DATE OF LAST UPDATE: 01/3/22

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected,

used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from Patches Sewing

Studio, (www.patches.biz/sewing”).

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about

your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time

zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally,

as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages

or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the

Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this

automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often

include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies,

and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your

IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and

date/time stamps.

- “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record

information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase

through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name,

billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card

numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as

“Order Information”.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are

talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders

placed through the Site (including processing your payment information,

arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order

confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

- Communicate with you;

- Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and

- When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with

information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential

risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve

and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our

customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our

marketing and advertising campaigns).

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your

Personal Information, as described above. Etsy, PayPal, Stripe.. We also use

Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you

can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of

Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with

applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or

other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our

rights.

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with

targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of

interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works,

you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at

http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does

-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the links below:

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

- Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

- Bing:

https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized

-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital

Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices

when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal

information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be

corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing

your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for

example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our

legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your

information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the

United States.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order

Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this

information.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for

example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory

reasons.

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if

you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail

at msgretta@patches.biz or by mail using the details provided below:

Patches Sewing Studio

Franklin North Carolina

1-828-332-4786