The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of the personally identifiable information that may be collected on the website PlantingSpoons.com, and how it could be used. I respect your privacy and am committed to protecting it.

My website PlantingSpoons.com does not share personal information with third-parties. The only information about your visit to this blog is via browser cookies, which are used to analyze and optimize your content and reading experience.

Third parties may log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website (if applicable), the pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the website. They may also collect information about actions you take when using this blog, such as links clicked.

Information from two types of cookies are gathered: 1. Session cookies, which expire when you close your browser. 2. Persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the website.

You can turn off the use of cookies at any time by changing your specific browser settings. There are easy steps that you can follow by searching how online. 

I also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit PlantingSpoons.com. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services relevant to your interests.

If you would like to know more, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Other Information Collected 

Your data is voluntarily submitted to the website: You may voluntarily submit your name or email address on this website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.

Email Addresses

I might collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to me by contacting me directly or subscribing to my newsletter. I will use your email address exclusively for the purposes for which you provided it to me (such as sending newsletter emails), and also from time to time to send you emails regarding the website or other products or services that may be of interest to you. You can opt out of these email communications at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” button in the email.

Your email address may also be shared with the technology provider I use in connection with the purposes for which you provided it, and that technology provider might also contact you from time to time. Examples could be MailChimp for the newsletter, or Zoom for online workshops.

 

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents.”

Third-Party Use of Personal Data

I might share your information with third parties only when you explicitly authorize me to share your information. PlantingSpoons.com currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics – this service tracks website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but not your name, email address or other personal information.

ConvertKit – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. It stores your name and email address if you provided it voluntarily, for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to ConvertKit’s privacy policy for further information.

This list may be amended from time to time at the website’s sole discretion.

How your data is used for advertising

Display ads

I may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the website, which may use cookies, as noted above.

Retargeting ads

To offer relevant products to you, PlantingSpoons.com may engage in remarketing activities with third-party companies (eg. Google, Facebook, Pinterest, Amazon or Instagram). Based on your previous visits to the website, these companies use cookies to serve ads to you on their platforms.

This website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit PlantingSpoons.com, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the website. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of that linking page.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at  www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the website content and features. Note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit this site.

This website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.