FindWool.com is a free directory of wool makers, producers and artisans around the world, from apparel and blankets to rugs and home textiles. This page explains what the site collects, why, who else handles it, how long it’s kept, and what you can do about it.
Last updated: October 26, 2026
Questions about your data: email info@getrawmilk.com or use the contact form.
The short version
- The only ads are sponsorships placed directly on the site, with no ad networks or ad trackers. Your information is never sold or shared with advertisers or data brokers.
- Visits are measured with Plausible Analytics, which uses no cookies and collects no personal data.
- What you type into the site (a listing, a message, a tip) is used to do what you asked, and some of it is kept, as described below.
- Card and PayPal payments are handled by Square and PayPal. Your full card number never reaches this site.
- If you tip, you can see, change or cancel your tips anytime, and you can ask for your records to be deleted.
Analytics
I use Plausible Analytics to understand how the site is used: how many people visit, which pages they read, roughly where they’re from (country, region and city), how they found the site and what kind of device they use.
Plausible doesn’t use cookies and doesn’t collect personal data. It turns your IP address into a scrambled code that changes every day and can’t be traced back to you, so even I can’t connect your visits to you. Plausible’s requests go through this site’s own server, so the analytics script loads from findwool.com.
The site also counts a few actions as “events,” because they show whether the directory is doing its job:
- Taps on a listing’s details: its website, phone number, email, directions or social media. A tap means someone found a wool maker and wants to reach them, which is the most important number on this site.
- Clicks on outbound links and sponsored ads.
- Steps in the tip form: entering an email, choosing a payment method, submitting, or running into an error, with the method (card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or PayPal), whether it’s one-time or monthly, and where it stopped. These events never include your name, email or payment details. They show where the tip form is confusing or failing so it can be fixed.
Sponsored ads
Some pages show ads from sponsors, usually farms and small businesses. They’re placed directly on the site as a plain image and link: no ad networks, no ad scripts, and nothing that tracks you across other websites. Clicks on a sponsored ad are counted in Plausible like any other link, and a sponsor may be told how many people saw or clicked their ad, but never who.
Forms
Adding or updating a listing. Everything you enter is sent to me. Once I can verify the maker is real, the listing is published so anyone can find it, free. Its address is sent from this site’s server to Google’s mapping service to place it on the map. By submitting a listing or an update, you agree that the information can be published and kept.
Contact form. Your message and the details you enter are stored and emailed to me. If you need something kept in confidence, just say so.
Spam protection. Every form also records your IP address and browser type. That’s how spam and abuse get spotted and blocked. Submissions caught as spam, and the addresses they came from, are kept as evidence.
Newsletter. This site has no newsletter of its own. The newsletter link goes to GetRawMilk.com, a sister site with its own privacy policy.
There are no comments or user accounts on this site.
Tips
The site is kept running by tips from the people who use it, along with a few sponsors.
How payments are handled
- Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay payments are processed by Square.
- PayPal payments are processed by PayPal.
Your card details go straight from the payment form to Square or PayPal. Your full card number never reaches this site. On card statements, tips show up as “ConnorOnTheWeb” or “Inland Applications.”
Square, PayPal, Apple and Google run their own security and fraud checks, which can include information about your device and location when you use their payment forms. Their privacy policies cover what they collect.
What’s kept about a tip
For each tip, the site keeps:
- your name (if you gave one), email, amount, note (if you added one), the page you tipped from and the date
- your IP address and device type
- the payment’s record from Square or PayPal: the receipt, the card brand and last four digits, and the card checks (whether the billing ZIP code and security code matched)
Protecting against card fraud
People with stolen card numbers sometimes use tip forms to test which cards still work. To stop that, the site also records payments that are declined or refused: the IP address, the name and email entered, the card brand, its last four digits and its first six digits (which identify the issuing bank), and the reason it failed. These records are used only to spot and block fraud. If the site is attacked, they may be shared with Square as part of a fraud report.
Your supporter record
There are no user accounts. Instead, every tip made with an email address creates a supporter record: your email, your name (if you gave one), how many tips you’ve made and their total, and the first and most recent pages you tipped from.
Monthly tips
If you choose a monthly tip, your payment method is saved so it can be charged once a month on the same date until you pause or cancel it:
- A card is saved with Square as a “card on file.” The site keeps only the card’s brand, last four digits and expiration date, so you can see which card is on file. When your bank issues a new card, Square may update the saved card, and the site updates what it shows.
- A PayPal account is saved with PayPal. The site keeps PayPal’s reference to it and the PayPal account’s email address. You can also remove the site from your PayPal account’s automatic payments, which ends your monthly tip.
When you start a monthly tip, the site also records the wording you agreed to, the time, your IP address and your device, as proof of your consent.
If a payment is disputed with your bank or PayPal, they let the site know. The dispute is recorded with the payment, any monthly tip it belongs to is ended, and you may get an email explaining the charge.
Managing your tips without an account
At findwool.com/tip/manage you can see your tips, change your name or monthly amount, update your card, pause, resume or cancel. To sign in, you get a one-time link by email. The link works once, for 20 minutes (links in “payment didn’t go through” emails work for 3 days), and is deleted automatically once it expires. Every receipt also has a link that cancels your monthly tip directly, without signing in.
The site emails you only about your tips: receipts, sign-in links, and notices when something changes, a payment fails or a monthly tip ends. Tips never sign you up for any mailing list.
Cookies and browser storage
The site doesn’t use advertising or tracking cookies, and Plausible doesn’t use cookies at all. There are only two cookies, and you’ll only get them if you manage your tips:
- A sign-in cookie, set when you sign in at /tip/manage. It keeps you signed in for 7 days, is only sent on /tip pages, and holds nothing but a reference to your supporter record.
- A session cookie, used to show a one-time confirmation message (like “Your card is updated”) after you make a change there.
A few preferences are saved in your browser’s own storage. They stay on your device and are never sent to the site:
- your light or dark theme
- whether the map is in satellite view, and where you last looked on the map
- whether you’ve closed the welcome message
The Square and PayPal payment forms may set their own cookies while you pay.
Who handles your data
Your information is never sold, and it’s never shared with advertisers or data brokers. To run the site, some of it is handled by these services:
- Square and PayPal process payments, as described above.
- Plausible Analytics measures visits, without personal data.
- Google’s mapping service turns listing addresses into map coordinates, without seeing your IP address.
- Hosting services run the site’s servers and database.
- An email delivery service sends receipts, sign-in links and tip notices.
Information may also be disclosed if the law requires it.
How long it’s kept
- Sign-in links are deleted automatically when they expire.
- Tip and payment records are kept for bookkeeping and taxes.
- Supporter records are kept until you ask for them to be deleted.
- Fraud and spam records are kept as evidence.
- Listings stay published while the maker is still making and selling wool goods.
Your choices
- Manage or cancel your tips at findwool.com/tip/manage, or use the cancel link in any receipt.
- Ask for a copy of your data, or for it to be deleted, by emailing info@getrawmilk.com from the address you tipped with. Deleting your supporter record also removes any saved card or PayPal account. Records of the payments themselves may need to be kept for bookkeeping and taxes.
- Analytics: a privacy tool that blocks analytics won’t break the site.
Children
This site isn’t meant for children under 13, and it doesn’t knowingly collect information from them.
Changes to this policy
When this policy changes, the date at the top is updated.
Contact
Email info@getrawmilk.com or use the contact form.
FindWool.com isn’t affiliated with any maker or business unless stated otherwise. If data privacy matters to you, consider supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation.