Privacy Policy

A close-up photographic realism image of a weathered World War II-era naval aviator’s leather flight helmet and goggles carefully placed on a gray-painted steel deck surface. Nearby lies a folded, vintage navigation chart of the Midway Atoll, its edges slightly curled and marked with pencil course lines. A muted, overcast daylight softly illuminates the scene, creating subtle highlights on the glass goggles and gentle shadows in the helmet’s creases. The mood is solemn and reflective, suggesting the presence and courage of unseen heroes. Shot from a low, three-quarter angle with shallow depth of field, the composition focuses tightly on the artifacts while the deck stretches into a softly blurred background, evoking the Battle of Midway without showing any human figures.

Effective Date: June 1, 2026
Website: HonorAmericanHeroes.org
Contact: team@honoramericanheroes.org

Honor American Heroes respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit HonorAmericanHeroes.org, contact us, join our email list, participate in advocacy efforts, make a donation, or otherwise interact with our website and campaign.

By using HonorAmericanHeroes.org, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Who We Are

Honor American Heroes is a national awareness and advocacy campaign dedicated to honoring overlooked American heroes, preserving their legacy, educating the public, and encouraging proper recognition for extraordinary acts of courage, service, and sacrifice.

Our website serves as an informational, educational, and advocacy platform.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Mailing address
  • Phone number
  • Organization or affiliation
  • Messages submitted through contact forms
  • Newsletter or email signup information
  • Petition, advocacy, or campaign participation information
  • Donation-related information
  • Any other information you choose to provide

We may also collect certain information automatically when you visit the website, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Referring website
  • Pages viewed
  • Date and time of visit
  • General location information derived from your IP address
  • Website usage and performance data

3. Donations and Payment Information

If Honor American Heroes accepts donations through the website, payment information may be processed by a third-party payment processor. We do not intentionally store full credit card numbers or complete payment credentials on our own website systems.

Payment processors may collect and process your payment details according to their own privacy policies and security practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party payment provider used during the donation process.

4. How We Use Information

We may use the information we collect to:

  • Respond to questions, comments, and inquiries
  • Send campaign updates, newsletters, and calls to action
  • Process donations or contribution-related communications
  • Manage petitions, advocacy actions, or public-support campaigns
  • Improve website content, performance, and user experience
  • Understand how visitors use the website
  • Protect the security and integrity of the website
  • Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, or unauthorized activity
  • Comply with legal obligations
  • Preserve records related to campaign operations and public engagement

5. Email Communications

If you sign up for our email list, submit a form, make a donation, or otherwise request updates, we may send you emails related to Honor American Heroes, including campaign news, educational content, advocacy opportunities, donor updates, and organizational announcements.

You may unsubscribe from marketing or newsletter emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in those emails or by contacting us at team@honoramericanheroes.org.

Even if you unsubscribe from promotional emails, we may still send necessary administrative or transactional messages, such as donation confirmations, responses to direct inquiries, or legally required notices.

6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

HonorAmericanHeroes.org may use cookies, analytics tools, pixels, log files, and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, measure traffic, understand visitor behavior, improve content, and protect the website from abuse.

Cookies are small files placed on your device by a website. You can usually adjust your browser settings to refuse or delete cookies. Some website features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

We may use third-party tools such as analytics providers, email platforms, embedded media services, donation processors, spam-prevention tools, or social media integrations. These third parties may collect information according to their own privacy policies.

7. How We Share Information

We do not sell personal information in the ordinary sense of selling names, emails, or supporter lists for money.

We may share information with trusted service providers who help us operate the website and campaign, including:

  • Website hosting providers
  • Email service providers
  • Donation and payment processors
  • Analytics providers
  • Security and spam-prevention tools
  • Form, petition, or advocacy platform providers
  • Professional advisors, such as legal, accounting, or technical consultants

These providers are permitted to use information only as necessary to provide services to us or as otherwise allowed by law.

We may also disclose information if required to do so by law, court order, subpoena, government request, or when we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, safety, supporters, website, or the public.

8. Advocacy Actions and Public Submissions

If you participate in an advocacy action, sign a petition, submit a public statement, or ask us to send information to public officials, media contacts, agencies, or other third parties, we may use the information you provide to carry out that action.

Depending on the nature of the action, your name, location, message, or other submitted information may be shared with the intended recipient or displayed publicly if the form or campaign page clearly indicates that the submission is public.

Please do not submit information you do not want used for the purpose of that advocacy action.

9. User-Generated Content

If the website allows comments, testimonials, supporter messages, photo submissions, story submissions, or other user-generated content, information you submit may become visible to other visitors.

Do not post personal information, private information about others, or anything you do not want publicly available. We reserve the right to review, edit, refuse, or remove submissions at our discretion.

10. Children’s Privacy

HonorAmericanHeroes.org is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate parental consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.

Parents or guardians who believe a child has submitted personal information to us may contact us at team@honoramericanheroes.org.

11. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to help protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, email system, database, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by the website.

12. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including campaign operations, donor records, advocacy records, legal compliance, dispute resolution, security, and recordkeeping.

When information is no longer needed, we may delete, anonymize, or securely retain it as required or permitted by law.

13. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have the right to request that we:

  • Provide access to personal information we maintain about you
  • Correct inaccurate personal information
  • Delete certain personal information
  • Stop sending marketing emails
  • Limit certain uses of your information
  • Provide information about how we collect, use, or disclose personal information

To make a privacy request, contact us at team@honoramericanheroes.org.

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights available under applicable law.

14. California Privacy Notice

If you are a California resident, California privacy laws may provide you with additional rights regarding personal information, depending on whether those laws apply to Honor American Heroes.

In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:

  • Identifiers, such as name, email address, mailing address, phone number, IP address, or similar information
  • Donation or transaction-related information, if donations are accepted
  • Internet or electronic activity information, such as website usage data
  • General location information derived from IP address
  • Communications you send to us
  • Inferences related to campaign engagement or website interaction

We collect this information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We may disclose information to service providers, payment processors, email platforms, website hosts, analytics providers, security providers, professional advisors, government entities when legally required, and recipients of advocacy actions when you choose to participate.

We do not knowingly sell personal information. If our use of analytics, pixels, cookies, or advertising tools is considered a “sale” or “sharing” under applicable California privacy law, we will provide any required opt-out mechanism.

California residents may contact us at team@honoramericanheroes.org to make privacy-related requests.

15. International Visitors

Honor American Heroes is based in the United States. If you access HonorAmericanHeroes.org from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.

Privacy laws in those locations may differ from the laws in your country or region.

16. Third-Party Links

HonorAmericanHeroes.org may link to third-party websites, government resources, historical archives, donation platforms, social media pages, media outlets, or partner organizations.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of third-party websites. Visiting third-party websites is subject to their own terms and privacy policies.

17. Social Media

If you interact with Honor American Heroes through social media platforms, your interactions may be governed by the privacy policies and terms of those platforms. We may view, respond to, or share public social media comments, messages, tags, or posts consistent with the platform’s features and your privacy settings.

18. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the effective date at the top of this page.

Your continued use of HonorAmericanHeroes.org after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.

19. Contact Us

For questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact:

Honor American Heroes
Email: team@honoramericanheroes.org
Website: HonorAmericanHeroes.org