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Effective date: 1st day of April, 2024
The purpose of this privacy policy (this "Privacy Policy") is to inform users of our Site of the following:
The personal data we will collect;
Use of collected data;
Who has access to the data collected;
The rights of Site users and
The Site's cookie policy.
This Privacy Policy applies in addition to the terms and conditions of our Site.
For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.
By using our Site, users agree that they consent to:
The conditions set out in this Privacy Policy.
In order to process credit card transactions online it is necessary to collect some information. The name of the donor, the address of the donor, the payment type, the credit card number and expiration date, and the amount of the donation are required to process any transaction.
We only collect data that helps us achieve the purpose set out in this Privacy Policy. We will not collect any additional data beyond the data listed below without notifying you first.
The Shoebox Project for Women uses Google Analytics website analytics tool on our website. This tool allows The Shoebox Project for Women to collect data on website visitors, including IP address and browser type, for the purpose of analyzing aggregate website usage. Display Advertising features also place an additional cookie, or small text file, on your browser, containing an anonymous identifier. This allows Google to provide aggregate reports on the demographics and interests of website visitors and customize advertising on the Internet based on your browsing activity.
We may also collect data when you perform certain functions on our Site.
The Shoebox Project for Women has additional third-party vendors like Meta that customize Internet advertising for you and others based on your browsing activity. These vendors also use cookie technology. The website never passes on personally identifying information, such as an email address or credit card number, to Google or these third-party vendors.
We do not collect any other information—such as the visitor's name, mailing address, email address, or phone number—without the visitor’s knowledge and permission. All information that we collect is used for internal use only and is not shared with outside parties.
You may opt out of any of these services by clearing the cookies from your browser, disabling cookies entirely, opting out of Google interest-based ads, and/or opting out of targeted ads from participating advertising networks, including Meta.
Data collected on our Site will only be used for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or indicated on the relevant pages of our Site. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in this Privacy Policy.
The data we collect when the user performs certain functions may be used for the following purposes:
We most often use this information to generate statistics and measure our site activity to improve the usefulness of the site to our visitors. This website also uses Google to collect aggregate behavioural data to advertise to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an inquiry. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy as well as our vendors’ privacy policies, which preclude the use of personally identifiable information.
This site contains links to other sites. The Shoebox Project for Women assumes no responsibility for those sites, including the privacy practices or the content of such websites. The online donation site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. The Shoebox Project for Women makes every effort to ensure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive user information, including credit card information, using industry-accepted data collection and encryption methodologies. The confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by The Shoebox Project for Women.
We may disclose user data to any member of our organization who reasonably needs access to user data to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
We will not sell or share your data with other third parties except in the following cases:
If the law requires it,
If it is required for any legal proceeding,
To prove or protect our legal rights and
To buyers or potential buyers of this company in the event that we seek to sell the company.
If you follow hyperlinks from our Site to another site, please note that we are not responsible for and have no control over their privacy policies and practices.
User data will be stored until the purpose for which it was collected has been achieved. You will be notified if your data is kept for longer than this period.
While we take all reasonable precautions to ensure that user data is secure and that users are protected, there always remains the risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times, and therefore, we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:
Right to be informed;
Right of access;
Right to rectification;
Right to erasure;
Right to restrict processing;
Right to data portability; and
Right to object.
Do Not Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference that you can set in certain web browsers. We do not track the users of our Site over time or across third-party websites and, therefore, do not respond to browser-initiated DNT signals.
A cookie is a small file stored on a user's hard drive by a website to collect data about the user's browsing habits. You can choose to be notified each time a cookie is transmitted. You can also choose to disable cookies entirely in your internet browser, but this may decrease the quality of your user experience.
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time to comply with the law and reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that our users periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy.
If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through the contact methods listed in the Contact Information section so that we can, where possible, resolve the issue.
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you can contact our data protection officer, at:
(416) 817-8709
rosie_smythe@shoeboxproject.com
108 - 1485 Dupont Street, Toronto, ON M6P 3S2
You can also contact us through the feedback form available on our Site.
Last updated: 1st day of April, 2024
