Privacy Policy

Pick your plants takes your privacy seriously. Here’s a current copy of our Privacy Policy:

INTRODUCTION

Rachel Manno Developments (”Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of our customers, website and Application users (”you”), describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use our website or Pick your plants (together with our website, our “Application”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

We will only use your personal information in accordance with this policy unless otherwise required by applicable law. We take steps to ensure that the personal information that we collect about you is adequate, relevant, not excessive, and used for limited purposes.

Privacy laws in Canada generally define “personal information” as any information about an identifiable individual, which includes information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person.

This policy applies to information we collect, use, or disclose about our customers and Application users:

1. On this Application.
2. In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Application.
3. When you interact with our Application through third-party applications, websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

The Application may include links to third-party Applications, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share data about you. If you follow a link to a third-party application/website or engage a third-party plugin, please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We do not control these third-party applications/websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every application/website you visit.

This policy does not apply to information collected by any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Application.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices for collecting, processing, and storing your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Application. By accessing or using this Application, you indicate that you understand, accept, and consent to the practices described in this policy. This policy may change from time to time (see “Changes to Our Privacy Policy” below). Your continued use of this Application after we make changes indicates that you accept and consent to those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. We will notify you in advance of any material changes to this policy and obtain your consent to any new ways that we collect, use, and disclose your personal information.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We collect and use several types of information from and about you, including:

1. Your feedback on how the Application is working, as sent to us through the Application or e-mail.
2. Personal information, that we can reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your smartphone or computer to the Internet, user name or other similar identifier, postal code, and any other identifier we may use to contact you online or offline (”personal information”).
3. We provide an opportunity for any user to unsubscribe from our Application’s mailing list or opt-out of contact for marketing purposes on an ongoing basis by using the unsubscribe mechanism at the bottom of our e-mails.
4. Non-personal information, that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identified individual, such as your method of using the Application, demographic information, or statistical or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal information. For example, we may aggregate personal information to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Application feature.
5. Technical information, including your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, or information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Application, and usage details.
6. Non-personal details about your Application/website interactions, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), clickstream to, through and from our Application (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from the page.

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

We use different methods to collect your information, including through:

1. Direct interactions with you when you provide it to us, for example, by filling in forms or corresponding with us by phone, email, or otherwise.
2. User contributions. You may also provide information for us to publish or display on public Application areas or transmit to other Application users or third parties.
3. Automated technologies or interactions, as you navigate through our Application. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
4. Third parties or publicly available sources, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect directly from you on or through our Application may include:

1. Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Application. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Application, posting material, and/or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Application.
2. Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
3. Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
4. Your search queries on the Application.

Information We Collect Through Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Application, we may use cookies or other automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

1. Details of your visits to our Application, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Application.
2. Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party Applications or other online services (behavioral tracking). To learn more or to opt-out of tailored advertising please contact us at pickyourplants@gmail.com.

The information we collect automatically is statistical information that includes personal information, and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways, that you provide to us, or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Application and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

1. Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
2. Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Application according to your individual interests.
3. Speed up your searches.
4. Recognize you when you return to our Application.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

1. Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer or smartphone. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser computer or smartphone. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Application. Unless you have adjusted your setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you visit our Application.
2. Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Application may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Application. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings that are used for browser cookies.
3. Web Beacons. Pages of our Application and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related Application statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Application content and verifying system and server integrity).

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

1. To present our Application and its contents to you.
2. To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
3. To fulfill the purposes for which you provided the information or that were described when it was collected, or any other purpose for which you provide it.
4. To provide you with notices about your account.
5. To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with you, including for billing and collection or to comply with legal requirements.
6. To notify you about changes to our Application or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
7. To improve our Application, products or services, marketing, or customer relationships and experiences.
8. In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
9. For any other purpose with your consent.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

1. To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
2. In accordance with applicable law, to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Rachel Manno Development’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Rachel Manno Development about our customers and users is among the assets transferred.
3. To advertisers and advertising networks that require the information to select and serve relevant advertisements to you and others. We do not disclose data about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 400 women between 30 and 45 have clicked on their advertisement on a specific day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers target a specific audience (for example, men in a specific location). We may make use of the personal information we have collected from you to enable us to display our advertisers’ advertisement to that target audience.
4. To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Application improvement and optimization) and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and to process the personal information with the same standards set out in this policy.
5. To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
6. For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
7. With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

1. To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, in accordance with applicable law.
2. To enforce or apply our terms of use https://pickyourplants.com/termsandconditions.
3. If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Rachel Manno Developments, our customers, or others.

TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may transfer personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this policy to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Application improvement and optimization) and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and to process the personal information with the same standards set out in this policy.

We may process, store, and transfer your personal information in and to a foreign country, with different privacy laws that may or may not be as comprehensive as Canadian law. In these circumstances, the governments, courts, law enforcement, or regulatory agencies of that country may be able to obtain access to your personal information through the laws of the foreign country. Whenever we engage a service provider, we require that its privacy and security standards adhere to this policy and applicable Canadian privacy legislation.

By submitting your personal information or engaging with the Application, you consent to this transfer, storage, or processing.

CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

1. Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Application may not be accessible or may not function properly.
2. Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to pickyourplants@gmail.com.
3. Promotional Offers from the Company. If you have opted in to receive certain emails from us but no longer wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to pickyourplants@gmail.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe link we have included in the email.

DATA SECURITY

The security of your personal information is very important to us. We use physical, electronic, and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We store all information you provide to us behind firewalls on our secure servers.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Application, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Application like message boards, which any Application visitor can view.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Application. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Application.

DATA RETENTION

Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent.

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13

Our Application is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Application. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Application or on or through any of its features/register on the Application, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Application, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at pickyourplants@gmail.com.

ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes. By law you have the right to request access to and to correct the personal information that we hold about you.

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Application and visiting your account profile page.

If you want to review, verify, correct, or withdraw consent to the use of your personal information you may also send us an email at pickyourplants@gmail.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you with the personal information that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal information that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, erased, or made your personal information anonymous in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.

We will provide access to your personal information, subject to exceptions set out in applicable privacy legislation.  Examples of such exceptions include:

1. Information protected by solicitor-client privilege.
2. Information that is part of a formal dispute resolution process.
3. Information that is about another individual that would reveal their personal information or confidential commercial information.
4. Information that is prohibitively expensive to provide.

If you are concerned about our response or would like to correct the information provided, you may contact Rachel Manno at pickyourplants@gmail.com.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Application, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Application users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Application, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use https://pickyourplants.com/termsandconditions.

WITHDRAWING YOUR CONSENT

Where you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, contact us at pickyourplants@gmail.com. Please note that if you withdraw your consent we may not be able to provide you with a particular product or service. We will explain the impact to you at the time to help you with your decision.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account. We include the date the privacy policy was last revised at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Application and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

CONTACT INFORMATION AND CHALLENGING COMPLIANCE

We welcome your questions, comments, and requests regarding this privacy policy and our privacy practices. Please contact us at:

pickyourplants@gmail.com

We have procedures in place to receive and respond to complaints or inquiries about our handling of personal information, our compliance with this policy, and with applicable privacy laws. To discuss our compliance with this policy please contact us using the contact information listed above.

Last modified: May 28, 2019