PRIVACY POLICY

This site is owned and operated by Blue Hill Country Garden.

Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

Information Blue Hill Country Garden.com gathers and tracks.

Blue Hill Country Garden.com gathers two types of information about users:

1. Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to purchase an item, participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:

2. Information Blue Hill Country Garden gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience.
Blue Hill Country Garden Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information. We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:

Message boards/forums policy

Blue Hill Country Garden collects and uses information supplied by you when a message is sent only to respond to that message. Blue Hill Country Garden does not share personal information with third parties.

Polling

We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. Blue Hill Country Garden may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.

Surveys

Blue Hill Country Garden.com may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.

Children

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

Usage tracking

Blue Hill Country Garden tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Blue Hill Country Garden.com does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

Cookies

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Blue Hill Country Garden.com uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates. 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 on this website. You can refuse or manage cookies in your browser.

USE OF INFORMATION

Blue Hill Country Garden uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. Blue Hill Country Garden.com does not send out newsletters.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

Blue Hill Country Garden creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SHARING OF THE INFORMATION

Blue Hill Country Garden uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SECURITY

Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

OPT-OUT POLICY

We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users.

YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Blue Hill Country Garden.com. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Anonymous Information
The Blue Hill Country Garden.com servers automatically log certain information that Blue Hill Country Garden.com uses for statistical analysis of web site traffic. The information is stored as log files on the Blue Hill Country Garden.com server. The log files are regularly collected and analyzed by software to produce visitor trend reports. The information that is collected includes:

Your IP Address
Where you came into the site
Where you left the site
The referring site that sent you to Blue Hill Country Garden.com
The type of browser you are using
This information is used to determine:

Traffic Patterns
Number of visitors to certain areas of the site
Tracking results of Promotional Campaigns
Other user trends
Server logs do not contain personally identifiable information on individual users, such as names, addresses, email address, occupation, etc. This type of data will only be collected in forms, surveys or event registrations on Blue Hill Country Garden.com.

Personally Identifiable Information
Blue Hill Country Garden .com also collects personally identifiable information that you voluntarily submit through online forms on our website, such as:

Name
Postal Address
Email Address
Business or Company Name and Address
Phone Number
Educational Background
Credit Card Information
Personally identifiable information is used for the following purposes:

To fulfill your order for membership or goods or services;
To process registrations for events, courses and other Blue Hill Country Garden activities
To conduct surveys and polls
To provide you with information on events, products and services, or other news that we think might interest you.

How does Blue Hill Country Garden use the information it collects?
Blue Hill Country Garden collects information to provide you with the services you request and to improve our website.

Blue Hill Country Garden also uses this aggregate, anonymous data to perform statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our site visitors; to measure user interests regarding specific areas of Blue Hill Country Garden .com; and to analyze how and where best to use our resources. Without such data, we would not know which parts of Blue Hill Country Garden .com are the most popular, and we would not be able to change and update the content and services appropriately.

Blue Hill Country Garden may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide information on individual users to the appropriate governmental authorities. In matters involving a danger to personal or public safety, Blue Hill Country Garden may voluntarily provide information to appropriate governmental authorities.

Who has access to personal information?
Blue Hill Country Garden, our shopping cart service and our online credit card payment provider.

What Are Cookies and How Does Blue Hill Country Garden Use Them?
A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred from a website to the hard drive of your computer. This unique number identifies your web browser—but not you—to Blue Hill Country Garden computers whenever you visit Blue Hill Country Garden.com. A cookie will not provide personally identifiable information about you, such as your name and address. The use of cookies is now an industry standard, and cookies are currently used on most major websites. Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can reset your browser to notify you when you have received a cookie. You can also set your browser to refuse to accept cookies altogether. While Blue Hill Country Garden.com does not require you to use cookies, keep in mind that certain services will not function properly if you set your browser to refuse all cookies. Generally, cookies enable our server to remember visitors, allow entry into password-protected areas, and to help ensure accurate measuring of web traffic. Cookies can be deleted or rejected by changing the settings on your web browser. However, the deletion or rejection of cookies on a visitor's part may impact your ability to use parts of Blue Hill Country Garden.com effectively. Because advertisers or third party websites may use cookies in different ways, this statement regarding the use of cookies only covers Blue Hill Country Garden .com. In no way are cookies on the Blue Hill Country Garden website harmful to the machines on which they are placed or how the information is used.

Links to Third Parties
Blue Hill Country Garden.com may contain links to third-party websites and/or content providers that include information or services that may be of interest to you. This privacy and security statement applies to the Blue Hill Country Garden.com website only. This statement does not extend to third-party websites and/or content providers, including related affiliate websites and/or content providers such as section websites, advertiser websites, and third-party service providers. Blue Hill Country Garden.com is not responsible for the privacy and security practices of those sites. We recommend that you review the privacy policy at each of these websites to determine how that site protects your privacy.