Privacy Policy

The Hispanic Leadership Fund appreciates your readership and support and values your personal privacy.  We respect the personal nature of the information you provide us on our web site and recognize the importance of protecting this information.  This Privacy Policy may be revised or updated at any time and we encourage you to check back often to ensure that you are familiar with the most recent version and the terms of our Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

User Provided Information: You may provide certain personally identifiable information (such as your name and email address) to us when choosing to participate in various activities on our website, such as subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists.  Any video, image, or other content posted at the direction of users on HispanicLeadershipFund.org becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy.

Cookies Information: When you visit HispanicLeadershipFund.org, we may send one or more “cookies”—a small text file of software code—to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser.  We reserve the right to use both session cookies and persistent cookies.  A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser.  Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site.  A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.  However, some features of the our site may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.

Log File Information: When you use HispanicLeadershipFund.org our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website.  These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

Clear GIFs Information: When you use HispanicLeadershipFund.org we may employ “clear GIFs” (also called Web Beacons) which are used to track the online usage patterns of our Users anonymously (i.e., in a non-personally-identifiable manner).  In addition, we may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.

How Your Information Is Used

If you subscribe to the newsletter we will send you a newsletter via email.

If you submit personally identifiable information to us then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of HispanicLeadershipFund.org.

Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Any material submitted to us may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels and may be viewed by the public.

We will not, without your permission, share your email address with third parties not associated with HispanicLeadershipFund.org except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.  We also may use your email address for administrative purposes.

We may use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of HispanicLeadershipFund.org and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.

We intend to use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the HispanicLeadershipFund.org; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our promotions; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions.

When Your Information Is Disclosed

We may provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our affiliated organizations, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf.  We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with both our privacy policy and a non-disclosure agreement, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.

We retain the right to share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the HispanicLeadershipFund.org.

We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright Law) or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.

We also reserve the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our web site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of our users or others.