ALETHEIA PATTERNS (“Aletheia”) collects customer information in an effort to enhance and personalise your shopping experience. This information allows us to communicate with customers about our products, services, and promotions.
The privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) described below covers the entire ALETHEIA PATTERNS website (“the Site,” “Aletheia,” “we,” “me,” “us,” or “our”). Phrases such as “you,” “your” and other similar expressions refer to our customers, or the specific users of this Site. By visiting and using the Aletheia site, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy and give us your consent to process any data you provide as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
ALETHEIA PATTERNS collects information in order to process payments effectively. Your payment information, such as credit card or bank account information, your name, and your mailing address are used only to process and fulfil your order. Your email address is collected so that we may communicate with you regarding the status of your order and via newsletter, which you can choose to opt out of at checkout.
You have the right to request that we delete your data from our Site at any time. To do so, please email us at he***@***************ns.com .
Please note: You are not required to submit any information to our Site. However, without providing the requested information, you may be unable to access certain features of our Site, including placing an order.
ALETHEIA PATTERNS does not share your personal information with third-party advertising partners or service providers. ALETHEIA PATTERNS will never rent or sell your e-mail address. We do not share credit card information with third parties except for the purpose of processing your order payment and as required by law. If for any reason you choose to access a third party website linked to our Site, you do so at your own risk. We are not held responsible for how these outside parties collect, use, protect, or disclose the information you provide them.
Aletheia-patterns.com is intended for users who are 18 years of age and older. If you are under the age of 18, you are not permitted to submit any personal information to us.
Web data is collected to monitor user trends on our Site. Analytical data such as hits to our server, traffic patterns and page views shows us where our audience is coming from and how they interact with us online. This type of collected information does not personally identify specific Site users. In addition, like most websites, our Site may utilize “web beacons,” “pixel tags” or other tracking technologies to help us study the actions of our users through non-personally identifiable information. This data may be aggregated with similar data collected from other users to help us improve Aletheia products, services, and our overall Site experience.
It is at our sole discretion that ALETHEIA PATTERNS may modify this Privacy Policy to better serve our customers. Please check back often to review any new modifications that have been made. Feel free to email us with any questions regarding this policy at pa******@******ia.nz .
Description of Service
ALETHEIA PATTERNS is an online retailer of PDF sewing patterns designed for the pear-shaped woman. All designs are original and only legitimately available through this website.
Usage Restrictions
All of the content that appears on the ALETHEIA PATTERNS website, including all visuals, text, audio and video clips are subject to copyright protections and /or other intellectual property rights or licenses held by ALETHEIA PATTERNS. The entire content of the ALETHEIA PATTERNS website is copyrighted. ALETHEIA PATTERNS grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of the content on this Site. Content of the ALETHEIA PATTERNS website is intended solely for the personal, noncommercial use by the users of our Site. Using the designs from the patterns is allowed only under the following conditions: 1) an original ALETHEIA PATTERNS must be purchased by the maker of the final garment, 2) the purchaser must only sell the final garment and no part of the pattern instructions or files are to be shared in any form, 3) credit is to be given to ALETHEIA PATTERNS and must include a weblink back to the ALETHEIA PATTERNS site.
Pricing Policy
At ALETHEIA PATTERNS, we are committed to providing customers with great quality sewing patterns at fair prices. Our PDF designs are sold only online and prices may change with no notifications. We have done our best to display sewing patterns and their results as accurately as possible on the Site. Please be aware, variations in style, colour, size, shape and look may occur from the original patterns when used and modified by our customers. Due to the nature of downloadable products, no refunds can be issued. Thank you for your understanding.
Site Use
You cannot access or use the ALETHEIA PATTERNS website for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. Harassment in any manner or form of the Site, including via e-mail and chat or by obscene or abusive language, is strictly forbidden. Although ALETHEIA PATTERNS cannot monitor the conduct of its users, it is a strict violation of these Terms to use any information obtained from our Site in order to harass, abuse or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise, solicit or sell to any user without his/her prior explicit consent.
Also, you agree that no comments or other user submissions submitted by you to the Aletheia website will violate any right of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal rights. You further agree that no comments submitted by you to the Site will be or contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, abusive or obscene material. You are and shall remain solely responsible for the content of any comments you make.
Rights over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional Means of Obtaining Information
Cookies
As you navigate our site, your preferences are remembered through the temporary use of “session” cookies. Cookies enable our systems to gather information about your browser as well as monitor the navigational patterns you take while browsing the site. Site users have the option to accept or disable cookies at any time through their browsers. If you choose to disable your cookies, your user experience may be limited.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Facebook and Pinterest
Using Facebook, Pinterest, as well as other Site connection methods, we may utilize your personal data to better your individual Aletheia experience. We take your privacy seriously and abide by all Facebook and Pinterest terms, policies and agreements. Your data is kept secure and no actions are taken on your behalf without prior permission.
Indemnity
By use of this Site, you agree to indemnify and hold ALETHEIA PATTERNS (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and employees) harmless from any claim or demand, as well as losses, expenses, damages and costs, resulting from any violation of these terms of service or any activity related to your account (including negligent or wrongful conduct).
Correction of Site Errors
The information on the ALETHEIA PATTERNS website may contain typographical errors or inaccuracies. We reserve the right to update any information we see fit at any time without prior notice. Please note that such errors may relate to product information, pricing and availability. In these instances, we shall have the right to terminate any orders involving pricing errors or inaccuracies. We apologize for any inconveniences.
Modification/Termination of Website
In the event of termination, you will still be bound by your obligations under these terms of service, including the warranties made by you, and by the disclaimers and limitations of liability. Aletheia shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Third Party Links
To improve our Site, ALETHEIA PATTERNS may use and promote services provided by outside third parties. However, even if the third party is affiliated with Aletheia, we do not control these services and make no representations regarding these persons or entities. We are not liable or responsible for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, reliability or availability of, any such parties. Outside sites linked on our Site, all of which have separate privacy and data collection practices, are only for your convenience and therefore you access them at your own risk. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY SORT INCURRED AS A RESULT OF ANY DEALINGS WITH ANY THIRD PARTY WEBSITE OR MERCHANT OR OPERATOR OF SUCH A THIRD PARTY WEBSITE.
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Disclaimer of Warranty
All content, products, and services on the site, or obtained from a website to which the site is linked (a “linked site”) are provdied to you “as is” withouth any guarantees or warranty. In connection with all content, products, and services on this site, ALETHEIA makes no warranties of any kind, either epxress or implied including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purplse, title, non-infringement, security or accuracy. Use of products by a user is at the user’s risk.
Limitation of Liability
ALETHEIA shall not be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials and services on this site or the performance of any of its products (even if ALETHEIA has been advised of the possibility of such damages).
Modification and Termination
ALETHEIA PATTERNS may revise these Terms of Use from time to time in our sole discretion, without prior notice to you. All changes are effective immediately once posted to the Site, and apply to all access and uses thereafter. Your continued use of the Site and any offered services thereon means that you accept the revised Terms and agree to the changes. You should revisit this page from time to time so that you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.
Affirmation of Agreement
Thank you for reading this Agreement thoroughly and carefully. By using ALETHEIA PATTERNS, you hereby acknowledge and affirm that you have read and agree to be bound by all of the Terms herein.