Privacy Policy

Scope
This Privacy Policy describes how we handle your personal information for our services on the knittingfool.com websites. It applies generally to the knittingfool.com website and content and other related websites where this policy appears in the footer of the page. Some knittingfool.com-branded websites or websites we operate may be governed by separate privacy policies. The policy that applies on any of our domains or subdomains is always the policy that appears in the footer of each website.

Subject to the requirements of applicable law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout the knittingfool.com sites. This Privacy Policy is effective effective on August 13, 2008.

Collection
You can browse our sites without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to provide us with personal information, you consent to the transfer and storage of that information.

We may collect and store the following personal information:

email address, physical contact information, transactional information based on your activities on the sites; community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through our sites, and correspondence sent to us; other information from your interaction with our sites, services, content and advertising, including computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information; additional information we ask you to submit to authenticate yourself; information from other companies, such as demographic and navigation data.

Marketing
We don't sell, rent or share your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes.

Use
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. You agree that we may use your personal information to:

provide the services and customer support you request;
resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities;
and, customize, measure and improve our services, content and advertising.

Our Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements.
Such information will be disclosed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

Using Information from knittingfool.com
Knittingfool.com applies ordinary copyright restrictions to the use of information from knittingfool.com.

Cookies
We use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive) on certain of our pages.
A few important things you should know about cookies are that:

We offer certain features that are available only through the use of cookies.
We use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status.
Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session.
You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of some of our sites or services.
You may encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the sites that we do not control. (For example, if you view a web page created by another user, there may be a cookie placed by that web page.)

No Spam, Spyware or Spoofing
We and our users do not tolerate spam. Make sure to set your communication preferences so we communicate to you as you prefer. You may not use our communication tools to send spam.
Security
Your information is stored on our servers located in the United States. We treat data as an asset that must be protected. However, as you probably know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.

Third Parties
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose your information to others, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. knittingfool.com does not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

General
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on this site. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are initially posted on the site. You may write to us at: Knittingfool.com, 120 Dancer Lane, Heyworth, IL 61745.