Privacy Policy and Disclosures

Who we are

Our website address is: https://brierwoodbabies.com.

Your acknowledgement of Privacy Policy and Disclosures

By accessing or using this website you agree to this privacy policy and following disclosures. Please read this information carefully. The privacy policy and disclosures may be updated at anytime without notice. Please check back and review this information periodically for updates. By continuing to access or use this website you agree to any updates made.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

Users may be able to post comments in areas of the website. Comments do not reflect the views or opinions of Brierwood Babies or Amanda S., and Brierwood Babies or Amanda S. are not responsible or liable for views or opinions posted as comments. Brierwood Babies reserves the right to monitor comments and remove any comment at any time without notice.

When visitors 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.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

By commenting on brierwoodbabies.com, you grant Brierwood Babies a non-exclusive royalty free license to use, reproduce and edit any of your comments on brierwoodbabies.com in any and all forms, formats, or media.

If you would like to request that a comment be removed please email brierwoodbabies@gmail.com

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Email Inquiries

By contacting us by email in order to obtain additional information related to services provided by Brierwood Babies, you provide certain information which may include your name and email address. This information is solely used in order to respond to your email inquiry.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies are used to tailor user experience on our website. Cookies may also be used for analytical or advertising purposes. You may be able to direct your device to refuse cookies. The ‘help’ feature on most browsers provides information on how to accept/disable cookies.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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, 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 an article, 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 other 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.

Analytics

Google Analytics, OptinMonster and social share buttons allow data to be collected and monitored in order to improve our services and provide quality service. (see below for third party service provider information)

Purchases

When you make a purchase through Etsy or Ravelry you authorize to provide to us certain information submitted during the purchase process. (see below for third party service provider information) This information may include your name, email address, mailing address, purchase amount and details of the product you ordered. We have access to this information for the purpose of processing your purchase but do not store any data from it. We do not receive information related to financial accounts.

Who we share your data with

Third Party Service Providers

We utilize multiple third party service providers in order to offer services to you. Third party service providers have access to your personal information to perform specific tasks. Third party service providers we utilize include but are not limited to Bluehost (web-hosting), WordPress (blog content management system), and Google Analytics and OptinMonster Plugin (gather data to monitor and improve services). Third party service providers also have their own privacy policies regarding how information is collected and used. By accessing or using our website you acknowledge that third party service providers are being utilized.

We sell handmade items and patterns on Etsy and Ravelry. Please review their specific policy pages for more information regarding purchases and the use of their sites.

Compliance Purposes

We may disclose your personal information where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary or appropriate to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the rights, property, or safety to us, our customers, or others.

How long we retain your 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.

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.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We use Akismet as an anti-spam service. Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on this site. The information collected typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Additional information and Disclosures

What data breach procedures we have in place

Your privacy is important to us. We do our best to protect personal information received. Regardless, please remember that this is the internet and no transmission over the internet is completely secure. If we learn of a security breech involving our collection of personal information notification will be sent in accordance with applicable law.

Copyright and Content

We have a passion for creating and we work hard to design and create high quality patterns and products and maintain our website. All images, patterns, products and content on brierwoodbabies.com are the sole property of Brierwood Babies and not to be reproduced in any form without written permission from Brierwood Babies.

Brierwoodbabies.com reserves the right to remove content and links without notice and also reserves the right to update these terms and conditions at any time.