It is important to provide our readers with this necessary legal information including safety, privacy, copyright, sharing and more.
Safety:
All projects featured on The Craft Train are designed to be completed with adult supervision. We endeavour to provide safety warnings wherever necessary but readers undertake all projects at their own risk. Any small items are choking hazards for young children and they should always be supervised whilst using them. Please check the labels on all of your craft products such as glue, paint etc. Some contain toxins which are dangerous if swallowed.
Privacy Policy:
Newsletters:
The Craft Train collects and stores personal data in the form of email addresses if you choose to sign up for our email list. We use this data to send you newsletters about our crafts and info about our products plus occasional special offers which may interest you. Our newsletters may include affiliate links.
Our newsletters include tracking pixels which will tell us whether or not you have opened the email and which links have been clicked. We use this data to improve our emails and target them better to our audience’s needs. Readers who never open emails will be removed from the list.
You have the option to opt out of our newsletters at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link included at the end of each email.
Cookies:
Like most websites we use cookies. The cookies track information such as how many people have visited a page and whether your computer has visited this website before or not. Cookies are also used by third party websites to track clicks on affiliate links and store the information for a set number of days to assign a commission. They do not collect and store personal information. You have the ability to disable cookies in your web browser settings if you choose, however this may affect the user experience of both this website and many others.
Third parties:
Our website uses the following third party websites and may share your non-personal data (such as IP address) with them:
• Google analytics – this collects data on what page you land on, what links you click on, and which website or link you came from to get to our website. It also records search queries used to find our website. This information is used for analysis and improvement of The Craft Train. You are able to adjust your browser settings to opt out of google analytics data collection if you choose.
• Adthrive – any ads you click on are tracked by Adthrive, and this data is used to assign a per-click commision to this blog
• Convert Kit – emails collected for our newsletter are stored in Convert Kit. See Newsletters section above for more information.
• Affiliate program websites (see Affiliate Links section below for what this means) – Amazon, Etsy
This list is subject to change and may be updated in the future.
Affiliate links:
This blog uses affiliate links. An affiliate link is a trackable link which leads to a product, service or company which we recommend and feel may be of value to our readers. If you make a purchase via one of our affiliate links we receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. The commissions earned help support this blog so that we can continue to share our creative inspiration with you. Affiliate programs use cookies on their website, which will store your IP address for a set number of days. If you return to that website within the set number of days and make a purchase this blog will earn a commission from any purchase you make.
As an Amazon Associate and ETSY affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Comments:
If you choose to make a comment, you will be required to enter your name and email address. If you wish to be notified of any responses you must click the assigned check box when entering your comment. Your email address will be stored but not displayed with your comment, only the name you have entered will be displayed. Your email address will not be misused in any way. Comments must be respectful, any nasty or mean comments will be treated as spam and deleted before being published.
Our Shop – Super Fun Printables:
Our Printable shop is run through Shopify. If you make a purchase or download one of the free templates your email and home address is required and stored. This is only because there is no way to switch this option off in Shopify as most web based shops require shipping. You may choose to opt in to our newsletter by checking the assigned box during the purchase process, but this is not a requirement. Your email address is used to send you a receipt of purchase (even for the freebie download) and also to send you the digital file. The information you have entered is stored by Shopify but can be deleted on request. This information will not be sold to any third parties or misused in any way.
Advertising:
This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy
Sponsored posts:
This blog includes some articles which have been sponsored by a brand or company, meaning we have been paid to write that post. We endeavour to work only with companies which we believe would suit our audience and all sponsored posts are disclosed at the beginning of the article. We aim to provide value to both our audience and the advertiser.
Copyright and sharing:
Sharing policy:
Good ideas were meant for sharing! You are welcome and encouraged to include one image along with a link to the source on social media or in a round-up on your website. Please don’t include instructions on how to create the craft, you need to link back so readers can find it on our blog. Please do not republish a whole post in it’s entirety or republish more than one image. This is a breach of copyright and action will be taken. In respect to their privacy please do not republish photographs of my children.
Copyright policy:
All photographs and instructions featured on this blog are copyright to The Craft Train, with the exception of ideas featured in roundups where a link to the original artist has been included. Please refer to the sharing policy above if you wish to republish an image or link to a tutorial on this blog.
Use of printables:
The Craft Train provides printable crafts, worksheets, templates and games, many of which are free. Our printables are designed for non-commercial and personal use only eg: using them with a group of children is fine, but charging that group of children to use them is not. Please do not republish any of our printables, this is breach of copyright and action will be taken.