PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: August 20, 2026
Last Updated: August 20, 2026

American Waypoints™ (“American Waypoints,” “AWP,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit the American Waypoints website, join our mailing list, communicate with us, participate in our programs, or use an American Waypoints mobile application or related service.

American Waypoints is operated by Warrior Enterprises LLC. Certain educational or charitable programs may be supported by or conducted in collaboration with Patriot Compass Foundation, a nonprofit organization, and other community partners.

By using our website, application, or services, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Information You Provide

We may collect information you voluntarily provide, including:

• Name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Mailing address
• Account username and password
• Age range or date of birth, when appropriate
• Survey, trivia, contest, or leaderboard responses
• Photographs, captions, comments, and other submitted content
• Communications sent to us
• Donation, sponsorship, or crowdfunding information
• Information submitted through registration, contact, volunteer, partnership, or newsletter forms

Payment information may be processed directly by a third-party payment provider. We generally do not receive or store complete credit-card numbers.

Location Information

American Waypoints is designed to help users discover and visit historic locations. With your permission, the application may collect precise or approximate device location information to:

• Display nearby historical sites
• Provide directions and location-based content
• Confirm a visit to a waypoint
• Award points, badges, or achievements
• Support location-based trivia and educational experiences
• Improve the accuracy and performance of our services

You may disable location access through your device settings. Some features may not function without location access.

Information Collected Automatically

When you use our website or services, we and our service providers may automatically collect:

• IP address
• Browser and device information
• Operating system
• Pages viewed and links selected
• Referring website
• Date, time, and duration of visits
• General geographic location
• Cookie and advertising identifiers
• Application activity, diagnostics, and crash information

1. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We may use information to:

• Operate, maintain, and improve American Waypoints
• Provide historical and educational content
• Create and manage user accounts
• Verify visits to historic locations
• Operate trivia, leaderboards, challenges, rewards, and achievements
• Respond to questions and provide support
• Send newsletters, project updates, event information, and promotional communications
• Manage partnerships, sponsorships, donations, and crowdfunding campaigns
• Personalize content and recommendations
• Understand how visitors use our website and application
• Measure and improve advertising campaigns
• Protect users, historic sites, and our systems
• Detect fraud, misuse, or security threats
• Enforce our agreements and policies
• Comply with legal obligations

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the message.

1. COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

We and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, software development kits, web beacons, and similar technologies. These technologies help us operate the website, remember preferences, analyze traffic, measure advertising, and understand whether our communications are effective.

These services may include:

• Wix
• HubSpot
• Google Analytics and other Google services
• Meta Pixel and Meta advertising services
• Email and customer-relationship-management providers
• Mobile analytics, mapping, and application hosting providers

Some providers may combine information collected through our services with information they receive from other websites or applications.

You can manage cookies through your browser settings and any cookie-consent controls displayed on our website. Disabling cookies may affect certain features.

1. HOW WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION

We may disclose information:

Service Providers

We may provide information to companies that perform services for us, including website hosting, analytics, mapping, email delivery, customer management, advertising, payment processing, security, and technical support.

Partners and Program Sponsors

We may share limited information with historical organizations, tourism partners, educational institutions, government entities, sponsors, or nonprofit partners when necessary to operate a specific program. We will not provide your email address to an unrelated partner for its own marketing without appropriate notice or consent.

Public Content

Information that you choose to post publicly—such as a display name, leaderboard result, photograph, caption, or comment—may be visible to other users and the public. Do not submit content containing personal information you do not want publicly disclosed.

Legal and Safety Reasons

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to legal process, protect our rights, investigate fraud or misuse, prevent harm, or protect the safety of users, historic locations, and the public.

Business Transfers

Information may be transferred as part of a merger, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction.

We do not sell personal information for money. However, some privacy laws may define certain advertising or analytics disclosures as “selling,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising. Where required, users may request to opt out of these practices.

1. PHOTOS AND USER-GENERATED CONTENT

If you submit a photograph or other content, it may include information about you, other people, or the location where it was created. Before submitting content, make sure you have permission from every identifiable person shown and authority to provide the content.

Please do not submit:

• Images of children without permission from their parent or legal guardian
• Private addresses or sensitive personal information
• Content captured in restricted or prohibited areas
• Content that damages, disturbs, or encourages unauthorized access to historic resources
• Content that infringes another person’s rights

Photo metadata may contain time or location information. We may remove metadata where practical, but users should review their device settings before uploading.

1. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

American Waypoints provides educational experiences that families may enjoy together. Our email signup, donation, sponsorship, and general account features are intended for adults.

Children under 13 may not independently create an account, join our mailing list, submit personal information, upload photographs, or enable location tracking. A child under 13 may use American Waypoints only through an account created and supervised by a parent or legal guardian and only through features specifically made available for family use.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from a child under 13 without legally required parental notice and verifiable parental consent. If we learn that we collected such information without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Parents or guardians who believe a child has provided personal information should contact us at [PRIVACY EMAIL].

We encourage parents and guardians to participate actively in their children’s use of American Waypoints, especially when visiting physical locations, enabling location services, or uploading content.

1. DATA SECURITY

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect personal information. However, no website, application, wireless transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

1. DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services, maintain records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, satisfy legal obligations, and protect against fraud or misuse.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and why it was collected. We may retain aggregated or de-identified information that no longer reasonably identifies an individual.

1. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Request access to personal information we maintain about you
• Request correction or deletion of your information
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Opt out of promotional email
• Opt out of certain targeted advertising or data-sharing activities
• Request information about categories of data collected and disclosed
• Appeal certain decisions concerning a privacy request

To submit a request, contact [PRIVACY EMAIL]. We may need to verify your identity before completing the request. Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law.

You can also:

• Disable location access in your device settings
• Adjust application permissions
• Manage cookies through our cookie banner or your browser
• Unsubscribe through the link included in marketing emails

We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.

1. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND SERVICES

Our services may link to museums, historic sites, mapping platforms, ticket providers, crowdfunding platforms, social networks, sponsors, and other third parties. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this Privacy Policy.

1. DONATIONS AND CROWDFUNDING

Donations or crowdfunding contributions may be processed by Patriot Compass Foundation, a fiscal sponsor, a crowdfunding platform, or another payment processor. Information supplied during those transactions is also subject to the privacy policy of the organization or platform processing the contribution.

1. UNITED STATES OPERATIONS

American Waypoints is based in the United States. If you access our services from another country, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your location.

1. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy as our services, technology, partnerships, or legal obligations change. We will post the revised policy with an updated “Last Updated” date. If changes are material, we may provide additional notice through the website, application, or email.

1. CONTACT US

Questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

American Waypoints™
Warrior Enterprises LLC
[MAILING ADDRESS]
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Email: [PRIVACY EMAIL]