HSF Institute recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of all information provided by users of our web sites, subscribers to our alerts, and our scholarship applicants. We created this policy with a fundamental respect for the right to privacy. HSF Institute collects information from our website users, subscribers and applicants. In this section of our privacy policy, we will describe the type of information we collect and how we use it to provide better services to our customers.

Website Users
For our internal purposes, we gather date, time, browser type, navigation history and IP address of all visitors to our site. This information does not contain anything that can identify users personally. We use this information for our internal security audit log, trend analysis and system administration, and to gather broad demographic information about our user base in order to improve the site and serve you better.

E-mail Alerts
If users wish to subscribe to our e-mail alert, we ask only for their email address. This information is maintained in a secure database. It is NOT provided to any outside organizations and is ONLY used to send news and information regarding HSF Institute.

Scholarship Applications
We maintain a secure database and paper record of all applications. This information is shared with our parent organization, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and with our federal partnering agencies. This information will never be used for commercial purposes, nor will it be provided to any organizations or individuals not directly involved in the scholarship review and awarding process.

Communications with Us
Letters, phone calls, and emails sent us are maintained in the strictest confidence. However, they may be forwarded to outside parties as needed to best respond to specific request. We may retain e-mails and other information sent to us for our internal administrative purposes, and to help us to serve you better.

Cookies
We do not use "cookies" (a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user) on our Website.

Links
Our web sites contain links to other sites. HSF Institute is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each web site to which we may link that may collect personally identifiable information.

Notification and Changes
If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so our users are aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under which circumstances, if any, we disclose it. Users should check this policy frequently to keep abreast of any changes.

For questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or any dealings with HSF Institute, please contact us.