Who we are
Our website address at: https://www.greenlivingoffgrid.com is a resource for teaching people how to live healthier lives through home grown vegetable gardens, nutritional foods and the use of renewable energy. Our articles and videos provide tutorials on how to create and maintain a healthy, self-sustainable lifestyle through the use of Hydroponics, Aquaponics, Organic Gardening, nutritional foods and Off-grid products.
Disclaimer
All the material contained in our books and on our website is provided for educational and informational purposes only. No responsibility can be taken for any results or outcomes derived by using this material. While every attempt has been made to provide information that is both accurate and effective, we do not assume any responsibility for the accuracy or use/misuse of this information. We recommend that you use this information at your own risk and consult a doctor with any medical concerns prior to changing your diet or utilizing any of our advice.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We take the privacy of our website visitors seriously. We use browser cookies to collect general information about user-traffic patterns through the use of Google Analytics and Google Adwords. We record information from your server and browser, including your IP address, the pages you visited and the time and length of your visit on our website. However, the information we gather through the use of our website tracking technologies, cannot be matched with any identifiable personal information about you.
Comments
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
If you contact us directly or you sign-up for our newsletter, we collect personal information from you (such as your name, email address, phone number and/or mailing address). We use this information to keep in contact with you through mailings and email correspondence. As an affiliate website, we do not collect personal name, address or credit card information from your purchases as we direct all purchases to the merchant websites we partner with. Any personal information you voluntarily provide us through your personal contact with us or by signing up for our newsletter is kept confidential with limited access allowed only to employees in our mailing vendors, financial book keepers and/or CPAs. We do not share your personal information with any other third-party individuals, non-profit organizations, or corporations for any marketing purposes beyond our business newsletter mailings.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We track general user-traffic patterns through google analytics. We record information from your server and browser, including your IP address, the pages you visited and the time and length of your visit on our website. However, the information we gather through the use of our website tracking technologies, cannot be matched with any identifiable personal information about you.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Beyond this, we do not share your comments for re-targeting or marketing purposes.
What we collect and store on our Shop pages
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
- Products you’ve added to the wishlist: we’ll use this to show you and other users your favourite products, and to create targeted email campaigns.
- Wishlists you’ve created: we’ll keep track of the wishlists you create, and make them visible to the store’s staff
- Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping on products we sell directly through our site
- Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart or wishlist contents while you’re browsing our site.
Our website GreenLivingOffGrid.com is a participant in the Clickbank Affiliate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to clickbank.com's products and services. As an affiliate website, we do not collect personal name, address or credit card information from purchases that are linked to the merchant websites we partner with. But if you purchase anything (including video membership courses) directly from from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 7 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:
- Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
- Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
- Wishlist details, such as products added, date of addition, name and privacy settings of your wishlists
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds, to offer you better deals for the products you love and to support you on anything you purchase from us directly.
What we share with others
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example -- Paypal.
Payments
We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
When shopping, we keep a record of your email and the cart contents for up to 30 days on our server. This record is kept to repopulate the contents of your cart if you switch devices or needed to come back another day. Read our privacy policy here.
Communication:
When you send an email or other communication to us, we may retain a record of your communications with us in order to respond to your inquiries, improve our services, or publish the correspondence on our website or newsletter. By sending an email or letter to Green Living Off Grid, you agree to the following conditions: Green Living Off Grid has permission to publish (or not to publish) in whole or part any email or letter received on our website, in books, and in other printed matter. Green Living Off Grid retains permission from the author to reprint/post the email or letter, in whole or in part, indefinitely. Quoted emails or letters will not contain the e-mail address, full name of the sender, or physical address.
Procedure for Updating Personal Information or Opting Out from Receiving Correspondence:
At any time you may contact us to update your personal information with us. You may request to be put on our mailing list to receive our printed newsletters by mail, or to receive our monthly ministry email updates. You may likewise opt-out from receiving this correspondence by contacting us by email, phone, or mail. When you contact us, please be sure to include any of the personal information relevant to your request. For example, if you contact us to request to be put on our mailing list or to opt-out from receiving our printed letters, you will need to include your name and mailing address so that we can comply with your request and properly add, update, or remove your personal information from our records.
Notice of changes to this privacy policy:
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, but we expect that most changes will be minor, and we will always post any changes on this page. However, if the changes are significant, we will provide email notification of the Policy changes to users who have provided us with their email address. If you have additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through this website, or by writing: Green Living Off Grid, PO Box 50911, Colorado Springs, CO 80949 USA.
