This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which The Skilled Gardener collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the https://theskilledgardner.com/ website (“Site”). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by theskilledgardner.com.
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Who we are
Our website address is: https://theskilledgardner.com. It is run by an individual who has good amount of knowledge in the field of gardening and related activities.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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
We use Contact Form in our website to let our users reach us with ease. We do capture Name and Email Address via our contact form, and we use this data to reply back to our users, and nothing else. We don’t share this data with any 3rd party sites under any circumstances.
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
We may use some 3rd party plugins or services (for Analytics purposes) to track the behavior of our visitors to better understand their requirements to provide them with better user experiences.
We mainly use Google Analytics for this purpose and you may refer to their privacy policy page to understand more on this matter. We may also use some other third party sites to understand the behaviors of our users in a better way, and if we do so we will add their respected privacy policy pages link right here.
Nevertheless, all of the sites that we mentioned here are compliant with latest GDPR rules as well.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell, trade, share or rent Users personal identification information to others under any circumstances. Our policies are very strict in this matter, and we do our level best to protect our users personal information as much as possible.
However, We may share some generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
How long we retain your data
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.
What rights you have over your data
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. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How we protect your data
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site.
Sensitive and private data exchange between the Site and all of its Users happens over a SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures.
Third Party Websites
Users may find advertising or other content on our Site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licencors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site.
In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
The Skilled Gardener has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will send you an email. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect.
You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
What data breach procedures we have in place
If for any reason there is a data breach, we will promptly alert you of such a breach and block all activity to the site until the breach is secured. Once we have alerted you of such a breach, you may request to have any data removed from our site.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
At this time, we only use user data to provide services on this website and target users for advertisements to remind them of the services we provide.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
Other than breach notifications, we are not aware of any regulatory disclosures we must provide. Please feel free to notify us if you are aware of any.
Your Acceptance of these Terms
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
If you have any queries regarding this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please email us at contact@theskilledgardner.com.
This Page was last updated on 22nd May, 2023.
Contact Information
Glenn Gissing (Founder of The Skilled Gardener)
Email: Contact[at]theskilledgardner.com