Welcome to https://redheartyarn.org/!
About Redheart yarn
Our website address is https://redheartyarn.org/. We are dedicated to providing the finest selection of acrylic and wool blend yarns to knitters and crocheters across the nation.
How We Protect Your Crafting Data
Community Interaction
When you share your thoughts on our latest yarn collections or patterns, we collect the details you provide in the feedback form, along with your IP address and browser information to help maintain a supportive and spam-free community.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify your profile. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public alongside your contribution to our knitting circle.
Project Photos
If you upload photos of your finished knitting or crochet projects to our gallery, please ensure you avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors can download and extract location details from images on the website.
Digital Cookies
Like any modern crafting hub, https://redheartyarn.org/ uses 'cookies'. These small files store information including your favorite yarn colors and the patterns you have viewed. This data helps us optimize your shopping experience by tailoring our content to your creative interests.
If you leave a comment on our blog, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our account login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in to access your saved patterns, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish a pattern review, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content from Pattern Partners
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., tutorial videos, pattern charts, images). 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.
At https://redheartyarn.org/, accessible from https://redheartyarn.org/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Redheart yarn and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
Server Logs
Redheart yarn follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Our Crafting Partners
Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
Partner Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Redheart yarn.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Redheart yarn, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that Redheart yarn has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
Redheart yarn's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.
Children's Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Redheart yarn does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Redheart yarn. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.