What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Personal information protection and privacy
At Planted and Picked, we understand how important your privacy is. We are committed to protecting your privacy and any personal information that we collect about you. The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you about what personally identifiable information is collected from you from our website and how it is used. We outline what choices are available to you regarding the use of your data and what security procedures are in place to keep your personal information confidential. We provide you with contact information at Planted and Picked should you have any questions or concerns about our personal information protection policies.
Personal Identification Information
We may collect personal identification information from users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when users visit our site, subscribe, leave a comment on the site and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site. We will collect personal identification information from users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. When comment ratings are enabled we store the rating a user has given to a recipe along with personal data WordPress core stores.
Cookies
Our Site may use “cookies” (small data files stored on your browser by the Website) to enhance user experience. The user’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. We may used both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website. Users may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert them when cookies are being sent. If this is done, some parts of the Site may not function properly.
The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein. Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable. When user ratings are enabled we store a cookie that contains the rating this user has given to a particular recipe. This cookie is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.
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 automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For instance, when you use plantedandpicked.com, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the website. We may also collect information about actions you take using the website, such as links clicked and time spent on links clicked which can be analyzed in Google Analytics.
Who we share your data with
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to collect information that you voluntarily give us via subscribing, email or other direct contact from you. We will not share your personal information or sell it to third party marketers. We may use your contact information from registration process to send you marketing communications and / or promotional information. We may use your contact information to send you emails about promotions, surveys, contests and special events or providing other marketing information to you. Promotional emails are intended to inform you of new or unique opportunities, events or special deals that are available from Planted and Picked. Contact information may be used to contact you when necessary or to respond to your inquires.
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, 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 registered to receive emails from us, you can opt not to receive these emails at any time by either clicking ‘unsubscribe’ at the bottom of the email when you receive it or by sending an email to [email protected] that includes you name and email address and a request that you do not wish to receive our promotional emails any longer. 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
We take precautions to protect your information. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We may use the following third-party service providers named below to process and store your data. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
- Mailchimp (The Rocket Science Group, LLC), which we use to manage email marketing subscriber lists and send emails to our subscribers. Read their privacy policy
- Google LLC, which provides our email service. We also use Google Analytics service to measure the performance of this website;
- Bluehost which hosts this website;
- WordPress software (and associated add-ons) we use to manage the content of this website;
We will not share your personal information with any other third-party unless we have your permission, or the law requires us to.
Your contact information
“Personal information” is personally identifiable information such as your name, residential address and email address. When you register at plantedandpicked.com we use the information to create and manage your membership.
Additional information
How we protect your data
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. We adopt appropriate data collection, stirage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information. We are not responsible for technical errors that may occur that result in the accidental sharing of email addresses or other personal information and data stored on our site. In the result of an error we will do everything possible to the fix the problem as fast as possible.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately by email at [email protected].