Effective Date: November 20, 2025
Welcome to Nourish and Stitches.
At Nourish and Stitches (accessible at https://nourishandstitches.com), we value our community deeply. Whether you are here for a recipe or a pattern, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal information is handled with care and respect.
Here is a transparent look at what data we collect, why we collect it, and how we protect it.
1. Comments
We love hearing from you! When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string. We do this to help spam detection and keep our community safe.
Gravatar: 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. This allows your profile picture to show up next to your comment.
You can view the Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
2. Media
We love seeing your creations. However, if you upload images to the website, please be mindful. 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.
3. Cookies
We use cookies to make your experience on our site smoother and more personal. (Unfortunately, these are digital cookies, not the edible kind!)
Commenting: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don’t have to fill in your details again next time. These cookies last for one year.
Logging In: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Account Sessions: When you log in, we set up cookies to save your login info and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login persists for two weeks. If you log out, the login cookies are removed.
Editing: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. It includes no personal data, simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited, and expires after 1 day.
4. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Sometimes we share inspiration from other sources. Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you had visited that other website directly.
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 if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
5. Who We Share Your Data With
We treat your data with respect and do not sell it.
Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email for security purposes.
Spam Detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
6. How Long We Retain Your Data
Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Registered Users: For users that register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (though they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
7. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
This is your information, and you have control over it. If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to:
1. Receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
2. Erase any personal data we hold about you.
Note: This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Contact Us If you have any specific questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at: nourishandstitches@gmail.com
PS. The Medical Disclaimer: The content provided by Nourish & Stitches is intended for informational purposes exclusively. I am not a medical professional, but rather a mother who is sharing her personal experiences.