PERSONAL AND NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our Privacy Policy identifies how we treat your personal and non-personal information.
WHAT IS NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION AND HOW IS IT COLLECTED AND USED?
Non-personal information is information that cannot identify you. If you visit this website to read information, such as details about one of our services, we may collect certain non-personal information about you from your computer’s web browser. Because non-personal information cannot identify you or be tied to you in any way, there are no restrictions on the ways that we can use or share non-personal information.
What is personal information and how is it collected? Personal information is information that identifies you as an individual, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number.
We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways:
• When you send us an application or other form.
• When you conduct a transaction with us, our affiliates, or others.
• When we collect information about you in support of a transaction, such as credit card information.
In some places on this website, you have the opportunity to send us personal information about yourself, to elect to receive particular information, to purchase access to one of our products or services, or to participate in an activity.
ARE COOKIES OR OTHER TECHNOLOGIES USED TO COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Yes, we may use cookies and related technologies, such as web beacons, to collect information on our website. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. They are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you register with us, a cookie helps Garden Launch to recall your specific information on subsequent visits, simplifying the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, etc. When you return to the same Garden Launch website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, allowing you to easily use the features you customised.
A web beacon is a small graphic image that enables the party that set the web beacon to monitor and collect certain information about the viewer of the webpage, web-based document, or e-mail message. This might include the type of browser requesting the web beacon, the IP address of the computer to which the web beacon is sent, and the time the web beacon was viewed. Web beacons can be very small and invisible to the user, but generally, any electronic image viewed as part of a webpage or e-mail, including HTML-based content, can act as a web beacon. We may use web beacons to count visitors to our website's pages or to monitor how our users navigate the website, and we may include web beacons in e-mail messages to count how many messages sent were actually opened, acted upon, or forwarded.
Third-party vendors may also use cookies on our website. For instance, we may contract with third parties who will use cookies on our website to track and analyse anonymous usage and volume statistical information from our visitors and members. This information is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. These third parties use persistent cookies to improve the visitor experience, manage our site content, and track visitor behaviour. We may also contract with a third party to send e-mail to our registered [users/members].
To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, these third parties set cookies. All data collected by these third parties on behalf of Garden Launch is used solely by or on behalf of Garden Launch and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. From time to time, we may allow third parties to post advertisements on our website, and these third-party advertisements may include a cookie or web beacon served by the third party. This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of information collected from you by third-party ad servers. We do not control cookies in such third-party ads, and you should check the privacy policies of those advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad. We will not share your personal information with these companies, but they may use information about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you, and they may share personal information that you provide to them with others.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Garden Launch websites you visit.
HOW DOES GARDEN LAUNCH USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Garden Launch may keep and use personal information we collect from or about you to provide you with access to this website or other products or services, to respond to your requests, to bill you for products/services you purchased, and to provide ongoing service and support. We may also contact you with information that might be of interest to you, including information about our own and others' products and services, or ask for your opinion about our products or those of others. This is for record keeping and analytical purposes and to research, develop, and improve programs, products, services, and content.
Personal information collected online may be combined with information you provide to us through other sources. We may also remove your personal identifiers (such as your name, email address, social security number, etc.). In this case, you would no longer be identified as a single unique individual. Once we have de-identified information, it becomes non-personal information and we may treat it like other non-personal information. Finally, we may use your personal information to protect our rights or property, or to protect someone’s health, safety, or welfare, and to comply with a law or regulation, court order, or other legal process.
DOES GARDEN LAUNCH SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH OTHERS?
We will not share your personal information collected from this website with an unrelated third party without your permission, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy. In the ordinary course of business, we may share some personal information with companies that we hire to perform services or functions on our behalf. In all cases in which we share your personal information with a third party for the purpose of providing a service to us, we will not authorise them to keep, disclose, or use your information with others except for the purpose of providing the services we asked them to provide.
We will not sell, exchange, or publish your personal information, except in conjunction with a corporate sale, merger, dissolution, or acquisition. For some sorts of transactions, in addition to our direct collection of information, our third party service vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses and banks) who may provide services such as credit, insurance, and escrow, may collect personal information directly from you to assist you with your transaction. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use your personal information before they collect it.
If you submit a review for a third party (person or business) using our Facebook Fan Review Application, during the submission process we ask your permission to gather your basic information (such as name and email address), which we then share with the third party for whom you are submitting the review. We may be legally compelled to release your personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, law, or regulation.
We may cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting website visitors who violate our rules or engage in behaviour that is harmful to other visitors (or illegal). We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we feel that the disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect someone’s health, safety, or welfare, or to comply with a law or regulation, court order, or other legal process. As discussed in the section on cookies and other technologies, from time to time we may allow a third party to serve advertisements on this website.
If you share information with the advertiser, including by clicking on their ads, this Privacy Policy does not control the advertiser's use of your personal information, and you should check the privacy policies of those advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad.
HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION USED FOR COMMUNICATIONS?
We may contact you periodically by email, mail or telephone to provide information regarding programs, products, services, and content that may be of interest to you. Additionally, some of the features on this website allow you to communicate with us using an online form. If your communication requests a response from us, we may send you a response via email. The email response or confirmation may include your personal information. We cannot guarantee that our emails to you will be secure from unauthorised interception.
HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURED?
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorised personnel and third-party vendors have access to your personal information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, we cannot guarantee that unauthorised persons will not obtain access to your personal information.
LINKS
This site contains links to other sites that provide information we consider to be interesting. Garden Launch is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS
This site may provide public discussions on various business valuation topics. Please note that any information you post in these discussions will become public, so please do not post sensitive information in the public discussions. Whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. We are not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users disclose in any such forums on the website. Garden Launch does not agree or disagree with anything posted on the discussion board. Also, remember that you must comply with our other published policies regarding postings on our public forums.
HOW CAN A USER ACCESS, CHANGE, AND/OR DELETE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally identifiable information that you submit to the website. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the website. To do so, please either follow the instructions on the page of the website where you have provided such information, subscribed, or registered, or contact us at
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Garden Launch will not intentionally collect any personal information (such as a child's name or email address) from children under the age of 13. If you think that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, please contact us.
CHANGES
Garden Launch reserves the right to modify this statement at any time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be listed in this section, and if such changes are material, a notice will be included on the homepage of the website for a period of time. If you have any questions about privacy at any websites operated by Garden Launch or about our website practices, please contact us at [email protected].
DATA COLLECTION AND USAGE
Our website utilises Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics employs "cookies," which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users engage with the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
We have enabled Google Analytics' "Google Signals Data Collection" feature, which allows Google Analytics to collect data about your traffic via Google advertising cookies and identifiers, in addition to data collected through a standard Google Analytics implementation. Google Signals enhances our understanding of our audience by providing aggregated data about users who have chosen to enable Ads Personalisation. This includes cross-device reporting and remarketing capabilities.
CROSS-DEVICE TRACKING AND REMARKETING
Google Signals enables cross-device tracking, which allows us to understand how users interact with our content across multiple devices. This information aids us in improving the user experience and in delivering more relevant content. Additionally, it enables remarketing features, allowing us to engage with users who have previously visited our website through various online ad formats across the internet.
DATA PRIVACY AND CONSENT
Google adheres to strict data privacy and security standards. The data collected through Google Signals is aggregated and anonymised. We respect user privacy and acknowledge that data collection through Google Signals is contingent on users having turned on Ads Personalisation in their Google Account settings.
Users can opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings. Furthermore, users can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in their browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Users can also prevent Google from collecting and using data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
POLICY UPDATES
Our Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our practices concerning the collection and use of personal information or due to changes in regulatory requirements. Significant changes to our Privacy Policy will be communicated through our website.