Privacy Policy and Contact

Privacy Policy

Who we are: https://hotgardens.net

We hate “spam” as much as you do. We respect your privacy and do not rent, sell or exchange information from you with any other individual or company.

To be removed from the Hot Gardens newsletter subscriber list, send an e-mail requesting removal to carollight [at] sbcglobal [dot] net. We will honor your request promptly.

We may include advertising in our newsletters and on the website.  These ads are primarily from Google’s Adsense.  If you wish to opt-out of Google tracking, go to this site.  To opt out of other sites, go here: http://optout.aboutads.info

Google and the EU have requested that you be notified that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. For more information about this, please visit the Google website and click on the Privacy link at the bottom of Google’s home page.

This notice is effective as of January 1, 2004 and May 31, 2018. Updated July 2020

All information, design, wording, and photographs on this Hotgardens.net site are copyrighted and the copyrights are held by Carol Lightwood and Hot Gardens. Copyright © Carol Lightwood All Rights Reserved.

If you have any questions or comments regarding Hot Gardens, please send e-mail to carollight [at] sbcglobal [dot]net. Or mail to Carol Lightwood, 1718 E A delaide Tucson AZ 85719


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This is the information required by the European Union:

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

To contact us send an e mail to carollight [at] sbcglobal.net or mail to Carol Lightwood at 1718 E A delaide Tucson AZ 85719

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

We do not rent, share or sell your data to any company, service or individual.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

To contact us send an e mail to carollight [at] sbcglobal.net or mail to Carol Lightwood at 1718 E A delaide Tucson AZ 85719

Additional information

How we protect your data

What data breach procedures we have in place

What third parties we receive data from

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements