Privacy Policy
Silent Heroes is extremely concerned about maintaining your personal privacy and providing a safe online experience. In addition, Silent Heroes is concerned about the safety and well-being of our troops. We are committed to protecting our soldiers as diligently as they protect us. We encourage you to read this security and privacy policy and contact us with any questions or concerns. If you are under the age of 18, please ask your parents or guardians to read this policy with you. Please ask them to explain anything you do not understand; and please get their permission before sharing any information, including your email address with Silent Heroes or anyone on the internet. Use of the Silent Heroes website implies your consent to these policies. We reserve the right to revise these policies at any time without notice.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
Within the Silent Heroes website, we only collect the amount of personal information that we deem reasonably necessary for participation in any on-line activity. Your personal information is never exposed to the public on our web-site. The only exception is the search by town feature for viewing photos. In this case, no identifying information will be attached to the photos retrieved. Any personally identifiable information that Silent Heroes collects online will never be posted, released, sold, or distributed to any third party organization. Any billing information will be stored in case our Silent Heroes staff needs to contact you, but we explicitly do not store your payment information, except for the card type, the last four digits of your credit card number and the authorization code returned by our credit card processor.
Viewing and Changing Collected Information
To view, change or delete your personal information, log into the Silent Heroes web-site. Use the "Settings", "Personal Information" or "Directory Listing" page, depending on your account type, to view or change your information. Please contact us if you'd like us to delete your information at any time.
Copyright Protection
Silent Heroes respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. Users must comply with all copyright and trademark laws. Content and images that violate these laws are not allowed. If you believe your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or that your intellectual property rights have been violated, please contact Silent Heroes with your concerns. We will remove the offending content as soon as possible.
Message Board Moderation
Our goal is to provide a safe and secure online experience. To guarantee a safe environment for all of our guests, we actively monitor all messages for inappropriate content. Such content may consist of inappropriate language and/or any content that would violate the privacy policy of Silent Heroes. Sharing of personal information on any message board is strongly discouraged. Any message in violation of this policy will be removed from the website. Continued misuse of the message board will cause your account to be suspended and the appropriate authorities may be contacted.
Photo Gallery Moderation
In addition to our message boards, we encourage our users to upload images that are appropriate in content for our web-site. To guarantee a safe environment for all of our guests, we actively monitor all photo uploads for inappropriate content. Any photo in violation of this policy will not be permitted in the general public gallery OR the private gallery.
Idea Contributions
By submitting ideas, suggestions, documents, and pictures to Silent Heroes through its suggestion for ideas, you acknowledge and agree that: (a) your Contributions do not contain confidential or proprietary information; (b) Silent Heroes is not under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the Contributions; (c) Silent Heroes shall be entitled to use or disclose (or choose not to use or disclose) such Contributions for any purpose, in any way, in any media worldwide; (d) Silent Heroes may have something similar to the Contributions already under consideration or in development; (e) your Contributions automatically become the property of Silent Heroes without any obligation of Silent Heroes to you; and (f) you are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from Silent Heroes under any circumstances.
Links to External Websites
The Silent Heroes website may contain links to external websites. Although we carefully select which links are available from within the Silent Heroes website, we are not responsible for the content or security and privacy policies of any other website.
Contacting Silent Heroes with Security Concerns
We encourage you to contact us with questions or concerns about our security and privacy policies. Please use the ‘About Us’ page to do so. We will attempt to respond in a timely manner.
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