Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

When visiting http://gardenhappenings.com, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is purely used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement and gather broad demographic information for internal use. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

What Are Cookies?


A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s web server/computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites, therefore private information supplied to one web site cannot be read by another organization.

Use of Cookies

We may use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the site’s pages, or register with any of our site’s services, a cookie enables this site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, however, you may not be able to fully experience the features of the Web site.

A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a website.

We may serve third-party advertisements that use cookies in the course of ads being served on our website to ascertain how many times you’ve seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information on our website.

Other Third Party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track users’ activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies, this website has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third-party advertisers.

Google Adsense and the DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google, as a third-party advertisement vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website as well as other sites on the internet.

To opt out of the DART cookies, you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies.

Google Analytics

This Site uses Google Analytics, a web analytic solution provided by Google, Inc. The service uses “cookies” on the visitors’ use of the Site (including your IP-address) and this will be transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the USA. Google uses the information to evaluate the use of the website, and for making statistics reports about this website. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if required by law, or in the event a third party processes the information on behalf of Google. Your IP address will not be connected with other data. You can set your browser to alert you when a cookie is being stored, giving you the opportunity to accept or refuse that cookie. If you don’t accept the use of cookies you may set your web browser to decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to use parts of this Site.

Links to other Websites

This privacy notice does not cover the links within this website linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.

Affiliate and Advertising Programs

This website uses affiliate programs for monetization, which means when you click on links to various merchant sites that I recommend in my articles and make a purchase, this can result in a commission that is credited to this site.

Affiliate links generate commissions for me when visitors click them and make a purchase. Some of the affiliate and pay-per-click advertising programs in which I participate are (links are affiliate links):

Amazon Services LLC

GardenHappenings.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca. Amazon, the Amazon logo, AmazonSupply, and the AmazonSupply logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This website may occasionally update this privacy policy. When we do, we will revise the “last updated” date listed within the policy. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we treat the information we collect. Your continued use of the Web site constitutes your agreement to this privacy policy and any updates.