Privacy Policy

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The National Shoes Travelers 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. NST’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how NST’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The National Shoes Travelers may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

The National Shoes Travelers also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on mynst.org blogs/sites. The National Shoes Travelers 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 commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to NST’s websites choose to interact with The National Shoes Travelers in ways that require The National Shoes Travelers to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The National Shoes Travelers gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at mynst.org to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with The National Shoes Travelers are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, The National Shoes Travelers collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The National Shoes Travelers. The National Shoes Travelers 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.

Aggregated Statistics

The National Shoes Travelers may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. The National Shoes Travelers may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The National Shoes Travelers does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The National Shoes Travelers 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 NST’s behalf or to provide services available at NST’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using NST’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The National Shoes Travelers 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, The National Shoes Travelers discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The National Shoes Travelers believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The National Shoes Travelers, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an The National Shoes Travelers website and have supplied your email address, The National Shoes Travelers may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The National Shoes Travelers and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The National Shoes Travelers 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. The National Shoes Travelers uses cookies to help The National Shoes Travelers identify and track visitors, their usage of The National Shoes Travelers website, and their website access preferences. The National Shoes Travelers visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using NST’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of NST’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The National Shoes Travelers may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in NST’s sole discretion. The National Shoes Travelers encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a mynst.org account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.