Revised March 17, 2017
RollofHonor.org is committed to respecting the privacy of our users. We strive to provide a safe, secure user experience. RollofHonor.org is a property of the Roll of Honor Foundation, dedicated to serving the military and veteran communities. This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to the RollofHonor.org web site and does not apply to information we collect in any other fashion.
Your data will be stored and processed in the United States. The RollofHonor.org web site may contain links to other web sites over which we have no control. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other web sites to which you choose to link from our site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other web sites so you can understand how they collect, use, and share your information.
Collection and Use of Information by RollofHonor.org
In some areas of the RollofHonor.org web site we may request that you provide personal information, including your name, address, e-mail address, and any other information from which your identity is discernible. In other areas, we collect or may collect demographic information that is not unique to you such as your ZIP code, age, preferences, gender, interests, and favorites. Sometimes we collect or may collect a combination of the two types of information. Examples of areas on the RollofHonor.org web site where we collect personal or combined personal and demographic data are pages where you can open a RollofHonor.org account, and create or edit a military profile.
We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of the web site, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by us. This information can include, without limitation, your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses, but is not linked to your personal information.
We may sometimes afford you the opportunity to provide descriptive, preferential and/or other information about yourself, but it is solely up to you whether you furnish such information. If you do provide such information, you are thereby consenting to the use of that information in accordance with the policies and practices described in this Privacy Statement. For example, such information may be used for the purpose of determining your potential interest in receiving e-mail or other communications about particular updates or new features of the service.
Our Use of Your Information
We use the information we gather on the RollofHonor.org web site, whether personal, demographic, collective, or technical, to operate and improve the web site, foster a positive user experience, and deliver the services that we offer.
We may use your contact information to send you e-mail or other communications regarding updates at the RollofHonor.org web site.
We have areas on the RollofHonor.org web site where you can submit feedback. Any feedback you submit in these areas becomes our property, and we can use such feedback to contact you for further information.
Choices Regarding the Disclosure of Personal Information to Others
Choices Regarding the Disclosure of Personal Information to Others
We do not disclose your personal information, or your combined personal and demographic information or information about your use of RollofHonor.org (such as the areas you visit or the services you access), to third parties except as set forth below.
1. We disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include hosting our Web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party.
2. We disclose information if legally required to do so, if requested to do so by a governmental entity or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect our rights or property or our affiliated companies; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.
3. We disclose and transfer information to a third party who acquires all or a substantial portion of our business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets. In addition, in the event we become the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, we or our trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court. You will be notified of sale of all or a substantial portion of our business to a third party via email or through a prominent notice posted on the RollofHonor.org web site.
Personal Profiles
RollofHonor.org is provided as a tool for generating and displaying your military profile for public viewing.
Other Uses of Information
We also share aggregated anonymous information about visitors to RollofHonor.org (for example, the number of visitors) with its clients, partners and other third parties so that they can understand the kinds of visitors to RollofHonor.org and how those visitors use the web site.
Use of Cookies
We use "cookies" to help personalize and maximize your online experience and time online. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize RollofHonor.org pages, or register for services, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information (such as user name, password, and preferences). Because of our use of cookies, we can deliver faster and more accurate results and a more personalized site experience. When you return to RollofHonor.org, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized. We also use cookies to track click streams and for load balancing.
You may have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline all cookies if you prefer. Alternatively, you may be able to modify your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis. If you choose to decline cookies, however, that may hinder performance and negatively impact your experience on RollofHonor.org.
Use of Web Beacons
RollofHonor.org Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our web site usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides.
You may not decline web beacons, however, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or modifying your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.
Access to and Modification of Your Information
You may review, correct, update or change your RollofHonor.org account or profile information at any time.
To change your RollofHonor.org account or profile information, simply log into your account, go to your Account profile, review your account information and, if you wish, edit it with the options provided. We retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you to make your repeat use of RollofHonor.org more efficient, practical, and relevant. Of course, you can close your RollofHonor.org account at any time, in which event we will remove all our copies of your RollofHonor.org account information, except for an archival copy which is not accessible to you via the Internet.
Security of the Personal Information
We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.
Children
RollofHonor.org is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Changes to Privacy Statement
If we decide to materially change our Privacy Statement for RollofHonor.org we will post those changes through a prominent notice on the web site so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it.
If at any time, you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Statement or believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Statement, please feel free to email us at privacy@rollofhonor.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly answer your question or resolve your problem.
Contact Information
RollofHonor.org is the name under which the Roll of Honor Foundation, a Virginia nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation, with its principal place of business at 3819 Hunt Manor Drive, Fairfax VA 22033, and certain of its affiliated companies worldwide, do business. The Roll of Honor Foundation is the legal entity which determines the purposes and means of processing the information gathered on the RollofHonor.org web site. Thank you for using RollofHonor.org.
Effective March 17, 2017.