Privacy Policy - The 5-Minute Garden

Privacy Policy

How The 5-Minute Garden protects and uses your information

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Introduction

At The 5-Minute Garden, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

In Simple Terms

We only collect information that helps us provide you with better service and products. We never sell your data to third parties, and we take your privacy seriously.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

Identity Data

Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.

Contact Data

Includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.

Financial Data

Includes payment card details. Note that all payments are processed by secure third-party payment processors, and we do not store your complete payment information.

Technical Data

Includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.

Usage Data

Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.

Marketing and Communications Data

Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

2. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • To process and deliver your order of our digital products
  • To manage our relationship with you
  • To enable you to participate in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey
  • To administer and protect our business and this website
  • To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you
  • To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences

Marketing Communications

We will only send you marketing communications if you have expressly opted in to receive them. You can opt out of marketing communications at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email or by contacting us directly.

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

Types of Cookies We Use

  • Essential Cookies: These are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off.
  • Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website.
  • Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website.
  • Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you visit, and the links you follow.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

4. Data Security and Protection

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.

In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.

5. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

  • The right to access - You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
  • The right to rectification - You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
  • The right to erasure - You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing - You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing - You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability - You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

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 the information below.

6. Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you.

We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

Email: support@5minutegarden.site

Mail: The 5-Minute Garden Privacy Office, 123 Garden Way, Greenville, SC 29607

For any data protection requests or to exercise your rights, please include "Data Protection Request" in your subject line.