Thanks for visiting sewingguider.com. As the owner of this website, for me your privacy is important. Me or anyone associated with the website WILL NEVER sell your information to anyone.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties any of your personal information (name, email address) we may have collected through your voluntary confirmation.
How are personal data collected in the site
We may gather your information through cookies (a file containing an identifier -a string of letters and numbers, that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser) or through data you willingly shared on the site.
We may use trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep all information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, no personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Cookies may be used for security purposes, personalisation, advertising, analysis etc. You may opt out of the use of this cookie by various means. Your access to our websites should not be affected if you do not accept cookies served by third parties.
1. Forms
When you signup for our newsletter we collect your name (only when provided willingly) and your email address so that we can correspond with you.
Your personal data will not only be stored in the website’s database but also in the applications we use to send our newsletters and campaign.
There is an option for you not to subscribe. And also to read and agree to our privacy policy before you susbscribe. You also have an option to unsubscribe from the newsletter subscription any time.
2. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to track visitors on this site. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this data. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.
In order to be compliant with the new regulation, Google included a data processing amendment.
The data we collect will be processed anonymously and “Data sharing” is disabled.
We don’t use other Google services in combination with Google Analytics cookies
To learn more about how Google use data, visit https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners.
For opt-out options specific to Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
3. Email service
The newsletters are sent to you through third party email marketing sites, who have agreed with us to keep the data confidential. If you have provided your email address to us, we promise to use it only for the purposes for which it is provided (to send you emails regarding the Site or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you). Your email address may also be shared with the technology provider we use in connection with the purposes for which you provided it. We will not use your email address to contact you for unrelated reasons.
If at any point in time you do not want the newsletter there will be an option on the newsletter to unsubscribe. We will be sorry to see you go, but your right to privacy is more important to us
If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), we do not wish to receive your email address, and will delete it if you have provided it inadvertently. Please email me at sewingguider.com@gmail.com for this.
4. Third party advertisements
Services used to place advertisements in this site may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser in order to collect certain information about your use of this site. Sometimes this information could be used to show you ads on other websites based on your interests. We do not have access to, nor control over, these third parties’ use of cookies or other tracking technologies or how they may be used
For example Google advertising platform may use Doubleclick cookies, and in some cases, a unique device identifier, to show you ads based on your visit to this site.
This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy
5. Comments and reviews by users
We also collect information that you provide us when you comment on articles in this site or leave reviews.
When visitors willingly leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service; this is to prevent spam comments clogging the system and rendering the website unusable
If you choose to engage in these activities of commenting or reviewing, you should be aware that any personal information you submit can be read, collected and used by other users of these services. We are not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in the course of your activities and we have no responsibility to publish, take down, remove or edit any of your activities, comments or reviews or submissions (except as required by applicable laws); though we retain the right to withhold the publication of those comments/submissions/reviews which are not compliant with the terms of use of sewingguider.com.
How long do we retain the data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue
If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Sharing on Social media platforms by users /Public Activities
When you share or recommend links to content on a social media platform (such as Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ and Twitter), that action and any information you share will be covered by that platform’s privacy policy. Any information you disclose in your public activities, along with your screen name or ID, or any image or photo, becomes public.
Embedded content from other websites
Content of sewingguider.com may contain references to other websites, including affiliate sites. If you go to another website, sewingguider.com is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of those websites. 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
How to opt out of the cookies.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
- For Google chrome browser- https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
- For Firefox browser – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- For Opera browser- http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
- For Internet Explorer browser – https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- For Safari – https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411
- For Edge Browser – https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.
Sale of Business or Assets
In the event that the Site or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site, with the “Effective Date” posted in this page. We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, as technology changes, or as we add new services or change existing ones. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or we are going to use any personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in our Privacy Policy at the time we collected such information, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change. If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time we obtained that information. By using our Site or services after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy. We will use information previously obtained in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy. Contact us at sewingguider.com@gmail.com for any other clarification.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page