Last updated: August 13, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Crochet Pattern Picks (“we”, “us”, or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit https://crochetpatternpicks.com (the “Website”).
Cookies may be used to make the Website function properly, remember preferences, understand how visitors use the Website, measure performance, and support advertising or affiliate-related functionality where applicable.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites can place on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit them.
Cookies can help a website:
- Remember your preferences
- Maintain website functionality
- Improve security
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Measure traffic and performance
- Support advertising and marketing services
Cookies may be either first-party cookies, which are placed by Crochet Pattern Picks, or third-party cookies, which are placed by external services used on the Website.
Cookies may also be:
- Session cookies, which usually expire when you close your browser
- Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a defined period or until you remove them
2. Types of Cookies We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for basic Website functionality.
They may be used for purposes such as:
- Website security
- Fraud prevention
- Network management
- Saving cookie consent choices
- Loading and delivering website content
- Maintaining essential technical functionality
Where applicable, strictly necessary cookies may be used without prior consent because they are required to provide functionality requested by the visitor.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
We may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors interact with Crochet Pattern Picks.
These technologies may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Approximate traffic source
- Browser and device information
- Time spent on pages
- Navigation patterns
- Website performance information
We use this information to understand which content readers find useful and to improve Website performance and usability.
Where required by applicable law, analytics cookies will only be activated after you provide consent.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies help provide enhanced features and remember choices you make.
For example, they may remember:
- Website preferences
- Interface settings
- Previously selected options
These cookies are not always essential to basic Website operation.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
We may use advertising or marketing technologies provided by third parties.
These technologies may be used to:
- Measure advertising performance
- Limit how often advertisements appear
- Understand the effectiveness of marketing campaigns
- Provide more relevant advertising
- Measure referrals or conversions
Where legally required, these technologies will not be activated until you provide consent.
3. Affiliate Links and Tracking
Crochet Pattern Picks may contain affiliate links to third-party websites, retailers, marketplaces, designers, or services.
When you click an affiliate link, the third-party provider may use cookies or similar technologies to record that you were referred by Crochet Pattern Picks.
This allows the provider to determine whether we are eligible to receive an affiliate commission if you make a qualifying purchase.
Affiliate tracking is controlled by the relevant third-party platform and is subject to that platform’s own privacy and cookie policies.
For more information about our use of affiliate links, please read our Affiliate Policy.
4. Third-Party Services
The Website may use third-party services for purposes such as:
- Analytics
- Website performance
- Security
- Advertising
- Embedded content
- Affiliate tracking
- Social media functionality
These third parties may place or access cookies on your device according to their own policies.
We do not control how third-party companies operate their cookies or process information after you leave Crochet Pattern Picks.
We recommend reviewing the privacy and cookie policies of any third-party service you use.
5. Cookie Consent
Where consent is legally required, Crochet Pattern Picks may display a cookie consent banner or preference tool.
Depending on the Website configuration, you may be able to:
- Accept cookies
- Reject non-essential cookies
- Select which categories of cookies you allow
- Change or withdraw your preferences later
Consent should be freely given, informed, specific, and based on a clear positive action. Visitors should also be able to refuse or withdraw consent without unnecessary difficulty.
Simply continuing to browse the Website should not be treated as consent where affirmative consent is legally required.
6. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through their settings.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete cookies
- Block all cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Allow cookies only from selected websites
- Receive notifications before cookies are stored
Please note that blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect the way parts of the Website function.
For instructions, refer to the privacy or cookie settings provided by your browser.
7. Similar Technologies
In addition to cookies, the Website or third-party services may use similar technologies such as:
- Pixels
- Web beacons
- Local storage
- Tags
- Software development technologies used for analytics or advertising
Cookie and privacy rules may also apply to technologies that store information on, or access information from, a visitor’s device.
8. Personal Information
Some cookies or similar technologies may process information that qualifies as personal data under applicable privacy laws.
When personal information is processed, it will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection requirements.
9. Your Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to reject or control non-essential cookies.
For users covered by EU privacy rules, refusing consent should be presented as a genuine choice and should not be made unnecessarily more difficult than accepting cookies.
You may also be able to change your cookie choices through the Website’s consent management tool, if available.
10. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect:
- Changes in the technologies we use
- New third-party services
- Changes to Website functionality
- Legal or regulatory developments
- Changes to our business practices
The latest revision date will appear at the top of this page.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on Crochet Pattern Picks, please contact us through our Contact page.
Crochet Pattern Picks
Website: https://crochetpatternpicks.com