Privacy Policy Agreement

Updated September 26, 2019

This Privacy Policy Agreement discloses the privacy practices for Crafted by Friends, LLC’s website craftedbyfriends.com (further indicated as “We” “Us” or “Our”). This agreement governs the terms of our website and the services we provide. Under this agreement we will notify our customers and our visitors (further indicated as “You” or “Your”) of the following:

  1. The way personal information is collected from you through using our website
  2. The way the information is used and to whom it may be shared
  3. The limitation of our collection of your data
  4. What option you have regarding the collection of your data
  5. Our security to protect your information
  6. The updating of this privacy policy agreement

 

Types of Data Collected

We collect data from you to perform our services to you as well as enhance our services. These types of data include Personal DataUsage Data, and Tracking Data.

Personal Data includes, but is not limited to, name, address, state, province, zip/postal code, city, cookies, and usage data. We use Personal Data is used to keep track of sales and to contact you via emails and marketing purposes. You may opt-out anytime via an unsubscribe link on the newsletters or by contacting us.

We may also use your personal data, with your consent, to advertise reviews of our products and/or services we provide. You may contact us for the removal of your personal data in regard to your review.

Usage Data includes, but is not limited to, IP address, operating system, browser type, and version, time spent on pages, pages you visit, and sometimes internet service provider or mobile carrier. This helps us analyze trends within our site to deliver a better service to our visitors. We do not personally do reverse DNS lookups, so we do not use IP addresses to link to personally identifiable information.

Tracking Data includes, but is not limited to, beacons, tags, scripts, and cookies.

Beacons, tags, and scripts track navigation on a website or series of websites.

Cookies are data sent via your browser to a website and stored on your device. Examples of Cookies we use but are not limited to are: cookies used to operate our website, such as the cookies necessary for our website to function and cookies unnecessary but used to help with analytics, marketing, etc.

You can always use your browser to limit or refuse all cookies as well as when a cookie is being sent. This operation depends on the browser that you use. If you so do this operation, some portions of our site may be limited during your use.

Usage of Data

We used our collected data to:

  • To provide and maintain our website and services
  • To notify you of any changes to our site
  • To keep information about purchase orders
  • To use certain features of our site
  • To provide support to you
  • To analyze trends for the better performance of the website
  • To provide news about our products and our site to you

We also store and transfer your data.

When we store your information, we retain it for as long as necessary set out to legally continue providing the website and the services to our customers. We also store usage data for our analysis of our services and websites.

When we transfer your information, we transfer to other computers outside your state, province, country, or governmental jurisdiction. We transfer this information to services such as but is not limited to, our website host and our payment processor PayPal. You consent to this transfer by consenting to this privacy policy agreement.

We take steps necessary for the safety of storing and transferring your data. However, the internet is never completely safe and at any time your information could be confiscated by hackers.

Third-Party Use

We may use third-party companies to help with the services we provide to you. These third parties may have access to the personal data given on this site to fulfill tasks on our behalf. These include, but are not limited to, PayPal, Google Analytics, Google Font, Google reCaptcha, Mailchimp, and Customer Review LTD.

PayPal:

We may provide a payment processor to aid in our ability to provide a service. This is PayPal.

We do not store any credit card information. This information is given to us directly through PayPal governed by their own Privacy Policy. See https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.

Google Analytics:

Under these terms, we may use a third-party analytics provider to monitor and analyze the services we provided.

Google Analytics is a service offered by Google (own by Alphabet Inc.) that tracks and reports on website traffic. This service collects data to track and monitor the use of our services. This is data is shared across other Google Services and Google may use this data for its own use.

You may opt-out of this analytics software if your browser so allows it. This is currently allowed on Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari, Firefox, and Opera via the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-On.

For more information regarding the privacy practices of Google, see their privacy & term page. See http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Google Fonts: 

This site uses Google Fonts for some pages. These fonts allow certain content to be seen correctly. If your browser cannot see this font, your local font will load.

For this font to work, your IP address to be sent to Google to establish a connection to load the fonts.

For more information regarding handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google reCaptcha: 

Under these terms, we may use reCaptcha to protect against spam for our donation and contact page. reCaptcha uses your personal information to certify you are not a robot. For more information, visit https://policies.google.com/privacy.

MailChimp:

Under these terms, we may use a third-party newsletter provider to provide information regarding our site. You consent to this transfer of information by signing up for the newsletter. This transfer may include, but is not limited to, your name, address, email address, cart content for 30 days, and total purchases on the website.  For more information regarding the privacy practices of MailChimp, see their privacy agreement at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

Customer Review LTD:

Under these terms, we may use a third-party review site to showcase our reviews. We will send an email asking for a review for purchased products. If you consent to there and our terms of service, your review will be posted on their site and that review may be access by us and put on our server. For more information visit, https://www.cusrev.com/privacy-policy

Third-Party Links:

On this website we have third party links; we are not liable for their content or data collection. We urge you to read their privacy policy agreement.

Individuals Under the Age of 18 Privacy:

We do not allow the purchasing of any products on our site by anyone under the age of 18 (further indicated as “Child”).

We do not knowingly obtain any personal information regarding individuals under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian who has become aware your child has given us personal data, please contact us. If we see that we have obtained a child’s information, it will be deleted immediately.

Changes to this privacy policy:

We may update this Private Policy at any time. We will notify you of these changes via an email from our subscribed user list and/or the homepage.

Contact Us:

If you have any question regarding this Private Policy, visit our Contact page.

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Special Circumstances for Certain Residents:

For certain residents of Californian, Australian, and European Economic Area (EEA) members there are special circumstances that are included alongside the policies set above. These are outlined below for each resident of a specific area. These circumstances are only for residents of these states/counties.

FOR CALIFORNIAN RESIDENTS

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, you may contact us regarding the disclosure of your personal information to third parties.

FOR AUSTRALIAN RESIDENTS

We collect personal information directly from you when is it is reasonable, but we may also collect other information from other trusted sources to supplement our own personal data. We will take steps to remove information when it is no longer required, so long as you contact us for its removal. We may use this data to contact you via email about products and services we provide. You may unsubscribe at any time.

If we experience a data breach at any time, we will contact you of serious harm to you if we are legally obliged to do so. We do not store credit card information on our server, so this will be limited only to personal data.

FOR RESIDENTS WITHIN THE EEA

We currently do not ship to European countries within the EEA (EU members, Iceland and Norway).  Please visit our Etsy store for shipments to these counties in Europe. We will update our policy if we decide to ship to these counties.

 

END OF AGREEMENT