Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 13, 2024

Welcome to Art Therapy Craft, a dedicated platform offering therapeutic activities designed to enrich the lives of seniors, caregivers, and family members. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to outline how we collect personally identifiable information and how it will be used. By using our Website, you agree to the terms outlined in this policy.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: When you register, subscribe to our newsletter, or interact with our Website, we may collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, and any other information which you voluntarily provide. Should Art Therapy Craft open a membership or subscription opportunity which allows you to create a username and password, we will store the username, but the password will not be visible in our records.

Information We May Collect from Others: Upon the opening of this Website, we do not currently have discussions and consumer interactions that allow for comments. Neither do we upon opening this Website host a subscription or membership. In the event the Website provides space for consumers to join a subscription or membership or have space for solicited comment, we may receive information about you from other sources should you have Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and/or Google accounts linked to your profile. Having links to your profile could provide us with your name, email address and profile picture associated with the account. The Website may utilize the Facebook commenting system, so if you choose to comment on the Website, your profile picture will appear.

Automatically Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies: Our Website uses cookies and similar technologies to enhance your experience and analyze website performance. Cookies are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

The Website uses cookies to store visitor’s preferences, record user-specific information, and customize website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may be third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies by the Website by adjusting browser settings and/or may permanently deny the setting of cookies. Not allowing cookies or deactivating cookies in the Internet browser may prevent complete usability functions of our Website.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain the Website;

  • To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account;

  • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;

  • To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;

  • To respond to your comments or inquiries;

  • To provide you with user support;

  • To track and measure advertising on the Website;

  • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information. Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Squarespace Analytics – this service tracks website usage and provides information about your browser, network, device, web pages your visited prior coming to this Website, and your IP address. This information may include details about your use of this Website, including clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches and timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our Website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. Please refer to Squarespace privacy policy for further information.

Acuity:Scheduling – this service supports scheduling of appointment and services provided through the Website. Acuity Scheduling stores your name, email address, email address, files uploaded and details related to your appointment for the purposes of delivering communication of services and providing updates on services which you voluntarily register for. Please refer to Acuity:Scheduling’s privacy policy for further information.

Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.

Amazon Affiliates – this service tracks Website usage and provides information about your browser, network, device, web pages visited and IP address. We share this information with the Amazon Affiliates Program which enables our Website to be monetized via links to Amazon services and products at no extra cost to the consumer. Please refer to Amazon Affiliates Policy for further information.

Genius Links – this service tracks Website usage and provides information about your geographical location, device data, user agent data, language data, and transactions data. We share this information with Genius Links which enables our Website to monetize links to services relevant to the user location and language. Please refer to Genius Links privacy policy for further information.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time at the Website’s sole discretion.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

ANONYMOUS DATA

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION

If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.  To create a user profile, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation.  Your email address will never be available publicly.  At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website. You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Google Account. Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.

ADVERTISING

Display Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Art Therapy Craft may participate in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com.  As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Genius Links Participation

This Website is a business service provider for enabling this Website to provide customized links to services and products relevant to user’s preferences. This Website will post customized links, provided through Genius Links, to track referrals of products and services to users via cookies for the purpose of earning advertising fees and commissions provided through third-parties.

NEWSLETTERS

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

PAYMENT, CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS, and EMPTY CARTS

Payments

When you make a purchase from us on this Website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution and provided by Squarespace, our online store service provider. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution that makes use of the following third-party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:

Stripe - payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.

Sift - fraud monitoring and detection services. You can read Sift’s privacy policy at https://sift.com/service-privacy.

Additional payment method

PayPal – payment processing services. You can read PayPal’s privacy policy at https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/privacy-full.

Customer Accounts

If you as a customer create a customer account on this Website, we collect personal information to improve our checkout experience and customer service.

This information may include your:

  • Billing and shipping address(es)

  • Details about your orders (for example, your shirt size)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our Website hosting provider, so they can provide us with ongoing Website services.

Abandoned Cart Emails

In the event you leave product(s) in your shopping cart, you will receive an automated email within 24 hours of you abandoning your shopping cart, if all of the following occur:

  • You enter your email address at checkout, or are logged into your customer account;

  • You add a product which is in stock to your shopping cart;

  • You close your browser or leave this Website before completing your purchase.

The email will provide a link back to this Website, where you can pick up where you left off and complete your purchase.

You can unsubscribe from these messages at the bottom of the email.

RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at Cheryl at arttherapycraft@gmail.com to be removed from our mailing list.

You may opt-out of email communications, amend your contact information and/or delete your account if you have created one. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at Cheryl at arttherapycraft@gmail.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

CONTACT INFORMATION

At any time, please contact us at Cheryl at arttherapycraft@gmail.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.

This privacy policy was created: August 13, 2024.

This privacy policy was last updated: August 13, 2024.

COMMENT POLICY

Be kind, be genuine and be courteous. By respecting others, we are respecting ourselves. Criticism and negativity is discouraged. Optimism and building people up is of greatest value here!

DISCLOSURE POLICY

The purpose of ArtTherapyCraft.com is to provide a dedicated platform offering therapeutic activities for enriching the lives of seniors, their caregivers, and their family members.

To build and maintain this Website, we incur costs for essential services such as hosting, advertising, and technical tools to ensure a high-quality experience. To cover these expenses and sustain our operations, certain features or services may involve charges, like affiliate programs when available. These fees help us maintain and improve our site, providing you with valuable resources and enhanced functionality. We appreciate your support and understanding as we strive to offer the best possible service.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a federal agency that provides guidelines for best business practices for the protection of consumers and their right to transparency. Consumers are protected from endorsements, testimonials and advertising that have been paid for by a business, group or company. Since the Art Therapy Craft website is a source of income and may occasionally incorporate endorsements and/or testimonials, I feel the importance of transparent disclosure to you who visit and/or use my site:

  • The content of the Art Therapy Craft website is a source of income for me and therefore may be used to promote products, services, or other businesses at my sole discretion.

  • I will only choose to promote products/services/businesses that I personally feel is beneficial to my readers.

  • Products provided to me free of charge for my review by an advertising partner will be reviewed with fairness and without bias. You the consumer can be guaranteed an honest opinion.

  • You can trust me to provide genuine opinions on any products or services whether or not I am partnering with them or receiving payments for my review services.

  • While this Website does earn me some income, I am genuinely passionate about hosting a creative site for encouraging seniors to be active and to support their quality of life.

Thank you for using the Art Therapy Craft website. Your trust and privacy are important to us!