Welcome to Knotting Notes, available at https://knottingnotes.com/. We value your privacy and are committed to being transparent about how we collect, use, store, and disclose personal information.
This Privacy Policy explains how Knotting Notes (“we,” “us,” or “our”) handles information when you visit our website, read our crochet tutorials, access our patterns, subscribe to our newsletter, purchase digital or physical products, or contact us.
Please read this policy carefully. By using our website, you acknowledge the practices described here. Where applicable law requires consent for particular processing activities, we will obtain that consent separately.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information you voluntarily provide, information generated through transactions, and certain information collected automatically when you use our website.
1.1 Personal Information You Provide
Depending on how you interact with Knotting Notes, we may collect:
- Name and email address.
- Phone number, if provided.
- Billing and payment-related information.
- Billing address and other information required to complete an order.
- Newsletter subscription preferences.
- Messages, questions, feedback, and other information you submit through our contact forms.
- Account information, if website accounts are available.
- Order details, purchased products, and transaction records.
The information requested will depend on the feature or service you use.
1.2 Payment Information
If you purchase crochet patterns, downloadable PDFs, or other products through Knotting Notes, payment information may be processed by the payment service provider we use.
Depending on the payment method, the provider may collect payment card details, billing information, transaction identifiers, and related information.
We do not intend to store complete payment card details on our own servers unless our payment arrangements and security controls specifically permit it. The actual handling of payment information depends on the checkout and payment services integrated into our website.
Please review the privacy policy of your payment provider for further information about its data practices.
1.3 Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, we and our service providers may automatically collect information such as:
- IP address.
- Browser type and version.
- Device type and operating system.
- Pages viewed and links clicked.
- Referring and exit pages.
- Date and time of visits.
- Approximate location derived from IP address.
- Website interaction and performance information.
- Cookie identifiers and similar technical identifiers.
We use this information for analytics, website operation, advertising, security, and performance improvement, as applicable.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use personal information for the following purposes:
- To operate and maintain Knotting Notes.
- To publish and improve crochet tutorials, patterns, guides, and related resources.
- To process orders and deliver purchased digital or physical products.
- To communicate order confirmations, receipts, delivery instructions, and customer support responses.
- To manage newsletter subscriptions and send requested email updates.
- To understand visitor behavior and improve website content using Google Analytics.
- To display, measure, and optimize advertisements through Google AdSense.
- To personalize website experiences where appropriate and permitted.
- To prevent spam, fraud, unauthorized transactions, and security incidents.
- To maintain business records and meet legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations.
- To respond to legal requests and protect our rights.
- To perform other purposes disclosed when information is collected.
We will process personal information only where we have an appropriate legal basis under applicable law.
3. Google Analytics
Knotting Notes uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website and to improve our content and services.
Google Analytics may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about website usage, including page views, traffic sources, device and browser information, and interactions with website content.
This information helps us understand which crochet tutorials and patterns visitors find useful, identify technical issues, and improve website performance.
Google processes information under its own terms and privacy policies. The information collected and its retention depend on our Google Analytics configuration and the applicable settings.
We will not intentionally configure Google Analytics to send information that directly identifies you, such as your name or email address, in ways prohibited by Google’s policies.
You can learn more about Google’s data practices here:
Where required by applicable law, we will obtain consent before enabling non-essential analytics cookies or related technologies.
4. Google AdSense and Advertising
Knotting Notes uses Google AdSense to display advertisements that help support the operation and development of our website.
Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, and similar technologies to serve advertisements, measure ad performance, limit repeated ads, detect invalid traffic, and personalize advertising where permitted.
These technologies may collect information about your visits to Knotting Notes and, depending on the advertising settings and applicable consent choices, your activity on other websites or services.
Advertising information may be used to determine which advertisements are displayed, measure engagement, prevent advertising fraud, and improve advertising effectiveness.
We do not control every aspect of Google’s independent data processing. Google’s practices are governed by its own privacy policies and advertising controls.
For more information, visit:
Advertising Preferences and Consent
Depending on your location and the advertising technologies used, you may be able to manage personalized advertising through Google’s advertising settings or our website’s cookie consent controls.
Where legally required, we will request consent before using advertising cookies or processing personal information for personalized advertising.
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, additional consent requirements may apply under applicable data protection laws and Google’s policies.
We will implement the applicable consent mechanisms and advertising settings required for our website and audience.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Knotting Notes may use cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies to support website functionality and the services described in this policy.
Cookies may serve several purposes:
- Essential cookies: Support security, basic functionality, and necessary website operations.
- Analytics cookies: Help us measure website traffic and understand visitor behavior through Google Analytics.
- Advertising cookies: Support advertising delivery, measurement, fraud prevention, and personalization through Google AdSense, where applicable.
- Preference cookies: Remember settings and preferences where these features are available.
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. You may also use the cookie preference controls available on our website, where implemented.
Disabling certain cookies may affect website features or your browsing experience.
Where required by law, non-essential cookies and similar technologies will be used only after the appropriate consent has been obtained.
6. Newsletter and Email Communications
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we may collect your email address, name if requested, and subscription preferences.
We may use this information to send:
- Crochet tutorials and pattern updates.
- New blog posts and website announcements.
- Information about new or updated products.
- Promotional messages and special offers, where permitted.
- Other content described when you subscribe.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in an email, where available.
Unsubscribing from marketing emails will not necessarily prevent us from sending essential transactional messages, such as purchase confirmations or product delivery information.
We may use a third-party email marketing provider to store subscriber information and deliver emails. The identity of that provider will depend on the service configured on our website.
We will not knowingly add you to a marketing mailing list without an appropriate basis under applicable law.
7. Purchases, Orders, and Digital Products
Knotting Notes may offer crochet patterns, downloadable PDFs, other digital products, or physical products for purchase.
When you place an order, we may collect and process information necessary to complete the transaction, including your contact details, purchased items, order amount, billing details, payment status, and order history.
We use this information to:
- Process and confirm purchases.
- Deliver digital downloads or arrange product shipping.
- Provide customer service and resolve order issues.
- Maintain transaction records.
- Handle refunds, cancellations, or disputes where applicable.
- Detect and prevent fraudulent transactions.
- Comply with accounting, tax, and other legal obligations.
Payments may be handled by an external payment processor. We may receive limited payment-related information, such as transaction confirmation, payment status, and a transaction reference, without receiving or storing your full payment card details.
If a third-party checkout, payment gateway, digital delivery service, or e-commerce platform is used, that provider may process your information according to its own privacy policy and service terms.
The specific payment and e-commerce providers will depend on the integrations active on Knotting Notes.
8. How We Share Your Information
We may disclose information to third parties when reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
These parties may include:
- Hosting and website service providers: To operate, maintain, and secure our website.
- Google Analytics: To measure and analyze website usage.
- Google AdSense and advertising partners: To serve and measure advertisements, subject to applicable privacy settings and consent requirements.
- Payment processors: To process purchases and verify transactions.
- E-commerce and digital delivery providers: To manage orders and deliver purchased products.
- Email marketing providers: To manage newsletter subscriptions and send emails.
- Security and fraud prevention providers: To protect our website, customers, and transactions.
- Professional advisers: Such as accountants, auditors, or legal advisers where necessary.
- Authorities and legal recipients: Where disclosure is required by law or necessary to protect legal rights.
- Business successors: In connection with a permitted business transfer, restructuring, or sale.
We may also disclose information when you direct us to do so or otherwise provide valid consent.
We do not disclose personal information for purposes unrelated to our stated activities unless permitted or required by applicable law.
9. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy.
For example:
- Contact messages may be retained for as long as necessary to respond and maintain appropriate records.
- Newsletter information may be retained while you remain subscribed and for a reasonable period afterward to maintain suppression and compliance records.
- Order and transaction records may be retained for accounting, tax, legal, and dispute-resolution purposes.
- Analytics data may be retained according to our Google Analytics settings.
- Security logs may be retained for the period needed to protect and maintain the website.
Actual retention periods depend on the type of information, the service involved, our operational needs, and applicable legal requirements.
When information is no longer needed, we will take reasonable steps to delete it or securely dispose of it, subject to lawful retention obligations.
10. Data Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or misuse.
These measures may include website security tools, access restrictions, secure connections, service-provider safeguards, and appropriate administrative practices.
However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
You should avoid including payment card details, passwords, or other unnecessary sensitive information in website contact forms or ordinary email messages.
11. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Request deletion of personal information, subject to applicable exceptions.
- Request restrictions on certain processing activities.
- Object to certain uses of personal information.
- Request a portable copy of certain information.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Opt out of certain targeted advertising, sale, or sharing activities where legally applicable.
- Lodge a complaint with a relevant data protection authority.
These rights are subject to the conditions and exceptions established by applicable law.
To exercise a right, please contact us through our Contact page. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.
We will respond within the time period required by the applicable law.
12. California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, may provide you with specific privacy rights where applicable.
These rights may include the right to:
- Know the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected about you.
- Request access to certain personal information.
- Request correction of inaccurate information.
- Request deletion of eligible personal information.
- Receive information about the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties.
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, including certain sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising.
- Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable.
- Exercise your rights without unlawful discrimination.
Whether a particular right applies depends on the law and our processing activities.
Some advertising technologies may fall within legal definitions of “sharing” or targeted advertising even when no money is exchanged for personal information. We will assess our actual practices and provide any required opt-out controls.
If applicable, you may submit a request through our Contact page.
We will verify and respond to requests in accordance with applicable law.
13. European Economic Area and United Kingdom Privacy Rights
If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the GDPR or applicable national data protection legislation may give you additional rights.
Depending on the circumstances, these rights may include:
- Access to your personal information.
- Correction of inaccurate information.
- Erasure of personal information.
- Restriction of processing.
- Objection to processing.
- Data portability.
- Withdrawal of consent.
- The right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority.
Where required, we will explain the legal basis for processing your information. Depending on the circumstances, this may include consent, contractual necessity, legal obligations, or legitimate interests.
You may withdraw consent for processing based on consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.
Cookies and Advertising Consent
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and other jurisdictions with similar requirements, we will follow applicable rules regarding non-essential cookies, advertising personalization, and data sharing.
Google requires publishers using its applicable advertising services to meet relevant consent and disclosure requirements for users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
Where applicable, we will use an appropriate consent management solution and provide a way for users to review or change their consent choices.
14. International Data Transfers
Knotting Notes may use service providers that operate in countries other than the country where you live.
As a result, personal information may be processed or stored internationally, subject to the practices of those providers.
Where applicable law requires safeguards for international data transfers, we will take reasonable steps to implement the required protections.
15. Children’s Privacy
Knotting Notes provides crochet-related educational and creative content.
We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 without legally required authorization. Where applicable law establishes a different age threshold or additional requirements, we will follow those requirements.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us through our Contact page.
If we confirm that information must be deleted under applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to remove it.
16. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, social media services, tutorials, product providers, payment services, or other external resources.
These third parties maintain their own privacy policies and data practices. We are not responsible for their independent privacy practices or website content.
When you follow an external link or use an embedded third-party feature, the relevant provider may collect information according to its own terms.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of external websites and services before providing them with personal information.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our website, products, advertising services, analytics tools, payment integrations, legal requirements, or data practices.
Any revised version will be published on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date.
Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent before implementing changes that require it.
We encourage you to review this page periodically.
18. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your privacy rights, or have concerns about our handling of personal information, please contact us through the Knotting Notes Contact page:
Please provide enough information for us to understand your inquiry. Do not include passwords, complete payment card details, or other unnecessary sensitive information.
Thank you for visiting Knotting Notes and being part of our crochet community.