This website belongs to the Practical Publishing Group, publisher of Simply Cards & Papercraft. For full Group’s policies visit www.ppprivacy.com. The policies of the group apply to this website, however some specific policies are detailed below.
Cookies and similar technologies (web storage) are small text files that are created on your computer (in the memory of your web browser, to be precise) to store different kinds of information. When you return to Simply Cards & Papercraft website, we may access the cookie that has been created on a previous visit.
None of our cookies and web storage include information by which you could be personally identified. Some use random collection of charcaters and numbers (known as hash) as an identifier, but that allows to indentify only the browser you use on your device, not you as a person.
Some cookies are optional and the website can work without them, but others are indispensable for proper functioning of the site. The Cookie Law refers to them as “strictly necessary”. Before optional Cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown a slide in banner with Cookie Control Panel requesting your consent to set those cookies. After initial consent the Cookie Control Panel is always available by clicking an icon in the left bottom corner of the screen, in case you change your mind. Please note that the Control Panel itself relies on cookies, and if you clear cookies in your browser or acces our site on other device or browser, you will need to set it again.
Your consent will not be sought to place strictly necessary cookies, but it is still important that you are aware of them. You may still block these Cookies by changing your internet browser’s settings as detailed at the bottom of this page, but please be aware that our site may not work properly if you do so.
Cookies can be either first party or third party. First party means that it is us and our website that set them. Third party cookies are those placed by websites, services, and/or parties other than us.
A cookie can be persistent and last after you leave the site, or expire once you leave or log out (so called session cookies).
The table below details use of cookies on this site for your information.
| Cookie name | Type | Purpose | Party | Persistent |
| __kla_id | Analytics | Used to distinguish users | Third Party (Klaviyo) | Yes |
| _ga, _gid, _gat | Analytics | Used to distinguish users | Third Party (Google Analytics) | Yes |
| event_registration | Analytics | Used to count number of registrations | First Party | No |
| pattern_downloaded | Analytics | Used to collect info on downloads | First Party | No |
| has_just_registered | Functional | Triggers welcome message after registration. | First Party | No |
| redirect_id, redirect_anchor | Functional | Used to redirect user after loggin to a page they looked at before. | First Party | No |
| wordpress_logged_in_(identifier) | Necessary | Allows users to log in to their account. | First Party | No |
| wordpress_sec_(identifier) | Necessary | Allows users to log in to their account. | First Party | No |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Necessary | Tells WordPress if cookies are enabled. | First Party | Yes |
| analytics | Necessary | Tells Cookie Control Panel when analytics cookies are enabled. | First Party | Yes |
| functional | Necessary | Tells Cookie Control Panel when functional cookies are enabled. | First Party | Yes |
Web storage, sometimes known as DOM storage is a technology similar to cookies. It allowes some information to be saved in your browser’s memory. There are two kinds of web storage – local storage and session storage. The former is persistent, the latter temporary.
The table below details use of web storage on this site for your information.
| Stored entry name | Type | Purpose | Party | Local/Session |
| ccClosed | Necessary | Tells Cookie Control Panel if it should be closed. | First Party | Local Storage |
| ccc-analytics | Necessary | Tells Cookie Control Panel if analytics cookies are enabled. | First Party | Local Storage |
| ccc-functional | Necessary | Tells Cookie Control Panel if functional cookies are enabled. | First Party | Local Storage |
| wc | Necessary | Tells that WooCommerce plugin was installed. | First Party | Local Storage |
| wc_cart_hash_(identifier) | Necessary | Makes it possible for WooCommerce plugin cart to work. | First Party | Local Storage |
| wc_cart_hash_(identifier) | Necessary | Makes it possible for WooCommerce plugin cart to work. | First Party | Session Storage |
| wc_fragments_(identifier) | Necessary | Makes it possible for WooCommerce plugin cart to work. | First Party | Session Storage |
If you do not wish to have any cookies placed on your computer, you can set your web browser to refuse them, and you can delete existing cookies. However, some features of this website (and many others you visit) may not function properly if you disable all cookies.
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