This privacy policy sets out how Craft Invaders uses and protects any information that you give Craft Invaders when you use this website.
Craft Invaders is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide specific information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used as per this privacy statement.
Craft Invaders may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1st May 2018 and was last reviewed on the 27th February 2020.
Collection of personal information
We receive and store any information you knowingly provide to us when you fill any online forms on the Website. We may collect the following information:
• name and job title
• contact information including email address
• demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
• other information relevant to submitting an article to us, entering competitions or joining our subscriber list
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
• Internal record keeping.
• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We will only contact you if you have given permission by either contacting us, entering a competition or joining our subscriber list. We will never send you unsolicited mail.
Collection of non-personal information
When you visit the Website our servers automatically record information that your browser sends. This data may include information such as your device’s IP address, browser type and version, operating system type and version, language preferences or the webpage you were visiting before you came to our Website. It may also include pages of our Website that you visit, the time spent on those pages, the information you search for on our Website, access times and dates, and other statistics.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How we use cookies
The Website uses “cookies” to help personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. We may use cookies to collect, store, and track information for statistical purposes to operate our Website and Services. You can accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically allow cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.
Advertisements
Craft Invaders uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on our Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies. Mediavine may collect IP addresses and location to serve personalized ads. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Amazon Affiliate Advertising
Our Website contains affiliate links to Amazon products that we have used in our projects. All text affiliate links will have (Amazon Affiliate link) shown directly after the link. If you click through on an Amazon marked link as an Amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Any earnings that Craft Invaders make are at no additional cost to our readers.
As part of the Amazon Associates program, we will use customised links, provided by Amazon, so they can track the referrals to their website. This program utilises cookies to track visits to assign commission on these sales.
Other Affiliate Advertising
If we use any other affiliate program other than the Amazon Associates program, those links will be identifiable by having (affiliate link) directly after the text link. Those programs will also use a customised link to track referrals to their website and purchasing through them will incur no extra costs to our readers.
Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any other sites or third-parties. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of every website that may collect personal information.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites, and this privacy statement does not govern such sites. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting only if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information stored on you, please email sarah@craftinvaders.co.uk.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
