When you visit our website and access information, you remain anonymous, unless you submit a form, which could include personal contact information. We do not sell this information. Unless you provide this personal contact information to Shoebox Stories through the website, we will not collect any personal information from you. Certain functionalities, however, (such as purchasing tickets, volunteering or signing up for our newsletter) require you to provide this information. We do send out periodic newsletters from which you can always unsubscribe. We respect your privacy.

Shoebox Stories reserves the right to change how we handle the information we collect through the website at any time. We will update this Website Privacy Policy to reflect any changes in our privacy collection and handling practices and will indicate that changes to this Privacy Policy have been made by listing a new date under “Last Modified” at the end of this page. Such changes will take effect immediately once posted to the website.

IP Addresses

Each visitor to www.shoeboxstories.org is identified by an IP address during their visit, and IP addresses are used to simply trace the general geographic location of our visitors for reporting purposes.

Photos, Videos, Comments, Etc.

Any material, information or other communication you transmit to this website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary of the person submitting this information. By submitting these items to Shoebox Stories, you agree that you are granting Shoebox Stories a free license to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use all data, images, sounds, text, recordings and other things embodied therein for any purposes. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this website any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any U.S. or international law.

Security

Shoebox Stories uses reasonable efforts to store and maintain personal information you submit on the site to protect it from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction by unauthorized parties. We may store information that we collect through our site indefinitely, except as otherwise required by law.