Privacy Policy & Cookie Disclosure
Welcome to MindfulPrintables.com ("MindfulPrintables," "we," "our," or "us"), founded and operated by Rokaiya. Protecting the privacy and digital safety of parents, caregivers, special-education teachers, occupational therapists (OTs), speech-language pathologists (SLPs), and visitors is one of our highest priorities. This Privacy Policy explains what information is collected when you visit https://mindfulprintables.com, how we use and safeguard that information, and the choices you have regarding cookies and data privacy.
1. Information We Collect (And What We Never Collect)
We designed MindfulPrintables.com around a strict data-minimization principle so families and educators can access calming visual aids without privacy barriers:
- Zero Account or Registration Requirement: You can browse our printable gallery, customize flashcards in our Print Studio, and download or print high-resolution sheets without registering an account or providing your name, home address, or phone number.
- Voluntary Correspondence: If you contact us directly via email at [email protected] (for example, to request a new ASD/ADHD routine theme, ask a licensing question, or submit a copyright inquiry), we receive the email address, name, and message content you voluntarily share strictly to reply to your inquiry.
- Custom Printable Prompts: When you submit a text prompt in the public Printable Generator to create a new visual aid, the text description of the illustration (e.g., "happy child putting on shoes for morning routine") is processed to generate the artwork and add the resulting family-safe printable to the public library. Please do not enter private personal names, medical record numbers, or confidential student information into public artwork prompts.
2. Local Browser HTML5 Canvas Customization (Zero Server Upload)
When you open our interactive Print & Customization Studio to switch paper dimensions (A4 Portrait, US Letter, Square PECS Flashcard, or Landscape First-Then Board), apply ink-saving black-and-white or sensory pastel filters, or type custom routine labels at the bottom of a card (such as "FIRST: BRUSH TEETH" or a child's specific classroom schedule), all rendering and text overlays happen locally inside your device's web browser using the HTML5 Canvas API.
Your custom text banners and exported PNG printouts are generated directly on your computer, tablet, or phone and are never transmitted to, stored on, or logged by our web server.
3. Fair-Use Community Quota Logs & Anonymized IP Hashing
To keep our live printable generator free for families and protect our community studio credits against automated bots or bulk scraping, our backend server enforces a daily fair-use limit per visitor.
- One-Way Cryptographic Hashing: Instead of storing raw visitor IP addresses in a database, our server computes a truncated, salted one-way cryptographic hash (
SHA-256) of the connecting IP address solely to count how many free live generations have been used during the current calendar day. - No Cross-Site Tracking or Sale of Data: These anonymized daily counters cannot be reversed to identify you personally, are never linked to personal identities, and are never sold, rented, or traded to third-party data brokers.
- Standard Web Server Access Logs: Like nearly all web hosting providers, our hosting environment automatically records standard technical server logs (browser user-agent string, referring page, requested URL, timestamp, and HTTP status code) for security monitoring, DDoS mitigation, and debugging.
4. Cookies, Web Beacons & Google AdSense Disclosure
MindfulPrintables.com is free for parents and educators and is supported by family-safe display advertising so we can continue creating free neurodivergent resources and supporting our family's special-needs care.
- Third-Party Advertising Vendors: We partner with Google AdSense (and certified third-party ad networks approved by Google) to display advertisements when you visit our website.
- Google DoubleClick DART Cookies: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies (including the DoubleClick DART cookie and similar advertising identifiers) to serve ads to visitors based upon their visit to MindfulPrintables.com and other websites on the internet.
- How Advertising Cookies Work: These cookies enable Google and its partners to serve relevant advertisements, limit the number of times you see the same ad (frequency capping), and measure the effectiveness of ad placements.
- How to Opt Out of Personalized Advertising: Visitors may choose to decline the use of personalized advertising cookies at any time by visiting Google's Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com or by reading the Google Advertising Privacy & Terms page at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads. You can also opt out of third-party vendor cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at optout.networkadvertising.org.
- Browser-Level Cookie Controls: You can configure your web browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge) to block or delete cookies at any time. Blocking advertising cookies will not prevent you from browsing, customizing, or printing any resource on MindfulPrintables.com.
5. Children's Privacy & COPPA Compliance
Although our visual schedules, emotion flashcards, and coloring sheets are created to support children (including neurodivergent children with ASD and ADHD), MindfulPrintables.com is designed and intended to be operated by adult parents, legal guardians, classroom teachers, and licensed therapists.
In strict compliance with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and international child data protection laws, we do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in applicable jurisdictions). If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has inadvertently emailed or submitted personal information to us without your consent, please contact us immediately at [email protected] and we will promptly delete such information from our records.
6. Your Privacy Rights Under GDPR (EEA/UK) & CCPA/CPRA (California)
For Visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA), UK, and Switzerland (GDPR)
If you visit MindfulPrintables.com from the EEA, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, our legal bases for processing limited technical data are: (a) your consent (where required for non-essential advertising cookies via our consent banner), and (b) our legitimate interests in maintaining website security, preventing automated abuse of our printable generator, and delivering requested web pages. You have the right to request access to, rectification of, erasure of, or restriction of processing of any personal data we hold about you (such as email correspondence), as well as the right to withdraw cookie consent at any time.
For California Residents (CCPA / CPRA)
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), California residents have the right to: (1) know what categories of personal information are collected or disclosed; (2) request deletion of personal information; (3) opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising; and (4) receive equal service without discrimination for exercising privacy rights. We do not sell personal contact records, and you can manage advertising cookie preferences at any time via the opt-out links in Section 4.
7. Third-Party Services, Fonts & Data Security
We implement industry-standard technical safeguards to protect our website, including HTTPS/TLS encryption in transit, server-level access restrictions (.htaccess rules blocking direct access to internal configuration files), and input sanitization. Our pages load clean typography from Google Fonts and display high-resolution illustrations from trusted content delivery networks (CDNs). Please note that external links referenced in our educational guides or policies are governed by the respective privacy policies of those third-party sites.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect improvements to our Print Studio, new legal or regulatory requirements, or advertising partner updates. When we make changes, we will revise the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
9. Contact Us Regarding Privacy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our cookie practices, or your data rights, please contact us directly:
- Founder & Data Controller: Rokaiya, MindfulPrintables.com
- Email: [email protected]
- Contact Page: https://mindfulprintables.com/contact.html