Privacy Policy

At CrochetLeaf.Com I am dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

I recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information I receive and collect when you use CrochetLeaf.Com, as well as some of the steps I take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with me.

CrochetLeaf.Com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all its operations. Likewise, I am dedicated to protecting my customers' and online visitors' privacy on my website.

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About Cookies


A cookie is a string of information that CrochetLeaf.Com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to CrochetLeaf.Com each time you return to the site. I use cookies to help me identify and track visitors, their use of my website, and their website access preferences.

Advertising Cookies

I use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on this website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. I share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from my website.

I have opted out of personalized Google ads for my website. However, if you wish, you may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.

Third party vendors - on this site I use Google - use cookies to serve ads based on a user's previous visits to this website or other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to my visitors based on their visit to my site and/or other sites on the Internet.

As I say, I have chosen to use non-personalized ads on my site. And to quote Google's info for you:

"These ads are targeted using contextual information rather than the past behaviour of a user. Although these ads don't use cookies for ads personalization, they do use cookies to allow for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting and to combat fraud and abuse."

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Personalization Settings on the  Google ad opt-out page. You need to sign into your Google account to make the changes.

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.

Google's Privacy Policy gives information about all of their services, including ads, to help you understand what information they collect, why they collect it and how you can update, manage, export and delete your information held by Google.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of my site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse CrochetLeaf.Com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Personally Identifiable Information

I have never sold, and do not sell any personal information about visitors to crochetleaf.com

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CrochetLeaf.Com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To run and operate my site.
  • To display content on the site correctly.
  • To improve customer service.
  • To help me respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
  • To personalize your user experience.
  • To understand how my users as a group use the services and resources provided on the site.
  • To improve my site.
  • To improve my products and services.
  • To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
  • To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics I think will be of interest to you.
  • To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
  • To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.


CrochetLeaf.Com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit my site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources I make available on my site.

Newsletter: if you subscribe to my newsletter, I will ask for your first name and will require your email address so that I can send you the newsletter.

Contact form: if you complete a form, I will ask for your name and your email address, and will require information relevant to the purpose of the form.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit my site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If I make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, I will inform you by placing a notice on my site. I will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

I also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps me combat spam and fraud. I do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

CrochetLeaf.Com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave my site, I do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, I cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Social Media and Personally Identifiable Information

This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. Below are links to the privacy policies of each platform:

YouTube

Pinterest

Facebook - log out of Facebook while visiting this site if you wish to prevent Facebook collecting your data.

Ravelry is a membership site that I link to where many of my patterns are featured. You will have to log into Ravelry in order to see projects that have used my patterns. You can see Ravelry's Privacy Policy here.


Non-personally Identifiable Information

I may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with my site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to the site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. I operate my site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. I do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If I sell CrochetLeaf.Com, the information I have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in my site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through my website of that change in control and practices, and I will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on my host's servers. That host is:

SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

I provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of my commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through my website and would like to review that information, click on this link.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.


Updates and Effective Date

CrochetLeaf.Com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in my cookie and privacy practices, I will indicate on my site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated Privacy Policy. I encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information I collect and how I use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to CrochetLeaf.Com's Privacy Policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this Privacy Policy in its entirety.

This page was last reviewed: 5th January 2021

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