Privacy - Plant Exchange

Updated May 23, 2020

Your privacy is important to us. At Diggit-plantExchange we have a few fundamental principles:

We don't ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
We don't share your personal information with anyone, except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don't store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

These principles are incorporated in our Privacy Policy, which is set out below.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Diggit-plantExchange 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. Diggit-plantExchange's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Diggit-plantExchange's visitors use its website. From time to time, Diggit-plantExchange may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of Diggit-plantExchange's website.

Diggit-plantExchange may also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Diggit-plantExchange does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Diggit-plantExchange choose to interact with Diggit-plantExchange in ways that require Diggit-plantExchange to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Diggit-plantExchange gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at Diggit-plantExchange.com to provide identifying information like a username, an email address and a password. Diggit-plantExchange collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitors' interaction with Diggit-plantExchange. We also request from a visitor who wishes to give a plant the physical address where the plant is made available (a public location or the visitor's personal address). This address will of course be disclosed on Diggit-plantExchange's website since this is necessary to fulfill the purpose of this particular visitor's interaction with Diggit-plantExchange. Other than this address, Diggit-plantExchange does not disclose personally-identifying information, except as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Diggit-plantExchange may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, Diggit-plantExchange may monitor where plant releases occur and at what time of the day. Diggit-plantExchange may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Diggit-plantExchange does not disclose personally-identifying information, except as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Diggit-plantExchange 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 Diggit-plantExchange's behalf or to provide services available on Diggit-plantExchange'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 Diggit-plantExchange's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Diggit-plantExchange will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Diggit-plantExchange shall disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information when required to do so by law, or when Diggit-plantExchange believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Diggit-plantExchange, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the Diggit-plantExchange's website and/or have supplied your email address, Diggit-plantExchange may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with Diggit-plantExchange news. We primarily use our blog or other services like facebook and twitter 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. Diggit-plantExchange takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

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. Diggit-plantExchange uses cookies to help Diggit-plantExchange identify and track visitors, their usage of Diggit-plantExchange's website, and their website access preferences. Diggit-plantExchange visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using PlantCathing's website, with the drawback that certain features of Diggit-plantExchange may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Diggit-plantExchange may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Diggit-plantExchange's sole discretion. Diggit-plantExchange 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.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Policy or our privacy practices, or to report any violations of the Policy or abuse of the Website and Services, please contact us here https://plant-share.herokuapp.com/contact