Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. At Deb’s Craftroom we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Deb’s Craftroom 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. Deb’s Craftroom’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Deb’s Craftroom’s visitors use its website.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Deb’s Craftroom’s website choose to interact with Deb’s Craftroom in ways that require Deb’s Craftroom to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Deb’s Craftroom gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Those who wish to receive Deb’s Craftroom updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Deb’s Craftroom collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Deb’s Craftroom. Deb’s Craftroom 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
Deb’s Craftroom may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Deb’s Craftroom may monitor the most popular pages on the site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Deb’s Craftroom may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Deb’s Craftroom does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Google Analytics
Deb’s Craftroom has implemented Demographics and Interest Reports and uses Remarketing with Google Analytics to assist us with our online marketing and research.
Deb’s Craftroom along with third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) to inform, optimize, and improve our advertising based on your past visits to our website. We are strictly collecting this data to help us better understand our customer base and provide better services to our customers and their needs.
If you want to opt-out of Google Analytics data collection, just customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings or using Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on that will instruct the Google Analytics JavaScript not to send any information about the website visit to Google Analytics.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Deb’s Craftroom 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 Deb’s Craftroom’s behalf or to provide services available at Deb’s Craftroom’s website, 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 Deb’s Craftroom’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Deb’s Craftroom 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, Deb’s Craftroom discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Deb’s Craftroom believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Deb’s Craftroom, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Deb’s Craftroom website and have supplied your email address, Deb’s Craftroom 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 Deb’s Craftroom and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support 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. Deb’s Craftroom 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. Deb’s Craftroom uses cookies to help Deb’s Craftroom identify and track visitors, their usage of Deb’s Craftroom website, and their website access preferences. Deb’s Craftroom visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Deb’s Craftroom’s website, with the drawback that certain features of Deb’s Craftroom’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Deb’s Craftroom, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Deb’s Craftroom goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Deb’s Craftroom may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Deb’s Craftroom and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Deb’s Craftroom may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Deb’s Craftroom’s sole discretion. Deb’s Craftroom encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.