Privacy Policy
Honor Roads is committed to protecting your personal information. Please see our privacy policy below:
This Privacy (“Policy”) covers Honor Roads’ treatment of personal information or personally identifiable information (both “Personal Information”) that may be collected or submitted when the web-user (“you”) are using the Honor Roads’ website or services.
This Policy does not apply to companies that Honor Roads does not own or control, or to individuals that are not under Honor Roads’ supervisory control. Please understand that whenever you voluntarily disclose Personal Information online this information cannot be made one-hundred percent secure and, in some cases, that information can be intercepted, collected and used by others.
However, we work hard to protect your information at all times and protect your information in several ways. Your information is stored on a secure server that Honor Roads and its authorized personnel can only access through a password. Additionally, we encrypt your information to prevent third parties without authorization from intercepting your information when it is in transit to us.
How We Collect Your Personal Information
While using the Honor Roads website, you may submit Personal Information when contacting us, registering for services, ordering products, and posting content. Depending on the service or process, the Personal Information you may be asked to provide your your: Name, Postal Address, Email address, Phone number, Credit or Debit Card Information, Age, Gender, or other demographic information Location information. Personal Information may also be collected, or your IP address logged, when you visit Honor Roads’ website. Your IP information allows us to understand how you use our site and to enable us to make changes to our site in order to improve your experience. Information regarding your computer, your connection to our website (such as your browser type, operating system, and platform) and your user history (including, but not limited to, your session information, page errors and the length of your visits to specific pages within our website) may also be collected.
Our Use of Cookies
Honor Roads uses cookies to remember certain user information. Cookies are electronic identifiers that are transferred automatically to your computer through your browser that allow our computers to save certain information you provide us and store information about you so we can recognize you when you visit our website in the future. This allows you to avoid logging in more than once, which saves time, and create a customized website that fits your needs. You may, at any time, disable or refuse to accept cookies by changing the preferences or settings on your web browser. If you choose to disable cookies, you will still be able to use our website. However, you will not be able to fully take advantage of certain automation and other functionality features available.
How We Use Your Personal Information
Honor Roads may use the Personal Information you provide for purposes such as: carrying out a registration made by you; customizing the advertising and content you see; fulfilling your requests for products and services (including purchases); improving the content and overall look and feel of ourwebsite and services, contacting you, conducting research, providing anonymous reporting for internal and external clients, contacting users regarding changes to our website or business, and customizing the content that you see on the Honor Roads’ website. Honor Roads may also retain the details of purchases and other transactions or payments made with us, or the partners affiliated with our website.
How Your Personal Information is Disclosed
It is Honor Roads’ policy not to disclose, sell or rent your Personal Information to anyindividual, business, government entity or outside parties except: (i) to provide compliance to government reporting, (ii) products or services you’ve requested through us; (iii) in response to a validly-issued subpoena, court order, or other legal process; (iv)when necessary to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal action; or (v) where you request Honor Roads to do so. From time to time, Honor Roads may use return email addresses to answer the email we receive from you.
Web Statistics & Shared Data
We collect and use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for reporting and sponsorship purposes. From time to time, we may use this information to better design our website and to share with select advertising partners, sponsors, and/or affiliates however IP addresses are not linked to Personal Information. For example, may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we will not disclose to these partners, sponsors and/or affiliates anything that could be used to personally identify those individuals.
This website contains links to other third-party websites. Please be aware that Honor Roads does not claim any responsibility for the privacy of information on practices of these third-party sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to take reasonable precautions when sharing your personally identifiable information on third party websites.
Opt-Out
Honor Roads provides you the opportunity to remove your information from our database and to opt out of receiving most communications from us. If you encounter any problems or questions regarding your privacy preferences or opt-out options, you may email or call or otherwise contact us using any of our contact information above.
You may not opt out of the use of your Information for completion and support of your scholarship or scholarship application. You also may not opt out of sharing your Information to comply with valid law enforcement requests, legal process, to protect our interests or property or those of third parties or as otherwise permitted or required by law.
Encryption
All form submittal and donation pages are protected with Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) encryption. All user accounts must be accessed with usernames and passwords. You are advised not to share your username and password with any other person.
Amendments
Honor Roads reserves the right to amend this policy at any time. Honor Roads will contact registered users by e-mail, and shall also post a notice of changes on its web site, when and if the terms of this policy are amended.
Contact
You may contact Honor Roads directly by e-mailing help via our contact form should you have any questions regarding this policy.
We will not sell or trade our donors names or personal information with any other entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations.
We may share PII with third parties in limited circumstances. For example, we may include your information to third parties for tributes and events.
This policy applies to all information received by Honor Roads, both online and offline, on any Platform (“Platform”, includes the Honor Roads website)
To the extent donations are processed through a third-party service provider, our donors information will only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please write to us at the address below:
801 Travis Street Suite 2101, PMB 911 Houston, TX 77002
You may also e-mail us via our contact form or call us at 888-214-6275.
The Information
The Information may include, but is not limited to, the following:
User Information
“User Information” is information that you provide to us and that includes, but is not limited to, your name, address, phone number, email address and any other contact information, school, age, graduation year, grade level, extracurricular activities, date of birth, Discharge Status, and/or parents’ occupations and income.
Technical Information
“Technical Information” means information that we collect automatically from you and your computer and that includes, but is not limited to, your IP address, the referring URL, browser type, browser cookies, your computer’s operating system, your internet service provider, your geographic location and other usage information.
Confidential Application Information
“Confidential Application Information” means information that you submit as part of a grant application or donation that includes, but is not limited to, your Social Security Number, your driver’s license information, your credit information and the names and contact information of your references.
Protection of Information
To respect the expectation of privacy held by contributors with regard to confidential personal and financial information, the Foundation does not share publicly certain information including, but not necessarily limited to, the following:
Biographical information on a donor unless authorized by the donor.
Information pertaining to donors or prospective donors (whether personal, financial, biographical or gift related) other than as authorized by the donor.
Lists, data, and other confidential and/or proprietary information that if publicly disclosed might jeopardize the Foundation’s ability to most effectively and successfully fulfill its mission.
Personnel records of Foundation employees, and other information that might infringe on an employee’s reasonable expectation of privacy, other than information that is required to be disclosed by law.
Use of Information
We may from time to time use your Information for various purposes, including but not limited to the following:
We may use (i) User Information for purposes including, but not limited to, contacting you regarding your interest in Honor Roads, providing services you request, customizing our website and improving your experience and ours, (ii) Technical Information for purposes including, but not limited to, operating, administering and improving our sites and to customize your experience and (iii) Confidential Application Information only for the purpose of facilitating your transaction with the financial service provider.
We may share User Information and Confidential Application Information with financial service providers in order to process applications you submit.
We may share your Information in response to a valid law enforcement request or legal process, to protect our third-party interests or property or as otherwise permitted or required by law.
Your Agreement; Changes
When you provide Information on the Honor Roads website, or to us via forms or email, you acknowledge receipt of and signify your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any future modifications or amendments we may make. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, do not provide us with Information. In addition, we make this Privacy Policy continuously available online, so you should check regularly to view any changes. We will inform you of material modifications to this Privacy Policy in the future by posting changes on our website or by sending you an email where appropriate.