Privcay Policy

Last Updated: September 23, 2026

Welcome to CozLoop (“CozLoop,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, disclosed, and protected when you visit or interact with our website:

We respect your privacy and are committed to being transparent about the information and technologies used on our website.

By using CozLoop, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We May Collect

Depending on how you interact with CozLoop, we may collect certain information automatically or information that you voluntarily provide.

Information You Provide Voluntarily

You may voluntarily provide information when you:

  • Contact us through a contact form
  • Subscribe to an email newsletter
  • Send us an email
  • Leave a comment
  • Submit a question or feedback
  • Participate in a promotion, survey, or other website feature

This information may include your name, email address, message, and any other information you choose to provide.

Please do not provide sensitive personal information through public comments or contact forms unless specifically requested and appropriate.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit CozLoop, certain technical information may automatically be collected by our website, hosting provider, analytics services, advertising partners, or other third-party technologies.

This information may include:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Approximate geographic location
  • Referring website
  • Pages visited
  • Date and time of your visit
  • Time spent on pages
  • Links or buttons clicked
  • General information about how you interact with the website

This information may be used for website functionality, security, analytics, advertising, and improving our content and services.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use information collected through CozLoop for purposes including:

  • Providing and maintaining the website
  • Responding to questions and messages
  • Sending newsletters or requested communications
  • Improving our crochet tutorials, patterns, and articles
  • Understanding how visitors use the website
  • Improving website performance and user experience
  • Detecting and preventing spam, fraud, abuse, or security issues
  • Displaying relevant advertisements
  • Measuring advertising performance
  • Managing affiliate relationships
  • Complying with applicable legal obligations

We do not sell your personal information simply because you visit CozLoop.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

CozLoop may use cookies and similar technologies.

A cookie is a small file or piece of information stored by your browser that can help a website recognize your device, remember preferences, analyze website activity, or provide certain functionality.

Cookies may be used for:

  • Essential website functionality
  • Remembering preferences
  • Website analytics
  • Measuring traffic
  • Advertising
  • Personalized advertising, where permitted and consented to
  • Security and fraud prevention
  • Improving website performance

You can generally control or disable cookies through your browser settings.

However, disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality or appearance of some parts of the website.

4. Google AdSense and Advertising

CozLoop may use Google AdSense and/or other third-party advertising services to display advertisements.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies and similar technologies to serve advertisements based on a user’s previous visits to CozLoop or other websites.

Google states that advertising cookies can be used by Google and its partners to serve ads based on a user’s visits to websites on the Internet.

Advertising technologies may involve information such as:

  • Cookies
  • IP addresses
  • Browser information
  • Device information
  • Advertising identifiers
  • Approximate location
  • Information about interactions with advertisements

The advertising providers may use this information to measure advertising performance, prevent fraud, limit repeated advertisements, and provide personalized or non-personalized advertising depending on applicable settings and consent.

Google also requires publishers to maintain a privacy policy explaining the use of cookies and other technologies associated with advertising.

Personalized Advertising

Where applicable, Google and its advertising partners may use information from cookies or similar technologies to provide personalized advertising.

Users may manage or opt out of personalized advertising through Google’s advertising settings.

You can learn more about Google’s advertising practices and available controls through Google’s own resources.

5. European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

CozLoop may be accessible to visitors located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

Where applicable, we use consent-management mechanisms to obtain consent for cookies, local storage, personalized advertising, and other processing activities that require consent under applicable law.

Google’s policies require publishers serving personalized ads to users in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland to use an appropriate Google-certified consent management platform integrated with the applicable framework.

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including rights to:

  • Request access to personal information
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of personal information
  • Object to certain processing
  • Restrict certain processing
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
  • Request portability of certain information

These rights may be subject to legal limitations and exceptions.

To exercise applicable rights, please contact us using the contact information provided on this website.

6. Analytics

CozLoop may use third-party analytics services, such as Google Analytics or similar services, to understand how visitors interact with the website.

Analytics information may include:

  • Pages visited
  • Traffic sources
  • Device information
  • Browser information
  • Approximate geographic information
  • Time spent on pages
  • General interaction data

Analytics information helps us understand which crochet patterns, tutorials, and articles are useful to our readers and allows us to improve the website.

Analytics providers may use cookies or similar technologies to collect this information.

7. Email Newsletter

If you voluntarily subscribe to a CozLoop newsletter or email list, we may collect your email address and, where provided, your name.

We may use this information to send:

  • New crochet patterns
  • Crochet tutorials
  • New blog posts
  • Crafting ideas
  • Website updates
  • Other communications you requested

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the email.

After unsubscribing, you may still receive necessary transactional or administrative communications where applicable.

8. Contact Forms and Emails

If you contact us through a contact form or email, we may receive the information you provide, including your name, email address, and message.

We use this information to:

  • Respond to your inquiry
  • Provide customer or reader support
  • Address questions about crochet patterns
  • Investigate website issues
  • Communicate with you when necessary

We do not use contact information for unrelated marketing purposes unless you have separately agreed to receive such communications.

9. Comments and User-Generated Content

If CozLoop allows comments or other public submissions, information you voluntarily post may become publicly visible.

Please avoid posting private or sensitive information in public comments.

We may remove comments that contain spam, abusive content, malicious links, unlawful material, or content that violates our Terms of Use.

10. Affiliate Links

CozLoop may participate in affiliate marketing programs.

Some links on our website may be affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a qualifying purchase, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.

Affiliate programs may use cookies or other tracking technologies to determine whether a purchase originated from an affiliate link.

The specific information collected and how it is processed is governed by the applicable affiliate network’s privacy policy.

Affiliate relationships do not change the price you pay for a product unless otherwise stated.

11. Third-Party Websites

CozLoop may contain links to third-party websites, including:

  • Online retailers
  • Yarn manufacturers
  • Craft stores
  • Social media platforms
  • Affiliate partners
  • Video platforms
  • Other websites and services

When you leave CozLoop and visit a third-party website, that website’s own privacy policy and terms apply.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party website before providing personal information.

12. Social Media

CozLoop may include social media buttons, widgets, embedded content, or links to social media platforms.

Examples may include Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or other platforms.

These services may collect information about your interaction with their features according to their own privacy policies.

Your interactions with third-party social media services are governed by the privacy policies and terms of those services.

13. Embedded Content

Some CozLoop pages may contain embedded content from third-party services, such as videos, social media posts, images, or other interactive features.

Embedded content may behave as though you have visited the third-party website directly.

These third parties may collect information about your interaction with the embedded content and may use cookies or similar technologies.

Their own privacy policies govern their data practices.

14. How We Protect Information

We take reasonable measures designed to protect information submitted through CozLoop from unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure.

Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

15. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing services, responding to requests, maintaining business records, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, and complying with legal obligations.

The specific retention period may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.

16. Children’s Privacy

CozLoop is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly request or collect personal information from children under 13 through the website.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.

Where applicable, we comply with children’s privacy requirements, including the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

17. Do Not Track Signals

Some web browsers provide a “Do Not Track” feature.

Because there is currently no universally accepted standard for responding to Do Not Track signals, CozLoop may not respond to such signals in every circumstance.

18. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have choices regarding cookies and personal information.

You may:

  • Adjust your browser’s cookie settings
  • Reject or delete certain cookies
  • Use available consent-management controls
  • Unsubscribe from email marketing
  • Contact us regarding applicable privacy rights
  • Manage personalized advertising preferences through available advertising-provider settings

Please note that disabling certain technologies may affect some website functionality.

19. Google Privacy and Advertising Information

Google may collect and process information when advertisements are displayed on websites that use Google advertising products.

Google provides information about how it uses data when you use its partners’ websites and applications.

Google also provides controls for users who wish to manage personalized advertising.

You can review Google’s privacy and advertising information directly through Google’s official resources.

20. Information Sharing

We may share information with third-party service providers when reasonably necessary to operate CozLoop.

These providers may include services used for:

  • Website hosting
  • Email delivery
  • Analytics
  • Advertising
  • Affiliate tracking
  • Spam prevention
  • Website security
  • Technical services

We may also disclose information when required by law, legal process, court order, or governmental request, or when reasonably necessary to protect our rights, property, users, or the security of the website.

21. Sale of Personal Information

CozLoop does not sell your personal information in the traditional sense.

However, certain advertising, analytics, affiliate, or similar technologies may involve the sharing of information or identifiers with third-party service providers.

The exact treatment of such information may depend on the services implemented on the website and applicable privacy laws.

Where legally required, we provide appropriate choices and consent mechanisms.

22. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

Changes may be made to reflect:

  • Changes to the website
  • New features or services
  • Changes in advertising or analytics providers
  • Changes in applicable laws
  • Changes in our privacy practices

When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

23. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, cookies, advertising, or privacy practices on CozLoop, please contact us through the contact information available on our website.

CozLoop
Website: https://cozloop.com/

24. Acceptance of This Privacy Policy

By accessing and using CozLoop, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please discontinue use of the website.

Thank you for visiting CozLoop and being part of our crochet community.