Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how pinandpine.com uses them, and the choices you have for managing or disabling them. Pin and Pine is a home for crochet patterns, amigurumi tutorials, rustic DIY projects, and seasonal decor ideas, and like nearly every website today, we use small pieces of data called cookies to make your visit smoother and to understand how our content is being used. This page should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, which together explain how we handle your information more broadly.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your computer, phone, or tablet when you visit. They are read by the site that placed them (or by partner services) and allow a page to remember things like your language preference, whether you have seen a particular pop-up, or which pages you visited before. Cookies do not typically contain personal information like your name or email address, but they can be linked to a browser or device in ways that support analytics and advertising.

Similar technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, and local storage, work in comparable ways and are covered by this policy whenever we refer to "cookies" in general terms.

Why We Use Cookies

We rely on cookies for a handful of practical reasons connected to running pinandpine.com and improving the free crochet and amigurumi patterns, rustic DIY guides, and home decor ideas we publish. Specifically, cookies help us:

• Keep the site functioning correctly, including navigation, search, and basic security features.
• Remember your preferences, such as display settings or previously dismissed notices.
• Understand which posts and patterns are most useful to readers, so we can create more of what people actually want.
• Support the display of relevant advertising and affiliate links that help fund the free content on this site, as described further in our Disclosure and Affiliate Disclaimer pages.

Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to work properly. They enable core functionality like page navigation, secure areas of the site, and basic load-balancing. Without these cookies, some parts of pinandpine.com simply would not function as intended. Because they are strictly necessary, essential cookies cannot be switched off through our systems, though you can still block them via your browser settings if you choose.

Preference Cookies

Preference (or "functionality") cookies allow the site to remember choices you have made, such as font size, region, or whether you have already interacted with a specific banner. These cookies make your return visits more convenient but are not strictly required for the site to run.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use pinandpine.com — which amigurumi patterns get the most views, how long readers stay on a rustic DIY tutorial, or which pages send visitors elsewhere. This information is generally aggregated and reported anonymously, and it helps us decide which tutorials to expand and which topics deserve more coverage.

Marketing and Affiliate Cookies

Some cookies are placed by advertising partners or affiliate networks to show ads that are more relevant to you and to measure how effective those ads or affiliate links are. If you click through to a craft supply retailer or yarn shop from one of our posts, a cookie may be used to track that referral, which can occasionally earn pinandpine.com a small commission at no extra cost to you. More detail on this is available in our Affiliate Disclaimer.

Third-Party Cookies

Because we embed content, run advertising, and use analytics tools, some cookies on pinandpine.com are set by third parties rather than by us directly. These may include advertising networks, social media platforms (such as buttons or embedded pins), and analytics providers. We do not control these third-party cookies directly, and their use is governed by the respective third party's own privacy and cookie policies. If you follow a Pinterest link or embed from one of our posts, for example, please also see our Pinterest Disclaimer for additional context.

Consent

Where required by law, we ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies (such as analytics or marketing cookies) on your device, typically through a cookie banner or preference tool shown on your first visit. You can change your mind at any time by adjusting your browser settings as described below or, where available, by revisiting the cookie preference options on our site. Continuing to browse pinandpine.com after being presented with cookie information generally indicates your consent to our use of cookies as described in this policy.

How to Manage or Disable Cookies

Most browsers allow you to view, manage, and delete cookies through their settings menu. You can typically:

• Block all cookies or only third-party cookies.
• Delete existing cookies stored on your device.
• Set your browser to alert you whenever a new cookie is being placed.
• Browse in a private or incognito window, which usually clears cookies once the session ends.

Keep in mind that disabling cookies entirely, including essential ones, may affect how well pinandpine.com functions — for instance, some pages may load more slowly, saved preferences may be lost, or certain features may not display correctly. Instructions for managing cookies vary by browser, so check the help section of whichever browser you use for step-by-step guidance.

Retention of Cookies

Cookies are generally either "session" cookies, which expire once you close your browser, or "persistent" cookies, which remain on your device for a set period ranging from a few days to a couple of years, depending on their purpose. Essential and preference cookies are usually kept only as long as needed for the relevant function, while analytics and marketing cookies may persist longer to support meaningful reporting and ad performance measurement. We periodically review these retention periods to make sure they remain reasonable and proportionate.

Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the tools we use, legal requirements, or the way pinandpine.com operates. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date, and we encourage you to check back occasionally. For more on how we handle editorial accuracy and content updates generally, see our Editorial Policy.

Questions About This Policy

If anything here is unclear, or if you would like more information about how cookies are used on this site, feel free to reach out through our Contact page or email us directly at [email protected]. You may also find it useful to review our About Us page to learn more about who runs pinandpine.com and why we created it.