Privacy Policy
Your online privacy is very important to us.
In an ever expanding technological world, we recommend educating yourself regarding online privacy, a good start is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) website. Some further reading is here.
https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy
We do not store any credit card or payment details on our site, nor do we have access to your passwords which are encrypted, and do not pass on your information to 3rd parties, with the exception of using Google Analytics, which shows us only how our website is used, and contains no user identifiable information, such as email addresses or postal addresses.
It is World
Wonders Gardens’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any
information we may collect while operating our website. We respect your
privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable
information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this
privacy policy to explain what information may be collected on our
Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we
may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy
applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not
apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This
Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our
Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of
our Website.
- Website Visitors
Like most websites, World
Wonders Gardens collects non-personally-identifying information of the
sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the
browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and
time of each visitor request. World Wonders Gardens’s purpose in
collecting non-personally identifying information is to better
understand how World Wonders Gardens’s visitors use its website. From
time to time, World Wonders Gardens may release
non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by
publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. World Wonders
Gardens also collects potentially personally-identifying information
like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users
leaving comments on http://www.worldwondersgardens.co.uk blog posts.
World Wonders Gardens only discloses logged in user and commenter IP
addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses
personally-identifying information as described below.
- Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain
visitors to World Wonders Gardens’s websites choose to interact with
World Wonders Gardens in ways that require World Wonders Gardens to
gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of
information that World Wonders Gardens gathers depends on the nature of
the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at
http://www.worldwondersgardens.co.uk to provide a username and email
address.
- Security
The security of your Personal Information
is important to us, your account information is encrypted, and may only
be read with the correct decryption key which we do not distribute to
3rd parties, but remember that no method of transmission over the
Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we
strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal
Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
- Advertisements
Ads
appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising
partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to
recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement
to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This
information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted
advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This
Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by World Wonders Gardens and
does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
- Links To External Sites
Our
Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by
us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that
third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy
and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control
over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or
practices of any third party sites, products or services.
- Www.worldwondersgardens.co.uk uses Google AdWords for remarketing
Www.worldwondersgardens.co.uk
uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites
(including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that
we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our
site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could
be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or
a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including
Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of
course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own
privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences
for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page,
and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising
entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
- Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
World
Wonders Gardens discloses potentially personally-identifying and
personally-identifying information only to those of its employees,
contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that
information in order to process it on World Wonders Gardens’s behalf or
to provide services available at World Wonders Gardens’s website, and
(ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those
employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located
outside of your home country; by using World Wonders Gardens’s website,
you consent to the transfer of such information to them. World Wonders
Gardens will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and
personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its
employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above,
World Wonders Gardens discloses potentially personally-identifying and
personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court
order or other governmental request, or when World Wonders Gardens
believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to
protect the property or rights of World Wonders Gardens, third parties
or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of
http://www.worldwondersgardens.co.uk and have supplied your email
address, World Wonders Gardens may occasionally send you an email to
tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up
to date with what’s going on with World Wonders Gardens and our
products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of
information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If
you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our
feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to
help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other
users. World Wonders Gardens takes all measures reasonably necessary to
protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction
of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying
information.
- Aggregated Statistics
World Wonders Gardens may
collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. World
Wonders Gardens may display this information publicly or provide it to
others. However, World Wonders Gardens does not disclose your
personally-identifying information.
- Affiliate Disclosure
This
site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain
links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
- Cookies
To
enrich and perfect your online experience, World Wonders Gardens uses
"Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to
display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your
preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information
that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s
browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. World
Wonders Gardens uses cookies to help World Wonders Gardens identify and
track visitors, their usage of http://www.worldwondersgardens.co.uk, and
their website access preferences. World Wonders Gardens visitors who do
not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their
browsers to refuse cookies before using World Wonders Gardens’s
websites, with the drawback that certain features of World Wonders
Gardens’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By
continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie
settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to World Wonders Gardens's
use of cookies.
- E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions
with World Wonders Gardens – by purchasing World Wonders Gardens's
services or products, are asked to provide additional information,
including as necessary the personal and financial information required
to process those transactions. In each case, World Wonders Gardens
collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to
fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with World Wonders
Gardens. World Wonders Gardens does not disclose personally-identifying
information other than as described below. And visitors can always
refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat
that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related
activities.
- Business Transfers
If World Wonders Gardens, or
substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event
that World Wonders Gardens goes out of business or enters bankruptcy,
user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or
acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may
occur, and that any acquirer of World Wonders Gardens may continue to
use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
- Privacy Policy Changes
Although
most changes are likely to be minor, World Wonders Gardens may change
its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in World Wonders Gardens’s
sole discretion. World Wonders Gardens encourages visitors to frequently
check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued
use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute
your acceptance of such change.