Privacy Policy
Growing Communities WA is committed to protecting your privacy. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Community Gardens WA Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Community Gardens WA Website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Growing Communities WA collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Growing Communities WA. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Growing Communities WA for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Community Gardens WA Website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Community Gardens WA Website garden database, this information may be collected and used by others.
Growing Communities encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Community Gardens WA Website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Growing Communities WA is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Community Gardens WA Website.
Use of your Personal Information
Growing Communities WA collects and uses your personal information to operate the Community Gardens WA Website and deliver the services you have requested. Growing Communities WA also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Growing Communities WA. Growing Communities WA may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Growing Communities WA does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Growing Communities WA may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Growing Communities WA may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Growing Communities WA, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Growing Communities WA does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Growing Communities WA keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Community Gardens WA Website, in order to determine what Growing Communities WA services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Growing Communities WA to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Growing Communities WA will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Growing Communities WA or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Growing Communities WA; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Growing Communities WA, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Community Gardens WA Website use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Community Gardens WA pages, or register with Community Gardens WA Website or services, a cookie helps Community Gardens WA Website to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Community Gardens WA Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Community Gardens WA Website features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Growing Communities WA services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Growing Communities WA secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure.
Changes to this Statement
Growing Communities WA will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Growing Communities WA encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Growing Communities WA is protecting your information.
