Internal Use

1. If you do not make a service request, donation, purchase, or otherwise identify yourself, we will have no personally identifiable information about you. We will only use aggregate information derived, in part, from your use of our site to improve our site and our service to you.
2. If you provide personal information, we may enter your name into our constituent database and contact you in order to:
   
   • Complete voluntary surveys seeking feedback for quality and service improvement purposes.
   • Supply you with information on HSF, partner, or sponsor programs, events, and services.
   • Request voluntary time or monetary contributions to HSF.
   • Request your participation in HSF, partner, or sponsor research studies.
3. We collect the email addresses of those who communicate with us by email. Inquiries may be forwarded to the appropriate HSF department for response and may be entered into our constituent database. If your name is entered into the database, we may contact you for the above-mentioned purposes.

External Use

Your personal information will not be shared or released to any organization or business entity other than those affiliated with or working in conjunction with HSF, partners, or sponsors as follows:

1. We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service and prohibit them from using that information for any other purpose.
2. We may share your personal information in order to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims, or where we believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law.
3. We may transfer your personal information in connection with an acquisition or merger of HSF with or into another company.
4. Finally, we may share aggregated anonymous information about visitors to our website with our clients, partners, and other third parties so that they can understand the kinds of visitors to our website and how those visitors use the our website.

DATA SECURITY

We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information and to honoring your choices for its intended use. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we strive to maintain physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards. However, HSF makes no warranty, guarantee, or representation that the use of our website is protected from viruses, security threats, or other vulnerabilities and that your information will always be secure.

While 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, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. You acknowledge that you provide your personal information at your own risk.

In the event that personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES

It is the policy of HSF to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business-related purposes, to our constituents or website users, via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on our website page, www.yourwordstoday.org, as determined by HSF in its sole discretion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, HSF reserves the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to our constituents or website users.

CONTACT US

This Privacy Policy will be updated periodically and posted on our website, and we will indicate at the top of this page the Privacy Policy's effective date. We reserve the right to change this policy at any time by posting revisions. You agree to review the Privacy Policy each time you use our website so that you are aware of any modifications. By accessing or using the website, you agree to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of the HSF Privacy Policy as posted at the time of your access or use. If you have any questions about our policy or our compliance, you may send us an email at info@yourwordstoday.org or write to:

Hispanic Scholarship Fund
55 Second Street, Suite 1500
San Francisco, CA 94105