This Privacy Policy describes how Thrive Indoor Garden collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site, and, importantly, how we use third-party services like Google AdSense for advertising.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information to provide you with the best possible service, fulfill orders, and personalize your experience.
A. Information You Directly Provide
- Contact Details: Name, email address, shipping and billing address, phone number (collected for orders or inquiries).
- Account Information: Username and password (if you create an account).
- Correspondence: Information contained in communications with us (e.g., customer support emails).
B. Automatically Collected Information (Tracking Data)
When you access the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site.
2. Google AdSense and Cookies (Advertising Compliance)
Thrive Indoor Garden uses Google AdSense to serve advertisements. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on the Site based on a user’s prior visits to this and other websites.
A. Use of the DART Cookie
- Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- The DART cookie is a form of interest-based advertising that allows us to show ads that are more relevant to your interests (e.g., showing gardening supply ads to users who frequently browse gardening content).
B. Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
- We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the AdSense cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.
C. Opting Out of Personalized Advertising
Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy at the following URL: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Users can also manage preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To Fulfill Orders: To process your transactions, manage payments, and arrange for shipping of your indoor garden products.
- To Improve Our Site: To analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movements, and gather demographic information to improve our content and layout.
- For Communication: To respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, and send you marketing or promotional communications, if you have opted in.
4. Disclosure of Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers.
We may use third-party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes.
5. Security
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information, and data stored on our Site.
6. Your Acceptance of These Terms
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, please contact us at:
Thrive Indoor Garden Email: support@thriveindoorgarden.com