Terms of Use

Welcome to Purl Wise. These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Purl Wise ("Purl Wise," "we," "us," or "our") governing your use of https://www.purl-wise.com and any related features or services (together, the "Site").

By using the Site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

Contact: purlwises@gmail.com

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Site, or at least 16 if you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the Site only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. By using the Site you represent that you meet these requirements.

2. Your Account

Purl Wise uses passwordless sign-in. You may sign in with a one-time magic link sent to your email address, or with Google Sign-In. There is no password to create or remember.

Because sign-in depends on your email account, anyone with access to your email can access your Purl Wise account. Keep your email account secure. Notify us at purlwises@gmail.com if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide and for activity under your account. We may suspend or terminate an account that violates these Terms, that we reasonably believe is being used for abuse or automated scraping, or that has been inactive for an extended period.

3. Ravelry Data

3.1 Independence and non-affiliation

Purl Wise is an independent, unofficial project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, approved by, or in any way officially connected to Ravelry, LLC.

"Ravelry" and the Ravelry logos are trademarks of Ravelry, LLC. Purl Wise uses the name "Ravelry" only nominatively — to describe factually where certain information comes from. We do not display Ravelry's logos or brand marks, and nothing on the Site should be read as suggesting a partnership, licensing arrangement, or employment relationship with Ravelry, LLC.

Ravelry, LLC bears no responsibility for the Site, its content, its accuracy, or its availability. Please do not contact Ravelry with questions about Purl Wise; contact us at purlwises@gmail.com.

3.2 How the integration works

Purl Wise queries the Ravelry API from its own servers, using its own developer credentials, to retrieve pattern, designer, and yarn information.

• You do not need a Ravelry account to use Purl Wise.
• We never ask for your Ravelry username, password, or credentials, and you should never provide them to us.
• We do not connect to, read from, or write to your Ravelry account. Your Ravelry favorites, stash, queue, library, and projects are not accessible to us.
• We do not send your personal information to Ravelry.
• Your use of Ravelry, if you use it, is governed entirely by Ravelry's own Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, which are separate from these Terms.

3.3 Ownership of pattern and yarn content

Patterns, pattern photographs, descriptions, sizing and yardage information, designer names and profiles, and yarn data displayed on the Site originate from Ravelry and from the designers, dyers, publishers, and members who created or contributed them.

We claim no ownership of that content and grant you no rights in it. Purl Wise displays limited excerpts and thumbnails for the purpose of search, discovery, and identification, and links back to the original source. Nothing on this Site is a license to copy, reproduce, redistribute, resell, republish, or create derivative works from any pattern or photograph. Any purchase or download of a pattern takes place through the designer or retailer, under that party's terms.

If you are a designer, dyer, publisher, or rights holder and you want your work removed from the Site, see Section 13. We honor these requests without requiring a formal legal notice.

3.4 No guarantee of continuity

Ravelry may change, restrict, rate-limit, or discontinue its API at any time, and may suspend or terminate our access at its sole discretion. If that happens, some or all features of the Site may stop working, permanently and without notice. We are not liable for any such interruption or for any information that becomes unavailable as a result.

4. Yarn Substitution and Pattern Information — Important Disclaimer

Yarn substitution suggestions on the Site are informational estimates, not professional recommendations, and they are not guaranteed.

Suggested alternatives are generated by comparing published attributes such as weight, fiber content, yardage, and gauge. They do not account for everything that determines whether a substitution will work, including dye lot behavior, drape, halo, elasticity, blocking response, your personal tension, fiber allergies or sensitivities, care requirements, or the specific requirements of a given pattern.

Always knit or crochet a gauge swatch, wash and block it, and verify fiber suitability before starting a project. We are not responsible for finished items that do not fit, do not match the pattern, or do not perform as expected, or for yarn purchased on the basis of a suggestion from the Site.

Pattern details, yardage figures, gauge, sizing, availability, and pricing shown on the Site come from third-party sources and may be incomplete, outdated, or incorrect. Always confirm against the pattern itself and the designer's published information before purchasing or casting on.

5. Intellectual Property

Our content. The Site's name, design, layout, original text, code, and branding are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by copyright and trademark law. You may not copy, reproduce, or create derivative works from them without permission.

Third-party content. Knitting and crochet patterns, pattern photographs, designer names, yarn brands, and related materials belong to their respective owners, as described in Section 3.3.

Your content. You retain ownership of the content you save or submit — notes, project lists, stash entries, and similar. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, display, and process that content solely to operate the Site and provide it back to you. You represent that you have the right to submit anything you post and that it does not infringe anyone's rights.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Scrape, crawl, harvest, or bulk-download content from the Site
• Use bots, scripts, or automated means to access the Site except for well-behaved search engine crawlers
• Circumvent rate limits, authentication, or other technical restrictions
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code or API credentials
• Redistribute, resell, or republish pattern content obtained through the Site
• Upload malicious code, or interfere with the Site's operation or security
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation
• Use the Site to infringe intellectual property rights or violate any law
• Use the Site's data to build a competing product or to train machine learning models without our written permission

We may investigate suspected violations and take any action we consider appropriate, including removing content, suspending accounts, and reporting to authorities.

7. Affiliate Links and Advertising

The Site contains, or may in the future contain, affiliate links to yarn shops and materials retailers. If you click one of these links and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. These relationships do not influence which patterns or yarn substitutions the Site surfaces. We disclose affiliate and sponsored links where they appear, as required by the FTC's endorsement guidelines.

Affiliate links point to yarn and supplies, not to pattern purchases. We do not earn commission on the sale of any pattern, and links to patterns route to the designer or to Ravelry without affiliate tracking.

We are not the seller. Purchases, shipping, returns, and customer service are entirely between you and the merchant, under the merchant's terms.

8. Third-Party Sites and Services

The Site links to and depends on external services. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, availability, accuracy, products, or practices. Links are not endorsements.

9. Availability and Changes

The Site is a personal project provided free of charge. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of it at any time without notice or liability. We do not guarantee uptime, and we may lose data despite reasonable precautions — keep your own copies of anything important.

If we introduce paid features in the future, we will publish separate terms covering pricing, billing, and refunds before charging anyone.

10. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY INFORMATION ON IT IS ACCURATE OR COMPLETE.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

11. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PURL WISE AND ITS OPERATOR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SITE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud, gross negligence, or death or personal injury caused by negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Purl Wise and its operator from any claims, damages, liabilities, and reasonable legal fees arising out of your use of the Site, your content, or your violation of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.

13. Designer Removal Requests and Copyright Complaints

13.1 Designer and rights holder opt-out

If you are a designer, dyer, publisher, photographer, or other rights holder and you do not want your work appearing on Purl Wise, email purlwises@gmail.com and we will remove it. No legal notice, formal claim, or explanation is required.

Tell us who you are and which work or works to remove — a designer name, a Ravelry designer or store link, or specific pattern names is enough. We will:

• Acknowledge your request within 5 business days
• Remove the material and suppress it from search results and yarn suggestions within 10 business days
• Confirm to you when it is done

Because the Site refreshes its information from the Ravelry API, removed material can occasionally reappear. If you see it, email us again and we will remove it. We are working toward making removals permanent.

You can ask us to remove specific patterns, all of your work, or your photographs only while leaving text listings in place. You can reverse an opt-out at any time by emailing us.

This request costs you nothing and waives nothing. Opting out does not affect any rights you have, and asking us informally does not prevent you from later submitting a formal notice under Section 13.2.

13.2 Copyright complaints

If you would rather submit a formal notice, or if you believe content on the Site infringes your copyright, email purlwises@gmail.com with:

1. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed
2. Identification of the material you claim is infringing and where it appears on the Site
3. Your contact information
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
5. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf
6. Your physical or electronic signature

We will review notices promptly, remove material where appropriate, and terminate repeat infringers. If you believe material was removed in error, email us and we will reconsider.

14. Termination

You may stop using the Site and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including violation of these Terms. Sections 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 15, and 16 survive termination.

15. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. You and we agree that any dispute will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, and both parties consent to personal jurisdiction there.

If you are a consumer residing in the EEA or UK, this section does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer laws in your country of residence.

Before filing any claim, you agree to try to resolve the matter informally by emailing purlwises@gmail.com and allowing 30 days for a response.

16. General

Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Site.

Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

Changes. We may revise these Terms. We will update the "Last updated" date and, for material changes, post notice on the Site. Continued use after changes take effect means you accept them.

17. Contact

Email: purlwises@gmail.com

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