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Our website address is: https://www.charlestoncrafted.com

We love our readers and love sharing our passion for DIY with you. But just so we’re all on the same page:

• Charleston Crafted was created & is written and maintained by Morgan Smith McBride & Sean McBride.  All content, including photos, images, videos and text is our property and cannot be reproduced without our permission. Feel free to use an image or two as long as it is credited to us and links back to the original content. Please do not replicate any of our text or more than a couple of pictures without contacting us for permission first.
• All photos that aren’t taken by Charleston Crafted are credited and linked to their original sources and are believed to be in public domain. If we ever post a photo that belongs to you & you are unhappy with our citation (of you or your site), please contact us and we will resolve it as quickly as possible. Any photos not credited to a source have been taken by Charleston Crafted and are rights protected. It is a copyright violation not to link back to the source of any and all images.
• We are a for-profit blog. We make money from the blog in a variety of ways, including but not limited to: selling digital products, advertisements, and affiliate links. Affiliate ads pay us a percentage of sales resulting from clicks on the ad, product image, or link to a product. Posts containing affiliate links will be clearly marked. We have ads, not to be evil, but in order to pay ourselves for the time that goes into creating awesome content. Thanks for supporting our sponsors!
• We will always give you the straight truth on product reviews. In fact, most of our product reviews are not paid or perked- they’re just things that we’ve bought and gotten especially attached to. If a product review is paid, or if we got it for free, we will be sure to let you know that, but we will never let that affect our review of the product.
• We are not professional designers or contractors- we are amateurs who just love figuring things out our own way, sometimes based off of reference books or blogs & often off of trial and error. We make every effort to ensure that all tutorials and recipes posted are of the highest possible quality and revise projects to reflect any problems or tricks that come to our attention. However, we are not responsible for the outcome of any projects that you try to replicate off of our site. Please wear eye protection! We don’t want any injuries to you or your home.
• We approve all comments by hand. We respect negative comments (you’re entitled to your opinion!) and will approve them, as well. However, comments interpreted as just plain mean will not be approved. We have the right to delete any comment at any time for any reason (so don’t give us a reason too, mmmkay?) Also, our spam filter occasionally catches real comments, so feel free to show a little personality so you aren’t mistaken (by a robot) as a robot.
• We love seeing & sharing your home, builds, projects… everything! If you email us pictures of your goods, we are assuming that you are ok with us sharing them on the site. If we are going to feature you in a post, we will contact you in advance to get the full run down!
• Questions? Feel free to contact us at any time at Morgan@CharlestonCrafted.com

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.

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.

Cookies

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.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

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.

What rights you have 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Privacy Policy

We value your privacy and are committed to protecting it.

What information do we collect? 

• Information you voluntarily submit to our site IE comments or forms you fill out
  • If you choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your profile, we will receive your name, email address and profile picture if you have them attached to your account.
• Automatically collected information
  • When you visit our site, our blog automatically tracks your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the blog. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the blog, such as links clicked.
  • Advertisers use cookies to display advertisements that might correspond to your web history and behaviors.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

• IP Address
• Operating System type
• Operating System version
• Device Type
• Language of the website
• Web browser type
• Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Newsletter Sponsorships

We engage others to serve newsletter advertisements and perform related services across the web and in mobile applications. You can learn more about interest-based ads, or opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes by companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance, by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.

Opting Out of Targeted Advertising, Sharing, and Sales. We process personal information to understand and improve your experience with our Services and to serve you targeted advertisements. Some of these activities may be considered “sales” or “sharing” of your personal information or “targeted advertising” under certain privacy laws. To opt out of preference-based advertising, use the form linked below. Note, this will not stop you from seeing sponsorships or advertisements in our newsletters, but those ads will be selected randomly rather than based on your known preferences.

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