This privacy policy has been compiled to serve better those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally identifiable information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
Your privacy is very important.
What personal information do we collect from the people that visit Etsy?
When ordering, downloading a document, or signing up for email, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address or other details to help you with your experience.
• IP Address
• Tracking of pages visited
• Time spent on site
• Where you arrived on the site
• Demographics and interests as we use Google Analytics
• Name
• Email Address
When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when download a document on our site, subscribe to a newsletter, respond to a survey, or enter information on our site.
How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
• To personalize user’s experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
• To improve our website in order to better serve you.
• To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
• To quickly process your transactions.
• To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.
How do we protect visitor information?
We work through the ETSY website to protect your information.
We use regular Malware Scanning.
The ETSY website uses an SSL certificate.
Do we use ‘cookies’?
Yes, as part of trying to serve you better, we use data gathered and supplied by ETSY, that is similar to Google Demographics and Interests Reporting. Please see below for more details on this service.
¬If you disable cookies off, some features will be disabled that make your site experience more efficient, and some of our services may not function properly.
We compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This might include showing your visit, or a popup, or the ability to login to some of our features, or forums. Your information will be used by me for purposes of understanding and developing a relationship with my audience and serving your needs better. I may share certain statistics publicly, such as visitors or page views for example, but this will not include any of your personal information.
You can disable or selectively turn off your cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security, or McAfee. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site, as well as, other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.