Privacy Policy
Last Updated 3/10/2020
Your privacy is important to us here at The Quilting Room with Mel. The policy below outlines how your personal information is collected and used when you are on our website.
You agree to the terms of this policy when you use this website. This privacy policy may change from time to time. If any changes are made, then you will be notified by revising the date at the top of this policy.
About The Quilting Room with Mel
Founded in 2015 and based in USA, The Quilting Room with Mel is an independently operated blog run by Melissa and Paul Shields. This website promotes the art of quilting by updating traditional quilt patterns and promotes the use of older sewing machines by teaching how to fix and maintain those machines.
How Information is Collected
Here is how your information is collected on The Quilting Room with Mel:
through website cookies and log files
through Google Analytics
Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
I use the following cookies on The Quilting Room with Mel:
Advertising - Gourmet Ads, Amazon, Media.net, AdSense, and Swoop you can click on each name for their privacy policy.
Google Analytics (for tracking website traffic and user behavior): Read how their cookies work.
Google Analytics
The Quilting Room with Mel uses Google Analytics to track website performance and user behavior. It provides information on page views, referral sources, and other valuable information that helps me adapt the content I write for this website. Google Analytics does capture anonymous data about location, age, gender, and interests, but I have no way to connect that information and specifically identify you. Google Analytics may also capture your IP address as you make your way around this website. User and event data is retained for 26 months and then is automatically deleted. You can read more about that here.
Advertisements on The Quilting Room with Mel
To support this website, third party advertisements are used. The Quilting Room with Mel currently runs advertisements via Gourmet Ads, Amazon, Google AdSense, Media.Net, and Swoop. They may use cookies or web beacons when they advertise here on The Quilting Room with Mel in order to show you tailored ads to you. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
Social Media Privacy
The Quilting Room with Mel uses various social media platforms. The Quilting Room with Mel is not responsible for what you post on The Quilting Room with Mel 's social media channels.
Parental Consent
If you are under 16 years old, you must first have parental permission before using our website or entering 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 whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Final Notes on this Privacy Policy
You have the right to access your personal data and know how it is being processed. Hopefully, the policy above adequately explains how your data is used.
Personal information will not be transferred unless we are legally obligated to do so. If you would like your information to be removed from our systems, please contact melissa@quiltingroomwithmel dot com. You can request to be removed at any time.
Your privacy is important to us here at The Quilting Room with Mel. The policy below outlines how your personal information is collected and used when you are on our website.
You agree to the terms of this policy when you use this website. This privacy policy may change from time to time. If any changes are made, then you will be notified by revising the date at the top of this policy.
About The Quilting Room with Mel
Founded in 2015 and based in USA, The Quilting Room with Mel is an independently operated blog run by Melissa and Paul Shields. This website promotes the art of quilting by updating traditional quilt patterns and promotes the use of older sewing machines by teaching how to fix and maintain those machines.
How Information is Collected
Here is how your information is collected on The Quilting Room with Mel:
through website cookies and log files
through Google Analytics
Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
I use the following cookies on The Quilting Room with Mel:
Advertising - Gourmet Ads, Amazon, Media.net, AdSense, and Swoop you can click on each name for their privacy policy.
Google Analytics (for tracking website traffic and user behavior): Read how their cookies work.
Google Analytics
The Quilting Room with Mel uses Google Analytics to track website performance and user behavior. It provides information on page views, referral sources, and other valuable information that helps me adapt the content I write for this website. Google Analytics does capture anonymous data about location, age, gender, and interests, but I have no way to connect that information and specifically identify you. Google Analytics may also capture your IP address as you make your way around this website. User and event data is retained for 26 months and then is automatically deleted. You can read more about that here.
Advertisements on The Quilting Room with Mel
To support this website, third party advertisements are used. The Quilting Room with Mel currently runs advertisements via Gourmet Ads, Amazon, Google AdSense, Media.Net, and Swoop. They may use cookies or web beacons when they advertise here on The Quilting Room with Mel in order to show you tailored ads to you. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
Social Media Privacy
The Quilting Room with Mel uses various social media platforms. The Quilting Room with Mel is not responsible for what you post on The Quilting Room with Mel 's social media channels.
Parental Consent
If you are under 16 years old, you must first have parental permission before using our website or entering 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 whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Final Notes on this Privacy Policy
You have the right to access your personal data and know how it is being processed. Hopefully, the policy above adequately explains how your data is used.
Personal information will not be transferred unless we are legally obligated to do so. If you would like your information to be removed from our systems, please contact melissa@quiltingroomwithmel dot com. You can request to be removed at any time.