PRIVACY POLICY - WWW.KNITROSPECTIVE.COM

Protecting your privacy is our priority. This section explains how any personal information we collect through this website (http://www.knitrospective.com) will be treated. Since we're not lawyers, we’ll provide this information as simply and concisely as we can.

Who are we?

Knitrospective.com is the website of Dr Alison Mayne. It serves as a point of contact for booking enquiries and communication about handcraft events, knit design and textiles research and the selling of products through our online shop

What information do we capture and where does it go?

We only receive information required to allow our hosting service Squarespace to provide this website and its functionality to you.  We aim to be completely transparent about what is collected, where it goes and what it is for.  We do not sell or unnecessarily pass on any data collected through the use of the website, obviously - we are not animals.

Visiting our site

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalised form.

Use of share buttons

This website includes share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from this site to third party services. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

  • Your IP address

Our Shop

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

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Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.