Vitalant

Vitalant
Basic information
Founded	2018
Type	Non Profit 501(c)(3)
Industry	Medical
Official website	https://www.vitalant.org/

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Vitalant (formerly Blood Systems, Inc. and merged with Central Blood Bank) is a blood bank company. In their privacy policy, they claim to not sell or share your data. However, their website has embedded trackers for Meta and Google, which can be verified by looking at Brave Shields within Brave Browser. This is especially an issue for Vitalant, since they deal with people's private medical information.

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