Privacy Policy

Great Lakes Landcare, Inc.

Who We Are

Our website address is: GLLandcare.com

 

Privacy Policy

At Great Lakes Landcare, Inc. (the “Company” or “We”), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. Great Lakes Landcare (collectively, the “Company”, or “we”, or “our” or “GLL”) provides this Privacy Policy to inform you, its user, of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, disclosure and protection of information that apply to our service, as well as your choices regarding the collection and use of information obtained. It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may gather across our Sites we own and operate.

This policy applies to information we collect:

 

•  On this Website at GLLandcare.com.

• In e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

• Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.

• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services.

 

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how it relates to our business correspondences. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes. Checking the policy periodically for updates is recommended.

 

 

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. Under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (as amended, “COPPA”), “personal information” is defined as individually identifiable information, such as a first and last name; a home or other physical address, including street name and city or town; an e-mail address; a telephone number; a Social Security number; or persistent identifiers such as customer or processor serial numbers held in a cookie, where the identifier is associated with individually identifiable information. We do not knowingly collect or solicit information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us right away. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with Personal Information, we will permanently delete such information from our servers immediately.

 

 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

GLL collects personal information that is voluntarily provided by you when you interact with our Sites, use our services, sign up for our newsletter, submit comments or content to areas of our Sites, or communicate with us by mail, telephone or any form of electronic communication. When you visit our Sites, please know we may collect certain information by automated means such as cookies.

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number or ANY OTHER INFORMATION THE WEBSITE COLLECTS THAT IS DEFINED AS PERSONAL OR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION UNDER AN APPLICABLE LAW (“personal information”);

• that is about you but individually does not identify you, and/or

• about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

How We Collect Information

• Directly from you when you provide it to GLL.

• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies.

• From third parties like our business partners.

 

 

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services, and subscribing to our newsletter and blog. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.

• Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us.

• Your responses to surveys for research purposes.

• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.

• Your search queries on the Website.

 

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk.

 

 

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

 

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services, known as behavioral tracking. The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. This helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual needs and interests.

• Speed up your searches.

• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

 

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.

• Web Beacons. Certain pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs. pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

 

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.

 

 

Third-party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

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We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or their intended use. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

 

 

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

• To provide you with information about our services or products.

• To provide you with any notices about your account or subscription.

• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

• To notify you about updates to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.

• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.

• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

• To fulfill any purpose for which you provide it.

• For any other purpose given your consent.

 

When you visit one of our Sites, we may collect your Internet Protocol (IP) address. An IP address is associated with the access point though with you enter the Internet, and is most often controlled by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), your company, or your school. We may use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which Users visit various parts of our Sites.

 

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

 

 

Disclosure of Your Information

We do not share, sell, trade, or license personally identifying information publicly or to any unrelated third parties for marketing or public relations use. However, we may share Personal Information with our service providers who help us in the delivery of our products and services to you. These service providers may only use or disclose the information as necessary to perform services on our behalf or as otherwise required by law.

 

The Company also may disclose specific user information when we determine, in good faith, that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, to cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement agencies, to prevent a crime or protect national security, or to protect the interests or safety of the Company or other users of the Website.

 

In addition, Personal Information we have collected may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets or a bankruptcy or any other corporate reorganization of the Company.

 

The Website may use Google Analytics. For more information on how information is captured by Google, please see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

 

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

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We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide willingly as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries, partners, and affiliates.

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our company and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

• To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide information.

• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

 

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

• To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our clients/visitors, or others. This includes the exchange of information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

 

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

• We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

 

 

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us via email only.

 

Note Worth Mentioning

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

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Updates to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend or update our Privacy Policy at any time without consent. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and are effective immediately upon posting on this page. Your continued use of our Websites will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically for any policy changes.

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How to Contact Us

Questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy can be addressed by emailing us through our contact page. Please include your name and email address in the requests.

 

This policy is effective as of 1 July 2024.