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Privacy Policy

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This policy explains what information GardenSeeker.com collects when you visit, why, and what your choices are.

GardenSeeker.com is responsible for the personal information described in this policy.

What we collect and why

When you browse the site

The site is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any web server, Cloudflare processes your IP address and basic technical information (browser type, the page requested, date and time) to deliver pages to you and protect the site from attacks and abuse. We use this only to run and secure the site.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which guides are useful and how people find them. It collects information such as pages viewed, time on page, approximate location (country or region), device and browser, and how you arrived. We don't use it to identify you. Analytics cookies are only set if you agree to them in the cookie banner.

Advertising

GardenSeeker is free to read because it shows adverts. Advertising is managed by Mediavine; see "Mediavine Programmatic Advertising" below. You choose whether to allow personalised advertising in the cookie banner, and you can change your choice at any time using the "Update Privacy Settings" link in the site footer.

Some guides link to products on Amazon and other retailers. If you click one and buy something, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We don't receive any personal information about you from the retailer, only that a sale was made. Once you leave our site, the retailer's own privacy policy applies. See our Affiliate Disclaimer.

When you contact us

If you send us a message through our contact page, we receive your name, email address and message. We use them only to reply to you. The form is protected from spam by Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks your browser and device signals to tell people from bots without using tracking cookies. Messages sent through the form are delivered to our inbox by Cloudflare Email Routing. They are not added to any mailing list or shared with anyone. We keep correspondence for 6 months and then delete it, unless we need it for an ongoing conversation.

Search on GardenSeeker runs entirely in your browser. What you type isn't sent to us or to anyone else.

Fonts and images

Fonts and images are served from our own domains (gardenseeker.com and images.gardenseeker.com). We don't load fonts from Google or other third-party font services.

  • Consent: analytics and advertising cookies, and personalised advertising. You can withdraw consent at any time through "Update Privacy Settings".
  • Legitimate interests: running, securing and improving the site, and replying to messages you send us.

Cookies

We explain the cookies used on this site, and how to control them, in our Cookie Policy.

Who we share information with

We don't sell your personal information. We share it only with the service providers who help run the site: Cloudflare (hosting, security, spam protection and delivering contact form messages), Google (analytics and email), and Mediavine and its advertising partners (advertising). Some of these providers process data outside the UK. Where they do, they rely on safeguards recognised under UK law, such as the UK International Data Transfer Addendum or the UK–US Data Bridge.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask to:

  • see the personal information we hold about you
  • have it corrected or deleted
  • object to or restrict how we use it
  • withdraw consent you've given

Get in touch through our contact page and we'll respond within one month. If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113.

Mediavine advertising

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Changes to this policy

We'll update this page when the site or the services we use change. The date at the top shows when it was last updated.