Hamilton Families (the Agency) welcomes and encourages you and your family to use this website to find and share information about family homelessness per the Terms of Use provided below.

Amended Jan. 1, 2022. We reserve the right to modify the terms of use at any time without notice.

  • Hamilton Families and its respective agents and representatives, both individually and collectively, make no representations concerning the contents hereof and expressly disclaim any other warranties, including but not limited to implied or express warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular usage, application or process.

  • You agree that you will hold harmless the Agency and its officers, directors, agents, employees, and volunteers from all claims arising out of or related to your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, this website or the information, services, products or messages contained within this website or other websites to which it is linked, including but not limited to claims that you have found something you have heard, viewed or downloaded from this website or another website to which it is linked considered to be obscene, offensive, defamatory, or infringing upon your intellectual property rights. In no event will the Agency or the contributors of information to this website be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by you in reliance on such information or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. You hereby release and forever waive any and all claims you may have against Hamilton Families, its officers, directors, agents, employees, and volunteers for losses or damages you sustain in connection with your use of this website.

  • This website (excluding linked sites) is controlled by the Agency which has its headquarters in San Francisco, CA, United States of America. The Agency website can be accessed from all 50 states, territories of the United States as well as from other countries around the world. As each of these places has laws that may differ from those of San Francisco, CA, by accessing this website both you and the Agency agree with the statutes and regulations of San Francisco, CA, without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof, will apply to all matters arising from or relating to the use of this website.

    You and the Agency also agree and hereby submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of San Francisco, CA, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of California concerning such matters.

    The Agency makes no representation that materials on the website are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and accessing them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited.

    Those who choose to access this website from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

  • © 2022 Hamilton Families. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use is prohibited.

    Unless otherwise noted, the Agency asserts copyright for all of the information that appears on any of our websites and in all of our publications. This information is protected by United States of America (U.S.) and international copyright laws and may not be reproduced in whole or in part by persons, organizations or corporations without the prior written permission of an authorized official of the Agency's San Francisco Office.

  • Unless otherwise noted, users of our websites may make fair use of our copyrighted content without our permission, but only per the fair use factors set forth in Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act.

    Users also may make a single copy of our content to be used by the user for personal and non-commercial uses which do not harm the reputation of the Agency, provided that the user does not remove any trademarks, copyright and any other notice contained within the content, and gives proper credit to the Agency as the source.

    Users may link to content published on our website. Members of the news media may include short excerpts of information from our site in stories about lupus. Please cite Hamilton Families as the source of information.

  • The links that appear on our websites provide content that might be of interest to our visitors. We are not responsible for the material published on other sites to which we have established links, and creating a link does not constitute an endorsement of that material.

  • The appearance of advertising on our websites does not constitute or imply endorsement of any advertised product, service or company by the Agency or any of its affiliated chapters.

    The Agency accepts no responsibility for claims made in any advertisement that appears on our websites. We reserve the right to reject any ad for any reason. Advertisers have no control over any editorial content published on our sites.

    Paid advertising accepted for placement on any of our websites is identified with the word "ADVERTISEMENT" which will appear above the graphic.

  • Hamilton Families claims the following trademarks and service marks:

    HAMILTON FAMILIES, HAMILTON FAMILIES ANNUAL BENEFIT, HAMILTON FAMILY CENTER, HAMILTON HEROES, HEADING HOME, HOUSE A FAMILY, HOUSING FIRST COMMUNITY STRONG, and all associated stylized logos. All rights are reserved.

    The Agency's trademarks may not be reproduced or posted on other websites without written permission from an authorized official of the Agency's San Francisco Office.

  • The Agency respects the privacy of all users of our websites. Please review our Privacy Policy for more information.

  • When you submit or post content to any part of our website, where such material might be viewable by the public (e.g., posting to our social media), you agree that your post is non-confidential for all purposes. Any submission to our website becomes and remains the property of the Agency. You grant the Agency a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide non-exclusive license to publish, use, reproduce, include in other works, modify, translate, or display your content in any media or medium.

  • By using any of our websites, you agree that you will not post information, material or links to information that is knowingly false and or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, discriminatory, hateful, harassing, aggressive, argumentative, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or that can be construed as bullying or is otherwise deemed inappropriate or otherwise in violation of any law.

    You further agree that you will not post any copyrighted material without the express permission of the copyright holder unless you own such copyright. Advertisements, promotional materials, junk mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are prohibited.

    The Agency reserves the right to remove content from our social media channels if we feel it fails to adhere to any of these guidelines. The Agency also reserves the right to block/ban users from our social media channels if they exhibit inappropriate behavior.