Privacy policy
Last updated November 4, 2026
Living Tree's Seeds of Change respects the privacy of our donors, members, event guests and volunteers. This policy explains what we collect when you give, buy tickets, join as a member, enter a student in a contest or create an account on this site, and how we use it.
What we collect
- Your name, email, mailing address and phone number, if you give them to us.
- Your gifts, memberships and event tickets: amounts, dates, and the fund or campaign you chose.
- Names you give us for tributes (“in honor of” or “in memory of”) and for event guests.
- For student contests, what a parent or guardian enters: the student's name, grade and (if given) school, their artwork or video and anything written about it, a scholarship application if they make one, and the parent's or guardian's name, email and phone number.
- Basic technical information needed to keep the site secure, such as your IP address.
- If you arrive from a link we shared (for example in our newsletter or on social media), which link it was. We keep this in a cookie for 30 days and save it with a gift you make, so we know which of our messages work. It doesn't identify you, and we don't use advertising or tracking cookies.
Card payments are handled by Stripe. Your card number goes directly to Stripe; we never see or store it. See Stripe's privacy policy.
How we use it
- To process your gift, membership or tickets, and send your receipts.
- To keep the records that tax and accounting rules require.
- To thank you, and to tell you about our work and events — you can opt out at any time.
- To give you access to your account, if you create one.
- To run our contests: to judge entries, award places and scholarships, and contact the parent or guardian about them. Outside judges see entries by number only, without the student's name or school.
What we don't do
We never sell, rent or trade your information. We share it only with service providers that help us run this site and process payments (such as hosting, email and Stripe), who may use it only for that purpose, or when the law requires it.
Your choices
- See your giving history and receipts in your account.
- Ask us to stop sending you email or mail, or to correct your information.
- Ask us to delete your information. We'll delete what we can; gift records we must keep for tax and accounting purposes are kept for as long as the law requires.
To make any of these requests, contact us at giving@livingtreeseeds.org.
How we protect it
Information is sent over encrypted connections. Only our staff and volunteers who need it can see it, and changes to donor records are logged.
Children
Children don't use this site themselves. Our student contests (kindergarten through 12th grade) are entered by a parent or legal guardian, who confirms they are the student's parent or guardian and agree to our contest rules. We collect only what's needed to run the contest, use it only for the contest and any scholarship, and never sell it or use it for advertising.
We show a student's work in public only if the parent or guardian says we may, and then only with the student's first name, last initial and grade. We never show a student's full name, school or contact details in public.
A parent or guardian can ask to see or correct their student's information, withdraw an entry, or have it deleted, at any time by contacting us at giving@livingtreeseeds.org. A deleted entry and its artwork are removed from our contest records; our secure change log, which only a few staff can see, keeps a record of it for our own accountability. Apart from contest entries, we don't knowingly collect information from children under 13; if we learn we have, we'll remove it the same way.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll post the new version here and update the date above.
Contact us
Questions about this policy? Contact us at giving@livingtreeseeds.org.