Last updated: June 6, 2017.
We believe in managing the privacy of individuals and making safe and ethical use of personal information that is provided to us via electronic channels.
We respect your privacy and are committed to managing it through our compliance with this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, each of the terms “we,” “us,” or “our” means Greener Growing Garden Systems, LLC and its affiliates and sister company(ies) (such as G3 Systems, Inc.), and the term this “Site,” means, collectively, this website, portions of other Web pages, and Web content through which you have accessed this Privacy Policy.
We offer various products available for purchase through this Site (“Products”) and resources relating and access to the same (“Services”). Some Services may only be available to users who have registered with us and/or purchased Products from us (“Registered Users”). Other services are available to anyone on the Site (“Users”), such as viewing information about Products.
This Privacy Policy (together with our Terms and Conditions of Sale and any other documents referred to in this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Sale) describes information that we collect from both Registered Users and Users on this Site, by use of and through Services, and how that information may be used and disclosed by us.
Please read this Privacy Policy and the carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it. By accessing, using, or submitting information to this Site and/or Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions of Sale. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time and your continued use of this Site and/or Services is deemed to be acceptance of such changes, so please check periodically for updates.
This Site is not intended for anyone under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18 and have reached this Site, please leave the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18, unless we have received consent from a parent or guardian.
If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child, please contact us at privacy@greenergrowinggarden.com. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, without consent, we will delete that information and otherwise comply with the requirements of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and other applicable laws such as the California Online Privacy Protection Act.
We collect several types of information from and about both Users and Registered Users on this Site and Services, including the information described below.
In this Privacy Policy, “personally identifiable information” means information that identifies a particular individual, including but not limited to an individual’s name, postal address, e-mail address, phone number, and financial information, such as your full credit card or debit card number(s) or PayPal® account information.
Although we collect the IP address and information relating to the browsing behavior, through the use of cookies and/or web beacons, such as number of visits, pages viewed, time on site, etc., of everyone that visits our Site or uses our Services, we do not collect any other personally identifiable information from Users visiting the Site. We do not link IP addresses with any personally identifiable information of Users in a manner that identifies a particular individual, except as otherwise stated below, wherein such information will be treated in accordance with our policy for personally identifiable information. Therefore, we treat such information for Users as non-personally identifiable information as described further below. As for Registered Users, most of the personally identifiable information we collect from Registered Users is voluntarily submitted by you, such as when you purchased Products or registered. We will also link some of the non-personally identifiable information described further below, with your personally identifiable information. This allows us to better understand the interests, needs, and objectives of our Registered Users such that we may better serve you and offer you our Products and/or Services.
We may occasionally offer additional events to Users and Registered Users to communicate with us. If we offer such events to Users, please note that we may collect and link such voluntarily submitted information with your IP address and/or browsing behavior in a way that makes such information personally identifiable information. If you do not want us to collect and/or link such information, please do not participate in such events. The below list of events identifies examples only and does not constitute the complete list of events that we may provide.
It is also possible that we may collect personally identifiable information about Registered Users from sources other than you, such as forums, instant messaging services, blogs, other users of our Products and/or Services, and our business partners. You can prevent such marketing partners from recognizing you on return visits to this Site by disabling cookies on your browser.
If you use any functionality on this Site allowing you to send content to another user, including through the use of social media such as LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, etc., then please be aware that: (a) we may display your email address and/or social media handle (e.g. username) to the other user(s); (b) we may use information you provide about the other user(s) to facilitate the communication and/or (c) we may collect the information about you and the other user(s) as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.
We may also collect management information on our email campaigns, such as whether you have read an email sent by us, when, and how many times. We will use this information to improve content and Services and to inform groups of Users about relevant Products and Services.
Although we largely only collect personally identifiable information from Registered Users, we collect non-personally identifiable information from everyone that accesses the Site and Services. We use this information to help make the Site, Products, and Services more useful and appealing to you and to better understand our Users and Registered Users.
We may collect demographic information about you including but not limited to gender, IP address and zip code, and information regarding your preferences and usage. This type of information is not, by itself, personally identifiable information. However, as stated above, if we link such information with personally identifiable information in a manner that identifies a particular individual, then we will treat all such information as personally identifiable information for purposes of this Privacy Policy. Some of the information we collect may be through the use of marketing and/or web analytic partners, such as Google Analytics. Such marketing partners collect information such as how often users visit this Site, what pages they visit when they do so, what other sites they used prior to coming to this Site, and survey responses.
For example, Google Analytics collects the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this Site, but not your name or other identifying information. Google Analytics also adds a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this Site, but it cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you through a variety of technical methods, including the following:
We may use your non-personally identifiable information to:
In addition to the uses described above, we may use your personally identifiable information to:
We do not take your trust in sharing your personally identifiable information with us lightly or for granted. That is why we do not share your information with other unaffiliated, third party entities or companies for direct marketing purposes, except that we may share your information with other unaffiliated, third party entities or companies that supply replacement or companion parts and/or accessories to our Products.
We also strive not to disclose more personally identifiable information than is necessary to complete a transaction, provide a requested service or to operate and improve the Site, Products, and/or Services so that they are useful to you. Therefore, we only share your personally identifiable information with third parties we trust, such as our maintenance providers and/or marketing partners. Some of the categories of third parties we may share your personally identifiable information include, but are not limited to:
We may take your personally identifiable information and make it non-personally identifiable, either by combining it with information about other individuals (aggregating your information with information about other individuals), or by removing characteristics (such as your name) that make the information personally identifiable to you (de-personalizing your information). We may use and/or disclose to third parties such aggregate or de-personalized information in any manner and without notice or compensation to you.
In addition, although we use commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical security measures and safeguards designed to protect the integrity and security of the personally identifiable information we collect through this Site and/or use of Products and/or Services, we cannot ensure that your personally identifiable information will only be disclosed as described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose personally identifiable information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Therefore, notwithstanding anything to the contrary within this Privacy Policy, the Terms and Conditions of Sale or any other applicable agreement or policy, your use of this Site and/or Services is at your own risk and we do not promise or guarantee, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information will always remain private. In the unlikely event that an unauthorized third party compromises our security measures, we will not be responsible for any damages directly or indirectly caused by an unauthorized third party’s ability to view, use, or disseminate such information.
We specifically and expressly reserve the right to disclose, lease, sell, assign, or transfer your personally identifiable information collected through this Site, use of Products and/or Services, and/or any databases, together with any personally identifiable information contained in such data bases, to third parties in connection with a Business Transfer. A “Business Transfer” means a sale, acquisition, merger, consolidation, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other corporate change involving us and/or our affiliates, even if the Business Transfer is only being contemplated and regardless of whether the Business Transfer relates to a part or the whole of our business. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to interfere with our ability to transfer all or part of our business, equity, and/or assets (including this Site and/or Services) to an affiliate or independent third party at any time, for any purpose, without any limitation, without notice, and without any compensation to you, whatsoever.
We typically keep personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information for at least two years. Upon receiving an email request at privacy@greenergrowinggarden.com, we will work with the Registered User removing select information we have collected about the Registered User. However, please note that not all information can be deleted such as information which has been aggregated or is archived. We may also retain select information to prevent, investigate, or identify any wrongdoing in connection with the Site, Products, and/or Services or to satisfy other legal obligations.
This Site does not respond to “do not track” requests. All traffic is treated as equal and processed the same in that we will track Users and Registered Users use of the Site and/or Services as well as the webpage that the User or Registered User came from before reaching the Site and the webpage to which he or she went after leaving the Site. If you desire to have your browsing be private, we suggest that you use your web browser’s private, incognito, or other options.
From time to time, we may participate in or use advertising networks, such as third party advertising servers, advertising agencies, technology vendors, and research firms. We may use these third-party advertising networks for marketing, advertising, and promotional purposes, as well as to serve advertisements to you. Advertising networks often gather data about consumers who view advertisements to make inferences about a consumer’s interests and preferences, which enables their computers to deliver advertisements directly targeted to the consumer’s specific interests. This practice is often referred to as “online behavioral advertising.” For example, a third-party advertising network might collect the type of Internet browser you use, the type of computer operating system you use, the domain name of a website you visit, whether or not you visit specific pages of this Site and other websites, the location of your Internet service provider’s presence, the date and time of a visit to a website, and other interactions between you and a website. Please see the “Online Behavioral Advertising” subsection of Choices About How We Use and Collect Your Information, below, to read about how you can prevent certain third-party advertising networks from collecting information about you.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. Below are some mechanisms that provide you with control over certain information:
You may be presented with an opportunity to receive information and/or marketing offers from third parties in connection with this Site, Products, and/or Services. All information you disclose to such third parties will be subject to the privacy policy and practices of such third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of such third parties and, therefore, you should review the privacy policies and practices of such third parties prior to disclosing information to them. If you later decide that you no longer want to receive communications from a third party, you will need to contact that third party directly.
This Site and Services, as well as the e-mail messages sent with respect to this Site, Products, and/or Services, may contain links to websites operated by third parties that are beyond our control. Links to third parties from this Site and Services are not an endorsement by us of such third parties, their websites, their products, their services, or their practices. We are not responsible for the privacy policy, terms and conditions, practices, or the content of such third parties or third-party websites. These third-party websites may send their own cookies to you and independently collect data. If you visit a website that is linked from this Site and Services or our emails, we encourage you to read any privacy statements and terms and conditions of that third party’s website before providing any personally identifiable information. If you have a question about the terms and conditions, privacy policy, practices or contents of a third party or a third party website, please contact the third party directly.
This Site is operated in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, Canada, or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us may be transferred, processed, stored, and/or accessed in the United States and therefore may be available to government authorities under lawful orders and laws applicable in the United States. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By using this Site or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer and to the applicable laws of the United States.
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time in order to provide you with the most up-to-date and accurate information about our collection of data. Amendments will take effect immediately upon us posting the updated Privacy Policy on this Site. Your use of the Site after the posting of an updated Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance and agreement to be bound by the updated Privacy Policy. We may, but do not obligate ourselves, to notify Registered Users of any such changes or updates. However, we recommend that everyone, especially Users, revisit this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to review any changes that have been made. The date on which this Privacy Policy was last updated will be noted immediately above this Privacy Policy.
If you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices or wish to make a request regarding your personally identifiable information or the personally identifiable information of someone for which you are the legal guardian, please contact us at any of the following:
Individuals who are residents of California and have provided their personally identifiable information to us may request information regarding our disclosures, if any, of their personally identifiable information to third parties for direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us at privacy@greenergrowinggarden.com or in writing at:
Attn: Privacy Policy Department
Greener Growing Garden Systems, LLC
N82W23447 Five Iron Way
Lisbon, WI 53089
Fax Number: (262)820-8888
California privacy rights requests must include the reference “Request for California Privacy Information” on the subject line and in the body of the message and must include the e-mail address or mailing address, as applicable, for us to send our response. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve the right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the address specified in this paragraph.
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