1. Your safety is our top priority

1.1 General information

At Annie's Quilt Shoppe, we are committed to respecting the privacy of the users of our websites. This Privacy Policy, in conjunction with theTerms and Conditions of Use, forms the basis for the treatment of personal information on Annie's Quilt Shoppe.com and inspiration.Annie's Quilt Shoppe.com. The paragraphs below provide information about the type of user information collected by Annie's Quilt Shoppe and how this information is used. Annie's Quilt Shoppe complies with applicable data protection rights at all times and only processes personal information for the purposes for which the information was provided. Responsibility for data processing lies with Annie's Quilt Shoppe International AG.

The Terms and Conditions of Use of the website and the legal requirements on privacy and data protection are adapted, supplemented or amended from time to time. Each time you access or visit the website, the versions accessible at that time apply. Please visit this page every time you visit the site to view the latest Terms and Conditions of Use.

By using this website, you acknowledge and consent to the use of your personal information as stated in this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to these provisions, please do not provide Annie's Quilt Shoppe with any personal information.

1.2 How does this policy apply to residents of countries other than the United States of America?

These Online Services are designed exclusively for users located in the United States of America. If you are located outside the United States, please select your applicable local Annie's Quilt Shoppe website with respect to your local laws and applicable privacy policy terms and conditions. If you are located outside of the United States and you continue to use this website, you accept that your local laws and privacy policy terms and conditions will not apply.

2. Collection of personal data

2.1 Collection of personal data for informational use

On visiting the Annie's Quilt Shoppe website, there is no automatic collection of personal information about the user, such as name, address telephone number or email address unless this information is provided voluntarily by the user by filling in a form on the website or making contact with us in another way via the site. Data collection and analysis also applies to information you provide to us when you subscribe to one of our services or if you require other services. In addition, we may keep records of correspondence if you make contact with us.

Annie's Quilt Shoppe constantly strives to make our website more interesting for all our users. For this reason, statistical visitor data is collected each time the website is visited to establish which pages of the website are visited most frequently by each user. This includes the collection of data regarding the browser, operating system, weblogs and other connection data used by the user, irrespective of whether its collection is required for our or other purposes. In this context, it is sometimes necessary to use cookies (More information about the use of cookies is available in section 3 of this Privacy Policy).

2.2 Collection of personal data for special uses

2.2.1 Customer portal

If you wish to use our customer portal, you must first register by providing your name, your email address, and a password of your choosing. This information will be stored in the Microsoft Azure Cloud on servers in the EU. For this registration, we use for the so-called double opt-in process, which means your registration is not complete until you confirm the registration using a code sent to you by email. You must provide the aforementioned data to use the customer portal. You can voluntarily provide more information by using our portal.

In our customer portal, you can view, change, and add to the personal information that we have on record for you at any time. We use this information for customer data management and, if necessary, to process any warranty claims as well as to personalize advertising. Additionally, you can register your Annie's Quilt Shoppe products, sign up for the Annie's Quilt Shoppe newsletter, and identify topics that you are particularly interested in.

If you want to register a product, we will save the information you provide (serial number, date of purchase, dealer, product, and other information in the questionnaire)and use it for the purpose of customer data administration and, if necessary, to grant any benefits you may be awarded as a result of registering the product, and to provide personalized advertising.

For more information on data privacy when using the newsletter service, please see section 2.2.2 Newsletter.

Information that you provide in the customer portal may be linked to other information we have saved about you in a customer profile. In doing so, we comply with the principle of purpose limitation and link only data that has been collected for the same purposes (e.g. for advertising). Annie's Quilt Shoppe can provide dealers, suppliers, or service providers with information from your customer profile if you have given your consent, which is revocable at any time, to this submission or if the transmission of this information is necessary in order to process your request. Annie's Quilt Shoppe will only transmit your data to third parties to the extent required. These third parties are obligated to adequately protect your data and to use it in conformity with the law.

You are neither legally or contractually obligated to provide information. Use of the customer portal, however, is only possible if the required information specified above has been provided. Any benefits arising from product registration can only be provided if the product has been registered.

You can delete individual data stored in the customer portal at any time. All of your stored data may be deleted upon request. Additional information about your information and revocation rights is available in paragraph 9 of the data protection provisions. In all other respects, your data will be deleted when the purpose for which the data was collected no longer exists.

2.2.2 Newsletter

You can sign up for our newsletter to receive information about the latest trends in sewing, quilting, and embroidery as well as attractive offers from Annie's Quilt Shoppe.

When registering for our newsletter, we use the double opt-in procedure. This means that we send an email to the specified email address in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your registration, your information will be automatically deleted. In addition, we will save your IP addresses as well as the date and time of registration and confirmation. The purpose of the procedure is to verify your registration and, if necessary, to investigate any possible misuse of your personal data.

In addition to your email address, on some forms, your name and/or your zip code are mandatory information for sending the newsletter. We want to send our users high-quality newsletters that are customized to their needs. In order to address you personally in the newsletter, and to tailor the newsletter to your needs, we also require your name, and in some cases your zip code, when you subscribe to the newsletter. You are neither legally nor contractually obligated to provide information. However, the use of our newsletter service is only possible if the aforementioned mandatory information is provided.

If you sign up for the Annie's Quilt Shoppe newsletter, the data you enter when registering (name, email address, interests, zip code, and additional information where appropriate)is stored for the purpose of direct marketing (including the delivery of personalized content within the newsletters but also on the Annie's Quilt Shoppe website)and may be linked to other data that Annie's Quilt Shoppe has saved about you.



The data collected in relation to this will be stored until the consent is revoked.

3. Use of cookies

Like many other websites, Annie's Quilt Shoppe uses cookies on this website. Cookies are small pieces of text information, which are stored by your browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox)on your computer's hard drive. These cookies are completely anonymized and contain no personal information. Most of the cookies used by Annie's Quilt Shoppe are deleted from your hard drive at the end of the browser session (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and make it possible for Annie's Quilt Shoppe to recognize your computer the next time you visit (so-called permanent cookies). Cookies simplify your use of the Annie's Quilt Shoppe website and are used to make the Annie's Quilt Shoppe website pleasant and easier to use in operating it. They are used, for example, in the Welcome involving your user name, make it easy to fill in forms with your data and remember your language selection or products in the shopping cart.

At no time is spy software installed or used to gain access to data and information stored on your computer.

Cookies make it easier for you to use the Annie's Quilt Shoppe website and contain no personal information about the user. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser so that it does not accept or store cookies. Details of how to do this can be found in the operating instructions or help files of your browser.

If you opt out of the use of cookies, your ability to use every function on this website to its fullest extent could be limited.

4. Use of information

The anonymized data that are retained when accessing our website via cookies can be used for purposes of analysis and for optimizing the website in conjunction with third party services. As a result, these third parties can - to a limited extent - themselves collect personal data about Annie's Quilt Shoppe users, provided that they recognize them, for instance, by means of their own cookies or logins.

4.1 Google Analytics

The Annie's Quilt Shoppe website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called"cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and enable your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is usually transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. Annie's Quilt Shoppe has also activated the"anonymizeIP" configuration for Google Analytics on this website. This ensures that IP addresses are processed in truncated form, to prevent specific users from being identified. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.

Google will use this information on behalf of Annie's Quilt Shoppe to analyze your use of the website for Annie's Quilt Shoppe, to compile reports regarding website activity and to provide other services related to website and Internet usage (in particular functions for display advertising, such as remarketing, reports on Google Display Network impressions, DoubleClick Campaign manager integration and Google Analytics demographic and interest reports).

Under certain circumstances, Google may analyze your usage behavior over several end devices (PC, smartphone, tablet etc.)and evaluate it for Annie's Quilt Shoppe using so-called cross-device functions. For this, Google may link information generated by the respective end devices for the purpose of personalized advertising with other such data and with data from your Google Account, if you have a Google Account and your preferences are set to allow Google to link the browsing history to the Google Account and use information from the Google Account to personalize the advertising you receive.

You can prevent Google Analytics cookies from being stored on your computer by selecting the relevant settings in your browser. However, please note that, if you do this, you may not be able to utilize the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting and processing the data generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address)by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available from the following link:

As an alternative to the browser plug-in or in browsers on mobile devices, you can click the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent Google Analytics data collection from this website in the future (this opt-out cookie only works in this browser and for this domain; if you delete your cookies in this browser, you will have to click this link again):.

4.2 Google AdWords conversion tracking

This website also uses Google AdWords conversion tracking, a web analysis service by Google, Inc., for improving the website and the advertising activities. The cookie for conversion tracking is set when a user clicks on an ad controlled by Google. These cookies become invalid after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If you visit certain pages of our website within these 30 days, both we and Google in the USA can recognize that you clicked on the ad and were routed to this site. Every Google AdWords customer gets a different cookie. As a result, cookies cannot be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained by conversion cookies is used to generate conversion statistics for us. We learn the total number of users who clicked on our ad and were routed to our site. However, we do not receive any information by which you can be personally identified.If you do not want to participate in the tracking, you can simply disable the Google conversion tracking cookie in your web browser's user settings. In that case you are not included in the conversion tracking statistics. Additional setting options can be found on the web page about disabling Google ads at https:

4.3 Use of A/B testing by Visual Website Optimizer

Less frequently, the Annie's Quilt Shoppe website uses the Visual Website Optimizer web analysis service by Wingify Software Private Limited, Inc., which is used for A/B and multi-version tests. This service uses cookies to identify a user's browser and to analyze the use of this website. The cookies placed by Visual Website Optimizerv do not collect personal data.More information about how Visual Website Optimizer processes your data can be found at https:

4.4 Ignition One

Annie's Quilt Shoppe uses the Digital Marketing Suite (DMS), a service for web analysis by IgnitionOne Deutschland GmbH, Leonrodstr. 52, 80636 Munich, Germany. The DMS helps Annie's Quilt Shoppe to analyze user behavior while on Annie's Quilt Shoppe.com in order to improve and optimize the website and the provided content continuously.

Using a tag that runs in the background of Annie's Quilt Shoppe.com, IgnitionOne collects information about user behaviors, such as product interests on the website. Once a page is opened, the following data will be transmitted to IgnitionOne:The complete URLs you loaded to enter the page, the page you visited before you entered the currently opened page, the time you stayed on our pages, browser type, operating system and device type,  cookie settings and the time you entered the page. Furthermore, we assign a user ID to you which is stored in a cookie on your browser, provided you accept cookies and you haven’t withheld your consent for analysing your behavior (appeal procedures are described below). With every click on a button or link an anonymous profile is updated based on the currently visited page and the page visited before. The profile information will be stored in the Annie's Quilt Shoppe user database on IgnitionOne servers within the European Union. Depending on the usage of the website, separate forms and offers may be displayed.

You can deactivate cookies at any time. However, this might lead to the website not being able to be used without restrictions.  Alternatively, you can perform an opt-out at https:If you have not disagreed with the use of cookies and fill out a contact form on the website, we will combine the data entered in the contact form with the data collected via the IgnitionOne tag. With regards to the aforementioned purpose, this data will be forwarded to IgnitionOne Deutschland GmbH and processed.

4.5 Quantcast

Furthermore, the Annie's Quilt Shoppe website uses a service by Quantcast, 795 Folsom Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107, to create individual, anonymous data profiles of our users. This involves a cookie from Quantcast which is set when the user enters the website.

Quantcast only models anonymous records of Internet usage. Quantcast does not intentionally collect any personally identifiable information –that is, information that could be used to uniquely identify or locate an individual.

Information collected by Quantcast may be used by Annie's Quilt Shoppe to understand the characteristics and demographics of the people who visit Annie's Quilt Shoppe.com.  Furthermore, this knowledge may be used to develop online advertising which is more efficient, pleasant, and relevant to the user’s interests.

More information about how Quantcast handles your data can be found at https:

4.6 Hotjar

This website uses Hotjar. The provider is Hotjar Ltd, Level 2, St Julians Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 1000, Malta, Europe.

Hotjar is a tool used to analyze your user behavior on this website. Hotjar allows us to record your mouse movements, scrolling movements and clicks, among other things. Hotjar can also determine how long you have remained with the mouse pointer on a certain place. From this information, Hotjar creates so-called heat maps, which can be used to determine which website areas are viewed preferably by the website visitor.

Furthermore, we can determine how long you stayed on a page and when you left it. We can also determine at which point you abandoned your input in a contact form (so-called conversion funnels).

In addition, Hotjar can be used to obtain direct feedback from website visitors. This function serves to improve the website operator's web offerings.

Hotjar uses technologies that enable the recognition of the user for the purpose of analyzing user behavior (e.g. cookies or use of device fingerprinting).

Deactivating Hotjar

If you wish to deactivate the data collection by Hotjar, click on the following link and follow the instructions there:https:Please note that disabling Hotjar must be done separately for each browser or device.

For more information about Hotjar and the data it collects, please see Hotjar's privacy policy at the following link:https:

4.7 Facebook Pixel

Annie's Quilt Shoppe of America uses a service by Facebook that involves a pixel installation on the website.

Any customer data that Annie's Quilt Shoppe of America passes through the Facebook pixel is hashed locally on the browser before it goes to the Facebook servers for matching. This hashing process turns data collected from the Annie's Quilt Shoppe of America pixel into short encrypted messages that cannot be tampered with.

Facebook uses these hashes to match pixel events with people on Facebook. Then Facebook deletes all matched and unmatched hashes immediately after the matching process ends. Facebook does not collect or store any personally identifiable information on their servers.

The Facebook pixel uses secure https connection, so that any data transmitted from the browser will make it to the Facebook servers safely.

Find more information about pixels datahere.

4.9 Web shop inspiration. AnniesQuiltShoppe.com

If you wish to order something from our web shop, in order to conclude the contract, you are required to provide the personal data necessary to process your order (mandatory information). The mandatory information required to process the order is marked separately; all other information is voluntary. We process the data you provide for the purpose of processing your order. 

You can also voluntarily create a customer account, enabling us to save your data for further purchases. When you create a customer account, the optional data you have provided and your previous purchases will be stored unless consent is revoked. One of the advantages of this is that you can download digital content you have purchased (e.g. a digital edition of our customer magazine)from your customer account at any time.

Due to commercial and tax regulations, we are obliged to save your address, payment and order data for a period of ten years. Your data will be deleted when the purpose for which the data was collected no longer applies and there is no legal basis for its continued storage. In your customer account, you can edit or delete all optional data yourself under"Addresses" or"Profile data". Your entire customer account can be deleted on request (which you can send to info@Annie's Quilt Shoppe.com, for example). More information about your information and consent revocation rights is available in Section 9 of this privacy policy.

If you open a customer account, we will link the data you provided when you opened the account and the purchases made with other information that we have stored about you in a customer profile. In doing so, we comply with the principle of purpose limitation and only link data that has been collected for the same purposes (e.g. for personalized advertising).

4.10 Data sent to Annie's Quilt Shoppe

5. Social media content

Annie's Quilt Shoppe may use social media plugins, e.g. by Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, on this website. These platforms have their own privacy policies over which Annie's Quilt Shoppe has no control.

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google+

If you are logged in at a social media provider's site while simultaneously visiting our site, the possibility of the provider matching the visit to your network account cannot be ruled out. If you use the plugin functions (e.g. clicking on the"Like" button, posting a comment), this information is similarly transmitted from your browser directly to the particular social network and possibly stored there. The purpose and the extent of the collection, further processing and use of the data by the networks can be found in the privacy policy notices of Facebook, Twitter and Google.If the user does not want any of these plugins to be loaded, it is recommended to log out of the particular social media service. In addition, various browsers can be set or upgraded with add-ons (e.g. Facebook blocker)so that the social media plugins are not loaded.

6. Disclosure of information

Annie's Quilt Shoppe and its subsidiaries and affiliates within the Group use your personal information in accordance with these data protection regulations and will not disclose it to third parties.

Exceptions to this are if you have consented to the disclosure of information to companies not affiliated to Annie's Quilt Shoppe or if Annie's Quilt Shoppe is required by law, by a government authority or a court to do so. Another exception is if service providers are engaged to support Annie's Quilt Shoppe in data processing, administering the website or in another capacity or to provide you with products and services you have requested. These third parties are obliged to maintain the same degree of security and data protection as Annie's Quilt Shoppe.

7. Children’s Online Privacy Policy

Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Annie's Quilt Shoppe.com does not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13 without prior parental consent. If you make a purchase on Annie's Quilt Shoppe.com, you are representing that you are an adult. If you under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian to assist you in using Annie's Quilt Shoppe.com.

If Annie's Quilt Shoppe learns that a child under the age of 13 has submitted personal information online without consent of a parent or guardian, we will take all reasonable measures to delete the information as soon as possible and not to use such information for any purpose, except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required or allowed by law.

8. Data security

The transmission of data over the Internet is unfortunately not absolutely secure. In order to protect your information, Annie's Quilt Shoppe only collaborates with service providers and Internet providers that take appropriate technical and organisational security measures. However, Annie's Quilt Shoppe cannot guarantee the security of the data transmitted by you as a user. Any transmission of data is undertaken at your own risk.

9. Your information and withdrawal rights

You have the option of informing Annie's Quilt Shoppe at any time - for example, by email - that your information should in future no longer be used to contact you. You can also cancel your participation in particular services of the Annie's Quilt Shoppe website, such as the newsletter service, at any time.

Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights with respect to your information. Under California laws, California resident have the right to:

• Request Annie's Quilt Shoppe to provide you access to certain information we hold about you
• Opt out of the"sale" of certain personal information we hold about you
• Request Annie's Quilt Shoppe to delete certain personal information we hold about you
• Request Annie's Quilt Shoppe to restrict the use of your information

Annie's Quilt Shoppe will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, including authenticating your identity through your email address. Annie's Quilt Shoppe may also require additional documentation, including (but not limited to)a state issued form of identification.

Annie's Quilt Shoppe will respond to your request within the time period prescribed by applicable law. Please note that many of the above rights are subject to exceptions and limitations. Some Annie's Quilt Shoppe services can only be provided if we are able to use your information. Therefore, deletion of your information may result in the inability to provide you with certain services that enhance your experience on our website.

California residents with rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)can click here for access or deletion requests.

Your rights and Annie's Quilt Shoppe’s responses to your requests will vary based on your state or country of residency. Please note that you may be located in a jurisdiction where we are not obligated or are unable to fulfill your request. Under these circumstances, your request may not be fulfilled. If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, you have the right not to receive, and will not receive, any discriminatory treatment by Annie's Quilt Shoppe. 

"Do Not Sell My Personal Information" (California Residents only)

California residents may opt out of the"sale" of their personal information. Annie's Quilt Shoppe does not sell (as"sell" is traditionally defined)any of your personal information for monetary considerations. In other words, we do not provide your name, phone number, address, email address or other personal information to third parties in exchange for money.

California law broadly defines"sale" in a way that may include sharing information with third parties in order to receive certain information such as cookies, IP address and/or browsing behavior to add a profile about your device, browser, and to improve your experience on Annie's Quilt Shoppe.com. This profile enables delivery of interest-based advertising on other sites that you visit. Advertising, including interest-based advertising, enables Annie's Quilt Shoppe to provide you with certain free content and provide relevant offers to you.

We may share the following categories of information for such advertising which may be considered a sale (as defined by California Law):

• Identification and demographics
• Device information and identifiers, such as IP address, and unique advertising identifiers and cookies
• Internet, such as browsing and search history
• Geolocation information, such as city
• And inference data

10. Final provisions

If the individual provisions or parts of these Privacy Policy should prove to be invalid or ineffective, the validity of the rest of the Privacy Policy will not be affected.

The jurisdiction and applicable law are as stated in the Terms and Conditions of Use.