Terms & Conditions
Donor Bill of Rights
Our Privacy Policy and Terms for Using this Website:
A Donor Bill of Rights: PHILANTHROPY is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To assure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public, and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the not-for-profit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:
- To be informed of the organization's mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.
- To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization's governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgement in its stewardship responsibilities.
- To have access to the organization's most recent financial statements.
- To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.
- To receive appropriate acknowledgement and recognition.
- To be assured that information about their donations is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.
- To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.
- To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.
- To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share.
10. To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.
General Disclaimer
Soles4Souls, Inc. makes a concentrated effort to present accurate, reliable information on our website. However, we work with a number of contributors and partners and cannot certify the information presented or guarantee its accuracy.
Reference within this website to any individual, organization, product or service is not meant to imply endorsement by Soles4Souls, Inc., unless so specifically stated.
Soles4Souls, Inc. assumes no responsibility for consequences resulting from use of the information contained within the website's pages or obtained at linked external sites.
User Agreement
Legal Status
Soles4Souls, Inc. (hereinafter “S4S”) is a 501(c)(3) charity recognized by the IRS. Donating parties may be eligible for tax advantages.
Terms of Use
By using this Soles4Souls, Inc. (hereinafter ”S4S”) website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth in this User Agreement. S4S reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time without notice to you and you must consult the most recent version of this User Agreement each time you visit this website.
Disclaimer of Warranty
S4S provides users access to an extensive amount of resources through this website. S4S makes no warranties of any kind regarding this website, including but not limited to any warranty of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or that this website is free of viruses and such warranties are expressly disclaimed.
Trademarks
Soles4Souls, Inc., Soles4Souls logo, SolesinMotion, SolesinMotion logo, GiveShoes, Giveshoes logo, and Changing the World One Pair at a Time and other marks are registered trademarks of S4S and may not be used by third parties without the express written consent of S4S.
Endorsements
S4S may provide links on its website to other websites which are not under the control of S4S. User acknowledges that information and opinions contained in this website or other websites that are linked from this website are not necessarily those of S4S or endorsed by S4S.
Limitation of Liability
User acknowledges and agrees that he, she or it shall hold S4S and its officers, directors, employees and volunteers harmless from all claims arising out of or related to his, her or its use or inability to use the information provided on this website or other websites that are linked to this website.
Jurisdiction
S4S has its primary office in Nashville, Tennessee. By accessing this website, user agrees that the laws of the State of Tennessee shall apply to all matters arising from or related to this website without regard to conflicts of laws principals. User hereby submits to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the Municipal and/or Superior Courts of the State of Tennessee, County of Davidson, and the U.S. District Court for the Tennessee Middle District.
Privacy Policy
We are deeply committed to protecting your privacy and take all reasonable steps to protect all data and information supplied to Soles4Souls Inc. We protect your privacy in a variety of ways including using industry accepted security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our system.
The Soles4Souls Privacy Policy is designed to ensure the safety and accuracy of Internet users' personal information. We do not share any of your personally identifiable information with third parties. We understand the importance of personal information security. We are absolutely committed to personal privacy on the Internet.
Soles4Souls collects data from Internet users including non-personally identifiable information from its site's visitors, IP address of their server and what pages they visited. We use this information to continuously improve our site's functionality. Soles4Souls also collects personally identifiable information, including e-mail addresses, from those visitors who opt-in to receive some information from us, make inquiries or comments. We use this information to directly respond to visitors' communications. If a customer joins our online marketing program, they typically submit some personally identifiable information to participate in this program.
Soles4Souls collects personally identifiable information from those who register on our website or donate through on online system. Such information includes name, address, and billing information. We use this information only to receive payments for the use in donating footwear around the world. We also may collect information regarding your use of our services. We may use this and your personally identifiable information to compile general information about our visitors and our services so that we may improve the services we offer. We may create reports based on that information to share with our staff, but these reports never contain any personally identifiable information. For example, we might determine from all of our data that there are certain days that are better to send emails as part of an email campaign.
Keeping your personal information secure is a top priority for us. Therefore, Soles4Souls utilizes 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, the industry's leading data security solutions, and has implemented policies and procedures to ensure the physical and electronic security of data stored by Soles4Souls. Soles4Souls employs permission-based marketing principles: it requires its staff to communicate only to users who affirmatively express an interest in receiving e-mails. Permission to receive e-mails may be granted and taken away; in other words customers may "opt-in" and "opt-out". If a visitor chooses to opt-out, Soles4Souls is required to stop sending messages to that customer. Soles4Souls puts a high value on a visitor's ability to discontinue receiving unwanted e-mail.
Soles4Souls utilizes Cookie technology. A Cookie is information our web site places on the hard disk of your computer so that our web site can recognize who you are when you return to our web site. We use Cookies for purposes of web site traffic analysis such as the time/date of the visit, the time/date of last visit, the page viewed, the referrer, transaction information for eCommerce donation pages, and other data. Soles4Souls tracks click behavior in the e-mails it sends out. This data is used to update specific user-profile information, ascertain the areas of most interest to opt-in e-mail recipients, and to personalize e-mail messages to them.
Soles4Souls does not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any personal information whether gathered by Soles4Souls itself or received from its partners. When Soles4Souls collects personally identifiable information from opt-in participants in those clients' marketing programs, such information belongs to those respective clients and is subject to their policies on sharing of the end user information.
Soles4Souls is a general audience site. Soles4Souls will not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information from or about anyone under 13. Soles4Souls will make the best effort to assist its staff in complying with privacy laws and adhering to the highest industry standards on privacy.
If you have received unwanted, unsolicited email sent via our system or purporting to be sent via this system, please forward a copy of that email with your comments to for review.
We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time. We will always post the most current version of this policy on our website.