Privacy Policy
Stonewear Patterns is a brand of The Haberdasher Bee Ltd, which is UK company number 12823809, based in Greater Manchester.
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If you’re getting in touch with us via email or social media, we’ll use your details to respond to you. Your information doesn’t go anywhere other than directly to us. While we do have a newsletter, we won’t automatically add anyone to it – it’s entirely your choice to join the newsletter and you’re welcome to unsubscribe if you like at any point, without having to jump through loads of hoops. We hate spam as much as anyone else – we send out the newsletter once a month only, and we don’t intend to ever increase this.
If you haven’t signed up for our newsletter, the only emails you’ll receive from Stonewear Patterns or The Haberdasher Bee will be in connection with an order you have placed, if you’ve contacted us via email and we’re responding, or if we’ve emailed you for a reason related to the operation of Stonewear Patterns or The Haberdasher Bee (for example, sending a press release to the editor of a specific magazine or inviting another person to write a guest blog).
Articles in the pattern guides may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you have 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
When ordering from Stonewear Patterns, we require certain personal information from you. We do not sell your details and only pass them on to third parties when it is necessary in order to ensure your order reaches you, as is outlined in this policy. This website is protected by a security certificate – if you are unsure about whether a page is properly protected, please check for the lock displayed in or next to your browser’s URL bar. In most browsers, where the lock is displayed you can also click on it to view the security certificate, if you choose to do so. When you click on the URL bar of your browser, it should also display “https://” rather than “http://” before the website address.
The details you provide when submitting an order through the website include your contact details plus your billing address. All of this is needed to verify your identity and deliver your order to you.
We do not store any data you provide to us other than what we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Any data required to be stored for this purpose is kept securely. We do not request any data which is of no relevance to providing services to you – such as your gender, political beliefs, religious beliefs, genetic details, etc. All information which is required from you is used solely for the purposes of completing a transaction and ensuring your order reaches you.
The Haberdasher Bee use Square to process payments for all orders made. Square do not pass any card numbers or other details to us – all your data is encrypted by them and we simply receive the payment. Here’s Square’s privacy policy.
Should we ever become aware of any attempts to breach the site’s security and access any data we may hold, we will immediately employ a cyber security expert to identify and repair the breach. If any data we may hold about you has been compromised, we will inform you immediately and in writing. As we do not operate any account or membership structures, you will not be asked to reset any passwords, however we are required to let you know of any breaches of your data, what data may have been compromised and any further steps which have been identified by our cyber security experts which both you and The Haberdasher Bee must undertake.
If you receive any emails claiming to be from Stonewear Patterns or The Haberdasher Bee which you are suspicious about, please do not open them or any attachments they may have and email us separately to report these. Please be aware that such emails may be phishing attacks from parties pretending to be us – examples are emails requesting further payment for an order you’ve placed, or even requesting payment for an order you never placed. We will investigate any such reported emails to ensure no breaches of our security have occurred – and if they have, we will undertake the actions described in the previous paragraph. If you receive a suspicious email, we also recommend that you run an anti-virus and malware check on your device to ensure your device has not been infiltrated by third parties with malicious intent.
This policy may be updated from time to time, including to ensure compliance with any future alterations to data protection laws. These updates will supersede any prior version and the most up to date version will always be available on this website.
Should you have any questions or queries about any of the above or anything that isn’t perhaps covered in this policy, please email us.