Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At In My Shoes we have a few fundamental principles:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. 
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law or protect our rights
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
• We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals: a Creative Commons License (Note, we’ve decided to make this privacy policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to use it and repurpose it. Please be sure to replace references to us with ones to you, and if you want we’d appreciate a link somewhere on your site to TopNonprofits.com and Automattic.com (whose similarly licensed privacy policy was used to build this one).

If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact us.

In My Shoes, Inc. (“In My Shoes”) operates LiveInMyShoes.org. It is In My Shoes’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, In My Shoes collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. In My Shoes’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how In My Shoes’s visitors use its website. From time to time, In My Shoes may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

In My Shoes also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments. In My Shoes only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to In My Shoes’ website choose to interact with In My Shoes in ways that require In My Shoes to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that In My Shoes gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Those who engage in transactions with In My Shoes are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, In My Shoes collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with In My Shoes. In My Shoes does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities. In My Shoes also gathers names and e-mail addresses in order to send our e-mail newsletters, and may ask for mailing addresses and telephone numbers in our general inquiry form with respect to people who may benefit from our services.

Aggregated Statistics

In My Shoes may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. However, In My Shoes does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

In My Shoes discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on In My Shoes’s behalf or to provide services available at In My Shoes’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. In My Shoes will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, In My Shoes discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when In My Shoes believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of In My Shoes, third parties or the public at large. In My Shoes takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. In My Shoes uses cookies to help In My Shoes identify and track visitors, their usage of In My Shoes website, and their website access preferences. In My Shoes visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using In My Shoes’s website, with the drawback that certain features of In My Shoes’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If In My Shoes, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that In My Shoes goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of In My Shoes may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, In My Shoes may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in In My Shoes’s sole discretion. In My Shoes encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Last revised February 2021.