PRIVACY POLICY / DISCLOSURES / TERMS OF USE
for Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com
Updated and effective February 2, 2021
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I'm Dan Meyers, the owner of this website. At Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.
We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.
About Our Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.
Google Analytics Cookies
Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at this link.
Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.
If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on.
Advertising Cookies
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.
You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.
Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out page.
This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.
Affiliate Products and Services
We receive an affiliate commission for some of the products/services sold on Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com.
The affiliate services platforms we currently use are Amazon, Share-A-Sale, Do-My-Own-Pest-Control, SiteSell Inc.
By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the links below:
You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.
If you choose to refuse Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
California Consumer Privacy Act Statement
Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com has not sold any personal information from visitors to the site in the past 12 months.
Personally Identifiable Information
Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To run and operate our site.
- To display content on the site correctly.
- To improve customer service.
- To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
- To personalize your user experience.
- To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
- To improve our site.
- To improve our products and services.
- To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
- To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
- To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
- To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.
Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.
Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.
If you complete a form, such as the “Contact Me” Form or others, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.
If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.
If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.
This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. Below are links to the privacy policies of
https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
https://www.reddit.com/help/privacypolicy/
https://www.tumblr.com/privacy/en
https://twitter.com/en/privacy
https://policies.google.com/privacy
You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.
If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.
We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.
Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.
Non-personally Identifiable Information
We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.
Children's Privacy Protection
This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must have a parent or guardian provide consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.
Release of Information
If we sell Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.
Data Storage
Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.
How You Can Correct or Remove Information
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to download and review that information, click on this link.
You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.
Updates and Effective Date
Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
Last updated: February 2, 2021.
Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to Garden-Counselor-Lawn-Care.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.
Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.
Additional Disclosures
This website is written and maintained primarily by one person, designated within articles and notes as The Garden Counselor Editor, or just Editor. Occasional guest contributors may be used, with or without identifying any individual.
I always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on the topics or products I write about. I strive to be factual and to present ideas and procedures in a manner that is readily understandable. Any attempts at humor in sharing this information is never intended to misrepresent or belittle alternative viewpoints.
Reviews of products or methods by third party individuals, as presented on this site or accessed by links to other sites, are their opinions and may not reflect the view of The Garden Counselor Editor. These comments or articles may suggest accurate experiences or may be filtered by incorrect or inappropriate application or use of any product or method. Your results may vary.
I encourage all purchasers of lawn and garden products, especially chemicals, to read thoroughly and follow all label instructions and warnings furnished by the manufacturer.
While I endeavor to check all facts, any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.
No Professional Advice Given.
The information on this site is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for on-site professional help, advice, diagnosis or treatment of any landscape disease or problem. Always seek the advice of a local, professionally accredited tradesperson with any questions you have regarding a designated approach to the specific cause or remedy for a lawn or landscape ailment or deficiency and the appropriate process for remediation.
Nothing contained in this site is intended to constitute a professional diagnosis or treatment. Nothing in this site mentioned as a product, test, procedure, result, company, opinion, or other information is intended as a recommendation or endorsement of the same for any other individual, persons, or locations.
Any reliance on any information provided by the website personnel, others appearing on the site at the invitation of the website and/or other visitors to the site is solely at the user's risk.
Information and offers on this site are not intended to create any contractual relationship, assumed or otherwise. Offers by The Garden Counselor to readers for the submission of comments and requests for advice or counsel do not obligate The Garden Counselor to acknowledge and/or respond to any or all submissions.
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