Oregon, about an issue with her company email and password, but with no cell reception, she couldn’t respond to her manager’s concerns. After searching through Alesha’s desk for her email password and not finding it, but instead finding an important legal document she’d already dealt with but had not yet disclosed to her boss, the company hired a specialist to get around the digital safeguards. That day, Alesha was let go from her position.

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