Important Notes

We sell easy-to-follow PDF patterns of our own designs and handmade goods.

Kittying provides this website as a service and is subject to the following Terms of Use. If you do not agree to Kittying’s Terms of Use as posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.

You must be 18 years or older to use this site or have permission from a legal guardian. Therefore, this policy makes no provision for individuals under 18 years old.

Your use of this site indicates acceptance of these terms.

The information that you submit to Kittying.com is protected by a password for your security and privacy.

All information provided to us will be deemed personal and will be kept confidential.

We advise you to protect unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by signing off once you have finished using a shared computer.

Familiarize yourself with Kittying’s Privacy Policy.

Price listed is in US dollars. Payment is to be made through Paypal or Credit Cards with payment processed by Paypal.

As a buyer, you have a legal obligation to complete a transaction if you purchase an item. The sale contract becomes binding when you clicked on the checkout button at the final step in the shopping cart.

After the purchase, you will receive a confirmation email, and you are obligated to complete the transaction within 3 calendar days of your purchase.

No shipping fee is required for Digital (a digital file that buyers will download) pattern purchases.

For pattern purchase, an email with DOWNLOAD LINK will be sent to the email address you used to register at kittying.com once payment cleared. (If you do not receive it within 24 hours, please email us at ying@kittying.com)

Please ensure that you provide us with a working email address that is up to date.

Items sold are non-refundable and non-exchangeable. All sales are final.

However, you are welcome to contact me if you have any questions with our PDF patterns. I will be more than happy to help and will appreciate your feedback.

By purchase this Pattern you agree to the Terms of Use and Copyright.

You are solely responsible for the content which you post and/or submit to this website. You warrant and agree that you will not post or publish any materials that are unlawful, threatening, false, misleading, harassing, or profane.

Kittying reserves the right to make updates, changes, and modifications to any portion of the Terms of Use at any time by adding, removing, or posting new Terms of Use on this site.

This copyright notice contains important information and is here for the protection of this website. If you intend to use, or have used Kittying.com please read the following guidelines:

• Please never claim or publish any of my patterns as your own. This means that you will not rewrite, resell or distribute any of my free or purchased patterns.

• All material on this site, including but are not limited to: images, videos, graphics, charts, text information, and patterns may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcasted in any way. This also means that nothing from this site may be posted to the internet or other digital devices, either in a blog/website or any other digital format without the express written permission of Belle Ying.

• You may print any of the information from this website for your own personal use.

• You are welcome to sell the crocheted items made from my patterns, and if you do I would appreciate it if you gave credit to Kittying.com for the pattern. No mass production of our items are allowed.

• If you are a teacher, or teaching a class on crochet and would like to use information directly from this site, please use this link to contact me for written permission.

A few patterns are strictly for your personal use only: Hello Kitty, My Melody, Cinnamoroll and Tarepanda. This has been cearly indicated in the descriptions of those items.

Thank you for reading this copyright notice.

At Kittying.com I am dedicated to protect your data and privacy.

I recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information I receive and collect when you use Kittying.com, as well as some of the steps I take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with me.

Kittying.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all my operations. Likewise, I am dedicated to protect my customers’ and online visitors’ privacy on my website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our website and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use appropriate procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Our website address is: https://kittying.com.
Our email address is: ying@kittying.com.

Personally Identifiable Information

Kittying.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate my site.
• To display content on the site correctly.
• To improve customer service.
• To help me respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
• To personalize your user experience.
• To understand how my users as a group use the services and resources provided on my site.
• To improve my site.
• To improve my products and services.
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
• To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics I think will be of interest to you.
• To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
• To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

Kittying.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit my site, register on the site, or fill out a form, make a purchase and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources I make available on my site.

Specifically, if you subscribe to my newsletter, I will ask you for your name and will require your email address.

If you complete a form, I will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you add a product to wishlist, I will request a member log in.

If you submit content to me, I will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, I will require your name and your email address.

If you submit testimonial, I will ask for project image which is optional.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.

If you purchase a product from me, I will collect your name, email address, billing address and Paypal account which may include credit card number.

This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. Below are links to the privacy policies:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Pinterest
• Instagram

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit my site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities and unable to make purchase.

If I make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, I will inform you by placing a notice on my site. I will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

I also collect each visitor’s IP address, which helps me combat spam and fraud. I do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Kittying.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave my site, I do not have any control over that other website.

Therefore, I cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

I may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with my site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to my site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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 create a wishlist, we’ll also use cookies to keep track of wishlist contents while you’re browsing our site. It expires after 29 day.

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.

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.

Kittying.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. I share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Kittying.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. I use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to my website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve my usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on.

 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.

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.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on my host’s servers. That host is located at Provo, Utah, United States.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.

We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

• Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
• Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
• Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

• Send you information about your account and order
• Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
• Process payments and prevent fraud
• Set up your account for our store
• Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
• Improve our store offerings
• Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.

We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:

• Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
• Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.

We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example — analytics, marketing, payment gateways, shipping providers, and third party embeds.

We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.

If there are any questions regarding this Terms of Use, Copyright & Privacy Policy, you may contact us using the link below.

We reserve the right to make any changes to our site and our privacy policy at any point of time without prior notice.