Cookies & 3rd Party Advertisements

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DoubleClick or DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out    of  the use of the DoubleClick or DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content    network  privacy policy.

We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information    when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable    information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject    of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other    Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be    of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party    web beacon to collect this information.

Google Analytics

Commercial Hydroponic Farming uses Google Analytics, a website traffic tracking and reporting service. This service helps us to better understand and improve our sites’ performance and user experience. We adhere to Google’s usage guidelines for this service, which prohibit the collection or association of personal information with Web analytics. you can read more at: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ .

We implement and use Google Analytics through “Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting”, which is enabled on this site.

You can opt-out of the Google Analytics Advertising Features,  including through Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or any other available means (for example, the NAI’s consumer opt-out).

We use  http://quicksense.net to place Google ads on our site.

Affiliate Disclaimer

Links to various software and books and products are affiliate links. All proceeds will go to keeping this site up and running.

 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

We do not share our data with anyone. We do however log data that is processed by Google to provide us insights and improve our presence on the web.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

You can mail us at: info @ commercial-hydroponic-farming.com