Privacy & Cookies Policy
Last Updated: November 5, 2026
A Little Note About Your Privacy
Welcome to Eighth & Ever! We’re all about thoughtful celebrations, creative ideas, meaningful memories, and making a whole thing out of the little things.
Your privacy matters here, too.
This Privacy & Cookies Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit eighthandever.com, how that information is used, and the choices you have about your personal data.
Eighth & Ever is an independently owned creative business based in Texas, United States.
1. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with the website, we may collect the following information.
Information you provide voluntarily
- Your name and email address when you subscribe to updates, request a resource, or complete a form.
- Information you include in messages, inquiries, or comments.
- Details you choose to share when communicating with Eighth & Ever.
Information collected automatically
When you browse the website, certain technical information may be collected, including:
- IP address and approximate geographic location.
- Browser type, device information, and operating system.
- Pages visited, referring websites, and time spent interacting with content.
- Cookies and similar tracking identifiers.
We use this information to operate the website, understand how visitors use it, improve content, and maintain security.
2. How We Use Your Information
Information collected through Eighth & Ever may be used to:
- Respond to messages, questions, and inquiries.
- Deliver requested downloads, printables, and resources.
- Send emails or updates when you’ve chosen to subscribe.
- Understand which articles, projects, and resources visitors find helpful.
- Improve website functionality and visitor experience.
- Monitor website performance and protect against spam, fraud, and unauthorized activity.
- Meet applicable legal obligations.
We do not use information submitted through our contact forms to automatically enroll you in promotional emails without an appropriate signup or other lawful basis.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the link provided in those messages.
3. Cookies & Tracking Technologies
Cookies are small files stored on your device that help websites function, remember preferences, and understand visitor activity.
Eighth & Ever may use several categories of cookies.
Essential Cookies
These support basic website functions, security, login sessions, form functionality, and saved privacy preferences.
Functional Cookies
These may remember your preferences or improve how certain website features work.
Analytics Cookies
These help us understand website traffic, popular content, and visitor interactions through services such as Google Analytics.
Advertising & Affiliate Cookies
Advertising partners and affiliate platforms may use cookies or similar technologies to attribute referrals, measure advertising performance, or personalize advertisements where permitted.
Third-Party Cookies
Embedded content and external services may set their own cookies when you interact with them.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings.
Where a cookie consent or preferences tool is provided on our website, you can use it to manage optional tracking technologies.
Disabling certain cookies may affect how some website features operate.
Where required by applicable law, we request consent before using nonessential cookies or similar technologies.
4. Google Analytics & Google Services
Eighth & Ever uses or may enable Google services to understand and improve website performance.
These services may include:
- Google Analytics: To measure website visits, traffic sources, and content engagement.
- Google Search Console: To monitor how the website appears and performs in Google Search.
- Google Site Kit: To connect supported Google services with our WordPress website.
Depending on the services enabled, Google may receive information such as device identifiers, browser information, IP-related information, and website interactions.
For more information, visit Google’s Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites and apps.
5. Google AdSense & Advertising
Eighth & Ever may participate in Google AdSense to display advertisements on the website.
If advertising is enabled, third-party advertising vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, and other identifiers to deliver and measure advertisements.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website or other websites.
Google’s advertising cookies enable Google and its partners to show advertisements based on visits to Eighth & Ever and other websites.
You can manage personalized advertising through Google’s My Ad Center or learn about additional advertising choices at YourAdChoices.
Ad personalization and consent options may vary depending on your location and applicable law.
6. Affiliate Links & Recommendations
Eighth & Ever occasionally shares links to products, supplies, tools, and resources used in projects or recommended to readers.
Some of these links may be affiliate links, meaning Eighth & Ever could earn a small commission when you make a qualifying purchase, at no additional cost to you.
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Affiliate partners may use cookies or other tracking technologies to identify qualifying referrals or purchases.
Recommendations reflect the products, ideas, and resources we choose to share. Affiliate relationships do not change the price you pay through our links.
Affiliate relationships are also disclosed near relevant links or recommendations where required.
7. Digital Products & External Shops
Eighth & Ever offers digital products through Etsy and may link to other third-party marketplaces or services.
When you select a product and complete a purchase through Etsy, your transaction is handled on Etsy’s platform, subject to its own terms and privacy practices.
Eighth & Ever may receive the customer or order information Etsy makes available to sellers to fulfill purchases, answer questions, and provide customer support.
Payment processing and checkout data are governed by the applicable marketplace or payment provider’s policies.
You can review Etsy’s Privacy Policy.
8. Email Signups, Free Resources & Forms
Visitors may have the opportunity to request free planning tools, printable downloads, subscribe to updates, or contact Eighth & Ever through forms.
When you submit a form, we may collect information such as your name, email address, and message.
This information is used to respond to your request, deliver applicable resources, or send communications you’ve agreed to receive.
Our website may use WordPress form and subscription tools, including WPForms and OptinMonster, to facilitate these interactions.
Relevant service providers may process information on our behalf to operate these features.
9. Comments & Gravatar
If comments are enabled, we may collect the information provided through the comment form, along with technical information such as IP address and browser user-agent information to help detect spam.
An anonymized identifier derived from your email address may be provided to Gravatar to determine whether you use its profile-image service.
If your comment is approved, your associated profile picture may appear publicly next to your comment.
You can review Gravatar’s Privacy Policy.
10. Embedded Content & Social Media
Our articles and pages may include embedded content or links from services such as Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, and other websites.
Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly.
These services may collect information, use cookies, or track your interactions according to their own privacy policies.
When you leave Eighth & Ever through an external link, the destination website’s privacy practices apply.
11. Hosting, Security & Service Providers
Eighth & Ever operates on WordPress and uses Bluehost for website hosting.
We may also use supporting WordPress plugins, security tools, analytics services, email services, and other providers needed to operate the website.
Information may be processed by these providers to deliver services, maintain website functionality, prevent abuse, or fulfill requests.
We take reasonable steps to protect information entrusted to us, but no internet transmission or digital storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.
12. How Long We Keep Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including providing services, maintaining records, resolving inquiries, protecting the website, and meeting legal obligations.
For example:
- Contact inquiries may be retained as needed for correspondence and recordkeeping.
- Subscription information may be retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion, subject to applicable obligations.
- Purchase-related records may be retained for fulfillment, accounting, tax, or legal purposes.
- Comments may remain visible while the associated content is published, unless removed.
Retention practices may also depend on the settings and policies of our service providers.
13. Your Privacy Choices & Rights
Depending on your location and applicable privacy laws, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information held about you.
You may also have rights to request information about certain processing activities or opt out of particular uses of your data.
You can contact Eighth & Ever to make a privacy-related request. We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
You can also unsubscribe from marketing emails, adjust your browser’s cookie settings, and use available advertising or cookie preference controls.
We will review and respond to privacy requests in accordance with applicable law.
14. Children’s Privacy
Eighth & Ever shares creative ideas that may involve children’s birthdays, family activities, and celebrations. However, our website is intended for adults seeking planning ideas, products, and inspiration.
We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information to us without appropriate parental consent, please contact us so we can review and address the situation.
15. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy as our website, services, or legal obligations change.
Any updates will be published on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy & Cookies Policy or would like to make a request involving your personal information, please contact:
Eighth & Ever
Texas, United States
Website: https://eighthandever.com
Email: info@eighthandever.com
We appreciate you spending a little time in our corner of the internet. Thank you for being here! 🤍
