We Honor Veterans, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is committed to respecting the privacy and security of all visitors to our website. We recognize that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to protect your privacy and to provide you with choices about how that information is shared. By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of your information by We Honor Veterans, as described below.
Types of Information Requested
Users may visit the website without giving We Honor Veterans any personal information. However, in order to gain access to the Veterans “Partner Portal” area, users will have to register. In this case, We Honor Veterans will collect name, title, organization, mailing address, telephone numbers, fax numbers, email address, contact and demographic information voluntarily provided by individuals who register to access that area.
How Your Personal Information Is Used
We Honor Veterans does not disclose to third parties any information it gathers from the website which could be used to track your individual access and navigation of our site. In order to maintain the integrity of the personal information you provide, we deploy computer encryption technology to protect your information from unauthorized access or release. To defer the costs of bringing you online service, we may at times distribute aggregate information about our users to advertisers or business associates, but we will never individually identify you.
We Honor Veterans may use email and street addresses voluntarily provided by site visitors to notify them of updates, products, services or upcoming events. Site visitors who do not wish to receive such notifications via email can choose to opt out of receiving such information at any time, by indicating either at time of registration, or upon receipt of any promotional email.
Non-identifiable website visitor data may be collected and used in the aggregate to help shape and direct the creation and maintenance of content.
Resale or Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
We Honor Veterans may, from time to time, license its industry database to third parties. This industry database consists of company names and addresses and includes the names of company contacts. This information is licensed to database licensees under strict guidelines. The names and addresses of company contacts are made available only for the communications that are germane to the hospice and palliative care community or of interest to health care professionals as consumers. Email addresses and phone numbers are excluded from such licensing arrangements.
Credit Card Security
This site does not collect credit card information
Messages that you send to us via e-mail may not be secure. We Honor Veterans suggests that you do not send any confidential information to us by e-mail. If you choose to send confidential information to us by e-mail, you accept the risk that a third party may intercept your information.
Links
We Honor Veterans website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other sites. We encourage users when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each website that collects personally identifiable information.
Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
- Login related cookies. We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
- Form submissions related cookies. We use cookies when you are logged in and submitting reports so that you may return to the form to complete it at a later point in time and so that we can review the content you submit.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
If you have any questions and/or concerns regarding what is done with information provided via this site, please e-mail your concerns to Veterans@nhpco.org.
