Welcome to Knotting Notes!
These Terms and Conditions govern your access to and use of the Knotting Notes website, including its crochet patterns, tutorials, articles, downloadable digital products, newsletter, and any products or services offered through the website.
Throughout these Terms and Conditions, the words “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Knotting Notes. The words “you” and “your” refer to any visitor, reader, subscriber, or customer who accesses or uses our website.
By accessing or using Knotting Notes, you agree to comply with these Terms and Conditions and our applicable policies. If you do not agree with these Terms, please discontinue using our website.
1. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, to make purchases through our website.
If you are under the age of majority, you may use the website only with the involvement and permission of a parent or legal guardian, where permitted by applicable law.
By using this website, you represent that you have the legal capacity to agree to these Terms and Conditions.
2. Website Content and Services
Knotting Notes provides crochet-related educational and creative content, which may include:
- Crochet patterns and project ideas.
- Beginner-friendly crochet tutorials and stitch guides.
- Articles, tips, and instructional content.
- Photographs, illustrations, and other visual materials.
- Downloadable digital products, including PDF crochet patterns and guides.
- Newsletter subscriptions and updates.
- Other products, services, and features we may introduce in the future.
We reserve the right to modify, update, suspend, or discontinue any part of our website, content, or services at any time, subject to applicable law.
3. Intellectual Property Rights
Unless otherwise stated, all original content published on Knotting Notes, including text, crochet instructions, patterns, photographs, illustrations, graphics, logos, downloadable files, website design, and other materials, is owned by Knotting Notes or its respective licensors and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use our website content for personal, non-commercial purposes, subject to these Terms and any additional license terms provided with an individual product or pattern.
You may:
- Read and use our publicly available crochet tutorials for personal learning.
- Make personal crochet projects using our patterns, subject to any additional pattern-specific restrictions.
- Share links to our website and publicly available articles.
- Share your own photographs of finished projects, provided you respect our intellectual property rights and any applicable third-party rights.
You may not copy, reproduce, redistribute, republish, translate, modify, sell, sublicense, or commercially exploit our original content without our prior written permission, except where permitted by applicable law or an express license.
Purchasing or downloading a crochet pattern does not transfer ownership of the pattern or its copyright to you.
4. Crochet Patterns and Finished Products
Our crochet patterns and tutorials are intended to provide creative inspiration and instructional guidance.
We make reasonable efforts to provide useful and accurate instructions. However, individual results may vary depending on yarn type, hook size, crochet tension, skill level, gauge, materials, and personal technique.
We do not guarantee that every project will match the photographs, dimensions, or results shown on our website.
Unless a specific pattern or product license states otherwise, you may use our patterns to make finished items for personal use.
Commercial use of finished items: Permission to sell finished items made from our patterns must be determined by the license accompanying the relevant pattern. Unless a pattern expressly grants commercial permission, you must obtain our written permission before selling products made using that pattern.
You may not claim our original patterns, instructions, photographs, or designs as your own, or redistribute the pattern itself without authorization.
Any additional restrictions stated on a particular pattern or product page form part of the applicable terms for that item.
5. Digital Products and Downloads
Knotting Notes may offer digital products such as downloadable crochet patterns, guides, instructional PDFs, and other digital resources.
Unless a product listing explicitly states otherwise, digital products are supplied electronically, and no physical item will be shipped.
When purchasing a digital product, you agree to:
- Provide accurate and complete checkout information.
- Use the purchased files in accordance with the applicable product license.
- Keep download links and purchased files for your own authorized use.
- Avoid sharing, reselling, redistributing, or publicly posting purchased files without permission.
We make reasonable efforts to describe digital products accurately. Please review the product description, included files, skill level, and requirements before purchasing.
Download availability may depend on the website, payment provider, or delivery platform. We cannot guarantee uninterrupted access to every digital file at all times, but we will make reasonable efforts to address legitimate access issues.
6. Orders, Pricing, and Payments
If products or services are offered for purchase through Knotting Notes, the applicable prices, product descriptions, payment methods, and other purchase details will be displayed during the purchasing process or on the relevant product page.
By placing an order, you agree to provide accurate information necessary to process and fulfill your purchase.
We reserve the right to correct pricing or listing errors, update product descriptions, discontinue products, or refuse or cancel orders where reasonably necessary, subject to applicable law and any refund obligations.
Prices, available payment methods, taxes, and any additional charges will be disclosed where required before you complete a purchase.
Payments may be processed through third-party payment service providers. Your payment may also be subject to the applicable terms and privacy policies of those providers.
We do not intend to collect or store complete payment card details directly unless our payment arrangements expressly provide for this and comply with applicable requirements.
7. Refunds, Returns, and Cancellations
Refunds, returns, exchanges, cancellations, and remedies for purchased products will be handled according to the applicable Refund and Return Policy, product-specific terms, and applicable consumer protection laws.
For digital products, the availability of refunds may depend on the nature of the product, whether access or downloading has begun, the circumstances of the request, and applicable law.
Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude or restrict any mandatory consumer rights you may have.
Please review our Refund and Return Policy before completing a purchase, where such a policy applies.
8. Newsletter and Email Communications
Knotting Notes may offer a newsletter or email subscription service to provide crochet tutorials, new patterns, creative ideas, product announcements, and other relevant updates.
By subscribing, you agree to receive the communications described at the time of sign-up.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in our emails or by contacting us through our website.
Unsubscribing from marketing communications will not necessarily prevent us from sending essential transactional or service-related messages where appropriate.
We handle subscriber information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws.
9. Advertising and Analytics
Knotting Notes may use analytics technologies to understand website traffic, improve user experience, and evaluate website performance.
We may also display advertisements through Google AdSense or other advertising partners.
These third parties may use cookies, similar technologies, or other information to provide, measure, or personalize advertising, subject to their own policies and applicable law.
Where required, we will request consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies.
For more information about personal data, cookies, analytics, advertising, and your privacy rights, please review our Privacy Policy.
We do not guarantee the accuracy, suitability, availability, or quality of products or services advertised by third parties. An advertisement displayed on our website does not necessarily constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Knotting Notes.
10. User Conduct and Prohibited Activities
When accessing or using Knotting Notes, you agree not to:
- Use the website for unlawful purposes.
- Violate applicable laws, regulations, or third-party rights.
- Copy, redistribute, sell, or exploit our content without authorization.
- Use automated tools to scrape, harvest, extract, or collect website content or personal information without authorization.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our website, servers, systems, or restricted areas.
- Introduce viruses, malware, malicious code, or other harmful technology.
- Interfere with the operation, security, or availability of the website.
- Submit false, misleading, defamatory, abusive, or unlawful material.
- Impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or organization.
- Use our website or its content for unauthorized advertising, spam, or commercial solicitation.
- Circumvent technical measures designed to protect our content or services.
We reserve the right to restrict or terminate access to our website where we reasonably believe a user has violated these Terms, subject to applicable law.
11. User-Submitted Content
You may have opportunities to contact us, submit feedback, suggest crochet projects, or provide other information through our website.
You retain ownership of content you lawfully own and submit to us.
By submitting content, you grant Knotting Notes a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, display, and distribute that content for the purposes of reviewing, responding to, or publishing it in connection with our website and services, where appropriate.
This license does not permit us to disregard your privacy rights or any applicable legal restrictions. Any broader use, such as commercial promotion of submitted photographs or content, will be subject to any additional permission required by applicable law.
You represent that you have the rights and permissions necessary to submit the content and that your submission does not infringe another person’s intellectual property, privacy, or other legal rights.
We reserve the right to remove or decline user-submitted content that violates these Terms or applicable law.
12. Third-Party Links and Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, tools, products, payment providers, social media platforms, or other services.
These third parties operate independently of Knotting Notes and may have their own terms, privacy policies, and practices.
We do not control and are not responsible for the content, availability, security, accuracy, or policies of third-party websites or services. Visiting or using them is at your own discretion.
You should review the applicable terms and privacy policies before providing information or making purchases through third-party services.
13. Educational Information and Disclaimer
The information published on Knotting Notes is provided for general educational, informational, and creative purposes.
Our crochet patterns, tutorials, tips, and guides are not a guarantee of any particular result. Your finished projects may differ from our examples because of materials, techniques, experience, and other factors.
You are responsible for choosing suitable materials, following relevant product instructions, and taking appropriate safety precautions when crafting.
Where a project involves tools, sharp objects, hot materials, small parts, or items intended for children, use appropriate care and supervision.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we make no warranties or representations regarding the completeness, accuracy, reliability, availability, or suitability of the website or its content.
Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty or consumer right that cannot legally be excluded.
14. Disclaimer of Warranties
The website and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, except where otherwise required by applicable law.
We do not guarantee that the website will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or free of errors, or that defects will always be corrected.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim warranties that may otherwise be implied in relation to the website and its content.
This section does not limit any rights or remedies that applicable law requires us to preserve.
15. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Knotting Notes will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the website or its content.
This may include loss of data, loss of profits, business interruption, or reliance on information provided through the website.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where such exclusion or limitation is prohibited by law, including liability that cannot legally be excluded for fraud, intentional misconduct, or other protected claims.
Any liability that may lawfully be limited will be limited to the extent permitted by applicable law.
16. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to be responsible for losses, liabilities, damages, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful use of the website, your infringement of third-party rights, or your material breach of these Terms.
This provision applies only to the extent that the relevant loss or liability is legally attributable to your conduct. It does not require you to indemnify us for our own unlawful conduct or for liabilities that cannot legally be transferred to you.
17. Privacy
Your use of Knotting Notes is also subject to our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information.
Our website may use cookies, analytics tools, advertising technologies, newsletter services, and payment processors, as described in that policy.
By using the website, you acknowledge that you should review our Privacy Policy to understand these practices. Where consent is legally required, this acknowledgment does not replace obtaining that consent.
Please read our Privacy Policy for additional information about your rights and choices.
18. Suspension and Termination
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to all or part of the website if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, misused our services, or created a security or legal risk.
You may stop using the website at any time.
Termination of access does not remove rights or obligations that arose before termination, nor does it affect provisions that are intended to survive, including applicable intellectual property, disclaimer, liability, and dispute-related provisions.
Any purchased product rights and outstanding obligations will continue to be governed by the applicable purchase terms and law.
19. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful, invalid, or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary.
The remaining provisions will continue in effect to the extent permitted by applicable law.
20. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms and Conditions from time to time to reflect changes to our website, products, services, business practices, or legal requirements.
When changes are made, we will post the revised Terms on this page and update the “Last Updated” date.
Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent for material changes.
Your continued use of the website after revised Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of those changes only to the extent permitted by applicable law.
We encourage you to review this page periodically.
21. Assignment
You may not transfer or assign your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent, except where applicable law permits otherwise.
We may transfer or assign our rights and obligations in connection with a business restructuring, merger, sale, or transfer of relevant business assets, subject to applicable law and any required notices or consents.
22. Entire Agreement
These Terms and Conditions, together with our applicable Privacy Policy, Refund and Return Policy, and any additional terms expressly applicable to particular products or services, govern your use of Knotting Notes.
They supersede previous agreements concerning the same subject matter to the extent legally permitted.
If a specific product license or additional policy conflicts with these Terms, the specific provision will apply to the relevant product or service to the extent of the conflict and as permitted by applicable law.
23. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms and Conditions will be governed by the laws applicable to the website operator and the relevant transaction, subject to any mandatory consumer protection or other applicable laws.
Any dispute arising from these Terms will be handled by the courts or dispute-resolution bodies with appropriate jurisdiction under applicable law.
The website operator’s legal location and the appropriate governing law and jurisdiction have not yet been verified. This section should be updated once those details are confirmed.
24. Contact Us
If you have questions about these Terms and Conditions, digital products, crochet patterns, or other website services, please contact us through the contact page:
Website: https://knottingnotes.com/
Contact page: https://knottingnotes.com/contact/
We will make reasonable efforts to respond to legitimate inquiries.
Thank you for visiting Knotting Notes and being part of our crochet community!