Privacy Policy

Updated June 11, 2022

Summary

Your privacy is very important to us, and we respect any personal information you may share. We will never share, rent, or sell your information to any other organization or entity. You can cancel your free subscription to the newsletter and our digital mailing list(s) at any time.

This site is connected to our email servicer, MailChimp. The servicer is also connected to our online class site, Classes.HistoricalSewing.com, and our sister site EmmaLilyDesigns.com. By using this site, signing up for our newsletter, and/or using our shop site, a JavaScript snippet will track browsing activity via cookies, pixels, and other similar technologies, and transfer information related to this tracking to our email servicer.

Although we use Google Analytics, we currently do not have data collection turned on for re-marketing and advertising features or purposes. You can read more here about Google’s security and privacy principles. This setting is the same for all our related and owned sites: HistoricalSewing.com, Classes.HistoricalSewing.com, JenniferRosbrugh.com, EmmaLilyDesigns.com, and DirndlSewing.com. 

Who we are

This website (“site”) is owned and operated by Jennifer Elizabeth Rosbrugh, DBA Emma Lily Designs in Aztec, New Mexico, USA. Our website address is https://historicalsewing.com. You may contact us any time from our Contact page form. This policy also covers our other company operated websites: https://classes.historicalsewing.com, and http://emmalilydesigns.com.

Cookies

This site uses cookies. “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymous tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.

As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser. Or take a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers or the All About Cookies site.

Additionally, we use WordFence and Akismet Anti-Spam plugins with cookies to identify site visitors (human or bot) for security purposes, as well as Termly to record unique visitor views of the consent banner. (Termly’s privacy policy.) Personal information such as email address, IP address and location, device information, and site login credentials are collected to maintain security of the site and prevent publishing of malicious content.

For social sharing from this site, we use the plugins Simple Share Buttons Adder and Simple Social Icons, both which use cookies to provide browsing information when connecting to social media sites unrelated to this site. No personal identification cookies are used with the social plugins.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Users and site visitors may have personal data collected, such as name, email address, personal account preferences; transactional data, such as purchase information; and technical data, such as browser information, IP address, and information about cookies.

This data collection occurs from normal page views and user interactions, as well as being generated from technical processes such as comments, contact forms, analytics, cookies, and third party embeds.

Information is collected as needed for site operation and optimization, and communication with you. Also, with preference you have given to us, we provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services. 

No specific financial data is collected and/or held except by identified third parties to process transactions (see below under Who We Share Data With). When you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through this site or in our Etsy shop, we collect certain data from you (i.e. order information) including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, and phone number. 

This site is build on the WordPress platform which does not collect any personal data about visitors, and only collects the data shown on the User Profile screen from registered users.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect information to detect spam through the Akismet anti-spam service. The information typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Contact forms

This site uses the Contact Form 7 plugin for you as a user to contact the admin of this site. The Contact Form 7 privacy policy is available here. The form is privacy-friendly, collecting the minimal data necessary for the communication which is name and email address. Contact form submissions result in a site-generated email that is sent to our webmail system. Emails from contact forms are communicated with as needed and necessary, retained for customer service purposes, and deleted when no longer necessary. Personal user data received from contact form submissions are not used for marketing purposes in any capacity.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze browsing behavior (track pages visited, to and from pages, length of time on the site pages, etc.), to optimize the site, and to use for relevant marketing and advertising campaigns. However, data collection is currently turned off for re-marketing and advertising features or purposes.

This site uses the plugin Google Analytics Dashboard for WP (GADWP), which is connected to our Google Analytics accounts, to provide us with analytic information about visitors in a condensed format within the site backend. You can read about Google’s security and privacy principles here. You can opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting this page

Who we share your data with

We share your personal information with third parties to provide communication and services noted above. Sharing your data with Google Analytics helps us understand our site visitors and customers’ activities.

Sharing your personal data (name and email address as well as IP address) with MailChimp allows us communicate to you through email and relevant advertising of our products and services. Read MailChimp’s privacy policy here.

By using Etsy as our e-commerce platform, all personal information is exclusive to the Etsy platform to successfully conduct sales transactions on their site. Read about Etsy’s Terms of Use here. Personal financial information used for purchase transactions are shared with third party payment processors. On our sites we may use PayPal buttons for transactions. For personal data usage, read PayPal’s privacy policy here.

Our online courses are hosted with Teachable on our site Classes.HistoricalSewing.com. When signing up for one of our online courses, we share your data with Teachable and the Teachable Payment Gateway. This includes your name and email address as well as transaction information to process your payment. Read how Teachable uses your data here.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

This website uses embedded content from Vimeo, Amazon, Pinterest, and Facebook. Links in the previous statement go to those individual privacy policies.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Contact information

If you have any privacy-specific concerns or questions from this website, please contact us at email: sewing AT historicalsewing.com. Mailing address is Emma Lily Designs, PO Box 862, Aztec, New Mexico 87410.