Privacy Policy

Information Collection, Purpose, and Use

We may ask you to provide personal information including, but not limited to, your name, email address, cookies, and usage data. This information may be used to contact or identify you.

We use this information to:

  • Send newsletters and updates

  • Manage contacts and send messages

  • Provide customer care and support

  • Ensure content is presented effectively for you and your device

  • Provide information, products, or services you request

  • Interact with external social networks and platforms (such as social media widgets and share bars)

  • Allow access to third-party services’ accounts

  • Display content from external platforms

  • Detect, prevent, and address technical issues

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amounts of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device.

We use cookies to:

  • Maintain your session

  • Enable core site functionality

  • Support analytics and advertising purposes

You may disable cookies through your individual browser settings. More detailed information about cookie management can be found in your browser’s help section.

Contact Forms & Comments

When visitors leave comments or submit a contact form, we collect the data shown in the form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies will last for one year.

Advertising & Third-Party Services

Grow.me / Mediavine Advertising

This site uses Grow.me, a Mediavine advertising technology platform.

Grow.me and Mediavine may collect and store certain data about your visits to this website, including:

  • IP address

  • Browser type

  • Operating system

  • Pages visited

  • Time and date of visits

This information is used to provide interest-based advertising and improve user experience.

Mediavine partners with third-party vendors who may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve advertisements tailored to your interests.

👉 To learn more about Mediavine’s data practices, please visit Mediavine’s official privacy policy.

Google AdSense

Stitch and Hound uses Google AdSense to display advertisements.

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on users’ prior visits to this and other websites.

  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables personalized advertising.

  • Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website.

Google Analytics collects data such as:

  • Pages viewed

  • Time spent on the site

  • General geographic location

This data helps us improve content and user experience. We do not sell or share this data except where required by law.

You may opt out of Google Analytics by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content behaves the same as if you visited the originating website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.

Lawful Basis for Processing Personal Data

We process personal data under the following lawful bases:

  • Your consent

  • Performance of a contract

  • Compliance with legal obligations

  • Legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party

Your Rights

You may request:

  • An exported file of the personal data we hold about you

  • That we erase your personal data

This does not include data we must retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Changes to This Policy

This privacy policy may be updated periodically. Any changes will be reflected by updating the “Last Updated” date below.

Last updated: June 2, 2024

If you have questions about this policy, please contact:
📧 sarahwatson@sarahktdesigns.com

Copyright & Pattern Use

All content on Stitch and Hound is the property of stitchandhound.com unless otherwise stated.

  • Sharing or distributing digital or physical copies of patterns is prohibited

  • Copying and pasting patterns or blog content is not permitted

  • You may share links to our content

You may sell finished items made from our patterns with proper credit:

  • Online: “Pattern by Sarah Truesdell” with a link to sarahktdesigns.com

  • In person: Clearly display the same credit

Mass production, factory manufacturing, or use of our photographs is not permitted