Privacy Policy
Homes with Heart25 Corporation
| This Privacy Policy explains how Homes with Heart25 Corporation collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you visit www.hwh25.org, contact us, make a voluntary contribution, or participate in one of our charitable home-giveaway fundraising initiatives. |
Homes with Heart25 Corporation (“Homes with Heart25,” “HWH25,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a Florida nonprofit organization. By using our website or submitting information through it, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
Information you provide
We collect information that you voluntarily provide when you submit an entry, make a contribution, request information, join a mailing list, complete a form, or communicate with us. Depending on the interaction, this information may include:
- Name, email address, telephone number, and mailing address;
- Entry selections, contribution amount, transaction details, and confirmation information;
- Eligibility-related information, such as age, residency, category eligibility, and acknowledgments;
- Information included in correspondence, mailed free-entry requests, or customer-service inquiries; and
- If you are selected for an appreciation award, additional identity, eligibility, tax, and award-delivery information needed for verification and administration.
Payment information
Online payment information is processed through third-party payment service providers. HWH25 does not intend to store complete payment-card numbers or card security codes on its own systems. Payment providers may collect and use information in accordance with their own privacy policies and security practices.
Information collected automatically
When you use the website, we and service providers supporting the website may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring pages, pages viewed, dates and times of visits, and general interaction data.
2. How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
- Process and administer entries and voluntary contributions;
- Send confirmations, entry identification numbers, notices, and other initiative-related communications;
- Verify eligibility and identity, select and contact potential recipients, and administer appreciation awards;
- Respond to questions, requests, and customer-service matters;
- Provide news, fundraising updates, and promotional communications where permitted by law;
- Operate, maintain, secure, analyze, and improve the website and our initiatives;
- Detect or prevent fraud, misuse, unauthorized activity, or violations of our Official Rules and Disclosures; and
- Comply with legal, tax, accounting, reporting, and regulatory obligations.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
The website may use cookies and similar technologies to remember preferences, support site functionality, understand website traffic, improve user experience, and help measure outreach or advertising. Cookies are small data files stored on a device or browser. You may be able to block or delete cookies through your browser settings; however, doing so may affect how parts of the website function.
4. How We Share Information
We may share information only as reasonably necessary with:
- Service providers that assist with website hosting, form processing, payment processing, email delivery, analytics, marketing, security, professional services, or initiative administration;
- An independent third-party administrator involved in recipient selection, verification, or initiative oversight;
- Government agencies, regulators, law enforcement, courts, or other parties when disclosure is required by law or reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, property, or the integrity of an initiative;
- A successor organization in connection with a merger, reorganization, transfer of assets, or similar nonprofit transaction, subject to appropriate protections; and
- Other parties when you direct us to share information or provide your consent.
HWH25 does not sell or rent personal information for monetary compensation. We may disclose aggregated or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify an individual.
5. Children’s Privacy
The website and HWH25 initiatives are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13. A person under 13 should not submit personal information through the website. If a parent or legal guardian believes a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, the parent or guardian may contact us at homeswithheart25@gmail.com to request review and deletion.
6. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards intended to protect the information in our custody. Sensitive payment information submitted online is transmitted to a payment service provider using security measures designed for payment processing. No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to administer initiatives, complete transactions, provide requested communications, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and meet legal, accounting, tax, and regulatory obligations. Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the purpose for which it was collected.
8. Your Choices
- You may opt out of promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link in an email or by contacting us. We may still send non-promotional messages related to an entry, contribution, transaction, legal notice, or active request.
- You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we maintain about you, subject to identity verification and applicable legal or recordkeeping requirements.
- You may control cookies through your browser or device settings, subject to the functionality limitations described above.
9. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may link to third-party websites, social-media platforms, or services that we do not control. This Privacy Policy does not govern those third parties. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing information.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The revised policy will be posted on the website with an updated effective date. Your continued use of the website after an update means that you acknowledge the revised policy.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to submit a privacy-related request, contact:
| Organization | Homes with Heart25 Corporation |
| homeswithheart25@gmail.com | |
| Mailing Address | 290 NW Peacock Blvd., #88141 |
| Port St. Lucie, FL 34986 |
