Thank you for visiting Kids’ Craft Room, it’s fantastic to have you here. We value and protect your privacy. Please take the time to look at our Terms and Conditions and Privacy & Disclosure Policies below, your use of this website assumes full agreement to them.
Below you will find information about when and why we collect information about you. We explain how this information is used, how we keep it secure and under what conditions it may be disclosed to others.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact info@kidscraftroom.com
Privacy Policy
This privacy policy sets out how Kids Craft Room uses and protects any information you give when you use this website. Any information you give via this site will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
How We Collect Information About You
We collect information about you via log files and cookies. There may be times when you share information with us such as when you leave a comment, download our printables (free or purchased), enter a competition or giveaway, contact us via our contact page and when you subscribe to our newsletter.
What Information We Collect About You
Google Analytics
Kids Craft Room uses Google Analytics to track our visitor numbers and their behaviour. Google Analytics collects information about your town location, the type of device you’re on, your browser and operating system. It tells us what pages you visit and when. You can prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics by using their Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
Kids Craft Room uses Google Analytics demographic reporting features. This gives us anonymous data about the age, gender and interests of our visitors. This information is collected through your Google ad settings which you can modify here.
All of this information helps us understand how you found Kids Craft Room and how you use our site. It helps us improve our website and provide you with more of the content that is relevant to you.
Information we collect from you will never be shared with a third party without your express consent, unless we are required to do so by law.
Leaving A Comment On Kids Craft Room
We love it when you take the time to leave a comment on our site. You can chose whether to leave a comment anonymously or whether to leave your name, email and website address if you have one.
If you chose to leave your email you can rest assured that it is never shown to others in the comments section.
Any details you leave will remain on the site until we remove them or the post they are on is removed.
You can request for your details and comments to be removed at any time by emailing info@kidscraftroom.com
We do not pass on your information to any third parties.
Downloading and Purchasing From Kids Craft Room
If you chose to download any of our own products (free or purchased) or to purchase products for which we are affiliates, you will have to give your name, email address and possibly your country. Your IP address may also be collected.
Purchases will be done through PayPal, Shopify, a third party platform such as Sendowl or Gumroad or through an affiliate product owner direct.
Upon request we can delete information we collect on this site but for financial and legal reasons copies of all invoices are retained.
For affiliate products bought, they may collect their own data. We do not have access to any of this data and you will need to view their own data protection policies and privacy policies to find out more.
Signing Up For Kids Craft Room’s Newsletter
We are always delighted when you sign up to receive Kids Craft Room’s regular newsletter. You may have signed up via our online form or when you opted in to receive a subscriber only perk such as a free printable.
On average we send 1 email a week where we share our newest arts, crafts and activities and links to older seasonal posts that might be of particular interest at that time. Occasionally we may include product promotions or links to products where we are affiliates and may receive a small commission if you make a purchase.
We ask for your name and email so that we can address our newsletters to you and send them to your inbox. Your details are passed to our email providers Mailerlite.
We use MailerLite to manage our email marketing subscriber list and to send emails to our subscribers. MailerLite is a third-party provider, which may process your data using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter.
MailerLite’s privacy policy is available at https://www.mailerlite.com/privacy-policy.
From our newsletter, pages that you visit and actions that you take within the emails are tracked. This enables us to understand which emails are most relevant to you and helps us provide a more personalised and tailored service.
You can of course unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time. Click the unsubscribe button at the bottom of any newsletter or email us at info@kidscraftroom.com and we can do it for you.
What Is A Cookie?
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognise your browser and capture and remember certain information.
Most web browsers automatically accept ‘cookies’ but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies at any time, if you prefer. You can turn off the use of cookies at anytime by changing your specific browser settings. For more information please visit allaboutcookies.org
How Kids Craft Room Uses Cookies
Kids Craft Room uses traffic log cookies to collect information for Google Analytics. (See above.)
This site also uses cookies to help improve your experience of Kids Craft Room by remembering your preferences and tailoring content accordingly. For example so you don’t have to re-enter your details every time you comment on this site.
We also use cookies to keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
Advertising On Kids Craft Room
Kids Craft Room uses third party advertisements to support our site.
Our advertising partner is Mediavine.
These advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site. This sends them information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This generally is used to help them geo-target their adverts by showing you ads based on the sites you’ve visited and things within your actual local area.
You can disable or selectively turn off cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in your browser. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site and other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.0)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit Opt Out – NAI: Network Advertising Initiative. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at YourAdChoices.com | AppChoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please click here.
DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, a third party vendor, uses the DART cookie to serve ads on Kids Craft Room. You can find out more and opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting Google’s Content Network Privacy Policy.
Amazon Affiliates Cookie
Amazon Affiliates, a third party system, uses cookies to serve advertisements and links to products on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
Further information
We are not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without our permission.
If you have previously agreed to Kids Craft Room using your personal information then you can change your mind at any time by emailing info[at] kidscraftroom [dot] com. You may also request a copy of any data held about you by Kids Craft Room.
This privacy policy is effective from April 2015 and is subject to change without notice. (Updated 21st May 2018)
Disclosure Policy
Kids Craft Room accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation such as products or vouchers.
When we are working with a brand or outside agency posts will be marked to show you this partnership. You may see “in association with”, “guest post” or “in collaboration with”, “this post is sponsored by” etc. These posts may have been compensated for with payment or product.
Reviews
Sometimes we’re asked to provide our opinion on products and services. Where we think they may be of interest to you we will write up a post telling you about our experience and our thoughts on it. Rest assured that even though we may receive compensation for the time these posts take us, our priority is to you the reader and we will always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those products or services, be they good or bad. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely our own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.
Giveaways
When we are reviewing products a brand may offer more of the product or service so that we can run a giveaway too. We love being able to offer you the chance to win some goodies.
Affiliate Links
This website also contains affiliate links. When we are writing a post we may link to products that you might find useful for doing the activities in the post yourself. It gives us the opportunity to share with you information about products we use ourselves or that we think might work well for a said purpose. It also means that if you purchase something through the links on our site we may receive a small commission at no extra cost to yourself.
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Advertising
You may see advertising on this site, such as banners in the side bar or across the top or bottom or adverts within posts. Most of this advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network.
Links To Other Sites
From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).
This disclosure policy is valid from April 2015 and is subject to change without notice. (Updated 21st May 2018)