Privacy Policy Regulations

At Grow a Garden Calculator, accessible from https://growagardencalculator.com/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of information collected and recorded by our platform and how we utilize it in strict compliance with global privacy regulations, including the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

If you have additional questions or require more details regarding our privacy operations, do not hesitate to reach out to our legal support representative via our Contact Us page.

Consent

By using our premium website and interactive tools, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms and conditions.

Information We Collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

• Contact Form Details: If you contact us directly, we receive your name, email address, the subject line, and the text contents of the message you submit, along with any attachments or metadata you choose to provide.
• Newsletter Subscription: If you sign up to receive our weekly organic gardening newsletter, we collect and securely store your email address.
• Interactive Tool Inputs: The calculator inputs you enter (dimensions, crop choices) are processed locally inside your web browser using client-side JavaScript. They are not transmitted to or stored on our web servers.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including:

1. To operate, maintain, and optimize our free interactive calculations suite.
2. To improve and expand the plant presets database and introduce new spatial calculators.
3. To analyze how visitors navigate our web pages to improve loading speeds and user interfaces.
4. To develop new botanical resources, articles, and spacing tools.
5. To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our customer support channels, to provide updates, gardening guides, and responses to your contact requests.
6. To send periodic botanical newsletters containing heirloom seeds discounts and organic gardening advice.
7. To detect and prevent fraudulent use of our contact systems.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Grow a Garden Calculator uses "cookies". These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

Google DoubleClick DART Cookie & AdSense Policies

Google is one of the third-party vendors on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to our site and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

We plan to utilize Google AdSense to support our cooperative and keep our gardening software free for all users. AdSense uses cookies to deliver highly relevant context-based advertisements. It is important to note that:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies 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.
• Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Advertising Settings.

GDPR Data Protection Rights (EU Residents)

We want to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

1. Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
2. Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
3. Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.