Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how our website, nolinlakecrafts.com collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from Nolin Lake Crafts and Pens’ website.  Please note:  we do not ever collect information with the intent of selling to any other company.

By using our web site or purchasing product from us, you agree to the collection and use of information as set forth in this privacy policy. This policy may be updated at any time. We will post any changes to our privacy policy on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect and how we use it.

Collecting Personal Information

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

Device information

Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.

Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.

Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.  There may be more or less tracking technologies used than are mentioned here.   When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking about Device Information as well as Order Information.

Disclosure for business purposes: shared with our processor Paypal and/or Square, and/or Google Pay or any other payment processor, depending on the payment method chosen by the customer.

Order information

Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, information from personal checks, email address, and phone number.

Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, 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.

Source of collection: collected from you.

Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our payment processors;  Paypal and Square, as well as shipping vendors such as UPS and USPS in creation of labels and shipping, and Google Analytics for tracking purposes.

Sharing your Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use WordPress to power our online store

 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.

Behavioral Advertising

At some point in the future, as described above, we may 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.

Children's Privacy

We recognize the importance of protecting children's online privacy. Nolin Lake Crafts and Pens does not intentionally collect information from children under the age of 13, and Nolin Lake Crafts and Pens does not target its website to children.

If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address below to request deletion.

Using Personal Information

We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services.

When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.

We would never sell your personal information.  No worries.

Et Cetera

We are not responsible for typographical errors. Prices are subject to change without prior notice. We are a direct marketing company and only offer our products through the website and occasionally at craft fairs or other online stores such as Carol’s Nolin Lake Collection as found on ebay.com.   Any letters, photographs or products sent to Nolin Lake Crafts and Pens become our property and we reserve the right to publish any such material unless the submission specifically states otherwise in writing. Objects shown in photographs used to show pertinent features of a product are for illustrative use only and we reserve all rights to control third party use of our intellectual property.