Privacy Policy - Tales of Knots

Updated March 2024

Talesofknots.com is a personal blog; designed, written and edited by Michelle Muskett. If you need further information or have any questions about this privacy policy or terms and conditions of use, please direct any enquiries to Michelle Muskett at support@talesofknots.com.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used.

Personal Identification Information

We may collect personal identification information from users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when visiting our site, registering on the site, subscribing to our newsletter, filling out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site. We will collect personal identification information from users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. You can always refuse to supply personal identification information, although it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

We will never sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others.

If you are based in the EU or UK, this section applies to you:

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on to use your personal information for specific purposes. You can withdraw your consent at any time, by notifying us at https://talesofknots.com/contact

Consent: We may process your information if you have given us permission to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
Legal Obligations: We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise, or defend our legal rights.
Vital interests: We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party.
Legitimate Interests: We may process your information in order to send users information about special offers and discounts on our products, with consent.

We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 16 years of age. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at support@talesofknots.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Non-personal Identification Information – Log Files

Like many other sites, TalesofKnots.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyse trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Web-Browser Cookies

Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer, they are used by most websites to tailor content and marketing messages to enhance user experience.

We use cookies on the website to track visitor behaviour. If you prefer not to allow the use of cookies, you can change the configuration of your browser to warn you when you receive a cookie or automatically reject them.

If you would like to find out more about cookies you can visit http://www.aboutcookies.org.

How Your Information May Be Used

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

To operate and maintain the website;
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
To respond to your comments or enquiries;
To provide you with user support;
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorised or illegal activity.

Comments or Submissions

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. You are responsible for what you post or upload. By sending submissions through any part of this website you confirm that you have read and agree with the following prohibited activities, including but not limited to posting, publishing, uploading, or transmitting anything that is illegal, harassing, hateful, harmful, defamatory, obscene, bullying, abusive, discriminatory, threatening to any person or group, sexually explicit, false, inaccurate, deceitful or misleading.

You are solely responsible for your submissions and you expressly agree to reimburse us for any and all losses that we may suffer because of your (a) breach of this section, or (b) applicable law.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Third-Party Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.

Additionally, Talesofknots.com may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the site. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

Talesofknots.com currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on talesofknots.com. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Flodesk – This service is used for delivery of email updates and Newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Flodesk will also track information regarding your interaction with our emails, such as whether they have been opened or you have clicked on a particular link.

Grow by Mediavine – This service collects first-party data about users, with permission, that can be provided to advertisers rather than relying on third-party data via cookies.
First-party data is collected by requiring users to log in and create a profile to access certain sections of the Site.

Affiliate Program Participation

Tales of Knots (Michelle Muskett) is a participant in the Share A Sale Program and Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to products or services on applicable websites. As part of these programs, the Website will post customised links, provided by these programs, to track the referrals to their websites. This program utilises cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Rights Related To Your Personal Information

You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at talesofknots@gmail.com to be removed from our mailing list.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Disclosures

The views and opinions expressed herein are purely my own. Any product claim, quote, statistic or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question.

In accordance with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations, some of the content you see within my website may contain affiliate links for products I love. At no additional cost to you, I may earn a commission if you decide to make a purchase after clicking through the link. Please understand that I have experienced and use all of these companies, and I recommend them because they are great quality, not because of the small commissions I might make if you decide to buy something through my links. Please do not spend any money on these products unless you feel you want or need them.

Third Party Advertisements

Tales of Knots is affiliated with Google, Inc for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site. Google, Inc. uses standard and widely-available tools for the placement and serving of ads, including those provided by its affiliates. Interest-based advertisements are published on this Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, Google will track your behaviour on the Site and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

Intellectual Property rights

We are the owner of all intellectual property rights on this website, including all designs, graphics and tutorials, as well as the service marks and logos contained therein. Our content is protected by various intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws and treaties in the United States and around the world.

The content is provided through this website “AS IS” for your personal, non-commercial use or internal business purposes only.

You are welcome to sell finished items created with these patterns, but must provide all pattern credit to Tales of Knots for the original design and link back to this website. You may not use Tales of Knots photos or graphics to sell finished products, and any copying, alteration, reproduction, selling or distribution of these patterns in whole or part are strictly prohibited.

Prohibited Activities

As a user of this Site, you agree not to:

Systematically retrieve content to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory without written permission from Tales of Knots.
Circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security-related features of this Site including features that prevent the copying or downloading of any Content without permission.
Upload or transmit anything designed to harm the Site or interfere with another’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Content featured, or passive collection mechanisms/spyware.
Use the content as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the content for any revenue-generating endeavour, outside of acceptable use for the selling of finished products.

Contact

If you’d like to connect with me, if you have any questions, or need support please get in touch with me at support@talesofknots.com

Thank you for visiting!