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Online Plant Guide is committed to protecting your privacy and developing
technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This
Statement of Privacy applies to the Online Plant Guide Web
site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Online Plant Guide
website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Online
Plant Guide collects information about your computer hardware and
software that is automatically collected by Online Plant Guide. This information
can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and
referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Online Plant Guide for
the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to
provide general statistics regarding use of the Online Plant Guide Web site.
Online Plant Guide encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites
you choose to link to from Online Plant Guide so that you can understand how
those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Online Plant Guide is
not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites
outside of the Online Plant Guide and Online Plant Guide family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Online
Plant Guide does not use
or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, name, religion, or
political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Online Plant Guide keeps
track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Online Plant Guide,
in order to determine what Online Plant Guide services are the most popular.
This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within
Online Plant Guide to customers whose behavior indicates that they are
interested in a particular subject area.
Use of Cookies
The Online Plant Guide web site uses Google advertising:
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Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on
your site.
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Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on
their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
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The Online Plant Guide Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your
online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by
a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to
your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a
web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to
save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have
returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Online Plant
Guide's pages, or register with Online Plant Guide site or services, a cookie
helps Online Plant Guide to recall your specific information on subsequent
visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information,
such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to
the same Online Plant Guide Web site, the information you previously provided
can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Online Plant Guide features that
you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers
automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting
to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not
be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Online Plant Guide
services or Web sites you visit.
Changes to this Statement
Online Plant Guide will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to
reflect company and customer feedback. Online Plant Guide encourages you to
periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Online Plant Guide is
protecting your information.
Contact Information
Online Plant Guide welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.
If you believe that Online Plant Guide has not adhered to this Statement,
please contact Online Plant Guide at [email protected].
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy
the problem.
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