Privacy Policy - SketchJoy

Welcome to SketchJoy! Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, protect, and share your information when you use our website, including any features like downloading coloring pages, commenting, or requesting new pages.

1. Who We Are

SketchJoy.com is a website offering free, downloadable coloring pages for users of all ages. Some features require registration, while others can be accessed as a guest. To support our free service, we display ads on our site.

2. What Information We Collect

We collect information in two ways:

a. Information You Provide Directly

Account Registration: If you sign up, we collect your name, email address, and password.
Guest Actions: When you comment or request a coloring page as a guest, we collect your email address (so we can respond or notify you).
Comments and Requests: Any information you include in your comments or coloring page requests.

b. Information Collected Automatically

Log Data: Your IP address, browser type, operating system, and the pages you visit.
Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies to improve your experience, remember your preferences, and show relevant ads. See more below.

3. How We Use Your Information

To provide and improve our services: Personalize your experience, respond to comments or requests, and maintain site security.
To communicate with you: Notify you about updates or respond to your inquiries.
To display ads: Ads keep our service free. We may use cookies and ad partners to show ads that might interest you.
To analyze and improve site performance: See how people use SketchJoy.com so we can make it better.

4. Cookies & Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

Keep you logged in.
Remember your preferences.
Measure how our site is used.
Show relevant ads.

You can control cookies through your browser settings, but turning off cookies may affect your experience.

5. Third-Party Services

Advertising Partners: We use third-party services to display ads. These companies may use cookies and other technologies to collect information about your browsing activity on our site and elsewhere.
Analytics: We may use tools like Google Analytics to help us understand website usage.

These third parties have their own privacy policies.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

6. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal information.
We may share information:

With service providers (like ad networks and analytics providers) who help us operate the website.
If required by law or to protect our users or site.
In connection with a business transfer, like a merger or sale.

7. Children’s Privacy

SketchJoy.com is designed for users of all ages, including children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental consent. If you think a child has provided us information without your permission, please contact us and we’ll remove it.

8. How We Protect Your Information

We use reasonable measures to protect your personal information, such as secure servers and encryption where appropriate.
However, no method of internet transmission or storage is 100% secure.

9. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your country or region, you may have the right to:

Access, update, or delete your information.
Object to or restrict certain uses of your information.
Opt out of cookies or targeted advertising.
Withdraw consent at any time.

To make a request, contact us at [info@sketchjoy.com] or use our website’s contact form.

10. Links to Other Websites

SketchJoy.com may link to other sites (like our social media, ad partners, or referenced resources). We’re not responsible for their privacy practices, so please read their policies.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we’ll post the new version on this page and update the date at the top. If the changes are significant, we’ll let you know by email or a notice on our website.