Last Updated: August 18, 2026
Knotami (“Knotami,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use and share it, how we protect it, and the choices and rights available to you when you visit or interact with our website.
Our website is operated at https://www.knotami.com.
By using our website, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy. Where applicable law requires your consent for specific processing activities, we will request that consent separately, including through our consent management platform.
1. Who We Are
Knotami is owned and operated by Mira Knotts.
Knotami provides free crochet and amigurumi patterns, video tutorials, creative resources, and related educational content.
Contact: miraknotts@gmail.com
For privacy-related questions or requests, please contact us using the information above.
2. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with our website, we may collect the following categories of information:
Information You Provide Directly You may provide information when you:
Leave a comment Contact us Subscribe to an email newsletter, if available Create or manage an account, if account registration is available Submit information through a form Participate in a promotion, survey, or other website feature
This information may include your name, email address, website address, message, username, or other information you voluntarily provide.
Information Collected Automatically When you visit our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:
IP address Browser type and version Device type Operating system Referring website Pages visited Date and time of visits General interaction and usage information Cookie identifiers and similar technologies
Some of this information may be collected by third-party services that operate on our behalf or provide advertising, analytics, security, or other website functionality.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use information we collect for purposes including:
Providing and maintaining our website Providing crochet, amigurumi, tutorial, and other website content Responding to questions and communications Managing comments and preventing spam Maintaining website security Detecting and preventing fraud or abuse Understanding how visitors use our website Measuring website performance and traffic Improving our website and content Displaying advertising Personalizing advertising where permitted Managing consent and privacy preferences Complying with applicable legal obligations Protecting our legal rights and the rights of our visitors
We do not use personal information for purposes that are incompatible with the purposes described in this Privacy Policy unless permitted or required by applicable law.
4. Comments
When visitors leave comments on our website, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, together with the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent information.
This information may be used to help detect spam, abuse, and other potentially harmful activity.
If you provide an email address when commenting, an anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether a Gravatar profile is associated with that email address.
If your comment is approved, your profile image may be publicly visible alongside your comment if you have a Gravatar profile.
Gravatar is operated by Automattic. Please review Automattic’s privacy information for details about how Gravatar processes information.
5. Media and Uploaded Content
If you upload images or other media to our website, you should avoid uploading files that contain embedded location information, such as EXIF GPS data, unless you intentionally want that information to be publicly available.
Publicly accessible media may potentially be downloaded by other visitors and may contain metadata associated with the file.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies to operate our website, remember preferences, understand website usage, provide security, and support advertising.
Cookies may be divided into the following general categories:
Necessary Cookies These cookies may be required for website functionality, security, authentication, or other essential services.
Preference Cookies These cookies may remember choices or preferences made by visitors.
Analytics Cookies These cookies help us understand website traffic and visitor behavior so that we can improve our website and content.
Advertising Cookies Our advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to deliver, measure, and personalize advertising where permitted by applicable law and based on the user’s privacy choices.
The exact cookies used on our website may change as our website, plugins, advertising partners, and other services change.
Where required by law, we will request consent before placing or using non-essential cookies and similar technologies.
You may manage your privacy and cookie preferences through the consent management tools provided on our website.
7. WordPress Cookies and Website Functionality
Our website may use cookies associated with WordPress and other website functionality.
For example, if commenting, login, registration, or content-management functionality is enabled, certain cookies may be used to remember user preferences, maintain sessions, or support website functionality.
The specific cookies and retention periods may depend on the WordPress configuration and plugins currently installed on the website.
8. Analytics
We may use Google Analytics or other analytics services to understand website traffic and visitor behavior.
Analytics services may collect information such as:
Device and browser information Approximate location information Pages visited Referring websites Interactions with the website Cookie or advertising identifiers Usage and technical information
We use analytics information to understand traffic, improve website performance, and improve our content.
Where required by applicable law, analytics cookies or similar technologies will only be used after obtaining the required consent.
You can also manage your choices through the privacy and consent controls available on our website.
9. Advertising and Mediavine
We may use Mediavine and its advertising technology partners to display advertisements on our website.
Advertising partners may use cookies, pixels, device identifiers, IP addresses, and similar technologies to:
Display advertisements Measure advertising performance Prevent fraud Limit the number of times an advertisement is shown Provide interest-based or personalized advertising where permitted Understand advertising and website usage
Mediavine may work with various advertising and technology partners. The partners and technologies used may change from time to time. A current list of Mediavine’s advertising partners can be found in Mediavine’s own privacy policy at https://www.mediavine.com/privacy-policy/.
The processing of information by these providers is also governed by their own privacy policies and applicable consent requirements.
You can manage applicable advertising and privacy preferences through the consent management platform available on our website.
Where applicable, you may also use the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” or “Privacy Settings” controls provided on our website.
10. Consent Management
Our website uses Mediavine’s consent management technology, including Grow.me, to help manage visitor privacy choices.
Depending on your location and applicable law, the consent management platform may allow you to:
Accept or reject certain categories of cookies Manage advertising preferences Withdraw previously provided consent Change privacy preferences Exercise certain privacy rights
Where required by law, we will not use non-essential cookies or similar technologies until the required consent has been obtained.
Our website also honors the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal where technically supported and required by applicable law. If your browser sends a GPC signal, we will treat it as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for that browser or device.
You can change your preferences at any time using the privacy or consent controls available on our website.
11. Embedded Content and Third-Party Services
Articles on our website may contain embedded content, including videos, images, social-media posts, or other content provided by third parties.
Examples may include services such as:
YouTube Pinterest Instagram Gravatar Google Advertising and analytics providers Other third-party platforms or plugins
Embedded content may behave as though you have visited the third-party website directly.
These third parties may collect information, use cookies, track interactions, or process information according to their own privacy policies.
We do not control the privacy practices of third-party websites or services.
12. How We Share Information
We may share information with third parties when necessary to operate, secure, improve, or monetize our website.
These third parties may include:
Website hosting and infrastructure providers WordPress plugins and service providers Spam and security services Analytics providers Advertising providers and advertising technology partners Consent management providers Email or newsletter providers, if applicable Embedded-content providers Professional advisers Government authorities or law-enforcement agencies when legally required
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information for another company’s direct marketing purposes.
However, certain advertising activities may constitute “sale” or “sharing” under applicable privacy laws, even when no money is directly exchanged for the information. Where applicable, we provide the privacy choices and opt-out mechanisms required by law.
13. Legal Bases for Processing — EU/UK Visitors
If you are located in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, we process personal information based on one or more lawful bases under applicable data-protection law.
Depending on the circumstances, these may include:
Consent We may rely on your consent for activities such as certain analytics, advertising cookies, or other non-essential tracking technologies where consent is legally required. You may withdraw consent at any time.
Legitimate Interests We may process information where necessary for our legitimate interests, such as website security, spam prevention, fraud prevention, website administration, and improving our services, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.
Contract Where applicable, we may process information because it is necessary to provide a service or perform an agreement with you.
Legal Obligations We may process information when necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
The appropriate lawful basis depends on the specific processing activity.
14. Your Rights Under EU/UK Data Protection Laws
If applicable data-protection laws apply to you, you may have the right to:
Request access to your personal information Request correction of inaccurate information Request deletion of your personal information Request restriction of processing Object to certain processing activities Request data portability Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent Object to certain direct marketing activities Lodge a complaint with the relevant data-protection supervisory authority
To exercise your rights, contact us at: miraknotts@gmail.com
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. We will respond to valid requests within the time period required by applicable law.
15. California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident and applicable California privacy law applies to our processing of your information, you may have rights including:
The right to know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell, or share The right to request deletion of personal information, subject to legal exceptions The right to correct inaccurate personal information The right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information The right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, where applicable The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising applicable privacy rights
Categories of Information Depending on how you interact with our website, categories of information we may collect can include:
Identifiers, such as name, email address, IP address, or online identifiers Internet or other electronic network activity information Device and browser information Geolocation information, where available through applicable technologies and permitted by law Inferences derived from website interactions Other information voluntarily submitted by you
Sources of Information We may collect information:
Directly from you Automatically when you use our website From cookies and similar technologies From service providers From advertising, analytics, and technology partners
Business Purposes We may use these categories of information for purposes such as:
Website operation Security and fraud prevention Analytics Advertising Customer communication Website improvement Compliance with legal obligations
Your California Choices If applicable, you may submit a privacy request by contacting: miraknotts@gmail.com
You may also use the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” and privacy controls provided on our website, or set the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal in your browser, which we will honor as a valid opt-out request where required by law.
16. Children’s Privacy
Our website is not directed toward children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate parental consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
Our website may use third-party advertising and technology providers that have their own policies and safeguards relating to children’s privacy.
If you believe that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at: miraknotts@gmail.com
17. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and why it was collected. For example:
Comments may be retained for as long as they remain published or as necessary for website administration and spam prevention. Contact inquiries may be retained for as long as necessary to respond to the inquiry and maintain appropriate business records. Account information, if accounts are available, may be retained while the account remains active and for an appropriate period afterward. Analytics and advertising information may be retained according to the settings and policies of the applicable service providers. Certain information may be retained longer where necessary for legal, security, fraud-prevention, or dispute-resolution purposes.
When information is no longer required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.
18. Data Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, internet transmission, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security of your information.
In the event of a data breach affecting your personal information, we will notify affected users and relevant authorities in accordance with applicable law.
19. International Data Transfers
Some of our service providers, advertising partners, analytics providers, or other third parties may process information in countries outside the country where you live.
Where applicable law requires safeguards for international data transfers, we will seek to use appropriate legal mechanisms and safeguards. These may include contractual safeguards or other mechanisms recognized under applicable data-protection laws.
20. Your Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may be able to:
Reject or accept non-essential cookies Change your consent preferences Withdraw consent Opt out of certain personalized advertising Request access to your information Request correction or deletion Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information where applicable
You can manage applicable cookie and privacy preferences through the tools provided on our website, or by setting the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal in your browser.
You may also contact us directly at: miraknotts@gmail.com
21. Third-Party Privacy Policies
Our website may link to or use third-party services whose privacy practices are governed by their own policies.
These may include advertising, analytics, social-media, embedded-content, security, hosting, and other technology providers.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services before interacting with them or providing information through them.
22. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in:
Our website Our services Our advertising or analytics partners Applicable laws Privacy practices Technology
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
We encourage you to review this page periodically to remain informed about how we protect your information.
23. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise a privacy right, or have concerns about how your information is handled, please contact:
Mira Knotts Knotami Email: miraknotts@gmail.com