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Copyright Policy
This website is a personal blog, written and edited by Sarah at Ruffles and Rain Boots .com. All images and content are protected by copyright. If you are going to link to us, an email notification is greatly appreciated (so we can help promote your page), but not necessary.
Live-streaming (Facebook LIVE, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) content posted by Ruffles and Rain Boots posts to those platforms are included in this policy. All content (although made public) is NOT free to use unless permission is expressly granted.
How you can use our material: We love it when others share our fun and creations, and encourage you to share on your blog, website, and social media accounts. We must, however, advise that you follow the usage parameters listed below. We will protect our brand and issue DMCA takedown and copyright infringement notices directly to Google, AdSense, advertising networks, and hosts. We will not be compliant concerning the theft of our work.
- Please use one (1) image only and source the image as Ruffles and Rain Boots.com. You must not alter the image or remove the watermark.
- You must link back directly to the post from which you selected the image. This link must be within the body of the post/article and must be visible. Please note: you may NOT use any of the text that appears on Ruffles and Rain Boots. If you are unclear, contact this website directly BEFORE publication.
- If you are linking to a printable, you must link to the post and not directly to the printable link.
- Any live-streaming material should not be used unless you have been given express permission and have been provided a link by Ruffles and Rain Boots.
- No video should be uploaded directly into your publication platform as it is in violation of copyright law AND social network terms of service.
Shop Policies
All sales are final when made via the Ruffles and Rain Boots Shop (located at shop.rufflesandrainboots.com) for digital patterns, cut files, hand lettering workbooks, and custom digital creations.
REFUNDS: Due to the nature of digital downloads, the industry-wide policy is that no refunds are given on digital products. This is non-negotiable UNLESS there is a file which does not work due to improper creation or a technical issue on behalf of Ruffles and Rain Boots. No refunds are given when user does not have or cannot work the software required to use the content.
USAGE: All sales are for personal use unless the express permissions and licenses are obtained at the time of purchase OR before the commercial use of such content is conducted. Legal action will be pursued for illegally selling physical goods without proper license, the illegal sharing or distribution of digital files, the copying or derived content created from materials with implied or registered copyright, or the improper use of the Ruffles and Rain Boots name.
Liability
All tutorials and post, though instructive and thought to be sound, are not warranted or guaranteed by the author, RufflesandRainBoots.com, any parent LLC, or any party acting on their behalf. The reader assumes all risk, inherent and not inherent with the construction of any tutorial or post found within this domain (RufflesandRainBoots.com), email alias ending in @RufflesandRainBoots.com, or any social media account used by authors, officers, or employees acting on their behalf.
The authors or any entity working on their behalf assume no liability, risk, or responsibility for the work of any reader that is inspired or prompted from ideas or knowledge gained from the web domain known as RufflesandRainBoots.com, any email alias ending in @RufflesandRainBoots.com, or any social media accounts associated directly or indirectly with Ruffles and Rain Boots.com.
In general, Ruffles and Rain Boots is an information-based site and urges all readers to seek local professional help before attempting a project that is new to them, either in idea or skill, to comply with local and national laws. Furthermore, Ruffles and Rain Boots advises that everyone take a proper course in how to use each and every specific tool before beginning any project.
Ruffles and Rain Boots does not warranty any product reviewed or featured on RufflesandRainBoots.com, any email alias ending in @RufflesandRainBoots.com, or any social media accounts directly or indirectly with Ruffles and Rain Boots.com.
If you have any questions about the warranty, safety, soundness or any other question that could cause harm and/or injury, Ruffles and Rain Boots urges you not to attempt the project and seek professional help.
Disclosure Policy
In 2009, the Federal Trade Commission {FTC} revised their guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials in order to protect the public from any intentionally errant or misleading advertising (that has been paid for by a group or company). Rarely, Ruffles and Rain Boots incorporates endorsements or testimonials, and we felt we should say:
- I am very selective in which companies I work with and only select those that I believe will resonate with you, my readers.
- No matter the compensation, any review will be honest and I will give my true opinion.
- I will never compromise this platform (or your faith in it) to make a buck.
- This blog is a source of income for my family and sometimes I mention affiliate links – these are at no additional cost to you and often come with a discount. It is safe to click on them.
Affiliate and Advertising Policy
Some of the links on this site will be affiliate links. They will always be disclosed, per FTC guidelines. It’s my personal policy (so I can like myself in the morning) to only provide links to services and products I use and would recommend to a client or friend.
Sarah Nenni-Daher is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.
This site might choose to display advertisements for which we receive compensation. This practice, along with affiliate links, helps to keep this site free of charge to you.
The views, advice, and opinions on this site are purely my own. Any product, claim, statistic or representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, service provider, or party in question.
European Union Cookie Law
Although this site does not have a significant audience located in the European Union, you agree to consent by accessing and using this site’s resources. You also have the right to be forgotten. For all information to be removed from this site, please contact me at Sarah {@} RufflesandRainBoots.com
Comment Policy
Ultimately, I have one rule: be nice or leave. I won’t publish hate speech in any form, so please treat others how you would like to be treated.
All comments are left at the sole discretion of the operators of this website. No liability is taken or rights given in this regard.
Accessibility Compliance
This website strives to be accessible to all. As of 9/19/2018, all images are descriptive alt-text compliant to allow for machine readers. This site has been built using code compliant with W3C standards for HTML and CSS and displays correctly in current browsers.
While we strive to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of websites. We are continually seeking solutions and if you experience any difficulty accessing this site, please contact me at Sarah {@} RufflesandRainBoots.com
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising
The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising 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. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.
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 www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-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.
The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. 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 http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
Mediavine partners with the following data processors:
- Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
- Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
- Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
- LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
- RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
- District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
- YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
- The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
- Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
- AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
- OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
- Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
- TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
- Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
- Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
- GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
- Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
- MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid was receive the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers’; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behaviour). Some of this data is gathered from this website and others is gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
- RevContent – You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
- Centro, Inc. – You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
- 33Across, Inc. – You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
- Conversant. LLC – You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.
That was a lot of information – let’s get back to the fun!