Privacy Policy

This privacy policy outlines what info we gather from our visitors and contributors, the tools we use to collect, store, and protect it, and how we use this information.

Like any other website on the World Wide Web, YouHadMeAtGardening.com records some info about you and your device during your visit. This privacy policy outlines how our team gathers, stores, protects, and uses the information it gathers from visitors of the YouHadMeAtGardening.com website.

By continuing to use this website, you implicitly agree to this policy; if you do not agree to some or all of the procedures listed on this page, you can opt out at any time, however, you might not enjoy the intended browsing experience.

Our team reserves the right to alter this privacy policy with no prior notice to you. However, if the alterations made affect your personal data in any way, you will be notified immediately by email, on our homepage, or here.

Information YouHadMeAtGardening.com Collects

Our systems gather personally and non-personally identifiable information from visitors of the YouHadMeAtGardening.com website.

The only personally identifiable information we collect is your name and e-mail address only when leaving comments if you’re a visitor, or when submitting content and leaving comments, if you’re a contributor.

However, if you are not comfortable with providing your personally identifiable information to us, you can also use an alias instead of your real name and e-mail address without breaking any rules or regulations currently in use.

Note: If you submitted a comment using your personally-identifiable information and want it removed, you can always contact us and we will remove your info in 30 days.

The non-personally identifiable information we collect is your IP address, ISP information, device and browser info, and your browsing patterns – specifically the pages and websites you visit. This information cannot be used to track down your identity.

How We Collect Your Information

We use the following tools to gather personally and non-personally identifiable information from visitors and contributors:

• Cookies: these tiny text documents contain unique identifiers that are stored in your computer after your expressed consent. Cookies collect non-personally-identifiable information about your browsing patterns, which helps us pinpoint the areas of our website that require extra work and the areas that fully meet your needs.

• Log files: These tools record browser and device information, browsing patterns, websites that referred you to the YouHadMeAtGardening.com website, pages our website referred you to, and other types of non-personally identifiable information.

• Sign-up forms: these requests only come up when registering for our newsletter and is the only way our team collects personally-identifiable information from visitors.

How We Protect Your Information

All information we gather, both personally and non-personally identifiable, is stored in systems and databases managed only by the YouHadMeAtGardening.com team. We use the latest security measures to make sure the information you provide and the information we gather stays confidential, such as encryption, user behavior monitoring, and a series of managerial procedures.

How We Use Your Information

We only use your personally and non-personally identifiable information to improve the quality of the website and your browsing experience while here. We want to know which pages and sections of our website satisfy your needs and are of real value to you and which ones need improvement so we can make the proper adjustments. We also use your information to make sure the website is properly displayed on your device and browser.

If you choose to opt in for our newsletter, we will also use your information to keep in touch.

However, know that the YouHadMeAtGardening.com team will never share your information with other parties in exchange for financial rewards or any other kind of benefits. Some third parties might get very limited access to your info, but only to your non-personally identifiable information and only as we described above.

The personally identifiable information you provide is strictly confidential, therefore we will not share it with anyone.

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with AdThrive, LLC (“AdThrive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site. AdThrive uses standard and widely-available tools for the placement and serving of ads, including those provided by Google, Inc. and its affiliates. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, AdThrive, Google and our other advertising partners will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with AdThrive, Google, and our other third party partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or AdThrive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at contact@youhadmeatgardening.com and contact AdThrive at info@adthrive.com. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences link at the bottom of the site. (Available in the EU.)

For California Residents

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of the sharing of your information for advertising information click the opt out link provided in the footer of this page. You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To make such a request, please contact us at info@adthrive.com. To be clear we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.