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 (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

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.