Short version: StitchJam counts page views with Google Analytics 4 and never receives your photos, your patterns or anything you type. The sections below say what stays in your browser, what that counter records, what the host of the site still sees and what your browser loads. Updated October 14, 2026.
Your photos and patterns
Photos you open are turned into patterns inside your browser; they are never uploaded to us, to Google Analytics 4 or to any other server. The patterns you make, their names, your thread stash and your settings are stored only in this browser (IndexedDB and local storage). Clearing this site's data removes them; Safari may also clear them after about a week without a visit, so keep a backup file of patterns you care about. The site's files are cached so the makers work offline.
PDF, PNG and .stitch files are built in your browser and saved straight to your device, named after your pattern. The download is handed to your browser as a local link, so the counter never receives the file or its name.
Links you share
Small patterns can be shared as a link that carries the pattern after the # sign. Browsers do not send that part to our server and Google Analytics 4 does not record it, but anyone with the link can open the pattern.
Analytics and cookies
Page views are counted with Google Analytics 4. It records the page, the referring link, your browser and device type, an approximate location from your IP address and a device identifier; we read it as totals per page and never look up an individual.
It records the address of a page without the part after the # sign, so a pattern in a shared link does not reach it. Along with page views it counts a few events of its own, such as scrolling to the end of a page; these carry the page address, never your photo, a pattern or what you type. The site has no forms, so there is nothing typed for a form event to send.
It also gets two events of ours, so we can see whether the makers give people a result: pattern_built, once per page view when a maker has turned your own photo or text into a pattern, and file_download each time you save a PDF. Each carries only the kind of maker (for example photo, beads or library) and, for the PDF, the format, pdf. Your photo, the file names, the pattern name, the text you type and the colors you choose are never part of them.
Advertising storage, advertising user data and advertising personalization are refused on every page and in every country, so nothing measured here feeds advertising profiling. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland the analytics storage is refused as well, by default and without asking: those visits still reach Google as page views, but the counter writes nothing to your device and keeps no identifier from one page to the next.
Outside those countries Google Analytics 4 sets its own cookies under Google’s privacy policy, named _ga and _ga_ followed by the property identifier; they tell one browser from another, so a second page in the same visit is not counted as a second visitor. Inside those countries it sets none. No advertising cookie is set on any page. The site itself adds none of its own; what it keeps in your browser’s storage (your patterns, stash, settings and theme) stays on this device. The makers work the same if you block the counter with a content blocker or Google’s opt-out browser add-on.
Advertising
The site does not show advertising at present.
What your browser loads
Your browser fetches one outside service on the pages of this site, and this is the whole list:
Google Analytics 4 — counts page views so we can see which pattern makers, charts and guides are used. Your browser fetches it from www.googletagmanager.com and sends the page views to Google’s collection servers under google-analytics.com and analytics.google.com, and outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland it sets its own cookies under its own policy.
Everything else — the pattern makers, the color data, the chart symbol font, images and styles — is served from this domain, and every PDF is built in your browser. Your photos and patterns are not sent to Google Analytics 4 or to any other outside server.
Our host
The site is served by Cloudflare, which processes IP addresses to deliver pages and protect the site. We do not receive or keep them.
Children
StitchJam is a general-audience tool. There are no accounts, comments or uploads, and it does not knowingly collect personal information from children; the page counter described above measures visits, never a photo or anything typed.
Your rights
We hold no account or profile data about you; the page-view records described above are kept for us by Google Analytics 4. You can ask what we hold, ask for deletion or object by email, and, in the EU or UK, complain to your data-protection authority. We do not sell personal information or share it for advertising.
Who we are
StitchJam is run by BiLingoPlus LLC. Contact: hello@stitchjam.com. This policy was last updated on October 14, 2026; changes are posted on this page.