Privacy Policy

This page covers policies related to privacy.

Last Update: April 2025

We are committed to the protection of customer information. We value your privacy and do everything possible to honor and protect it. We only request contact information for newsletter subscriptions, purchases or online course enrollment. Typically this means a name and e-mail address. For store purchases that also includes address and phone information and specific customer requests or information such as sizes. See below for details.

EMAIL We never share our mailing list and use standard opt-in and opt-out features. We do not add names to our email list without prior permission, such as an opt-in form or sign up from a workshop or event. The information you provide is kept secure through an online service provider and is only used to send direct communication to our customers. We do not share this information with third parties for any reason. California residents opt out.

STORE PURCHASES Our online store and product sales processes will require customers to enter basic contact information (name, email and in some cases mailing address and billing address as well as a credit card number). This information is maintained in a secure system monitored by reputable companies providing these services. Payment processing options and external payment processors are made available to you as a customer via our secure online platforms.

EXTERNAL PAYMENTS Any products offered through external links are purchases that use the external service provider's payment processing systems and those systems policies and processes apply, so be sure to read these before making your purchases should you have any concerns.

COOKIES This site uses cookies, which are small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymous tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

THIRD PARTY PLUGINS Our websites use third-party plugins, which may track information about you. We collect your public profile data only with the consent that you grant before initiating social login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used only to create your user profile on our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email. Some of the third-party plugins we use are listed below. We may from time to time add additional plugins that operate in a similar manner. 

Through the use of third-party plugins, we may embed Facebook Comments, Google+ Comments or Disqus Comments that allow you to leave a comment at our website using your account on social media or discussion platforms. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. We also use Facebook Pixels which may track your behavior while accessing our products on Facebook and our website. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

Our sites may use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collect and store certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

We may use a Twitter (X) tweet widget on our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our web page or content using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter (X), who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

We may use a GooglePlus widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share our web pages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

We may use a LinkedIn share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on LinkedIn. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

We may use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy To control what information is tracked, simply update your Pinterest account settings.

STORE FUNCTIONALITY & DELIVERY APPS We may use third-party applications to improve our store's customer interface and quicker delivery of items not stocked and shipped directly from us. These applications may store limited information about your purchases on their secure server. 

AFFILIATE LINKS From time to time we share links to aligned companies and collaborative partners or to related products or resources online. Please do your own research and use products and services at your discretion. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. We also share Apple Music links via our blog and on some product pages. In both cases, we may earn a small commission when you make a purchase from these sites.