1. GENERAL
Grow the Good Life (“Company” or “we” or “us” or “our”) respects the privacy of everyone (“Sites’ visitor” “user” or “you”) that uses www.growthegoodlife.com, as well as other device or online applications related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”).
The following Privacy Notice is designed to inform you, as a user of Grow the Good Life, about the types of personal information that we may gather about or collect from you in connection with your use of the site. It also is intended to explain the conditions under which Grow the Good Life uses and discloses that personal information, and your rights concerning that personal information.
Grow the Good Life is subject to U.S. state and federal law. If you are accessing our site from other jurisdictions, please be advised that you are transferring your personal information to us in the United States, and by using our site, you are agreeing to that transfer and use of your personal information per this Privacy Notice. You also agree to abide by the applicable laws of the State of Connecticut and U.S. federal law concerning your use of Grow the Good Life and your agreements with us.
If your use of Grow the Good Life would be unlawful in your jurisdiction, please do not use the site.
IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE
This website is not intended for users under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not visit or interact with this website in any way or provide any information to us. We do not knowingly collect personal information from users under 18 years of age.
2. HOW WE COLLECT AND USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Grow the Good Life gathers personal information from users of the site. When you browse our site, subscribe to our services, or contact us through various social or web forms you are voluntarily sharing personal information with us. This personal information also includes various data that we collect automatically. This may be the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, operating system, browser type, and the locations of the Sites the user views right before arriving at while navigating and immediately after leaving the site. It may also include various technical aspects of the user’s computer or browser and the user’s browsing habits that are collected through cookies. Grow the Good Life may analyze various mentioned personal information gathered from or about users to help us better understand how the site is used and how to make them better. By identifying patterns and trends in usage, we can better design the Grow the Good Life to improve users’ experiences, both in terms of content and ease of use. From time to time, Grow the Good Life may also release the anonymized information gathered from the users in the aggregate, such as by publishing a report on trends in the usage of the site.
When we believe disclosure is appropriate, we may disclose your information to help investigate, prevent or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud, or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of Grow the Good Life, our users, our employees or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements or policies, in response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order or a request for cooperation from law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us. We will notify you if permitted before undertaking such disclosures.
Grow the Good Life reserves the right to transfer all information in its possession to a successor organization in the event of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other sales of all or a portion of our assets. Other than to the extent ordered by a bankruptcy or other court, the use and disclosure of all transferred information will be subject to this Privacy Notice, or a new privacy notice if you are given notice of that new privacy notice and are given an opportunity to affirmatively opt-out of it.
3. DO WE USE COOKIES?
A “Cookie” is a string of information that assigns you a unique identification that a website stores on a user’s computer, and that the user’s browser provides to the website each time the user submits a query to the website. We use cookies on Grow the Good Life to keep track of services you have used, to record registration information regarding your login name and password, to record your user preferences, to keep you logged into the site, and to facilitate purchase procedures. Grow the Good Life also uses Cookies to track the pages that users visit during each of the sessions, both to help Grow the Good Life improve users’ experiences and to help understand how the site is being used. As with other personal information gathered from users of the site, Grow the Good Life analyzes and discloses in aggregated form information gathered using Cookies, to help Grow the Good Life, its partners, and others better understand how the site is being used.
GROW THE GOOD LIFE USERS WHO DO NOT WISH TO HAVE COOKIES PLACED ON THEIR COMPUTERS SHOULD SET THEIR BROWSERS TO REFUSE COOKIES BEFORE ACCESSING THE SITE, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE SITE MAY NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY WITHOUT THE AID OF COOKIES. GROW THE GOOD LIFE USERS WHO REFUSE COOKIES ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY RESULTING LOSS OF FUNCTIONALITY.
4. DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Grow the Good Life contractually prohibits its contractors, affiliates, vendors, and suppliers from disclosing any personal information received from Grow the Good Life, other than by this Privacy Notice. These third parties may include advertisers, providers of games, utilities, widgets, and a variety of other third-party applications accessible through the site. Grow the Good Life neither owns nor controls the third-party websites and applications accessible through the site. Thus, this Privacy Notice does not apply to personal information provided to or gathered by the third parties that operate them. Before visiting a third party, or using a third-party application, whether, using a link on the site, directly through the site, or otherwise, and before providing any personal information to any such third party, users should inform themselves of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for those sites or applications and should take those steps necessary to, in those users’ discretion, protect their privacy.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit Grow the Good Life. These companies may use information about your visits to the site that is contained in Cookies to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Using a tool created by the Network Advertising Initiative, you can opt-out of several third-party ad servers’ and networks’ Cookies simultaneously. If you would like more personal information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this personal information used by these companies, please follow the following links: http://networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/, or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
We use Google Analytics. We may use third-party vendors, including Google, who use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past activity on the site, including Google Analytics for Display Advertising. The personal information collected may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand online activity. If you do not want any personal information to be collected and used by Google Analytics, you can install an opt-out in your web browser (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/) and/or opt-out from Google Analytics for Display Advertising or the Google Display Network by using Google’s Ads Settings (www.google.com/settings/ads).
Grow the Good Life has hyperlinks to social media networks. We may use hyperlinks on the site, which will redirect you to a social network if you click on the respective link. However, when you click on a social plug-in, such as Facebook’s “Like” button or Twitter’s “Tweet” button that particular social network’s plugin will be activated and your browser will directly connect to that provider’s servers. If you do not use these buttons none of your data will be sent to the respective social network’s plugin providers. To illustrate this further, imagine the scenario where you click on Facebook’s “Like” button on the site. Facebook will receive your IP address, the browser version and screen resolution, and the operating system of the device you have used to access the site. Settings regarding privacy protection can be found on the websites of these social networks and are not within our control.
We use third-party service providers on Grow the Good Life. We may share your personal information, which may include your name and contact information (including email address) with our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include fulfilling orders, providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business and sales analysis, supporting the site’s functionality, and supporting contests, sweepstakes, surveys, and other features offered through the site. We may also share your name, contact personal information, and credit card personal information with our authorized service providers who process credit card payments. These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such personal information for any other purpose. You can contact us to receive our current list of providers.
5. SECURITY
We take the security of your personal information seriously and use reasonable electronic, personnel, and physical measures to protect it from loss, theft, alteration, or misuse. However, please be advised that even the best security measures cannot fully eliminate all risks. We cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your personal information. We are not responsible for third-party circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures.
We are dedicated to protecting all personal information on Grow the Good Life as is necessary. However, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information by keeping your password and computer/mobile device access confidential. If you have an account with Grow the Good Life and believe someone has gained unauthorized access to it or your account please change your password as soon as possible. If you lose control of your account, you should notify us immediately.
6. PRIVACY RIGHTS – EU USERS
We comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
If you reside in the European Union (EU), United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, Norway, Lichtenstein, or Iceland, you have certain data protection rights under your local laws.
These rights may include:
• The right to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information
• The right to request edits or erasure of your personal information
• The right to limit the processing of your personal information
• Data portability right (if applicable)
• The right to object to the processing of your personal information
If Grow the Good Life relies on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, please note that this will not alter the validity of the processing before its withdrawal.
If you wish to exercise any of the mentioned rights please get in touch with us by email at stevesmith@growthegoodlife.com or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this Privacy Notice. Grow the Good Life has 30 days to respond to your request.
If you are not satisfied with Grow the Good Life’s handling of your privacy concerns please note that you have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority.
List of EU supervisory authorities: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
Switzerland supervisory authority: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
If you have any questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at stevesmith@growthegoodlife.com.
7. PRIVACY RIGHTS – CALIFORNIA USERS
We comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Under the CCPA, you have the right to:
• Request that Grow the Good Life disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information that Grow the Good Life has collected about you
• Request that Grow the Good Life delete any personal information that was collected about you
• Request Grow the Good Life to not sell your personal information
Grow the Good Life has 45 days to respond to your request.
Grow the Good Life has NOT disclosed or sold any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months. Grow the Good Life will not sell personal information in the future belonging to sites’ visitors, users, and other consumers.
8. GOVERNING LAW
Disputes over privacy issues contained in this Privacy Notice will be governed by the law of the State of Connecticut. You also agree to abide by any limitation on damages contained in our Terms of Use or other agreement that we have with you.
9. PRIVACY NOTICE CHANGES
Grow the Good Life may, in its sole discretion, change this Privacy Notice from time to time. Any changes to Grow the Good Life’s Privacy Notice will be reflected on this page and the date of the new version will be stated at the top of this Privacy Notice. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all personal information that we have about you and your account. Users should regularly check this page for any changes to this Privacy Notice. Grow the Good Life will always post new versions of the Privacy Notice on the site. However, Grow the Good Life may, as determined at its discretion, decide to notify users of changes made to this Privacy Notice via email or otherwise. Accordingly, users must always maintain and update their contact personal information.
10. CONTACT
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Notice, please contact us at: stevesmith@growthegoodlife.com.