Privacy Policy & Disclosures | Advertising Information

Each blog post is written and edited personally by me Smitha Katti. I have been blogging since 2009 and all the posts I write here about projects/crafts that I have enjoyed making.

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, Affiliate or Advertising disclosure please feel to email me at [email protected]

This blog does accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions, or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received will never influence the content, projects, or posts made in this blog. All sponsored posts will be disclosed at the beginning of each blog post. I only accept sponsorships from companies whose products and services align with my blog and reader interests.

All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third-party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.

AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE:

This Influencer Disclosure Policy is valid as of 2009. This policy covers the below social channels owned and managed by Smitha Katti :

Instagram Handle: @smithakatti
Blog: www.smilingcolors.com

These channels strive to abide by the FTC Guidelines for online influencers. The owner believes in honesty of relationship, opinion, and identity. The compensation the owner receives from marketers may influence our content, topics, or posts made to our social channels. That content, advertising space, or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content in accordance with the FTC Guidelines.

The owner of these social channels is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites, and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of these social media channels receive compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed through these channels are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote, or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question.

The owner of these social media channels would like to disclose the following existing relationships. These are companies, organizations, or individuals that may have a significant impact on the content of this blog.

This blogger has/has had a freelance relationship with Tombow USA, PMA Industries, Fiskars Americas, and Tonic USA.

Smitha Katti is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

Smitha Katti also participates in affiliate programs for networks such as CJ, Impact, and Share-A-Sale.

Effective as of May 25, 2009

ADVERTISING PRIVACY STATEMENT

This Site is affiliated with SHE Media Partner Network of Penske Media Corporation for the purpose of placing advertising on the Site, and Penske Media will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Penske Media’s data usage, click here: https://pmc.com/privacy-policy/

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or AdThrive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at [email protected] and contact AdThrive at [email protected]. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences link at the bottom of the site. (Available in the EU.)

For California Residents

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of the sharing of your information for advertising information, click the opt out link provided in the footer of this page. You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To make such a request, please contact us at [email protected]. To be clear we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.

Privacy Policy

Effective as of May 25, 2018

As the owner of this website I, Smitha Katti, understand that your privacy is of critical importance. This Privacy Policy describes what information this site collects from you.

Our Use of Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

This site uses cookies for the following purposes:

(a) authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;

(b) status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;

(d) security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;

(e) advertising – we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you; and

(f) analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services;

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.

Email Addresses

We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, or enter a promotion. We will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us, and also from time to time to send you emails regarding the Site or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. You may opt out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email.

Your email address may also be shared with the technology provider we use in connection with the purposes for which you provided it, and that technology provider may also contact you from time to time (such as subscription confirmation communications).

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents.”