The American Honor Society of Global Excellence

Privacy & Transparency

Responsible data care, clear public communication, security, and institutional accountability.

Privacy Commitment

The American Honor Society of Global Excellence collects and uses information only for legitimate institutional purposes such as account administration, application review, credential verification, communication, program delivery, safety, legal compliance, and institutional reporting. Personal information should not be sold to advertisers or disclosed to unauthorized parties.

Types of Information

Account InformationName, contact details, login records, preferences, and role information.
Application InformationEducation, achievements, service, leadership, research, recommendations, and submitted statements.
Documents and EvidenceTranscripts, certificates, identity documents where required, publications, portfolios, and supporting files.
Operational InformationMessages, review history, audit events, support requests, and security records.
Verification InformationCredential identifiers, status, issue date, expiration or revocation status, and limited public verification data.
Website InformationBasic technical, security, and usage information collected through lawful and proportionate means.

Data Principles

The Society should collect only information reasonably necessary for a defined purpose, explain how it is used, limit access by role, protect it with appropriate safeguards, retain it only as long as justified, and correct or delete it where required and appropriate. Highly sensitive information should receive stronger protection and should not be requested merely for convenience.

Security and File Protection

Reasonable safeguards may include secure authentication, encryption where appropriate, access controls, audit logs, backups, file-type restrictions, malware scanning, secure storage, incident response, and staff training. No system can be guaranteed completely secure; security must therefore be treated as an ongoing responsibility.

Transparency in Public Claims

The Society commits to distinguish clearly between current facts, verified outcomes, estimates, targets, and future plans. Numbers relating to members, countries, institutions, projects, service hours, scholarships, or impact should not be presented as current achievements unless supported by reliable records.

Public Accountability

As the institution develops, the Governance Center may publish policies, leadership information, official contact channels, selected decisions, annual summaries, financial information where appropriate, and methods for raising concerns. Transparency must be balanced with privacy, legal obligations, safety, and the confidentiality of review and personnel matters.

Individual Requests and Multilingual Access

Individuals may be able to access, update, correct, download, restrict, or request deletion of certain information, subject to identity verification, legal requirements, institutional recordkeeping, fraud prevention, and the rights of others. Major privacy information should be understandable in supported languages, while the official institutional name remains unchanged.