Privacy Policy

Consent & Data Protection Principles

By using this site or services, you consent to personal data processing as described herein.

The site follows these data protection principles:

Lawful, fair, transparent processing with consideration for your rights
Purpose limitation — data processing aligns with original collection purposes
Data minimization — only essential personal data is gathered
Storage limitation — data retained only as long as necessary
Accuracy — best efforts to ensure data correctness
Integrity and confidentiality — safeguarding data security

Data Subject Rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right to information — know if and how your data is processed
Right to access — obtain copies of collected data
Right to rectification — correct inaccurate or incomplete information
Right to erasure — request removal under certain circumstances
Right to restrict processing — limit how data is used
Right to object — refuse processing, including direct marketing
Right to object to automated processing — oppose profiling and automated decisions
Right to data portability — receive data in machine-readable format
Right to lodge complaints — challenge data handling decisions
Right to supervisory authority assistance — seek legal remedies
Right to withdraw consent — revoke permission for processing

Data Collection

Information you provide: Email, name, billing and home addresses — data necessary for service delivery or enhancing customer experience.

Automatically collected information: Data stored via cookies and session tools used to improve your experience.

Partner information: Data shared by trusted partners with legal grounds to do so.

Publicly available information: Information accessible to the general public.

Personal Data Usage

Data is used to:

Provide requested services and products
Enhance your customer experience
Fulfill legal or contractual obligations

Contractual basis: Identifying you, providing services, communicating about sales or invoicing.

Legitimate interest: Sending personalized offers, analyzing client behavior to improve services, conducting satisfaction surveys.

With consent: Sending newsletters and campaign offers.

The site may process data for additional compatible purposes with appropriate safeguards, and you will be informed of such processing.

Data Sharing

Personal data is shared with trusted partners only when necessary to provide services or enhance your experience. The site discloses data to third parties when legally required, consented to, or where other legal grounds exist. All processing partners maintain adequate data protection standards.

Data Security

Security measures include:

Safe communication protocols (HTTPS)
Anonymization and pseudonymization where applicable
System monitoring for vulnerabilities and attacks
Breach notifications to authorities and affected individuals

Users with accounts must keep usernames and passwords confidential.

Children

The site does not intentionally collect information from children and does not target children with services.

Cookies & Technologies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device. Only the website creator can access cookies it creates. You can control cookies via browser settings.

Cookie types:

Necessary cookies — required for site functionality (no personal data collected)
Functionality cookies — enable convenient features and personalization
Analytics cookies — track website and service performance
Advertising cookies — deliver relevant advertisements and limit ad frequency

The site uses Google Analytics. Review their privacy policy or opt out.

You can manage cookies through optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

Media & Uploads

Avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract location data from website images.

Comments

Comment data collected includes:

Information from the comment form
Visitor IP address and browser user agent string
Hashed email address (provided to Gravatar; see their privacy policy)
Your profile picture displayed publicly with comments

Comment data and metadata are retained indefinitely for automatic approval of follow-up comments.

User Accounts

Registered users’ personal information is stored in their profile. Users may edit or delete their information anytime (except usernames). Website administrators can view and edit user data.

Data Retention & Rights

You can request an exported file of personal data held about you or request erasure of personal data (except data required for administrative, legal, or security purposes). Visitor comments are checked through automated spam detection services.

Affiliate Marketing

This site uses affiliate marketing and trackable links to generate commissions at no cost to readers or shoppers.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

The website works with Mediavine to manage interest-based advertising. Mediavine uses first and third-party cookies, tags, pixels, and similar technologies to monitor advertising interaction and optimize targeting.

Data collected:

IP address
Operating system type and version
Device type
Website language
Web browser type
Hashed email

Mediavine Partners may link this data with independently collected information to deliver targeted advertisements across devices, browsers, and apps. You can opt out via:

Review Mediavine Partners for specific partner details and policies.

Policy Changes

The site reserves the right to modify this privacy policy.

Contact

For questions or concerns about personal data use, contact ashley@stitchandsalt.com.