PRIVACY POLICY

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This site may contain links to other sites. SpruceAndFjell.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other sites.

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Analytics

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

Analytics and performance cookies are used on this website to enhance user experience. They give us information about pages that are visited most frequently, which is important for us in understanding what visitors find to be helpful and interesting. It helps us know what content to present.

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 (this tells us whether you found us through a Google search, Pinterest, were referred by another website, etc)

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 analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

This website also uses Google Analytics. All data sharing options have been turned off. We use analytics to run our site effectively - it gives us insight into which portions of the site are visited, which helps us in creating content that is valuable to our users. For a full explanation of Google's Privacy Policy, go to: Google Privacy Policy

ADVERTISERS

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Amazon

As an Amazon associate our site earns from qualifying purchases. The site contains affiliate links - such links are in green in order to differentiate them from non-affiliate links. Our disclosure is on every page that contains affiliate links. Amazon uses analytics.

Google Ads

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Terms Of Service

Access to and use of the SpruceAndFjell.com web site is subject to your compliance with the following Terms of Service. By accessing or using any part of SpruceAndFjell.com, you agree to the legal terms and conditions stated below. This agreement may be amended by SpruceAndFjell.com at any time, with amendments being effective immediately on posting. You agree to review this agreement periodically. Your continued access or use of SpruceAndFjell.com shall be deemed your conclusive agreement to the amended agreement.

Guarantees

Our Content
Although we test our patterns before publishing them on our website, they are provided "as is" free as a service to the sewing and crafting community, and we accept no liability or responsibility regarding anyone's use of our patterns or information, nor do we provide any guarantees. In using our patterns and information, you agree not to hold us responsible for any outcome you may have from using our patterns or information.

SpruceAndFjell.com is provided "as is" , without any express or implied warranties, guarantees or endorsements. Use of any part of SpruceAndFjell.com is completely at your own risk and SpruceAndFjell.com shall not be liable for any cost or damages arising from your use of SpruceAndFjell.com or arising from any mistakes, errors, accidents, or misprints. It is your sole responsibility to determine the accuracy, validity, usefulness and safety of all information, advice, opinions, articles, reviews, services, downloads, advertising or merchandise provided through CraftAndFabricLinks.com (with the exception of our own products - see above) or through links from SpruceAndFjell.com to other sites on the net.

SpruceAndFjell.com offers a freely accessible online service to its readers. There is no guarantee, express or implied, that this service will be uninterrupted or error-free. SpruceAndFjell.com reserves the right to change the format and accessibility of the Site at any time.

Sites We Link To
SpruceAndFjell.com was set up solely for the purpose of assisting all of you in the DIY world by providing free patterns, free information, and instruction on home improvement, decor, and sewing projects. We may occasionally provide a link to another helpful site. The sites we link to are not owned or controlled by us. We are not affiliated with any of the retailers in these sites other than those who are our sponsors (such as those listed in advertising). We do not provide any assurances as to the quality of products from sites we link to, nor to the legitimacy of the sites. We do not make any warranties or guarantees, implied or otherwise, regarding these sites.

Limitation of Liability and Disclaimer

In no event shall SpruceAndFjell.com be held liable for any damages whatsoever, including, without limitation, incidental, consequential, or indirect damages, lost profits, or damages resulting from lost data or business interruption resulting from the use of or inability to use SpruceAndFjell.com, whether or not SpruceAndFjell.com is advised of the possibility of such damages.

SpruceAndFjell.com is also not liable for any damages, loss, injury or claim attributed to errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in the service and/or materials downloaded from the Site.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless SpruceAndFjell.com, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, suppliers and any third party information providers to SpruceAndFjell.com from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including lawyer's fees, resulting from any violation of this Agreement (including negligent or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing any part of SpruceAndFjell.com.

SpruceAndFjell.com offers a freely accessible online service to its readers. There is no guarantee, express or implied, that this service will be uninterrupted or error-free. SpruceAndFjell.com reserves the right to change the format and accessibility of the Site at any time.

What Does Copyright Mean?

We have worked hard to provide good quality, free patterns and projects, and free information. Our patterns and other information pages are for the personal use of our visitors only. All of our patterns and pages are copyright protected. This means that only visitors to our site can print a copy for their own personal use. Our pages and images cannot be posted to other sites. Links back to our site are permitted, such as those included in directories or on Pinterest. Such a link can contain a small photo and a description of what we offer provided that SpruceAndFjell.com is clearly stated on the photo and in the description (see section below on sharing).

The entire contents of SpruceAndFjell.com is protected by international copyright and trademark laws.

YOU MAY NOT MODIFY, COPY, REPRINT, REPRODUCE, REPUBLISH, UPLOAD, POST, TRANSMIT, OR DISTRIBUTE, IN ANY MANNER, THE MATERIAL ON THE SITE, INCLUDING TEXT, GRAPHICS, IMAGES, CODE, FILES OR SOFTWARE (except as stated in the following sections, such as "sharing" on Pinterest or Facebook and other social media). You may print and download articles and craft project material from SpruceAndFjell.com solely for your own personal, non-commercial use providing that you do not change or delete any copyright or proprietary notices from the materials.

DO NOT confuse "FREE" with "OK TO COPY"!

Other Websites: Directories, Sharing to social media, referral links

You may not post our patterns or images anywhere on the internet - except as stated in this section. ALL patterns, instructions, articles and images are copyright protected by US and international laws. If you wish to link to us, you may use an image from our site. Such a link can contain a small photo and a description of what we offer provided that SpruceAndFjell.com is clearly stated on the photo and in the description. You may not copy the instructions, but we always appreciate a listing in a directory. You may also "share" a link/photo and short description of our article on Facebook or Pinterest.

You are not permitted to show our page(es) within a frame of another site.

Special Permission To Copy & Distribute

Representatives from schools and quilt guilds and other organizations have written to us asking permission to copy our free patterns for use in their classes. Private citizens who teach sewing have also asked permission to use content for their own classes. We have usually granted permission, with the agreement that our name is on each page. Please feel free to ask.

Sale of Items You Created With Our Patterns/Projects

You may sell items you have personally made with our patterns at small craft fairs, church sales etc. You may not sell or distribute the patterns or project instructions themselves without permission (see section above).

Special Statement

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