PRIVACY POLICY
FOLLOW THE PLANTS OÜ which includes our affiliated companies, is aware that you may wish to be informed about how your personally identifying data and information, such as name, address, e-mail address, telephone/fax numbers, credit/debit card information, demographic information, gender information and responses to survey questions (“Data”) that you may provide to Follow The Plants, are treated. Accordingly, we have developed this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) to explain our use of your Data as well as our precautions to keep your Data confidential and secure. By ordering our products and using our services, you are consenting to the Data collection and use practices described in this Policy, as modified from time to time by us in our sole discretion. We reserve the right to modify our Policy and invite you to consult this Policy from time to time in order to familiarize yourself with any changes. We will post any new Policy on our websites, changing the date at the bottom of such Policy. The terms of this Policy are without prejudice to any contractual terms you may enter into with us, which shall prevail over the terms of this Policy.
CHANGES TO OUR POLICY
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will update the Privacy Policy modification date below.
This policy was effective on May 7, 2020 and was last modified on June 1, 2020.
ONLINE POLICY ONLY
Except as otherwise stated, this online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK
We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. Please send us any and all feedback pertaining to privacy, or any other issue.
Cookies & Spamming
DO WE USE ‘COOKIES’?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings.
INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING AND OPT-OUT
We may use cookies and other technologies to engage in interest-based advertising. Interest-based advertising or “online behavioral advertising” includes ads served to you after you leave our website, encouraging you to return. They also include ads we think are relevant based on your browsing habits or online activities. These ads might be served on websites. They might also be served in emails. We might serve these ads, or third parties may serve ads. They might be about our products or other companies’ products.
To decide what is relevant to you, we use information you make available to us when you interact with us, our affiliates, and other third parties. For example, we might look at your browsing behaviors. We, or our partners, might also look at your location. We might look at these activities on our platforms or the platforms of others. We work with third parties who help gather this information. These third parties might link your name or email address to other information they collect. That might include past purchases made offline or online. Or, it might include online usage information.
The Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising program provides consumers with the ability to opt-out of having their online behavior recorded and used for advertising purposes. If you would like to opt-out of all such trackers, you can do so by turning off all cookies through your browser settings.
Certain choices you make are both browser and device-specific.
Our Do Not Track Policy:
- Some browsers have “do not track” features that allow you to tell a website not to track you. These features are not all uniform. We do not currently respond to those signals. If you block cookies, certain features on our sites may not work. If you block or reject cookies, not all of the tracking described here will stop.
TRADEMARK AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS
TRADEMARK RIGHTS
Follow The Plants and its affiliates, licensors and content providers are the owners of all the trademarks used on the Follow The Plants. Third parties are not allowed to use and apply any of the trademarks, logos and identifying marks without the express written consent of Follow The Plants.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.
Visitor Information
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We collect information from you when you register on the site, place an order, enter a contest or sweepstakes, respond to a survey or communication such as e-mail, or participate in another site feature. We do not store credit card details nor do we share customer details with any third parties.
When ordering, we may ask you for your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or other information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We may collect your Personal Data in different ways. Below are some examples of how we may collect your Personal Data:
Directly From You. For example, when you:
- Register for an account or sign up for a subscription.
- Purchase products or services through our website or in our stores.
- Sign up to receive promotional communications.
- Participate in one of our promotional sweepstakes or contests.
- Engage with the chat feature on our website.
- Provide a product review.
- Submit a request to, or engage with, our customer service team.
- Interact with our social media pages.
- Apply for a job through our website.
Passively. For example, when you:
- Visit and navigate our website on any device.
- Enable location-based features on our website.
- Click on sponsored links or third-party advertisements. These links or advertisements may not be on our website.
We may also collect Personal Data about users over time and across different websites, apps and devices when you use the website. Third parties also collect Personal Data this way on our website.
From Third Parties. We may receive Personal Data about you from other sources. For example, this may include receiving Personal Data from:
- Social media sites, including Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
- Our business partners, including online advertising networks, analytics vendors, and companies that sell our products on their own platform.
- Companies that provide personal information to supplement what we already know about you, including companies that provide consumer insight services. Certain third parties might link your name or email address to other Personal Data they have collected. That might include past purchases made offline or online. It might also include online usage information.
By Combining Information. For example, we may:
- Combine Personal Data that we collect offline with Personal Data we collect through our website.
- Combine Personal Data we collect about you from the different devices you use to access our website.
- Combine Personal Data we get from third parties with Personal Data we already have about you.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We may use the Personal Data we collect from you when you purchase products, enter a contest or promotion, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
- To personalize your shopping experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested;
- To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests;
- To otherwise communicate with you;
- To determine your eligibility for some of our products, services, sweepstakes, and promotions;
- For marketing purposes;
- To process your transactions even quicker;
- To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature;
- For security purposes;
- To send periodic emails; and
- As otherwise permitted by law or as we may notify you.
If you have opted-in to receive our e-mail newsletter, we may send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If you would no longer like to receive promotional e-mail from us, please click ‘unsubscribe’ link on the bottom of each e-mail newsletter.
HOW DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We may share your Personal Data in the following ways:
- Internally. We may share your Personal Data with our affiliates.
- On our Website. For example, we may publicly display Personal Data you post on our social media sites or submit through our customer reviews feature. We may also display Personal Data you submit in connection with a promotion.
- With Our Service Providers. We may share your Personal Data with third parties who perform services on our behalf. For example, this may include merchandise vendors and payment processors. It may also include companies that send emails on our behalf or help us run our website.
- With Our Business Partners. For example, this may include a third party that co-sponsors a contest or promotion. We may also share Personal Data with social media sites, advertisers, media buying agencies, advertising networks and advertising service providers. We may also share Personal Data with companies that help us learn more about our customers.
- With Third Parties for Marketing Purposes. This may include the delivery of interest-based advertising. These third parties may use your Personal Data for their own marketing purposes or the marketing purposes of others.
- With Any Successors to All or Part of Our Business or One of Our Brands. For example, if we merge with, acquires or are acquired, or sell a part of our business to another business entity. This may include an asset sale, corporate reorganization or other change of control. We may sell or transfer our customer Personal Data as an asset or as part of a larger transaction action.
- To Comply With the Law or To Protect Ourselves. For example, this could include responding to a court order or subpoena. It could also include sharing Personal Data if a government agency or investigatory body requests. We might share Personal Data when we are investigating a potential fraud. This could include fraud we think has occurred during a sweepstakes or promotion. We may also share Personal Data if you are the winner of a sweepstakes or other contest with anyone who requests a winner’s list.
- For Other Reasons We May Describe to You At the Time of Collection.
HOW DO WE PROTECT PERSONAL DATA?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your Personal Data. Although we have tried to create secure, reliable and trustworthy websites for our visitors, please be aware that the Internet is generally not regarded as a completely secure environment, and that therefore the confidentiality of the Personal Data provided by you or material transmitted via our websites or by e-mail cannot be guaranteed by us. Thus, we cannot be responsible or liable for the security of your Personal Data whilst in transit via the Internet to us.
DO I HAVE CHOICES REGARDING MY PERSONAL DATA?
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
How can you opt-out, remove or modify Personal Data you have provided to us? To delete all of your online account information from our database, sign into the ‘My Account’ section of our site and remove your shipping addresses, billing addresses and payment information. Please note that we may maintain information about an individual sales transaction in order to service that transaction and for record keeping and legal purposes.
You also can opt out of receiving our marketing communications. Note that you will still receive transactional messages from us, including information about your account and responses to your inquiries. To opt out of receiving our marketing communications, you can follow the instructions contained in the communication.
PERSONAL DATA TRANSFER AND LINKS
PERSONAL DATA TRANSFER ABROAD
Follow The Plants may have databases in different jurisdictions. Follow The Plants may transfer your Personal Data to one of its databases or to companies within the Follow The Plants group or to its partners, who have agreed to keep your Personal Data confidential and secure, outside of your country of residence. If the level of privacy protection in a country does not comply with internationally recognized standards, we will ensure that Personal Data transfers to our databases in that country are equally protected and that a transfer of Personal Data to third parties in such countries does not occur. By submitting your Personal Data, you expressly agree to its possible transfer to other companies within the Follow The Plants group and/or its partners and to this end to its trans-border transmission.
THIRD PARTY LINKS
Occasionally, at our discretion and in an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include third party links on our site. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a specific link does not work). If you provide any Personal Data through any such third party web site, your transaction will occur on such third party’s web site and the personal information you provide will be collected by, and controlled by the privacy policy of, that third party. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the privacy policies and practices of any such third parties.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POLICY DOES NOT ADDRESS THE PRIVACY OR INFORMATION PRACTICES OF ANY THIRD PARTIES.
PERSONAL DATA AND CHILDREN
To respect the privacy of children and to comply with the laws designed to protect children, children under the age of 18 should not provide any Personal Data. Follow The Plants will not knowingly collect, use, or disclose Personal Data from a minor under the age of 18, without obtaining prior consent from a person with parental responsibility (parent, guardian). Our websites are general audience sites that are not designed nor intended to collect Personal Data from children under the age of 18. We ask that parents supervise their children while online.
If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child under 18 has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at shop@followtheplants.com. You can also write to us at the address listed at the end of this Policy. Please mark your inquiries “Children’s Information Request.”.
CONTACT
CONTACTING US
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.
FOLLOW THE PLANTS OU. CONTACT INFORMATION
shop@followtheplants.com
FOLLOW THE PLANTS OÜ
Ahtri 12
10151 Tallinn, Estonia