This Privacy Policy applies to https://homegardenjournal.com (hereinafter, “Home Garden Journal”, “us”, “we”, “the website”, “this website”, or “https://homegardenjournal.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties.
This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, we collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. We collecting non-personally identifying information to better understand how our visitors use the website. From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. We also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on the website. We may disclose or publish IP addresses of the website visitors and users.
Personal data
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
If you submit any contact form, we may share the information, including your personally identifiable information, with our vendors and associates. We may use this information to analyse the website usage. We may record your IP address when you contact us using any website submission or contact form. By submitting any contact form, you accept to receive marketing communications and service communication from the website and its partners.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
The website uses Google Analytics and other website visitor tracking for recording website visits and its usage. When you visitor the website, we record non-personally identifiable information as well as potentially personally identifiable information such as IP address.
Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
When you submit a contact form or any form submission, your information is retained indefinitely as long as we deem fit.
Your Rights
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. In order to have your data deleted, you must provide us the requisite information to track and remove it. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Data Transmission
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Your data is saved on third-party web servers across the globe. We reserve the right to keep your data in any part of the world. Your data is spread across different parts of the world both for storage and for improving the performance of this website.
Changes to the Policy
This privacy policy may be changed without prior notice. When we update the privacy policy effective for this website, we will update this page (or any page that hold the updated privacy policy). No intimation will be provided. You much check the privacy policy to keep yourself updated with any change.
Contact Information
For all your privacy and general queries, please contact us using the contact page on this website.
Updated: 26 November 2020