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Privacy policy

This policy was last updated on 14 June 2018

Your privacy is important to Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits.  The policy below outlines how your personal information is collected and how it is used when you use 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.

Who we are

Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits was founded in 2018 and are based in New Zealand.  This website is a blog about knitting projects, hints, tips, techniques, how to do.., free patterns and my knitting adeventures.  We also share events we have on and information about our classes.  Our blog address is: http://cozywoodlandcottageknits.blogspot.co.nz/

Parental Consent

If you are under 16 years old, you must first have parental permission before using our website or entering personal information.


What personal data we collect and why

We do not share or sell your information to anyone. We do not have affiliates, partners or advertisers that we share your information with. Google collects the data that enables our blog to run.  The following is the information collected by google on and what we use the data for.

Cookies

We use cookies from Google to deliver services and to analyse traffic. Your IP address and user agent are shared with Google, together with performance and security metrics, to ensure quality of service, generate usage statistics and to detect and address abuse.  You can also find more information about privacy, data and security here: privacy.google.com or by visiting Google’s Privacy Policy.

Comments

Love our blog and want to comment? Leaving a comment is a great way to do that, we love hearing form you and love your feedback.  If you choose to leave a comment you have the option of commenting anonymously or typing in your name. Please remember that if you type in your name once the comment is approved your name can be seen publicly. If you are signed in with google and comment under your account (signed in as you) your name a profile photo can be seen publicly.  Your email address is never shared or disclosed to us.  

It is recommended that you do not leave detailed personal information in your comments.

Comments are moderated and will be published as soon as possible if approved.  Any comments deemed as inappropriate, threatening, profane or spam will not be approved. 

Location

Google collects information about your location (what country you are in) using cookies this enables us to see what countries our audience is from.  

Browser and Operating system information 

Google collects device and browser information through the cookies it uses.  Browser and operating system information enables us to see which browsers and operating systems are represented. If these are suddenly not represented this enables us to fix any problem.


Referring URL

The referrer URL is providing by the computer accessing the blog page which includes the IP address of your computer and the URL of Cozy woodland cottage knits.  This enables blogger to send the content of our blog to your computer to allow you to view content from our blog. From the referrer URL Blogger creates a server activity record which includes your IP address, the URL of Cozy woodland cottage knits.  The server activity record is displayed in our statistics, we use this information to see what websites our traffic is coming from and to see how many views posts or articles have had.  This enables us to work out the needs of our visitors and what articles they are interested in so we can write more articles like these.

Advertisements on Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits

To support this website, third party advertisements may be used in the future.  Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits currently runs no advertisements but does plan to in the future. 


Social Media Privacy

Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits uses various social media platforms.  Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits is not responsible for what you post on Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits social media channels.


Google + follow

You can choose to follow us by using  Google + follow. We use this so you can follow us which enables you to stay up to date with our blog posts.  This also enables us to see visitors that are interested in our blog. We can see that you are following and you profile photo information which is public along with which blogs you follow.  The information is collected by Google. 


Bloglovin'

You can choose to subscribe and follow us using Bloglovin'. We use this to so you can follow us which enables you to stay up to date with our blog posts. This also enables us to see visitors that are interested in our blog. We can see that you are following and your public profile - name, photo and about if you have made it public.  Bloglovin' collects the information, we can not see your email address or access it please see Bloglovin' for their privacy policy statement. (https://www.bloglovin.com/tos)



Links to other websites 

Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits contains links to other websites. As such, Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits is not responsible for the privacy policies of other websites or the third party applications it uses. 

Updates 

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.


More information

You can also find more information about privacy, data and security here: privacy.google.com or by visiting Google’s Privacy Policy.


Final Note

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. You are entitled to receive personal data so that they can be used by another processor. You can request to be removed at any time and you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.  If you would like information to be removed from our systems, please contact cozywoodlandcottagekbits@gmail.com.

Questions and Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns please contact us our email address is: cozywoodlandcottageknits@gmail.com

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