Privacy Policy for www.misfitgardening.com
Updated 10 January 2021
If you require any further information or have any questions about our privacy policy; please feel free to contact us by using our Contact Form located on the Contact Us page.
At www.misfitgardening.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This policy outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by www.misfitgardening.com and how it is used. This privacy policy will explain how our organization uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.
Why We Collect Data
We collect your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select, to track your preferences on the site and to keep you informed about the activities you selected and related products. As a visitor to this site, you can engage in many activities without providing any personal information. In all cases, we will collect personal identification information from you only if you voluntarily submit such information to us. We will also tell you how we use your information or if we share it with another party. Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will never intentionally disclose any personal identification information about you as an individual user to any third party without having received your permission.
In connection with other activities, such as those described above, we may ask you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities.
If you elect to engage in these activities, however, we may ask that you provide us personal information such as your first and last name, mailing address (including ZIP code), e-mail address, telephone, credit card, and other personal information to use certain website functions or services. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.
You can read in more detail about how we collect data below.
What data do we collect?
Misfit Gardening LLC and www.misfitgardening.com (known as the “Company”) collects the following data:
- Personal identification information (Name, screen name, email address, phone number, etc.)
- Purchases made on the site may also include details of payment such as credit card information.
- Data which you provide to us including responses to surveys, polls, search bar feature query results.
How do we collect your data?
You directly provide Misfit Gardening LLC and www.misfitgardening.com with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:
- Register online or place an order for any of our products or services.
- Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email.
- Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
Our Company may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:
- Automatic Data Collection Technologies including Google Analytics and social media pixels.
How will we use your data?
Our Company collects your data so that we can:
- Process your order and manage your account.
- Email you with special offers on other products and services we think you might like.
- To fulfill order requests such as email courses and challenges that you signed up for.
- To gain insight into traffic locations, the pattern through our website, IP address, operating system, and browser type. This is statistical data and does not contain personal information. It is used to improve site design and experiences.
- Social media pixels are used to tailor advertisements for future special offers, products, and services that may interest you that will appear on the social media website you are visiting.
- The information you enter when making a purchase or an online donation will be shared with payment processors, financial gateways, and your credit card company to authorize credit card payments.
Misfit Gardening LLC participates in the following affiliate marketing and advertising services:
- Google Adsense
- Amazon Associates
- Rakuten Marketing LLC
- Post Affiliate Pro
- The Grow Network
- ShareASale
When Misfit Gardening LLC processes your order, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.
Marketing
www.misfitgardening.com would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our partner companies listed above via email. If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt-out at a later date.
You have the right at any time to stop Misfit Gardening LLC and www.misfitgardening.com from contacting you for marketing purposes.
If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please email emma@misfitgardening.com to be removed from our email list.
What are your data protection rights?
Misfit Gardening LLC would like 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 Misfit Gardening LLC for 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 Misfit Gardening LLC correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Misfit Gardening LLC to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Misfit Gardening LLC erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Misfit Gardening LLC restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Misfit Gardening LLC’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Misfit Gardening LLC 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 at our email: emma@misfitgardening.com
Cookies
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology
For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
How do we use cookies?
Misfit Gardening LLC and www.misfitgardening.com use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:
- Keeping you signed in
- Understanding how you use our website
What types of cookies do we use?
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:
- Functionality – www.misfitgardening.com uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and the location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
- Advertising – www.misfitgardening.com uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. www.misfitgardening.com sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.
- Social Media Pixels – are similar to cookies in that they enable tailored advertisements to be made to you on a social media website. www.misfitgardening.com uses Facebook Pixel.
How to manage cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
Privacy policies of other websites
www.misfitgardening.com website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.
Changes to our privacy policy
www.misfitgardening.com keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 10 January 2021.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about www.misfitgardening.com’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Email us at: emma@misfitgardening.com
How to contact the appropriate authority
Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that www.misfitgardening.com has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Exceptions
While we are committed to keeping your information secure and private, we have the following exceptions to our privacy policy:
We will release specific information about you or your account to comply with any valid legal inquiry or process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute or court order. We will also release specific information in special cases, such as if there is an attempted breach of the security of the Site(s), or a physical or property threat to you or others. We may also transfer user information, including personally identifiable information, in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of related assets or corporate division or other fundamental corporate change.
The information you enter when making a purchase or an online donation will be shared with payment processors, financial gateways, and your credit card company to authorize credit card payments. Such information may also be shared with necessary third parties solely for the purpose or carrying out the transactions. Please note that if you give out personal information online through a discussion board or posting site, that information can be collected and used by third parties. Although we strive to protect our users’ privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of information you post in these forums. You disclose such information at your own risk.
The exceptions are only when necessary when the law requires it; for example under court order or subpoena, or in the good faith belief that such actions are necessary if when disclosure is needed to identify, contact and/or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to others or interfering with our rights and/or property.
Email Services
Misfit Gardening LLC uses a third-party email list provider: MailChimp (www.mailchimp.com) which allows the authors of Misfit Gardening to create, manage and send emails to those who are subscribed to the email list. For more information relating to the MailChimp privacy policy please visit http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/. Misfit Gardening will use our best efforts to keep your email and name private and will never sell your information to a third party. Your confidential information (such as name and email address) will only be accessed by those who help to obtain, manage or store that information, or who have a legitimate need to know such confidential information.
You may unsubscribe to our e-newsletters or updates at any time through the unsubscribe link at the footer of all e-mail communications or use our Contact Form located on the Contact Us page to let us know you want to unsubscribe and we will manually remove you from the list.
Misfit Gardening LLC uses the information you provide when you opt-in to join the Misfit Gardening Newsletter email to sort and organize subscribers to be able to send you additional content that you want to receive.
CAN-SPAM Act 2003 Compliance
We have a no spam policy and provide you with the ability to opt-out of our communications by selecting the unsubscribe link at the footer of all e-mails. We have taken the necessary steps to ensure that we are compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 by never sending out misleading information. We will not sell, rent or share your email address.
When signing up for our email, www.misfitgardening.com will use your email to send you an email when new posts are published, updates or news relating to products and services. Your email information is stored internally or through a third-party email service provider to send newsletters and emails notifying you of upcoming events.
You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of the email and following the instructions.
Outside Sites
The site contains links to other websites, like our sponsor’s websites or links that may offer products or services that our customers might find useful. These sites may request information from you. In such instances, the collection and use of your personal information will be governed by the privacy policy applicable to that site. We do not control the privacy policies, contents or links that appear on these sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party sites or services before providing any of them with your personal information.
Children’s Online Privacy Policy Act
This website is not intended for use by anyone under the age of 13. We do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age in compliance with COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), www.misfitgardening.com and its content are directed to individuals who are at least 13 years old or older.
IP Addresses and Traffic Data
When you use our site, we or our authorized technology services provider may also collect certain technical and routing information from you to facilitate your use of the site and its services. We use this information to administer the site and to understand and measure traffic patterns on the site so that we know which areas of our sites are popular favorites of our users, which areas need improvement, and what technologies are being used so that we may continually improve our sites. This information is collected in aggregate form, without identifying you or any user individually. We may use this aggregate, non-identifying statistical data for statistical analysis, marketing, or similar promotional purposes.
This data is often tracked by us our our technology services provider by using “cookies” during your visit. A cookie is small amount of data that is transferred to your browser by a web server and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. It functions as your identification card and enables us to record your passwords, purchases, and preferences. It cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. (For some web pages that require an authorization, cookies are not optional. Users choosing not to accept cookies will probably not be able to access those pages.)
To maintain our website’s high quality, we may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the website by identifying which areas of the website are most heavily used, and to display content according to your preferences (see Google Analytics usage below).Your IP address is the number assigned to computers connected to the Internet. This is data which cannot personally identify you, but is helpful to Misfit Gardening for marketing purposes and for improving our services. Traffic data collection does not follow a user’s activities on any other websites in any way. Anonymous traffic data may also be shared with business partners and advertisers on an aggregate basis.
This site uses Google Analytics to enable to determine visitors demographics such as region, age, gender and interests categories to be able to provide visitors and readers with relevant information and to enable Google Adsense to provide better advertisements through the Google Display Network. Private, personal information such as name, address or billing information is not seen by www.misfitgardening.com and we never share information regarding names or email addresses.
Data information regarding website traffic collected by Google Analytics includes Demographics and Interest reporting, Remarketing, GDN Impression Reporting and the DoubleClick Campaign Manager.
1. Log Files
Like many other Websites, www.misfitgardening.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ addresses and other such information which are not linked to any information which is personally identifiable.
2. Cookies and Web Beacons
www.misfitgardening.com uses cookies and social media pixels to track site use and to tailor advertisement messages to visitors to the site. Some of our advertising services and email service also use cookies. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. through a browser Cookies are widely used by online service providers in order to (for example) make their websites or services work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
3. Double Click DART Cookie
Google, as a Third Party vendor,uses cookies to serve ads on www.misfitgardening.com. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to www.misfitgardening.com and other sites on the Internet. Google Analytics uses a tracking cookie to provide anonymous data as indicated above.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy by visiting the following URL: https://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.
Other opt out functions available include: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on and NAI Consumer Opt Out
Affiliate Marketing
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include but are not limited to:
Google Adsense
Amazon Associates
Rakuten Marketing LLC
Post Affiliate Pro
The Grow Network
Share-A-Sale
These Third Party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on www.misfitgardening.com and send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies such as cookies, JavaScript or web beacons may also be used by the Third Party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
Misfit Gardening LLC has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by Third Party advertisers.
Misfit Gardening LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com or myhabit.com.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these Third Party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions for how to opt-out of certain practices. The privacy policy for Misfit Gardening LLC and www.misfitgardening.com does not apply to and we cannot control the activities of such other advertisers or websites.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information regarding cookie management can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
By using this site you agree to this policy, if you do not agree to the terms of this policy, do not use this website, it’s features or content.
