Effective from: 21st August 2024
theplantsinfo is hereinafter referred to as “Company”, “We”, “theplantsinfo” or “Us”. We thank you for using our services. Your privacy is most significant to us, and we deem it as our duty to care for it seriously; therefore, we conduct our business in compliance with Global Data Protection laws including but not limited to CCPA, GDPR and/or, any other applicable laws on data privacy, protection and security. We hope this Privacy Policy outlined below will help you understand what data “theplantsinfo” may collect, process, use, safeguard and with whom we may share it.
1. PRIVACY POLICY / INTRODUCTION
Our Privacy Policy explains how “theplantsinfo” collects, uses, processes, protects, discloses, shares and treats your Personal Information, and/or any other information belonging to users (jointly referred to as “information”), and how you can opt out of use of such information.
This Policy applies when you interact with us by doing any of the following:
- Visit any of our websites that link to this Privacy Statement
- Receive any communication from us via emails as a response to your requests while exercising your privacy rights
This policy applies to theplantsinfo websites, domains, applications, services and products. If you have any doubts about this Privacy policy or how “theplantsinfo” uses your personal information, shared preferences, or similar technologies, please contact “theplantsinfo” at contact.theplantsinfo@gmail.com or else discontinue using the services altogether.
Email: contact.theplantsinfo@gmail.com
As set out in the Terms of Use regarding the services (“Terms of Service”) if you are under 18 years of age, we suggest you review this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use with your parents or legal guardian. You must be at least of legal age to access and/or use the Services. We do not knowingly collect Personal information from children under the age of 18 Years. If we get to know that we have data of individual less than 18 years of age, we will delete such information promptly.
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
2.1 INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE
We do not collect any Personal Information directly from you as we do not offer login or sign up on the website “theplantsinfo”. We never ask you to fill in your personal information on “theplantsinfo” or anywhere on our website.
2.2 INFORMATION WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT
When you access or use our services, we automatically collect information about you, including:
- Activity Information: We collect non-personal information about your activity on our services, such as games you have played.
- Device Information: We only collect IP Address for legitimate business purposes and legal obligations.
- Region Information: When you use “theplantsinfo”, we may collect your region information for identification of your country for improving our services.
- Communication Information: “theplantsinfo” may collect your communication information (Email Id) only when you contact us for customer or technical support;
- Information collected via Shared preferences and other technologies: “theplantsinfo” uses tracking technologies such as shared preferences and beacons, to collect information for the identification of your country and your preferences. Shared preferences or cookies are small data stored on your device memory that help us to improve our services, improve your experience, to see which areas and features of our services are popular. We also use beacons, software development kits, website analytics software, and/or similar technologies for a number of purposes, including to authenticate users, prevent fraud or illegal activity, remember preferences and settings, analyze traffic, trends, and otherwise provide the Services. These technologies may collect information about your use of our Services, screens you view, links you tap, and other actions taken in connection with our Services. You can disable shared preferences or cookies in your device settings, but this could affect the availability and functionality of our Services.
2.3 INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM OTHER SOURCES
We may also obtain information from third-party sources and combine that with information we obtain through our services. For example, we may collect information about you from advertising networks and data analytics providers. We may retrieve your country name from your device’s Operating System to manage various applicable privacy regulations such as CCPA, GDPR etc., depending on different regions/countries. We may identify your country through your device’s Operating System (The Operating System may retrieve the information from your device’s telephony manager as per your agreement/consent with OS).
3. USE OF INFORMATION/WHY WE COLLECT INFORMATION?
We may use the information we collect about you to carry out the below mentioned uses:
- Provide, maintain and improve our services;
- Personalize our services, analyze, understand our users and their preferences to enhance user experience and enjoyment using our services and improve our user’s experience;
- Provide access to certain areas, functionalities and features of our services;
- Monitor and analyse trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services;
- Ensure internal quality control;
- Creating reports, analysis or similar services for the purposes of research or business intelligence;
- Respond to the inquiries, questions or request via customer or technical support;
- Detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent and illegal activities and protect the rights and property of “theplantsinfo”;
- Enforce our legal rights and comply with the law.
4. SHARING OF INFORMATION
We do not collect, process or share any personal information from you except your Name, Email Id and IP Address. We anonymise your IP address and permanently delete that anonymised information after the session.
We do not share such information except in the following circumstances or as otherwise specified in this policy:
- With vendors, consultants and other service providers such as IT-related services, provision of information, services you have requested, and customer service activity, etc. who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf, such as the companies that assist us with the website “theplantsinfo” for fraud prevention, customer services, marketing and advertising;
- Marketing- Interest-based or targeted advertising and third-party marketing- the website may allow third-party advertising partners to set tracking tools (e.g. shared preferences or cookies) to collect performance data, certain technical information like IP Address), pseudonymous data, not directly identifying you. These advertising partners may use this information to measure how effective ads are for delivering advertisements to you;
- If you post reviews on the public areas of our services, we share that information on our services;
- In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with applicable law, regulations or legal process, or as otherwise required by any applicable law, rule or regulations;
- If we believe your actions are inconsistent with the spirit or language of our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property and safety of “theplantsinfo”, or others;
- With our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect or manage our business interest;
- In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or portion of our business to another company;
- If we inform you through our services that the information you supply will be shared in a specific manner, we will only release such information with your consent or at your instruction.
5. THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISING COMPANIES
We allow ad networks to serve advertisements on our behalf, as well as to provide analytics services. These entities may use shared preferences or cookies, beacons and other technologies to collect information about your use of the services and other websites, including your IP address, Device settings, and device network information. This information may be used by “theplantsinfo” and others, to analyse and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our services, and better understand your online activity.
“theplantsinfo” uses third party Services from Google Adsense
and Google Analytics to serve ads and to analyse the user experience while using the services. The third-party advertising companies like Google, may place or recognise a unique tracking tool like shared preferences, cookies or beacons placed on your browser or device, including placing and recognising shared preferences and similar technologies. Your information may be used for serving targeted advertising to you on our behalf.
You can opt out of the use of cookies or tracking tools by clicking on the opt-out button shown in the cookie banner displayed on our website.
6. DATA RETENTION
We store the information we collect about you for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it, or for legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.
7. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
Depending on where you live and your legal jurisdiction, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. You can exercise your rights by contacting us at contact.theplantsinfo@gmail.com. These rights may include:
- Requesting access to the information we hold about you;
- Requesting that we correct or update your information;
- Requesting that we delete your information;
- Opting out of the sale of your information (if applicable);
- Objecting to the processing of your information.
8. SECURITY OF INFORMATION
We use reasonable administrative, physical, and technological measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.
9. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, and other factors. If we make changes, we will update the “Effective from” date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our practices.
10. CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: