When you sign up for our classes or eNewsletter, we ask for your personal information
(e.g. Name, eMail, ...).
This information is gathered for the sole purpose of communicating with you.
We do not sell, exchange, or share this information with any other party.
This information is stored in offline databases, inaccessible by public network (the Internet).
Rest assured it can not be stolen or misused.
Discussion Boards / Forums
This site provides several Discussion Boards (Forums) to facilitate the communication between
Students, Teachers, and other Needlecraft enthusiasts. It should be noted that any information
disclosed in these forums, by nature, becomes public information.
Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information on forums.
Cookie
We respect your privacy. We do not use persistent cookies.
We only use session cookies during the registration process,
which will expire and leaves no residue at the end of your browser's session.
For Logging-in and other identification procedures we rely on server verification processes.
Internet Statistical Information
Our servers capture IP address of viewers. Capturing this information along with some other
information (browser type, version,...) is a standard practice by all common Web servers.
This information is captured only for Statistical Analysis Purposes. There is no link between
this technical information and your personal profile.
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External Links
This site contains links to other Web sites, which might have different privacy policies.
We can not be held responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other web sites.
We have the following privacy seals and/or dispute resolution mechanisms. If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, we can help you resolve your concern.
This policy is valid for 365 days from the time that it is loaded by a client.
P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 2 data groups. The data practices of each group will be explained separately.
We collect the following information:
This data will be used for the following purposes:
This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.
The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.
The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
Data collected from all Web users: access logs.
At the user's option, we will collect the following data:
This data will be used for the following purposes:
This data will be used by ourselves.
The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.
The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
Cookies are used to process our students' registration request(s) during the browser session only. We only use Session (non persistent) cookies which will expire at the end of the browser session.
Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.
Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:
The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:
CP="NOI DSP COR NID CURa DEVa OUR NOR IND PUR COM NAV"
The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.
| Field | Meaning |
| CP= | This is the compact policy header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P Compact Policy. |
| NOI | No identifiable information is collected, so no access is possible. |
| DSP | The policy contains at least one dispute-resolution mechanism. |
| COR | Violations of this policy will be corrected. |
| NID | The information collected is not personally identifiable. |
| CURa | The data is used for completion of the current activity. |
| DEVa | The data is used for research and development. |
| OUR | The data is given to ourselves and our agents. |
| NOR | The data is not kept beyond the current transaction. |
| IND | The data will be kept indefinitely. |
| PUR | Purchase information is collected. |
| COM | Computer information is collected. |
| NAV | Navigation and clickstream data is collected. |
The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes.
For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at
http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6+ will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium). In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6+.
Satisfactory policy: This compact policy is considered satisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6+. IE6+ will accept cookies accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All Cookies settings.