Terms of Service

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Effective Date: June 27, 2026
Website: HonorAmericanHeroes.org
Contact: team@honoramericanheroes.org

Welcome to HonorAmericanHeroes.org. These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of the Honor American Heroes website, content, forms, advocacy tools, email signups, donation features, and related online services.

By visiting or using HonorAmericanHeroes.org, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, please do not use the website.

1. About Honor American Heroes

Honor American Heroes is a national awareness, education, and advocacy campaign dedicated to honoring overlooked American heroes, preserving their legacy, sharing historical information, and encouraging proper recognition for extraordinary acts of courage, service, sacrifice, and leadership.

The website may include historical articles, biographies, campaign updates, calls to action, petitions, public-support tools, donation options, media resources, and other materials related to the mission of Honor American Heroes.

2. Educational and Advocacy Purpose

HonorAmericanHeroes.org is provided for informational, educational, commemorative, and advocacy purposes.

The content on this website may discuss military history, public records, historical interpretation, public honors, government recognition processes, and advocacy efforts. While we strive to present accurate and respectful information, the website is not an official government website and does not represent the United States government, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the White House, Congress, or any other government agency unless expressly stated.

Nothing on this website guarantees that any individual will receive a medal, military honor, public recognition, government action, legislative action, or official response.

3. Acceptance of These Terms

By using HonorAmericanHeroes.org, you confirm that you are at least 13 years old and that you have the legal ability to agree to these Terms.

If you use the website on behalf of an organization, campaign, company, institution, or other entity, you represent that you have authority to act on behalf of that entity.

4. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Service from time to time. When we do, we will revise the effective date above.

Your continued use of HonorAmericanHeroes.org after updated Terms are posted means you accept the revised Terms.

5. Website Content

All content on HonorAmericanHeroes.org is provided in good faith for educational, historical, commemorative, and advocacy purposes.

Website content may include:

  • Historical articles
  • Biographies
  • Campaign statements
  • Calls to action
  • Suggested letters or messages
  • Public records or references to public records
  • Images, captions, summaries, and descriptions
  • News or campaign updates
  • Donation or support information
  • Social media and outreach materials

We may update, revise, remove, or replace website content at any time without notice.

6. Historical Accuracy and Public Records

Honor American Heroes works to present historical information carefully and respectfully. However, historical records may contain conflicting accounts, incomplete documentation, evolving interpretations, or errors in original source material.

We do not guarantee that every fact, date, quotation, citation, description, image, or interpretation on the website is complete, current, or free from error.

If you believe content on the website contains an error, omission, or issue requiring review, please contact us at team@honoramericanheroes.org.

7. No Professional Advice

The content on HonorAmericanHeroes.org is not legal, military, government, tax, financial, historical-certification, or professional advice.

Any information about recognition processes, military honors, public officials, government agencies, advocacy methods, donations, or public campaigns is provided for general informational purposes only.

You should consult qualified professionals or official government sources when professional, legal, tax, or official guidance is required.

8. Permitted Use

You may use HonorAmericanHeroes.org for lawful, respectful, personal, educational, journalistic, commemorative, and advocacy-related purposes.

You agree not to use the website to:

  • Violate any law or regulation
  • Submit false, misleading, fraudulent, or impersonated information
  • Harass, threaten, abuse, defame, or intimidate others
  • Interfere with the operation or security of the website
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to website systems
  • Upload malware, viruses, spam, or harmful code
  • Scrape, harvest, or misuse supporter information
  • Misrepresent your affiliation with Honor American Heroes
  • Use the website to promote hate, violence, unlawful activity, or exploitation
  • Copy or republish website content in a misleading or deceptive manner
  • Use our name, logo, branding, or campaign materials in a way that implies endorsement without permission

We reserve the right to restrict access, remove submissions, block users, or take other appropriate action if we believe these Terms have been violated.

9. Advocacy Actions, Petitions, and Public Support Tools

HonorAmericanHeroes.org may allow visitors to sign petitions, send messages, submit statements, contact public officials, join campaigns, or participate in other advocacy actions.

By submitting information through an advocacy action, you authorize us to use that information for the purpose of carrying out the action you selected. This may include sharing your name, message, location, or other submitted information with public officials, government offices, media contacts, partner platforms, or other intended recipients.

You are responsible for ensuring that any information you submit is accurate, lawful, and your own.

We reserve the right to reject, edit, decline to send, or remove submissions that we believe are abusive, fraudulent, unlawful, irrelevant, misleading, duplicative, or inconsistent with the mission of Honor American Heroes.

10. Donations

If Honor American Heroes accepts donations through the website, all donations are voluntary.

Donation processing may be handled by third-party payment processors. By making a donation, you agree to the applicable terms and privacy policies of those payment processors.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, donations are not purchases of goods or services. Donations may be used to support website operations, public awareness, outreach, advocacy, research, media production, printing, mailing, administrative expenses, technology, and other mission-related activities.

Honor American Heroes does not guarantee that donations will result in any specific public action, government action, official recognition, legislative action, media coverage, or campaign outcome.

Donation refund requests may be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. We reserve the right to decline refund requests where funds have already been processed, allocated, or used for campaign-related expenses, except where a refund is required by law.

Questions about donations may be sent to team@honoramericanheroes.org.

11. Merchandise, Printed Materials, or Campaign Items

If Honor American Heroes offers merchandise, printed materials, downloads, campaign kits, or other items, additional terms may apply to those items, including pricing, shipping, refunds, fulfillment, and availability.

We reserve the right to modify or discontinue any item, product, campaign material, or offer at any time.

12. Email Signups and Communications

By submitting your email address through the website, you may receive communications from Honor American Heroes, including newsletters, campaign updates, advocacy alerts, donation requests, event notices, educational content, and organizational announcements.

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

Administrative, transactional, or direct-response emails may still be sent when necessary.

13. User Submissions

You may have the opportunity to submit comments, messages, stories, testimonials, historical information, photographs, documents, corrections, letters, or other materials through the website or by email.

By submitting content to Honor American Heroes, you represent that:

  • You own the content or have permission to submit it
  • The content is accurate to the best of your knowledge
  • The content does not violate the rights of others
  • The content does not contain unlawful, defamatory, abusive, or misleading material
  • The content may be reviewed, edited, published, archived, or declined by Honor American Heroes

You retain ownership of content you submit. However, by submitting content, you grant Honor American Heroes a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license to use, reproduce, edit, publish, display, distribute, archive, excerpt, and share the content for educational, historical, commemorative, promotional, advocacy, fundraising, and campaign-related purposes.

We are not required to publish, return, preserve, or respond to any submission.

14. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, the Honor American Heroes name, logo, branding, original written content, design elements, graphics, page layouts, captions, campaign language, and other original materials on HonorAmericanHeroes.org are owned by or licensed to Honor American Heroes.

You may share links to HonorAmericanHeroes.org and may quote limited portions of website content for commentary, education, journalism, advocacy, or fair use purposes, provided that you do not misrepresent the content or imply endorsement.

You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, modify, sell, exploit, or create derivative works from our original materials without permission, except as allowed by law.

Requests for permission may be sent to team@honoramericanheroes.org.

15. Public Domain and Third-Party Materials

HonorAmericanHeroes.org may include or reference public domain materials, government records, historical photographs, archival images, third-party sources, quoted material, or linked resources.

Public domain status, licensing, attribution, and usage rights may vary by item. We make reasonable efforts to identify and use materials appropriately, but we do not guarantee that every third-party or archival item is free of restrictions for every possible use.

If you believe content on HonorAmericanHeroes.org infringes your rights or has been used improperly, please contact us at team@honoramericanheroes.org with enough detail for us to review the matter.

16. Copyright Complaints

If you believe that material on HonorAmericanHeroes.org infringes your copyright, please send a notice to team@honoramericanheroes.org that includes:

  • Your name and contact information
  • A description of the copyrighted work
  • The URL or location of the allegedly infringing material
  • A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized
  • A statement that the information in your notice is accurate
  • Your physical or electronic signature

We may remove or restrict access to content that we believe may infringe copyright or other rights.

17. Third-Party Links and Services

HonorAmericanHeroes.org may link to third-party websites, government resources, archives, museums, libraries, media outlets, social media platforms, donation processors, email platforms, advocacy tools, or other external services.

We are not responsible for third-party websites, services, content, policies, security, accuracy, availability, or practices. Your use of third-party websites or services is at your own risk and subject to their own terms and privacy policies.

18. Social Media

Honor American Heroes may maintain social media accounts and may allow visitors to share, comment on, or interact with campaign content through third-party platforms.

Social media interactions are governed by the terms and privacy policies of the applicable platform. We reserve the right to moderate, hide, report, block, or remove comments or users on our official pages when appropriate.

19. No Endorsement

References to individuals, organizations, public officials, military units, government agencies, museums, archives, media outlets, historical sources, books, articles, or third-party websites do not necessarily imply endorsement, sponsorship, partnership, approval, or affiliation.

Similarly, participation in an advocacy campaign, petition, email signup, donation, or public-support action does not make any person or organization an official representative of Honor American Heroes.

20. Website Availability

We do not guarantee that HonorAmericanHeroes.org will be available at all times or free from errors, interruptions, security issues, technical problems, or delays.

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the website at any time without notice.

21. Disclaimer of Warranties

HonorAmericanHeroes.org is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Honor American Heroes disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, non-infringement, security, availability, and uninterrupted operation.

We do not warrant that the website will be error-free, secure, current, complete, or free from viruses or harmful components.

22. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Honor American Heroes and its organizers, representatives, volunteers, contributors, service providers, and affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages arising from or related to your use of, or inability to use, HonorAmericanHeroes.org.

This includes damages related to website errors, interruptions, inaccuracies, omissions, advocacy outcomes, third-party services, donations, user submissions, reliance on website content, or unauthorized access to information.

Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with the website is to stop using the website.

23. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Honor American Heroes and its organizers, representatives, volunteers, contributors, service providers, and affiliates from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, or expenses arising out of or related to:

  • Your use of the website
  • Your violation of these Terms
  • Your submissions or user content
  • Your violation of any law or regulation
  • Your violation of the rights of another person or organization
  • Your misuse of campaign materials, advocacy tools, or website content

24. Privacy

Your use of HonorAmericanHeroes.org is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information.

Please review the Privacy Policy carefully.

25. Governing Law

These Terms of Service are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, unless another jurisdiction is required by applicable law.

Any dispute arising from or related to these Terms or the website will be handled in the appropriate state or federal courts located in California, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

26. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

27. Entire Agreement

These Terms of Service, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms posted on the website, constitute the entire agreement between you and Honor American Heroes regarding your use of HonorAmericanHeroes.org.

28. Contact Us

For questions about these Terms of Service, please contact:

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