# Woodstitch Privacy Policy

**Effective date:** 3 November 2026
**Version:** 1.0

This policy explains what personal information Woodstitch ("we", "us")
collects, why, and what choices you have. It covers woodstitch.com, the
rating platform, and the client dashboard.

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## 1. What we collect

**Account information.** When you sign in with Google, we receive your
email address, name, and profile photo. Clients also give us business
contact and billing details.

**Your work.** The ratings and answers you submit, and how and when you
submitted them.

**Device and connection.** Your IP address and the approximate location
and network it indicates, device and browser details, a device
fingerprint, timezone and language settings, and interaction and timing
data.

**Payout information.** If you set up payouts, our payment processor,
Stripe, verifies your identity and shares with us the details you give
it, such as your name, date of birth, phone, address, and the bank you
are paid into. We never receive your full bank account number or Social
Security number.

**Cookies and analytics.** We use cookies to keep you signed in and to
secure sign-in. We use Google Analytics to understand how the site is
used, and we record which link or ad brought you to us.

**Messages.** What you send us when you contact us.

## 2. How we use it

We use personal information to:

a. run your account and the platform;
b. pay raters and bill clients;
c. confirm eligibility, including that raters are in the United States;
d. check the quality of work and detect fraud, automation, and duplicate
   accounts;
e. meet tax, legal, and regulatory obligations;
f. enforce our agreements and protect our rights; and
g. improve the service and communicate with you.

## 3. Who we share it with

**Service providers** who act on our behalf, such as our hosting,
payment (Stripe), sign-in (Google), email, and analytics providers. They
may use it only to provide their services to us.

**Clients** receive ratings and results. These are linked at most to a
pseudonymous rater number, never to your name or contact details.

**Legal and safety.** When required by law, or when reasonably necessary
to prevent fraud, enforce our agreements, or protect anyone's rights or
safety, including reporting suspected fraud to law enforcement.

**Business transfers.** As part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of
assets, under this policy's protections.

**We do not sell your personal information.**

## 4. How long we keep it

We keep personal information while your account is open and afterwards
as long as needed for the purposes above, including tax and payment
records, resolving disputes, and preventing fraud. Records of fraud or
breach may be kept longer. Ratings you submitted may be kept
indefinitely in a form that does not identify you.

## 5. Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational safeguards. No system is
completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that information will never
be accessed without authorisation.

## 6. Your choices and rights

You can ask us to access, correct, or delete your personal information,
or for a copy of it. Depending on the state you live in, you may have
additional rights under its privacy law. We will verify your request
before acting on it, may accept it from an agent you authorise, and will
not treat you differently for making it. If we decline a request, you
may ask us to reconsider by replying to our decision.

Some information we must keep even after a deletion request, such as
records required for tax or to prevent fraud.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser, though sign-in requires
them. You can opt out of Google Analytics at
[tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

## 7. Children

Woodstitch is not for anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect
their personal information. If we learn we have, we will delete it.

## 8. Where it is stored

Woodstitch operates in the United States, and your information is stored
and processed there.

## 9. Changes

We may update this policy. We will post the new version here with a new
effective date, and tell you of material changes.

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**Questions or requests:** hello@woodstitch.com

Woodstitch — version 1.0, effective 3 November 2026