My Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

In an attempt to meet the requirements of the new GDPR ruling,

I am stating the following:

To the best of my knowledge, I don't offer cookies on my blog.

You can stop cookies by turning them off in your own browser settings.

I do not knowingly or willingly store 

or share your information to third-parties.

I have one affiliate link on my blog

to my favorite online quilt shop.
I receive a very small percentage of the sale
if you buy from them though this link.

I appreciate their interest and support 

of my blogging and quilting efforts.

I  have no knowledge or control over this business 

storing your info if you click on the link.

Please contact them directly in regard to their policy,

or simply do not use the link.

I have few other links on my sidebar.
I am not affiliated with them and have no knowledge of their privacy policies
or if they use cookies or store your information.
In some cases they are there simply because they linked to my blog
or put one of my free patterns up on their site
and I try to keep track of where my patterns are posted.

My posts and patterns have appeared on other sites,
sometimes without my knowledge or permission.

I appreciate your comments

and in the past I have responded to those whose email

addresses have been provided by google

because I like sharing with other quilters.

With regret, I will not be responding comments in the future

because of the new policy.

I do not have an email newsletter

and have no plans to start one

and if I did it would be sent by reader request only.

If you have signed up to receive notifications of my new posts

by email via the feedburner link on my sidebar,

I trust that you have given them your consent to receive them.

If you no longer wish to receive notifications of my new

blog posts at any time, please unsubscribe via the feedburner site.

I have no direct contact with feedburner.

I have provided this email subscription option as a service

only because readers asked me to provide a means

for them to do so.

I have also provided a GFC link,
placed on my blog when Google actually supported
this means of connecting with other bloggers.
I leave it open so I can visit the blogs
I like to read.
I hope their privacy policies
respect your privacy.

I also have a link to follow me thorugh bloglovin'
for those who wish to do so in the manner
as I subscribe to their daily digest
as another means of connecting to other bloggers.
Again I hope they do not collect or store your info
unless you have subscribed and agreed.

I am not a technical wizard.
I started my blog as a personal journal
of my quilts and found that I enjoyed
sharing and connecting with other quilters 
in the wonderful online world of quilting.

I use blogger because I found it user friendly.

In the past I have linked

to fabric manufacturers, to designers

 when I have used their fabric in my quilts,

as I though this might be interesting to my readers.

I will not be offering this info in future posts.

I have occasionally linked to other blogs

when I have found a pattern I loved

or I have shared one of their interesting posts.

I have always tried to contact bloggers when I have done so,

because I respect their copyrights.

The buttons on my sidebar to other blogs 

or blogging events

have been provided by them 

to share their info.

I will only link to blogs in the future

when I am part of a blog hop or block of the month

or other special blog event,

to which they have also joined

and have provided their

url for this purpose.

I hope this meets the new privacy policy standards.

I am a private person

and I truly respect your right to privacy.

It saddened me today to learn that a comment

I left on a post of one of my long time blog friends

went into her spam folder.

I do not like spam and would never send spam.

It makes me hesitant to leave an "I love your quilt" 

comment on anyone's blog.

What a sad state of blogging we have arrived at

if one quilter feels she should not tell another

quilter how much she liked her quilt
and the other quilter feels she should not say thank you
and has no easy means of doing so.

If you wish to ask me a question or correspond with me, 

please contact me via the email address under 

"Contact Me" in my top bar.

My email address is

scrapatches@gmail.com

Quilters and kind words always welcome here!

PS ... I have now enabled comment moderation on my blog
because, since the new privacy laws have changed blogger,
I had started seeing more spam type comments
on my blog and had to delete them
and do something to block them.
It seems strange to me that the new privacy laws have made it easier
for robots and spamers to find me.

As I said,

Quilters and kind words always welcome here.

Happy Blogging!