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"Hamilton Friends challenged us to do more than we thought possible and to rise to the challenges we face as a society today."
-Danika Young, '06 Hamilton Scholar
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Hamilton Friends Privacy PolicyThis privacy statement provides information about the personal information that we collect, and the ways in which we use that personal information. It applies to your use of our Hamilton Award Application.
Information Collected
We may collect personal information for those who begin a Hamilton Award Application. Personal information may include your username, your password (we only store an encrypted version of this; not the actual password), one or more email addresses, other contact information and demographic information you enter into the application.
The company we use to build our application, WizeHive, may automatically collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. This information may include, but is not limited to, your computer's Internet Protocol address, and the browser type of the web page you were visiting before you came to the our Site and information you searched for on our site.
WizeHive may also use "cookies" to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. WizeHive may use "persistent cookies" to save your registration ID and login password for future logins to the Site; and we may use "session ID cookies" to enable certain features of the Site, to better understand how you interact with the Site and to monitor aggregate usage and web traffic routing on the Site. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of the Site or all functionality of our services.
Information Use
We use the information collected to enable your access to and use of the Hamilton Award Application. We may also occasionally contact you via email to tell you about important updates to the application or remind you of application due dates.
We will also use the information collected about your high school and recommender to market the award in future years.
We will never disclose data on an individual or identifiable basis to third parties except when we must comply with laws that require such disclosure to law enforcement authorities or other government third party officials such as subpoenas.
Security
We use industry standard security measures to protect against the loss and misuse of information within our control, as follows:
• The site uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to protect your name, password and all other information transmitted to or from our database to ensure the protection of your data.
• Passwords are only stored in an encrypted form and are therefore not retrievable by us or any other third party. (In case you need a new password we will generate and send you one that you can subsequently change).
• The data is hosted in a secured environment with 24 X 7 monitoring, surveillance and support to prevent unauthorized access and data security. Advanced security measures including firewalls, security guards and surveillance are taken to ensure the continued service and protection of your data.
• Despite our best attempts to secure your data no data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. In addition, while we work hard to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent "hackers" or other unauthorized persons from illegally accessing or obtaining this information.
• We take security issues seriously and will respond swiftly to fix verifiable security issues. Some of our products are complex and take time to update. When properly notified of legitimate issues, we'll do our best to acknowledge your emailed report, assign resources to investigate the issue, and fix potential problems as quickly as possible.
Children
Our site is designed to be used by people over 13 years of age. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") protects the online privacy of children under 13 years of age. WizeHive does not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from anyone under the age of 13, unless or except as permitted by law. Any person who provides Personal Information through our site represents to us that he or she is 13 years of age or older. If we learn that Personal Information has been collected from a user under 13 years of age , then we will take the appropriate steps to cause this information to be deleted.
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Coming Up:
2012 Hamilton Award Application Due
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
2012 Hamilton Award Interviews
Monday, April 9, 2012
2012 Hamilton Award Winners Announced
Thursday, May 3, 2012
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"I had an amazing time in Quetzaltenango. This trip affected me more than any other experience I have ever had in my life... I gained an entirely new perspective on life and I thank Hamilton Friends for providing me with the opportunity to do so."
-Jillian Ogren, '07 Hamilton Scholar and Guatemala Leader Week attendee
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