Privacy Policy

Updated: 10/29/2022

Her Plants, https://herplants.com [“website”], is created, owned, and operated in the United States – California – by Diana Mari [“I”, “me”, “my”].

Any questions or requests about this privacy policy should be sent to me at [email protected].

This privacy policy explains what happens with your personally identifiable information [“personal data”] when you visit this website.

My user’s privacy is important to me - I do not want to receive your sensitive or overly specific information. In as much plain language as possible, below is an attempt to explain what personal data is collected and why.

Information collected automatically by third parties on my behalf and its purpose

Cloudflare

This website uses Cloudflare for their Security, Content Delivery Network, basic analystics, and static page hosting (Cloudflare Pages) products. The purpose is to have an ability for this website to be accessed by the public internet, and to stay online.

When you access this website, Cloudflare receives your personal data including, but not limited to, your IP address, location, device information, dates/times/pages accessed using automated systems on my behalf.

At Cloudflare, access log data is retained for 4 hours at edge locations, then deleted, firewall analytics data is kept up to the last 24 hours, and basic analytics data is kept a maximum of 6 months. You can read Cloudflare’s privacy policy for more information.

You can try avoid this particular automatic data collection by using a VPN.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics (GA) for their advanced, more accurate analytics to gauge visitor traffic and trends. The purpose is for website and content improvements.

GA is configured to receive anonymized IP addresses from this website. Regardless, when you access this website, GA may receive your personal data including, but not limited to, your IP address, location, device information, dates/times/pages accessed using automated systems on my behalf.

At Google, your personal data is retained up to 14 months. You can read Google’s privacy policy here.

To opt out of Google Analytics, Google has addons for most major browsers. VPN and uBlock Origin are options, too.

Other Information that may be collected

Website Contact form and Email

I collect your name (real or alias), email address, and content (subject and message) when you manually submit this information through my contact form or email – it’s used for communication purposes only.

I use Google Forms as the service for my contact form, Google’s privacy policy and terms of service applies. My website content is neither created nor endorsed by Google.

I use Microsoft Exchange as my email service. When you voluntarily send an email to me, it’s stored on their servers. Here is the Microsoft Exchange privacy policy.

I do not use this submitted information for marketing or advertising purposes, and I do not share your manually submitted information to any other third parties.

Any information submitted through this website’s contact form or direct email is only kept for an indefinite time if reasonable, otherwise it gets deleted within 30 days.

Any search terms entered into the search forms may be recorded for trend and statistical observations.

Children’s Information

This website and its contents are intended for users age 18 and over.

This website does not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 13. If you think your child provided their information on this website, please contact us immediately to resolve this issue. I strongly encourage parents/guardians to observe and monitor their minor’s internet activity.

Cookies and Web Beacons

This website may use “cookies” (text files) and “web beacons” (1x1 image pixel) to store and record your information, including preferences, pages on the website you visited, and other tracking information. Your preferences and tracking information can be used to customize website content and behavior.

To learn more about cookies, including how to delete cookies, please visit allaboutcookies.org.

Affiliate Programs

This website may participate in affiliate marketing which is done by embedding links into our content and comes at no cost to you. If you click on any of the embedded links, a cookie will be placed in your device’s browser to track any purchases made within a short period of time where we may receive some commission.

We only link to products or services that we ourselves used or had experience with.

Amazon Affiliate Program

This website 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 links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, this Site will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track referrals to their website. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

I may use Google Adsense and other third-party advertisers to place advertisements on this website. Google and other third-party advertisers use special persistent cookies to serve ads across the web. Google and third-party advertisers use data they collect about you to personalize your ad experience.

Advertising providers may use data automatically collected from you while you browse the internet. Data automatically collected may include (but not limited to) your advertising identifier, your device identifier, your mobile device identifier, your device system information, your web browser information, addresses of websites you visit, referrer addresses of websites you visit, your actions on websites you visit; and your age, gender, marital status, other demographic information, interests, and location.

To learn more about Google’s advertising cookies, go to https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies#types-of-cookies.

To personalize your google advertisement experience, go to https://adssettings.google.com/.

To personalize your advertisement experience, go to https://www.aboutads.info/choices and/or https://optout.networkadvertising.org/. EU/EEA visitors may go to https://www.youronlinechoices.eu.

To learn about Google’s Privacy Policy, go to https://policies.google.com/privacy.

To learn how Google collects and processes your data, go to https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Opt-out of Advertisements

To opt-out of the advertisement experience you may receive, go to https://www.aboutads.info/choices and/or https://optout.networkadvertising.org/. EU/EEA visitors may go to https://www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Choosing to opt-out does not “turn off” advertisements, the ads that will appear for you will be generic after opt-out and not personalized for you.

To “turn off” most ads, you should look into ad blockers. uBlock Origin is reputable.

Third Party Privacy Policies

This website’s privacy policy does not apply to other websites or services. I advise you to consult the third party’s respective privacy policies.

External Links

This website may contain advertisements and content with links to external websites and services. They are not an endorsement by us of any opinions, services, products, or other content provided by the external website owners and/or operators.

We are not responsible for the legality, accuracy, content, or privacy practices of external sites. We do not control the content or links that appear on external sites or services, and we are not responsible for the practices or behavior of external sites or services linked from our website.

I encourage users to be aware when they leave this website and to read the privacy statements of externally linked websites. Interacting with any other external sites or services, including sites or services that link to our Site, is subject to that site’s own policies.

Your Rights

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 using our contact form or email directly to [email protected].

To see the full set of rights you are entitled to, please visit https://gdpr-info.eu/.

Right to access
Right of rectification
Right to erasure/deletion
Right to withdraw consent (where it is relied upon)
Right to object to processing
Right to restrict processing
Right to data portability
Right to opt-out of receiving electronic communications from us

CCPA (Do Not Sell My Personal Information) – California Residents

To see the full set of rights you are entitled to, please visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa.

Right to know about the personal information a business collects about you and how it is used and shared
Right to delete personal information collected from you (with some exceptions)
Right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information
Right to non-discrimination for exercising your CCPA rights

By continuously using this website, you hereby consent to this Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.