Privacy Policy

Happily Plants LLC (the "Company," “us,” “our” or "we") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this ”Privacy Policy” or “Policy.”

This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from “you,” the user, or that you may provide when you visit our Etsy page and our website happilyplants.com (collectively, our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This Policy applies to information we collect:

·       On this Website.

·       On or through our Etsy page (subject to Etsy’s own policies and conditions).

·       In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and us.

·       When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy or our Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

·       Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by the Company; or

·       Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.

 

Children Under the Age of 16

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at happilyplants@gmail.com.

 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

·       By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card information, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information"); and/or

·       About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

·       Directly from you when you provide it to us.

·       Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and/or other tracking technologies.

·       From third parties, for example, our business partners.

 

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

·       Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. 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 Website.

·       Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

·       Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

·       Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website, our social media accounts, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of our Website or social media followers with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

 

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

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

·       Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

·       Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

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

·       Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

·       Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

·       Speed up your searches.

·       Recognize you when you return to our Website.

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

·       Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. Please see our Website Cookie Addendum for the cookies we currently use. Please see the Etsy Cookie policy here.

·       Web Beacons. Pages of our Website 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 website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

 

Third-Party Information Collection

Some content or applications on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, payment processors, and application providers. These third parties include Etsy, Google (analytics), Stripe (payment processing), and Squarespace (website hosting and content management).

These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

 

How We Use Your Information

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

·       To present our Website and its contents to you.

·       To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

·       To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

·       To provide you with notices about your account.

·       To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

·       To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.

·       To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.

·       In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

·       For any other legitimate business purposes relating to our Website or our legitimate interests.

·       For any other purpose with your consent.

 

We may also use your information to contact you about our goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located in the marketing email you receive or by emailing us at happilyplants@gmail.com. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

 

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:

·       To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

·       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 the Company's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

·       To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.

·       For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

·       With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

·       To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

·       To enforce or apply our Terms of Use or Terms and Conditions of Sale and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

·       If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.

 

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:

·       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. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

·       Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form) or by sending us an email stating your request to happilyplants@gmail.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may click the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the promotional email. This opt-out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.

  • Targeted Advertising. We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

 

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may send us an email at happilyplants@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.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

 

Data Transfer and Retention

The Website and its servers are operated in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that your personal data may be transferred to, processed, maintained, and used on computers, servers, and systems located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to use the Website, you hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consent to such transfer, processing, and use in the United States.

We retain personal information in accordance with applicable law and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unless otherwise required by applicable law, the Company will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify personal information we hold if such personal information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected.

 

Personal Information We sold For a Business Purpose

In the preceding 12 months, we have not sold to a third party any personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.

 

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit our CCPA Addendum.

 

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you.

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 Website. 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 Website.

 

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 email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified 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 Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

 

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us by email happilyplants@gmail.com or by mail P.O. BOX 473, FANWOOD, NJ 07023.