Privacy Policy
~OrganicalBotanicals.com Complies Fully with all GDPR Standards~
Also SEE TERMS of Service and our Refund/Return Policy
DATA PROTECTION:
First, just to be clear, OrganicalBotanicals.com does NOT Process or Store ANY ‘Sensitive” Information such as Credit Cards, or any other Financial Data WHATSOEVER. This is why we ONLY accept Payment by sending you to a Trusted 3rd Party (i.e.: Paypal™) to Process Payment, where you are then Redirected back to our Website.
WE ARE FULLY PCI COMPLIANT AND Protect All DATA Transmissions via 256-Bit SSL and CloudFlare™ Technology; For the Security and Safety of our *Customer’s Data, we only use Reputable, and Trusted 3rd Party Payment Processors for all Transactions. (i.e.: Paypal™)
This mainly has to do with the fact that OrganicalBotanicals.com does NOT Store, Log, or Process ANY“Sensitive Data” entered by the *User” during Checkout; This means we DO NOT Store it, nor can we Access it- IF WE TRIED!
HERE ARE the THREE MAIN TYPES OF “DATA”:
• SENSITIVE: Data usually contains Financial, Payment, and/or Credit Card info
• PERSONAL: Data usually includes info that can Identify a User such as Name, Phone #, Address, etc.
•BROWSER: Data NEVER includes ANY info that can Personally Identify a User.
Data Types: DEFINED
- WHAT IS: “Sensitive Data”? Defined: Payment Data, Credit/Debit Card Numbers, Transaction Data, Transaction History, Financial Information, and/or Funding Institution/Bank Account types-
- THIS DATA IS ONLY STORED and PROCESSED BY the one of the Trusted Payment Processors– (i.e.: Paypal™)
- Then, you are then Redirected back to our Website. We then, get Paid from Paypal after they deduct their Processing Fees (from US, not you)
- THIS DATA IS ONLY STORED and PROCESSED BY the one of the Trusted Payment Processors– (i.e.: Paypal™)
- WHAT IS: “Personal” Data: Defined: Your Shipping Address, Name, Phone #, and email are Collected for the ONE-TIME Purpose of Shipping your Order to you. It is then DESTROYED upon Receipt of your Parcel (unless you elected to Store your Address for Future Orders- in which case, such Data is NEVER Published publicly. Nor is it ever Sold, Shared, Exchanged, or Given to ANY 3rd Parties- EVER!!
- Additionally, employees of OrganicalBotanicals.com do NOT have Access to this Data. Only the Site Owner can View it, but still CANNOT see any Passwords you Created upon Account Creation. If you lose it, a new one is Randomly Generated, Automatically by our Content Management System (CMS), Wordpress™, then sent to your email)
- WHAT IS: “Browser Data”? Defined: Browser Data only includes Temporary Bits of Data such as “Cookies”, which are usually stored on the User’s Browser in a Temporary ‘Cache’. This may include Style sheets, Icons, Images (which help Pages Load Faster), or Breadcrumbs (which remember Items you have in your Cart from One Page to the Next).
- There may be times we View this Data for Traffic Analytics, Split Testing, and Search Engine Optimization – REMEMBER: “Browser Data” is different than “Personal Data”, as it does NOT reveal ANYTHING “Personally Identifiable”
- FOR EXAMPLE: All we see is: “a ‘Visitor’, from Seattle Wa, landed on the HOME Page from Pinterest.com/pin/….,and stayed for 0:45 seconds…”
- There may be times we View this Data for Traffic Analytics, Split Testing, and Search Engine Optimization – REMEMBER: “Browser Data” is different than “Personal Data”, as it does NOT reveal ANYTHING “Personally Identifiable”
WHAT “DATA” do WE have ACCESS to??
• SENSITIVE (NO access) We have ZERO Access to your ‘Sensitive’ Data
•PERSONAL (for shipping purposes ONLY -NO Spam)
•BROWSER Temporarily, but you can block via your Browser “Privacy” settings
(although it may Break some Site Functions)
We have ZERO Access to Sensitive Data and Passwords–NONE!
(you can learn more about how such Data is handled by our CMS, by going to Wordpress.org or WooCommerce.com)
~KEY:˙We=Our staff, employees, executives, owners &/or affiliates
YOU= *=aka: *Customer, *Buyer, *Payor, *Spender *User
OrganicalBotanicals.com publishes this Internet Privacy Policy to inform you of our practices concerning the collection and use of information you provide us through interactions with this website and the other OrganicalBotanicals.com affiliated websites. This policy is not applicable to information gathered by other methods or controlled by other agreements.
How We Collect Information
OrganicalBotanicals.com collects personal information such as your Address & Telephone Number (for shipping purposes) when you Place an Order with OrganicalBotanicals.com, when you subscribe to OrganicalBotanicals.com Newsletter through this website, and when you enter Internet-based promotions or sweepstakes sponsored or administered by OrganicalBotanicals.com.
User Registration
When you register on our website, we ask for and collect information such as your name, email address, zip code. For most products and services we also ask for your mailing address for shipping your item(s). Once you register with OrganicalBotanicals.com and sign in to our services, you are no longer anonymous to us, but you still remain anonymous to other Users.
What kind of Information do we Collect?
The information collected by us may include any of the following: email, name, IP address, browser information, address, billing address. Any comments or questions you submit are recorded as well i.e.: Product Reviews, Blog Comments, etc. Collection of information takes place at various times while navigating OrganicalBotanicals.com. When entering OrganicalBotanicals.com, information may be collected about previous sites you have visited. If questions or comments have been submitted via email or a form on our website, personal information is collected as well. Credit Card information is never stored on, or processed by, our servers. Store employees, including Store Admin and Website Owner, CANNOT access this information. Only Customer Contact Info is stored in our Secure Customer Database for Returning Customers to Access with their Secure Password. All Passwords are accessible by the Customer ONLY and can NEVER be viewed by Staff, regardless of Position.
Cookies:
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. OrganicalBotanicals.com doesn’t have Adverts, no need to worry about Advertisers Tracking your computer through your browser. OrganicalBotanicals.com uses cookies to track page requests and the duration of each user’s visit and the use of cookies allows us to provide a user’s browser with information tailored to the visitor’s preferences and needs and to also streamline the user’s visits to our website. You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept cookies, your experience at our website and other websites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.
Cookies are what we call “Browser Data”, and is only used for Analytical Purposes (for improving our Website Traffic), or remembering Items you had in your Cart from One Page to the Next. “Browser Data” is different than someone’s “Personal Data”, as it does NOT reveal ANYTHING “Personally Identifiable” about the User (you). FOR EXAMPLE: All it tells us, is that: “a “Visitor, from Seattle Wa, visited the HOME Page, for 0:45 seconds…”
Purchases:
If you are purchasing something from a OrganicalBotanicals.com website, we need to know personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, mailing address, etc. (All credit card numbers, and expiration dates are handled by the Payment processor chosen by Customer; i.e.: Amazon, Paypal, etc). This allows us to process and fulfill your order and to notify you of your order status. Contact information will not be shared or sold to unaffiliated third parties for any purpose without your express permission, except as necessary to process the transaction.
Use of Information
If you elect to provide us personal information, we use it primarily to deliver the services or products you requested.
If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our website.
Sharing of Information Collected With Third Parties
OrganicalBotanicals.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with ANY 3rd Parties, other people, Affiliated or Non-affiliated companies except to Ship you products or services you have requested. Any further Use, would require your written Consent.
Security
This website takes commercially reasonable precautions to protect your personal information. When we transmit Sensitive or Personal information such as your Name, Address, etc, we Encrypt it with VALID, Industry-Standard SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Certificate, until it reaches the Secure Payment Processor (Paypal™, etc).
Additionally, we hire a Reputable 3rd Party (Verified by our Host) to provide an added Layer of State-of-the-Art Security; Provided by CloudFlare Inc.™ (see: ‘End Users‘ Section)
As a result, sensitive data you submit through our website is transmitted securely over the Internet with the Highest Security Standards (so we can focus on doing what WE do best).
- Cloudflare provides web optimization and security services that are used to improve and protect websites, including a reverse proxy, pass-through security service, and a content distribution network- which helps us to detect new threats, identify malicious third parties, and provide more robust security protection.
Disclaimers
OrganicalBotanicals.com is not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive the information. OrganicalBotanicals.com also links to a wide variety of other sites and contains advertisements of third parties. We are not responsible for their privacy policies or how they treat information about their users.
About Children’s Privacy
This OrganicalBotanicals.com website is not intended for use by children and OrganicalBotanicals.com does not knowingly collect information from children. If you are a Minor, you must be at least 14 years old to access or use this site, but only if accompanied by an Adult.
Update/Change Your Data
To update your email address or change your email preferences please do so at your “My Account” Page. There’s a “Forgot Password” Link provided in case you forget.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
OrganicalBotanicals.com reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update or modify this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such change, update or modification on the website. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon positing on the website. Users will be informed of changes to this Privacy Policy via the “updated as of” link on the OrganicalBotanicals.com website.
What Else Should I Know About My Privacy When Online?
The OrganicalBotanicals.com website contains some hyperlinks to other websites. The OrganicalBotanicals.com website also contains advertisements of third parties. OrganicalBotanicals.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third party websites or advertisers. OrganicalBotanicals.com does not share any of the individual personal information you provide OrganicalBotanicals.com with the websites to which OrganicalBotanicals.com links, except as stated elsewhere within this Privacy Policy, although OrganicalBotanicals.com may share aggregate data with such websites (such as how many people use our Site).
Please check with those third party sites to determine their privacy policy. When OrganicalBotanicals.com embeds third party content into one of its OrganicalBotanicals.com web pages, OrganicalBotanicals.com will use reasonable efforts to advise our users that they have exited a OrganicalBotanicals.com operated website and are entering a third party controlled website. Customers/users should read and understand any privacy policy noted on all third party websites.
Your Consent To This Policy
By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of information by OrganicalBotanicals.com as specified in this policy. Please also note that your use of the website is governed by the OrganicalBotanicals.com Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy or the Terms and Conditions, please do not use the website, products and/or services
Also SEE TERMS of Service and our Refund/Return Policy
SEE GDPR Version
Activity
This feature only records activities of a site’s registered users, and the retention duration of activity data will depend on the site’s plan and activity type.
Data Used: To deliver this functionality and record activities around site management, the following information is captured: user email address, user role, user login, user display name, WordPress.com and local user IDs, the activity to be recorded, the WordPress.com-connected site ID of the site on which the activity takes place, the site’s Jetpack version, and the timestamp of the activity. Some activities may also include the actor’s IP address (login attempts, for example) and user agent.
Activity Tracked: Login attempts/actions, post and page update and publish actions, comment/pingback submission and management actions, plugin and theme management actions, widget updates, user management actions, and the modification of other various site settings and options. Retention duration of activity data depends on the site’s plan and activity type. See the complete list of currently-recorded activities (along with retention information).
Data Synced (?): Successful and failed login attempts, which will include the actor’s IP address and user agent.
Contact Form
Data Used: If Akismet is enabled on the site, the contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on OrganicalBotanicals.com’s Contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.
Data Synced (?): Post and post meta data associated with a user’s contact form submission. Since Akismet is enabled on OrganicalBotanicals.com, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are synced, as well, as they are stored in post meta.
Google Analytics
Data Used: Please refer to the appropriate Google Analytics documentation for the specific type of data we collect. OrganicalBotanicals.com runs an eCommerce Software program called: WooCommerce (also owned by Automattic) which may integrate with Google Analytics, collecting the following information: order number, product id and product name, product category, total cost, and quantity of items purchased. Google Analytics does offer IP anonymization, which we have also enabled at OrganicalBotanicals.com (upon User request).
Activity Tracked: This feature sends page view events (and potentially video play events) over to Google Analytics for consumption. WooCommerce may also send events to Google Analytics such as: shopping cart additions and removals, product listing views and clicks, product detail views, and purchases. However, OrganicalBotanicals.com has NOT enabled Tracking for these specific WooCommerce events, nor do we plan to any time in the near future.
Gravatar Hovercards
Data Used: This feature will send a hash of the user’s email address (if logged in to OrganicalBotanicals.com via WordPress.com — or if they submitted a comment on the site using their email address that is attached to an active Gravatar profile) to the Gravatar service (also owned by Automattic) in order to retrieve their profile image.
Jetpack Comments
Data Used: Commenter’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided via the comment form), timestamp, and IP address. Additionally, a jetpack.wordpress.com IFrame receives the following data: WordPress.com blog ID attached to OrganicalBotanicals.com, ID of the post/page on which the comment is being submitted, commenter’s local user ID (if available), commenter’s local username (if available), commenter’s site URL (if available), MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address (if available), and the comment content. Since Akismet (also owned by Automattic) is enabled on OrganicalBotanicals.com, the following information is sent to the service for the sole purpose of spam checking: commenter’s name, email address, site URL, IP address, and user agent.
Activity Tracked: The comment author’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided during the comment submission) are stored in cookies. Learn more about these cookies.
Data Synced (?): All data and metadata (see above) associated with comments. This includes the status of the comment at Akismet, and whether or not it was classified as spam by Akismet.
Likes
This feature is only accessible to users logged in to OrganicalBotanicals.com via WordPress.com.
Data Used: In order to process a post like action, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID (on which the post was liked), post ID (of the post that was liked), user agent, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.
Activity Tracked: Post likes.
Notifications
This feature is only accessible to registered users of OrganicalBotanicals.com who are logged in via WordPress.com.
Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Some visitor-related information or activity may be sent to the site owner via this feature. This may include: email address, WordPress.com username, site URL, email address, comment content, follow actions, etc. WE DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO USER PASSWORDS.
Activity Tracked: Sending notifications (i.e. when we send a notification to a particular user), opening notifications (i.e. when a user opens a notification that they receive), performing an action from within the notification panel (e.g. liking a comment or marking a comment as spam), and clicking on any link from within the notification panel/interface. ALL NOTIFICATIONS
Protect
Data Used: In order to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, the following information is used when such actions are detected: attempting user’s IP address, attempting user’s email address/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user.
Activity Tracked: Failed login attempts (these include IP address and user agent). We also set a cookie (jpp_math_pass) for 1 day to remember if/when a user has successfully completed a math captcha to prove that they’re a real human. Learn more about this cookie.
Data Synced (?): Failed login attempts, which contain the user’s IP address, attempted username or email address, and user agent information.
Sharing
Data Used: When sharing content via email (this option is only available since Akismet is active on OrganicalBotanicals.com), the following information may be used: sharing party’s name and email address (if the user is logged in, this information will be pulled directly from their account), IP address (for spam checking), user agent (for spam checking), and email body/content. This content will be sent to Akismet (also owned by Automattic) so that a spam check can be performed. Additionally, since reCAPTCHA (by Google) is enabled by OrganicalBotanicals.com, the sharing party’s IP address will be shared with that service. You can find Google’s privacy policy here.
Card Processing/Paypal Payments
Data Used: Transaction amount, transaction currency code, product title, product price, product ID, order quantity, PayPal payer ID, and PayPal transaction ID.
Activity Tracked: The PayPal payer ID, transaction ID, and HTTP referrer are sent with a payment completion tracking event that is attached to the site owner.
Data Synced (?): PayPal transaction ID, PayPal transaction status, PayPal product ID, quantity, price, customer email address, currency, and payment button CTA text. OrganicalBotanicals.com DOES NOT HAVE ACCESS TO CREDIT CARDS, OR ANY CUSTOMER FINANCIAL DATA (buyer pays Paypal, they take their fee, then they credit our account balance).
Because payments are processed by PayPal, we recommend reviewing its privacy policy.
Subscriptions
Data Used: To initiate and process subscriptions, the following information is used: subscriber’s email address and the ID of the post or comment (depending on the specific subscription being processed). In the event of a new subscription being initiated, we also collect some basic server data, including all of the subscribing user’s HTTP request headers, the IP address from which the subscribing user is viewing the page, and the URI which was given in order to access the page (REQUEST_URI and DOCUMENT_URI). This server data used for the exclusive purpose of monitoring and preventing abuse and spam.
Activity Tracked: Functionality cookies are set for a duration of 347 days to remember a visitor’s blog and post subscription choices if, in fact, they have an active subscription.
Video Hosting
This feature is only available to sites on the Premium and Professional plans.
Data Used: For video play tracking via WordPress.com Stats, the following information is used: viewer’s IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. If Google Analytics is enabled, video play events will be sent there, as well.
Activity Tracked: Video plays.
WooCommerce Services
Data Used: For payments with PayPal: purchase total, currency, billing information. For taxes: the value of goods in the cart, value of shipping, destination address. For checkout rates: destination address, purchased product IDs, dimensions, weight, and quantities. For shipping labels: customer’s name, address as well as the dimensions, weight, and quantities of purchased products.
Data Synced (?): For payments, we send the purchase total, currency and customer’s billing information to Paypal, who acts as payment processor. Please see PayPal’s Privacy Policy) for more details.
For automated taxes we may send the value of goods in the cart, the value of shipping, and the destination address to TaxJar. Please see the TaxJar Privacy Policy for details about how they handle this information. For checkout rates we send the destination ZIP/postal code and purchased product dimensions, weight and quantities to USPS. For shipping labels we send the customer’s name, address as well as the dimensions, weight, and quantities of purchased products to EasyPost. We also store the purchased shipping labels on our server to make it easy to reprint them and handle support requests.