Last Updated: June 9, 2022
Here at Sew Liberated, we want to create products and an online community for sewists and other fiber-enthusiasts. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) describe our commitments to you, and your rights and responsibilities when using our services. Please read them carefully and reach out to us if you have any questions.
These Terms govern your access to and use of the products and services we provide. Please read these Terms carefully before accessing or using our Service, which includes the website at SewLiberated.com and any mobile app we may produce. By accessing or using any part of our Service, you agree to be bound by all of these Term. You also agree that we may automatically change, update, or add on to our Service, and these Terms will apply to any changes.
We are Sew Liberated LLC, a small business registered in North Carolina, USA, by Meg and Patrick McElwee. We started back in 2007 and are so grateful to have found a supportive community. Read more about us on our About page.
When using our Service requires an account, you agree to provide us with complete and accurate information and to keep the information current so that we can communicate with you about your account. We may need to send you emails about notable updates (like changes to our Terms of Service or Privacy Policy). We may limit your access to our Services until we’re able to verify your account information, like your email address. When you create an account, we consider that to be an inquiry about our products and services, which means that we may also contact you to share more details about what we have to offer. Don’t worry — if you aren’t interested, you can opt out of the marketing communications.
You’re solely responsible and liable for all activity under your account. You’re also fully responsible for maintaining the security of your account (which includes keeping your password secure). We’re not liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of your acts or omissions. Don’t share or misuse your access credentials. And notify us immediately of any unauthorized uses of your account, store, or website, or of any other breach of security. If we believe your account has been compromised, we may suspend or disable it. If you’d like to learn about how we handle the data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.
Our Services are not directed to children. You’re not allowed to access or use our Service if you’re under the age of 13 (or 16 in Europe). If you register as a user or otherwise use our Service, you represent that you’re at least 13 (or 16 in Europe). You may use our Service only if you can legally form a binding contract with us. In other words, if you’re under 18 years of age (or the legal age of majority where you live), you can only use our Service under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to the Terms.
We offer several community spaces where we invite fiber-enthusiasts to interact with each other. To ensure that this remains a positive and safe space for all, we ask that you agree to the following community guidelines.
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Thank you for being here and helping to create and sustain this wonderful community.
We rely on authorized third-party payment processors in order to bill orders through a payment account linked to you, and henceforth you hereby authorize us to charge the pertinent fees through your indicated payment processing account. Sensitive financial details are stored only by our payment providers.
Such third party payment processors are also the ones that process, manage, operate and deliver the payments of your end customers, not Sew Liberated. For more information, please refer to the terms of use of our third party payment processing platform, which may include Stripe or PayPal.
Accordingly, Sew Liberated shall not be held responsible for any and all errors, fees and currency conversion fees by our payment processors, and you should review its terms and policies from time to time, which will govern the provision of services to you.
You may cancel your subscription at any time. We aim to make you fully satisfied with your purchase. If you have an issue, please let us know and we will try to make it right. You may request a refund on any sewing pattern within 7 days or course within 14 days.
Most of our products are one-time purchases, but some may be a subscription.
Your initial subscription billing will start on the date you receive access to the purchased product. This is normally on the same day you make your purchase, or in the case of a pre-launch, it is the day the product is released and you receive access to it. Your card will then be charged on the same day of every month or year that follows, depending on the plan you chose, until you cancel your account.
To ensure uninterrupted service, BuddyBoss will automatically bill you for your subscription on each renewal period thereafter until cancellation.
To avoid any interruption in the service, the User shall maintain up to date credit card details in their account dashboard, accessible at sewliberated.com/my-account/
For any billing related questions, please contact us.
You represent and warrant that your use of our Service:
Our patterns and other material are for personal use only. Unless permission is explicitly granted, no redistribution or commercial use of our patterns or other material is permitted.
These Terms do not transfer any Sew Liberated or third-party intellectual property to you, and all right, title, and interest in and to such property remains (as between Sew Liberated and you) solely with Sew Liberated. Sew Liberated, the Mindful Wardrobe Project, the Creative Hinterland, Learn to Sew Your Clothes, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos used in connection with our websites or Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sew Liberated. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos used in connection with our Service may be the trademarks of other third parties. Using our Service doesn’t grant you any right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Sew Liberated or third-party trademarks.
We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to us. Your profile and materials uploaded and provided remain yours.
If, at our request, you send certain specific submissions (for example images of completed projects) or without a request from us you send creative ideas, suggestions, proposals, plans, or other materials, whether online, by email, by postal mail, or otherwise (collectively, ‘comments’), you agree that we may, at any time, without restriction, edit, copy, publish, distribute, translate, and otherwise use in any medium any comments that you forward to us. We are and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any comments in confidence, unless explicitly promised; (2) to pay compensation for any comments; or (3) to respond to any comments.
When accessing or using the Service, you agree to obey the law and to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Your use of the Service is at all times governed by and subject to laws regarding copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret ownership and use of intellectual property. You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any information or content in violation of any party’s copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. You agree to abide by laws regarding copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret ownership and use of intellectual property, and you shall be solely responsible for any violations of any laws and for any infringements of any intellectual property rights caused by any content you provide, post, or transmit, or that is provided or transmitted using your user name or user ID. The burden of proving that any content does not violate any laws or intellectual property rights rests solely with you.
You agree that your submissions will not violate any right of any third-party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, personality, or other personal or proprietary right. You further agree that your comments will not contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, abusive, or obscene material, or contain any computer virus or other malware that could in any way affect the operation of the Service or any related website.
We may, but have no obligation to, monitor, edit or remove content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, or otherwise objectionable or violates any party’s intellectual property or these Terms of Service.
As we ask others to respect our intellectual property rights, we respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe any content on our Service violates your copyright, please send us a notice.
If, at our request, you send certain specific submissions (for example contest entries) or without a request from us you send creative ideas, suggestions, proposals, plans, or other materials, whether online, by email, by postal mail, or otherwise (collectively, ‘comments’), you agree that we may, at any time, without restriction, edit, copy, publish, distribute, translate, and otherwise use in any medium any comments that you forward to us. We are and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any comments in confidence; (2) to pay compensation for any comments; or (3) to respond to any comments.
We may, but have no obligation to, monitor, edit or remove content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, or otherwise objectionable or violates any party’s intellectual property or these Terms of Service.
We may terminate your access to all or any part of our Services at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. We have the right (though not the obligation) to, in our sole discretion, (i) reclaim your username due to prolonged inactivity, (ii) refuse or remove any content that, in our reasonable opinion, violates any the Terms or any other policy, or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (iii) terminate or deny access to and use of any of our Services to any individual or entity for any reason. We will have no obligation to provide a refund of any fees previously paid. You can stop using our Services at any time, or, if you have a subscription, you can cancel at any time.
Our Services are provided “as is.” Sew Liberated and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Sew Liberated, nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that our Services or products will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, our Services at your own discretion and risk.
In no event shall Sew Liberated LLC, its officers, directors, employees, or agents, be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages whatsoever, including losses, costs or expenses of any kind resulting from your use of the Service resulting from any: (I) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content, (ii) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to and use of our site, (iii) any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information and/or financial information stored therein, (iv) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from our site, and/or (v) any errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of your use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the Service, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not we are advised of the possibility of such damages. The foregoing limitation of liability shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by law in the applicable jurisdiction.
You specifically acknowledge that Sew Liberated shall not be liable for user submissions or the defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of any third party and that the risk of harm or damage from the foregoing rests entirely with you.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, User agrees to limit Sew Liberated’s liability in respect of any one incident, or series of connected incidents, to the sum of direct damages award of $1,000.00 USD or the amount that the User has paid to Sew Liberated during the last 12-month period, whichever is lower. This limitation shall apply regardless of the cause of action or legal theory pleaded or asserted.
These Terms provide you with specific legal rights, and you may have other rights that may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Legislation of some states/countries does not allow certain limitations of liability, and henceforth this limitation of liability shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by law in the applicable jurisdiction.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Sew Liberated, its parent corporation, officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees) arising from: (I) your use of and access to the Service; (ii) your violation of any term of these Terms of Service; (iii) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; (iv) any claim that your content caused damage to a third party; (v) any third party claim arising out of or in relation to Sew Liberated or our Services, including without limitation, any claim that Sew Liberated or the services violate, infringe, or misappropriate any proprietary or intellectual property right of any third party, including without limitation, any privacy right of any person.
This defense and indemnification obligation will survive these terms of service and your use of the Service.
Before filing any claim against us, you agree to solve the dispute amicably by first emailing support@sewliberated.com. If we cannot resolve the dispute informally via email, phone or other methods, within sixty (60) days of receipt of your first email, you or Sew Liberated may then bring a formal proceeding.
Sew Liberated is not liable for any failure of performance on its obligations as set forth herein, where such failure arises from any cause beyond Sew Liberated’s reasonable control, including but not limiting to, electronic, power, mechanic or Internet failure, from acts of nature, forces or causes beyond our control, including without limitation, Internet failures, computer, telecommunications or any other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labor disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labor or materials, fires, flood, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, government mandated lockdowns, pandemics, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, or non-performance of third parties.
These Terms will insure to the benefit of any successors of the parties. We may assign any rights or obligations hereunder to any current or future affiliated company and to any successor in interest. Any rights not expressly granted herein are thereby reserved. We reserve the right, at any time, to transfer some or all of Sew Liberated’s assets in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy.
By disclosing any data and personally identifying information to us, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including the collection, process, storage and disclosure of such personally identifiable information, including to our affiliates, partners and clients. We will ask for your express consent, including for inclusion into our newsletters, updates, and follow ups. Using Sew Liberated means that you accept our Privacy Policy, regardless of whether you are a registered user or not.
The Terms constitute the entire agreement between Sew Liberated and you concerning our Services. If any part of the Terms is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part is severable from the Terms , and does not affect the validity or enforceability of the rest of the Terms. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of the Terms or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. Sew Liberated may assign its rights under the Terms without condition. You may only assign your rights under the Terms with our prior written consent.
These Terms of Service and any separate agreements whereby we provide you Services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.
From time to time, these Terms may be translated into other languages for your convenience. The English language version of each of these documents shall be the version that prevails and governs your use of our websites and our Services. Upon the case of any conflict between the English language version and any translated version, the English language version will prevail.
We may update, change, or discontinue any aspect of our Services at any time. Since we’re constantly updating our Services, we sometimes have to change the legal terms under which they are offered. The Terms may be modified when we post a revised version here, with an updated “Last Updated” date. While we will attempt to let you know when there are changes, it is your responsibility to monitor these Terms for change.
Your continued use of our Services after the new terms take effect will be subject to the new terms, so if you disagree with the changes in the new terms, you should stop using our Services. To the extent you have an existing subscription, you may be eligible for a refund.
Last updated: November 25, 2021
The team at Sew Liberated values the security of your personal data, as we know you do. We will never sell your data and oppose the trend toward “monetizing” users. You are our customer, not our product. We try to limit what we collect to only that which helps us provide value to you and the sewing community. This policy describes in detail what we record while you are with us, how we use it, and how we keep it safe.
Your payment information in particular is never processed or stored by us. We only use reputable payment processors. More details are below.
We are Sew Liberated, registered as an LLC in North Carolina in the United States. Our website address is: https://sewliberated.com . We may also publish an app offering similar features to our website. Together, we call these the “Service” that we aim to provide.
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 visit our login page, 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 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.
We probably don’t need to tell you that we collect information that you provide to us, but here is where we make that explicit. While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you, including to deliver our products to you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as your Device’s Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We’ll use this for purposes like understanding if our Service is performing well, estimating taxes and shipping, and ensuring that our Service performs well on various devices.
When you access our Service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device.
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, some parts of our Service may not work.
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
We use both session and persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
The Company may use your personal data for the following purposes:
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
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.
The security of your Personal Data is very important to us. We use only highly reputable hosting services with strong protections. Remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Service Providers have access to your Personal Data only to perform their tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that we believe may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.
We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to you.
We provide paid products and services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
The Company may use remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.
Google Ads (AdWords): Google Ads (AdWords) remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/adsGoogle also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
If you are located in certain parts of the world, including California and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.
If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:
You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide California residents with some additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it. The CCPA also requires us to provide a list of the “categories” of personal information we collect, as that term is defined in the law, so, here it is. In the last 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information from California residents, depending on the Services used:
If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the right to:
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us: