HONOR Publishing Company has created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for our websites: www.honorpub.com & www.ScoutingBooks.com. These sites use the privacy guidelines as set forth by TRUSTe, an independent, non-profit privacy initiative dedicated to building users' trust and confidence on the Internet and accelerating growth of the Internet industry.

HONOR Publishing Company considers your privacy to be very important. Under no circumstances will we ever release your e-mail address to another company. ALL email broadcasts are sent from our offices in Kansas City, MO. We will also limit the number of advertisements we send you to those that we believe you, as a fellow Scout or Youth leader, might find of interest or that may benefit the youth in your program. We assure you that any message you receive from Honor Publishing Company on behalf of a third party will be clearly marked as such.

Our site's mailing list form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and email address). We use customer contact information from the mailing list form to send the user information about our company and the resources we provide, along with our Scouting-E-Zine, a FREE on-line publication. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information (like their email address) and financial information (like their credit card numbers). Contact information from the order form is used to send orders and information about our company to our customers. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services.

Our online questionnaire asks visitors for contact information (like their email address) and demographic information (like their city ,zip code or age). We use contact data from our questionnaires to send the user information about our company. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

SECURITY

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

Protecting your order information is a priority. HONOR Publishing Company makes every effort to protect your online order information using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.

Digital certificates secure communications between your browser and our secure servers. Through electronic credentials, digital certificates help identify and encrypt electronic messages over networks like the Internet, company intranets or extranets.

Digital certificates allow you to verify your identity, privileges or relationship to another party in an online transaction. When used in combination with encryption, they also allow you to encrypt information that you send to another person to provide additional assurance that only the intended party can access the data and that the data will not be compromised en route. Digital certificates facilitate these security measures, which in turn allow applications like e-mail, on-line trading, and credit card purchasing, to be executed in a more secure environment.

SSL encrypts your order information to avoid the decoding of that information by anyone other than HONOR Publishing. To check the security of your connection, look at the lower right-hand corner of your browser window after accessing the server. If you see a closed lock or a unbroken key (depending upon your browser), then SSL is active. (You can also double-check by looking at the URL line of your browser. When accessing a secure server, the first characters of the site address will change from "http" to "https.")

Our site uses Full 128-bit encryption technology.

Some versions of browsers and some firewalls don't permit communication through secure servers. In that case, you'll be unable to connect to the server so you won't have to worry about mistakenly placing an order through an unsecured connection. If you can't access the secure server for whatever reason, you may place your order by e-mailing us at ORDERS@SCOUTINGBOOKS.COM with your phone number and we will call you to take your order over the phone.

COOKIES

What are cookies? How does HONOR Publishing Company use cookies on its site?

A cookie is a small data file that Web sites often store on your computer's hard drive when you visit their sites. A cookie may contain information (such as a unique user ID). We use cookies but do not store personally identifiable information in your cookie.

We use cookies in order to improve your shopping experience. When you visit ScoutingBooks.com, your cookie helps us keep track of your order as you shop at our site. If you have saved your information with us, your cookie allows us to recognize you when you return to our site and provides you with access to your account information and order history.

Your cookies will become inactive after 8 hours, once you have completed an order or logged out of the website, whichever occurs first.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you turn off cookies, though, we will not be able to track your order or enable you to make a purchase from our site. Nor will we be able to recognize you as a signed up user to allow you access to your account information.

To enable cookies on your browser:

AOL 5.0-7.0:
Select "Preferences"
Click on "WWW"
Select the "Security" tab
Click on "Custom Level"
Scroll down to "Cookies"
Select "Enable"
Netscape Navigator / Communicator:
Select "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu
Select "Advanced" from the left-hand menu
Select "Accept All Cookies"
Click "OK"
Internet Explorer 5.5- 6.0 - for PC:
Select "Internet Options" from the "Tools" menu
Click the "Security" tab
Click "Custom Level" at the bottom of the window
Scroll down to "Cookies"
Select "Always accept cookies"
Click "OK"
Internet Explorer 5.0 for Mac:
Select "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu
Select "Receiving Files"
Select the option "Never ask" under "When receiving cookies"
Click "OK"


CHOICE / OPT-OUT

This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our services.

CLICK HERE to be directed to our Opt-In / Out Website for immediate removal of your e-mail address.

CHOICE / OPT-IN

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.

1. Email Customer Service: support@scoutingbooks.com
2. send mail to the following postal address:

HONOR Publishing Company
P. O. BOX 14252
Kansas City, Missouri 64152-7252 USA

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

Dave Tracewell
e-mail: dtracewell@honorpub.com
Owner / Publisher

HONOR Publishing Company
P. O. BOX 14252
Kansas City, Missouri 64152-7252 USA