Last Updated: 1st February 2024
Welcome to StitchDelve! At StitchDelve, accessible at stitchdelve.com, privacy of visitors is prioritised. This Privacy Policy outlines how StitchDelve.com collects, uses, and safeguards your personal information. By using this website, you consent to the practices described in this policy.
- Information Collection and Use
StitchDelve.com uses cookies to enhance your experience on this website. Third-party vendors, including Google, employ cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other sites on the Internet. This information helps to improve your user experience and deliver relevant content.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
If you haven’t chosen to opt out of third-party ad serving, please note that cookies from additional third-party vendors or ad networks might also be employed to display advertisements on this website.
The personal details requested from you, along with the reasons for their request, will be explicitly communicated when StitchDelve.com prompts you to share such information. This may encompass details like your name, email address, phone number, and other pertinent information.
- Opting Out of Personalised Advertising
StitchDelve.com uses Google Adsense. You have the option to opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Additionally, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
- Third-Party Ad Serving
StitchDelve.com notifies our site visitors of the third-party vendors and ad networks serving ads on this site through this privacy policy. StitchDelve.com provides links to the appropriate vendor and ad network websites for your reference.
You have the option to visit these websites to decline the utilisation of cookies for personalised advertising if the vendor or ad network provides this feature.
- Analytics and User Activity
Besides employing advertising cookies, StitchDelve.com utilises analytics tools to monitor user activity on this website. This data aids StitchDelve.com in comprehending visitor interactions with the site’s content and enhancing the provided services. Collected information may encompass IP addresses, browser types, and visited pages.
- Data Security
StitchDelve.com takes reasonable measures to protect the security and confidentiality of your information. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure.
- Children’s Privacy
This website is not directed toward children under the age of 13. StitchDelve.com does not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided personal information, please get in contact, and StitchDelve.com will take steps to delete such information.
- Consent
By using this website, you hereby consent to StitchDelve.com’s Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
- Log Files
Stitch Delve adheres to a standard protocol by employing log files, which record visitor activity on websites. Information gathered by these log files includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
- Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site StitchDelve.com collects the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
A hashed, anonymised string generated from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you have an associated profile. The Gravatar service’s Privacy Policy is accessible here: Gravatar Privacy Policy. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture becomes visible to the public within the comment’s context.
- Media
When uploading images to the website, it’s advisable to refrain from including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website have the capability to download and extract any location data from the images on the site.
- Regarding cookies and leaving a comment
When leaving a comment on this site, you have the option to choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are designed for your convenience, eliminating the need to re-enter your details when leaving subsequent comments. They will remain active for one year.
If you visit StitchDelve.com’s login page, there will be a temporary cookie set 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, StitchDelve.com 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.
When editing or publishing an article, a supplementary cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal information; it merely signifies the post ID of the article you recently edited. Its duration is one day, after which it expires.
- 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.
- How long StitchDelve.com retains your data after leaving a comment
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so StitchDelve.com can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on this website (if any), StitchDelve.com also stores 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 that StitchDelve.com holds about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request that StitchDelve.com erases any personal data held about you. This does not include any data StitchDelve.com is obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Comments from visitors could undergo scrutiny via an automated spam detection service.