Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 29, 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 tool.

1. Who We Are

Knotami is owned and operated by Mira Knotts, together with a small team.

Knotami provides free crochet and amigurumi patterns, video tutorials, creative resources, and related educational content.

Contact: [email protected]

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 tools provided on our website and through your browser settings.

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 Google

We may use third-party advertising services, including Google AdSense, to display advertisements on our website.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s previous visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info. To learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

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

The partners and technologies used may change from time to time. The processing of information by these providers is also governed by their own privacy policies and applicable consent requirements.

10. Consent Management

Where required by law, our website uses a consent management tool to help manage visitor privacy choices.

Depending on your location and applicable law, the consent tool may allow you to:

• Accept or reject certain categories of cookies
• Manage advertising preferences
• Withdraw previously provided consent
• Change privacy preferences

Where required by law, we will not use non-essential cookies or similar technologies until the required consent has been obtained. 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: [email protected]

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
• Communication with you
• Website improvement
• Compliance with legal obligations

Your California Choices

If applicable, you may submit a privacy request by contacting: [email protected]

You may also use the privacy controls provided on our website, or opt out of personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings and aboutads.info as described above.

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: [email protected]

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, such as 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 and your browser settings. You may also contact us directly at: [email protected]

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.

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: [email protected]