Privacy

Last updated: October 13, 2026. Plain-English summary of what Crochet Shelf keeps and why.

On your phone only

• Your projects, progress, notes, reminders, yarn and hook stash, settings and photos are saved in your browser on your device. We never receive them.
• A backup file is created only when you tap "Save backup", and goes wherever you save it.

What we receive

• Pattern emails (homepage form): your email address, used only to tell you when new patterns go up. Unsubscribe any time.
• "Does it look like the preview?": your answer, the design name and the yarn size. No name, no photo.
• "Show other makers" (optional): the photo you choose, the first name or nickname you type, and the design. Every photo is reviewed before it's shown. Photos we don't publish are kept privately, not shown.
• Reading a pattern from a web link: the link is sent to our server so it can fetch the page for you. We don't store the link or the page.

Other services involved

• Netlify hosts the site and stores form answers and gallery photos. Like any web host it keeps standard request logs (such as IP addresses).
• Google Fonts and cdnjs (Cloudflare) supply fonts and the PDF/Word readers, so they see a normal request from your browser.
• Count by voice uses your browser's built-in speech recognition, which on most phones is processed by Google or Apple.

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Removing your information

To remove your email, a gallery photo, or anything else, use this form.