About QuiltIndex.com
FAQ's
Recommend This Site to Others
Link to QuiltIndex
Prize Policy
Privacy Policy
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. What are the criteria for being listed in the Quilt Index?
A. There are only a very few guidelines. First, the website must sell products
online, meaning they must advertise the products, list the prices, and give some way to
purchase them, whether through use of a shopping cart or an order form. The order form can
be of the variety that you print and mail to the store, but a link to email without use of
a form is not sufficient. The shop must have an email link on their site so that we can
send them updates about their listing at QuiltIndex.com. The site must be in English, or
have an English version. The products sold must include items with a quilting theme, or
items used in the quilting trade. Sites offering only finished quilts or other finished
craft items will not be included.
Q. Why is my favorite store not listed?
A. Assuming they meet the criteria listed above, I probably just don't know about
them. Let me know about them, by filling in the Recommendation
form.
Q. How many quilt shops do you have listed here?
A. There are currently over 600 quilt shops indexed. And yes, I've visited them all.
At length. :)
Q. How often is this site updated?
A. QuiltIndex.com is continually being added to. If you want to see what new shops
have been recently added, for instance, go to the Search
Engine and scroll to the bottom to select the time frame for new additions. In addition
to adding new sites, it is my goal to revisit each shop once every six months. Visitors and
quilt shop owners are, of course, welcome to email me any time they have new additions or
have made changes, and that will make the updates get made that much faster. If you notice
something that isn't correct, please tell me.
Q. When I print the free patterns, the right-hand side is cut off, and I don't get
all of the instructions. How can I fix this?
A. Your printer should have some kind of "Fit to Page" setting. If you check that
option, you should be able to print the pattern without any trouble.
Q. What kind of information do you put in your newsletter?
A. We'll list any updates/improvements to this site. In addition, quilt shops will be
welcomed to add their news to the newsletter. If you don't like getting email from several
quilt shops, this could be a great way for you to get several shops' news in one email. Of
course, you may want to drop your favorite shop a line telling them this, so that they will
be sure to fill me in on whatever is happening at their place.
Q. Why haven't I received a copy of the newsletter?
A. Well, assuming you signed
up for it before the first of this month, you probably either didn't click the option
to sign up for the newsletter, or you entered your email address incorrectly.
Email me and we'll get it straightened out.
Q. Who are you?
A. The site is designed and maintained by Dana Jones, a quilter in Indiana, with
help from her husband, Mike Gunderloy - a programmer, author, and web
developer in his own right.
Do you know of a fabric artist who
would enjoy visiting QuiltIndex.com? Let them know! Just fill out the information in the
form below, click submit, and we'll send them an email (and you a copy) inviting them to
come by and take a look.
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Would you like to link to this site? Just
right-click on the banner below and click Save Picture As. Save it to your website's main
directory. Copy the following and paste it into your site's html:
<p
align="center"><a href="http://www.quiltindex.com/"><img
border="0" src="qibanner.gif"></a></p>
Prize Policy for QuiltIndex.com
1. Only one prize per person per six months for the monthly drawings. The Mall Crawls
are separate events, and winning a prize in the monthly drawings does not exclude you from
eligibility in the Crawl.
2. To be eligible for prizes in the monthly drawings, you must
sign up for the
QuiltIndex.com monthly newsletter.
3. QuiltIndex.com is not responsible for typos, bounced messages, or other errors in
the transmission of data to your email address. We will continue to try to notify
winners for 5 days that they have won. If the email is still bouncing after 5 days, the
prize is forfeited.
4. Prize winners are responsible for contacting the quilt shops to claim their prizes.
5. QuiltIndex.com is not responsible for any defects, breakage, failure to deliver, or
other injury to prizes sent by member shops.
6. If the prize is a tangible one, the shop awarding the prize will pay for shipping
to the US and Canada. Those outside North America are not eligible for prizes.
7. If the prize is an intangible one, such as a gift certificate or online quilting class,
the prize will be delivered electronically and does not include free shipping on an order
placed.
8. Prizes must be claimed within 30 days of being won. If the prize is a gift certificate
or store credit, it must be used within 30 days of being won, or it will be considered
forfeited.
9. Prizes may not be transferred or exchanged, and gift certificates are not redeemable
for cash.
10. If you have other questions about the prize drawing, please direct them to Dana
at dana@quiltindex.com.
Privacy Statement for www.quiltindex.com
QuiltIndex.com has created this statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment
to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices
for this website: www.quiltindex.com. Please also see our Disputes
Policy.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our
Web site. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests. You do not need
to accept cookies to visit any of the pages on this site.
This site contains links to other sites. www.quiltindex.com is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Email addresses and other information gathered about visitors to this website will not
be sold or shared with anyone outside of the administration of this site. The only
exceptions are for prizes and Public ShopStashes. In the case of a prize or promotion where
the shop giving away the prize needs to contact the winner in order to arrange delivery, we
will provide them with the winner's mailing address and other contact information. If a
person has chosen to make their email address available as part of their public ShopStash,
that information will be listed on their ShopStash page. Other than that, SPAM'ers will
have to pry them out of our cold, dead hands.
QuiltIndex.com offers its readers the ability to share their comments about member
shops as part of its ShopStash feature. QuiltIndex.com will not be held liable for those
comments, nor for any insult or injury resulting from them. Opinions expressed by users
of the ShopStash feature are not necessarily that of QuiltIndex.com or its owners.
Credit card and other information relating to payments to QuiltIndex.com will be held
in the strictest confidence. We have done everything in our power to protect this
information from hackers, including archiving this information on a non-networked media
source daily. No one will see your credit card information except QuiltIndex.com and the
bank processing the transactions.
As a courtesy to our customers and to the quilt shop owners, all comments sent to
QuiltIndex.com about a member quilt shop will be forwarded to that shop.
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of
the information under our control.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or
your dealings with this Web site, you can contact
Dana Jones
QuiltIndex.com
5100 Vogel Road, #305
Evansville, IN 47715
dana@quiltindex.com
