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We only collect information that helps us provide you with a better, more inspiring experience. We organize this information into a few simple categories.
Why we need it: We need this information to deliver your digital downloads, process your payments securely, and send you the updates you requested. Legal basis: We process this data based on your consent (for newsletters) and our legitimate interest in fulfilling your requests and operating our business.
Why we need it: This helps us understand what content our community loves most so we can create more of it. It also ensures our website displays correctly on your device. Legal basis: We rely on our legitimate interest to analyze website performance and improve our services, and your consent for non-essential tracking cookies.
Why we need it: Understanding our audience helps us tailor our gardening and crafting content to better serve our international community. Legal basis: We process this analytics data based on your consent via our cookie banner.
Core Service Delivery: We use your email and payment details to process transactions and deliver the digital craft products you purchase. Service Improvement and Personalization: Relying on our legitimate interest, we analyze browsing trends to figure out which tutorials are most helpful, allowing us to improve our website design and content offerings. Communication: With your consent, we use your email address to send you newsletters, new tutorial alerts, and promotional offers. You can opt out of these at any time. Security and Fraud Prevention: We monitor website traffic to detect and prevent fraudulent transactions or malicious attacks, protecting both our business and your data based on our legitimate interest. Legal Compliance: We may process your financial transaction data to comply with UK tax laws and other legal obligations.
Essential Service Providers: We share necessary data with secure third-party platforms that help us run our business. This includes our payment processors (to handle your purchases securely), email marketing platforms (to send our newsletters), and Google Analytics (to understand our website traffic). Legal Requirements: If we are required to do so by law, court order, or government request, we will share specific information with law enforcement or regulatory authorities. Business Transitions: If Christine’s Crafts is ever sold, merged, or restructured, your information would be transferred to the new owners so you can continue accessing your purchased digital products. With Your Consent: If we ever need to share your data for a reason not listed here, we will ask for your explicit consent first.
Access Your Data: You can ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you. We will provide this within 30 days. Correct Inaccuracies: If your email address changes or you notice a typo in your profile, let us know and we will update it immediately. Delete Your Data: You can request that we erase your personal information. We will do so unless we are legally required to keep it (such as for tax records on past purchases). Port Your Data: You have the right to request your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format so you can transfer it to another service. Opt Out of Marketing: Every marketing email we send includes a clear “unsubscribe” link at the bottom. Clicking it will instantly remove you from our promotional lists. Withdraw Consent: If you previously gave us consent to process your data, you can withdraw it at any time. This will not affect the legality of any processing we did before you withdrew consent. Lodge Complaints: If you feel we have mishandled your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK, or your local data protection authority if you live in the EU.
Active Account Data: We keep your purchase history and account details for the duration of our relationship, plus a reasonable buffer of 2 years after your last interaction, so you can easily re-download your digital craft products. Financial Records: By law, we must retain records of financial transactions for 7 years for UK tax and accounting purposes. - Marketing Preferences:
We keep your email address on our active mailing list until you withdraw your consent or unsubscribe. Technical Logs: We retain routine website analytics and server logs for 12 months before securely deleting them.
Essential Cookies: These are strictly necessary for the website to work, such as remembering what is in your shopping cart when you buy a digital pattern. Analytics Cookies: With your permission, we use Google Analytics cookies to track how you interact with our tutorials. This helps us understand what content is most valuable to our readers.
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OWNER AND DATA CONTROLLER
Address: Unit 34732, PO Box 4336, Manchester, M61 0BW
Contact email: christine@christines-crafts.com
Representative in the EU: Christine Burrows
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This Site collects some personal data from its users.
This Privacy Policy informs you of our views, practices and policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data we receive from users of the Site.
Social media cookies and pixels
These cookies allow you to share your activity on the Site on social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, or other external platforms directly from the Site.
Cookies may still be recognized, collected, and/or tracked on the pages where buttons, widgets, or other applications are installed, even when you do not actively use it.
The interaction and information recognized, collected, and/or tracked through the Site are always subject to your privacy settings for each social network and external platform.
You are encouraged to refer to the privacy policy of the relevant social network or external platform and to log out from the respective network or platform in order to make sure that the information collected on the Site is not tracked back to your profile.
Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets
The Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets are application allowing interaction with the Facebook social network.
Twitter Tweet button and Twitter social widgets
The Twitter Tweet button and Twitter social widgets are applications allowing interaction with the Twitter social network.
YouTube video widget
YouTube is a video sharing website that allows this Site to incorporate video content on its pages and posts.
Live chat platform
This application allows you to interact with a third-party live chat platform directly from the Site, e.g. to get in contact with the Site support or customer care service.
This application may recognize, collect, and/or track browsing and usage information on the pages where it is installed, even if you do not actively use it. If you do actively use it, your live chat conversation may be logged or recorded.
Social media pixels
We reserve the right to use social media pixels. These pixels allow social media such as Facebook to track visitors to external websites in order to tailor their advertising activities to target users while browsing their social media network. For information regarding these pixels, you are encouraged to refer to the privacy policy of the relevant social network.
Facebook pixel
Facebook pixel connects the activity performed on the Site with the Facebook advertising network, including Instagram and Audience ads.
YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR
Users based in the European Union have the right to do the following:
- Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their personal data.
- Object to processing of their data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent.
- Access their data. Users have the right to learn if data is being processed by us, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the data undergoing processing.
- Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
- Restrict the processing of their data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their data. In this case, we will not process their data for any purpose other than storing it.
- Have their personal data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their data from us.
- Receive their data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any undue delay.
- Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection supervisory authority.
You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us at christine@christines-crafts.com
These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by us as soon as possible and always within thirty (30) days.
Reserve Rights
I, Christine from christines-crafts.com, reserve the right to change the focus of the blog, shut it down, sell it or change the terms of use at my own discretion.
I also reserve the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to christines-crafts.com without notice due to: comments deemed to be spam or questionable spam, comments including profanity, comments containing language or concepts that could be deemed offensive or comments that attack a group or person individually.
All comments are processed using AntiSpamBee & Emote.
Advertisers and Sponsors
We may have a financial relationship with some of the merchants we mention.
From time to time, our blog posts and pages may contain affiliate links, which means we may get compensated/earn a commission at no extra cost to you if the affiliate links are utilised to make a purchase.
Our editorial content, including the advice we provide for educational purposes and the opinion we express on products, services and merchants is not influenced in any way by advertisers or affiliate partnerships and the integrity of our content is in no way compromised by such financial relationships.
We only affiliate with products, services, and merchants that we believe will provide value to our readers. We only endorse products, services and merchants that we have personally used/tested and consider of the highest quality standard.
It remains solely your personal responsibility to conduct your own investigation to determine whether to purchase an affiliate product or service.
You will not rely on any recommendation, reference, or information provided by us and we cannot be held liable or responsible for any damages resulting from your purchase.
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
christines-crafts.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT
Full statement can be found here.
Thank you so much for visiting my website and remember to enjoy yourself!
Christine