Terms and Conditions

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we care deeply about privacy. We strive to be transparent about our privacy practices, including how we treat your personal information.

This policy applies to our registered buyers (“Buyers”) and sellers (“Sellers”) (together, our “Members”), those who purchase items on  without an account (“Guests”) and anyone else who visits our Sites or uses our Services (together with our Members and Guests, “you” and “your”). If you are not a registered Member or a Guest, please see our Non-Member Privacy Policy for further information about how we may collect and use your personal information.

This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties (including Sellers, Pattern by Etsy users or API users) who you may choose to share information with when you use the Services. Please note that the collection and use of your information by these third parties is subject to their own privacy policies and terms. You should understand the privacy and security practices of any third party before you share information with them.

It is important that you understand how we use your information. You should read this policy in full, but some key points and references to help you navigate the policy are:

• Our mission is to keep human connection at the heart of commerce. We connect Buyers with Sellers that offer handmade or vintage products and craft supplies. By accepting our Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, or by using any of our Services, you confirm that you have read and understand this policy, including how and why we use your information.
• We collect and use your personal information to provide and improve our Services, to protect the security and integrity of our Services and to comply with our legal obligations. To learn more about what information we collect and how we use it, see Section 1 and Section 2 below.
• We share your information with other group companies, trusted partners and service providers to provide our Services, for security purposes, to understand how you use and interact with our Services and to meet our legal obligations. To learn more, see Section 3.
• If you are located outside of North or South America, Etsy Ireland UC is the service provider and data controller responsible for your personal information. If you are located within North or South America, Etsy, Inc. is the service provider and data controller responsible for your personal information. The contact details for both companies are set out in Section 11.
• Other policies that are referenced below, such as the Terms of Use and Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy, are available from Our House Rules page, located here.
• If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or wish to exercise your rights, see Section 11 for further information about how to contact us.

In the course of providing our Services, we collect and receive information that directly or indirectly relates to you (which we call your “personal information”) in different ways and from different sources, which we have set out below. The capitalized terms in this Section 1 are definitions that we use throughout this Policy, so please refer back to this table as necessary.