As a leading provider of Gardening, horticultural, and Nursery related information, we want you to feel comfortable searching information on our site. We realize the importance of feeling safe online and are fully committed to ensuring that your privacy is respected and protected. Our Privacy Policy below outlines the type of information we typically request of you while you are on the LandSteward website. You are, of course, free to use the majority of our site without providing any personal information. The LandSteward website is defined as all English-language, United States based web site owned, controlled and/or operated by Greenwood Nursery, specifically including but not limited to LandSteward.com, Greewoodnursery.com, and LandSteward.org.
We will notify our members when we make any significant changes to our Privacy Policy that affect the use of any personally identifiable information we collect. We will not make new use of any personally identifiable information which LandSteward gathered from individual members or visitors prior to any such significant change in our Privacy Policy without first obtaining the member's or visitor's consent for any new uses. In instances where we ask for your personally identifiable information and we tell you the data we are collecting on that page will be shared with third parties, and in cases where a member, visitor or subscriber to LandSteward opts-in to share his/her information with third parties, those disclosures and opt-ins will override anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy. In addition, Greenwood Nursery reserves the right to make non-significant changes to our Privacy Policy that will not affect LandSteward's use of a user's personally identifiable information at any time without any notice to you other than posting any such changes in a revised Privacy Policy on LandSteward's website. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to be sure you are familiar with the most current version. The Policy will include the most recent date in which any revision has been made.
LandSteward gathers two basic types of information:
In order to use many of LandSteward's features, tools and services, we ask you to register to become a member. During this member registration process, we will ask you for personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, mailing address, zip code, and country. LandSteward uses the information it gathers for several purposes, such as to understand more about our audience's interests, to communicate with you and to give you a better experience when visiting the LandSteward website by personalizing tools, content, services and email messages (more details below). LandSteward also uses this information to build new services and develop offers that LandSteward believes are more relevant and valuable to you. LandSteward, its advertisers and partners may ask you for information in order to provide you with access to goods, services and tools. When personally identifiable information provided by you is (i) collected by LandSteward and/or a LandSteward sponsor or partner or (ii) collected by LandSteward and shared with a LandSteward sponsor or partner, your permission will be obtained and you will be advised as to which privacy policy (ies) will control the collection and dissemination of the information provided if different from Greenwood Nursery's policy. When you visit the LandSteward website and interact with the services and tools that reside there, LandSteward and third parties with whom LandSteward has contracted to provide services to LandSteward may collect information on your actions. This type of information is generally collected from two sources. One is from the server log files and the other is from cookies. In order to better describe how information is collected and disseminated, please carefully review the list below. The membership registration form currently requires you to provide LandSteward with your first and last names, email address, mailing address, zip code, and country. In those instances where you opt-in to subscribe to a newsletter through a third-party email service or advertiser or partner, the email address information sometimes will be located on the third party's server, in which case we generally will notify you. In those cases, any information you provide is subject to that entity's Privacy Policy, not this one. Some of our partners' and advertisers' sites require that you specifically opt-out from receiving their newsletters. As a result, to stop receiving them you will need to affirmatively opt-out from the third party newsletter. Please remember that any information you disclose in these public forum areas becomes public information and is immediately accessible on the LandSteward website, so it is important for you to exercise discretion and appropriate caution when deciding to reveal personal information in these areas. LandSteward may decide to utilize the content of Q&A's, interactions with experts, and/or chat room and message board content throughout the LandSteward website and in promotions in order to enhance LandSteward's editorial, advertising, promotional and similar activities. In those cases we often provide authorship credit by listing the author's member name. We therefore encourage you to use care in protecting your identity when you choose a member name and to keep your member name confidential. You should carefully review the rules of each sweepstakes, contest and giveaway which you enter as they may contain additional important information about LandSteward's or a sponsor's use of your personally identifiable information. In order to participate in the partner and/or advertiser supplied services and tools you may be required to provide personally identifiable information to the advertisers and partners whose tools and services you have chosen to interact with. Each advertiser and partner will request different information from you. In any instance where personally identifiable information is required to be provided to or shared with LandSteward advertisers and partners, LandSteward generally will advise you when such advertiser or partner will receive your personally identifiable information, and further advise you as to which Privacy Policy will control the collection and dissemination of personally identifiable information you provide. LandSteward will use commercially reasonable efforts to contractually require all such third party advertisers and partners to agree to abide by the terms of this Privacy Policy as applicable. The information you provide via links to co-branded pages, co-branded sites, third party sites or tools may be shared with advertisers and partners on an aggregated basis and in these instances your permission will not be requested since no personally identifiable information will be shared or provided to these third party sponsors or advertisers. LandSteward will, however, use commercially reasonable efforts to contractually require all such third party advertisers and partners to agree not to use any non-personally identifiable information about you, in conjunction with other sources of information, or otherwise, to identify you. If you have additional questions about how one of our advertisers, partners or sponsors use information about you, we urge you to contact them directly.
You may modify your browser preference to provide you with choices relating to cookies. You have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies you may be unable to use those Greenwood Nursery services that require registration in order to participate or will have to re-register each time you visit the Greenwood Nursery website. LandSteward uses industry-standard tools, such as firewalls, to ensure that your information is secure and confidential.
The information collected by LandSteward is used to create aggregated portraits of the LandSteward audience, portraits which present anonymous statistical demographic information but no personally identifiable information. This aggregated information is used, among other things, to determine trends and needs, and also to help understand whom the LandSteward audience is.
Some areas of the LandSteward website are reserved for LandSteward members who have registered with us; for example, member pages, and special promotionals. This is necessary so that LandSteward can assure the quality of its forums. Registration is free.
LandSteward offers free electronic newsletters on a variety of topics. In order to receive these newsletters you must become a member. Generally, LandSteward does not share mailing lists from its electronic newsletters with third parties. However, in some situations, LandSteward may share its newsletter mailing lists with third parties who provide newsletter and/or reminder fulfillment services on behalf of LandSteward. In these instances, such third parties will be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. Additionally, LandSteward may provide third parties with a list of LandSteward members and visitors who have opted-in to receiving additional information from third parties.
Throughout the LandSteward website public forums such as message boards, "ask the expert" areas and various question and answer areas are available to you as a registered LandSteward member.
Our surveys ask for opinions on various issues and very often these surveys and polls are sponsored by or associated with LandSteward partners. Occasionally, we may request demographic information (like zip code, age or gender). Most information obtained through surveys and polls is aggregated and used internally or shared with advertisers and partners only in the aggregated form. In the event personally identifiable information is requested as part of surveys or polls about any LandSteward member or subscriber, such personally identifiable information is never provided to third parties without your consent. In these instances you may expressly choose to receive information from a sponsor, in which case your information is provided to that sponsor only. Some survey answers may be added to your member portrait (so that we can better provide you with content, ads and offers that are most appropriate for you).
We regularly operate sweepstakes, contests and giveaways throughout the LandSteward website. We typically ask you for your email address (to notify you if you've won, or not). We also ask for first and last names, and sometimes post office addresses in order to verify the entrant's identity. In some situations, we need additional information as part of the entry process, such as a prize selection choice. This information is shared with a third party:
LandSteward offers the ability to forward an article to another person via email or to send information to numerous friends by way of email list created by member. If you use either of these services, we will use the recipient's email address in order to send the article or postcard and we will also ask for your email address. We do not use the recipient's email address for any other purpose unless such recipient gives us permission to do so.
The LandSteward website contains links to advertiser and partner websites. We cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such non-LandSteward websites, and we do not control the practices of any of our advertisers or partners to whom we are linked. However, we generally will advise you when you are leaving the LandSteward website through a link, and when that advertiser's or partner's Privacy Policy controls the collection and dissemination of the information you provide.
Your IP address is a number that is assigned by your ISP (Internet Service Provider) to your computer to identify its location. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website.
Our site uses a feature of your browser to set a "cookie" on your computer. Cookies are small packets of information that a site's computer stores on your computer. The LandSteward website can then read the cookies whenever you visit the LandSteward website. We use cookies to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site, to deliver content specific to your interests, to track the pages you've visited and to make sure you don't see the same ads repeatedly. These cookies allow us to use the information we collect to customize your LandSteward experience so that your visit to LandSteward is as relevant and as valuable to you as possible.
LandSteward does not sell or otherwise share personally identifiable information with third parties without your consent except in the following instances: (i) unless required by applicable law or pursuant to a court or similar order; (ii) as deemed necessary, in LandSteward's discretion, to protect the legal rights or the property of LandSteward, a member or third party, or to prevent personal injury; and/or (iii) in the event LandSteward is required to transfer personally identifiable information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion or all of the assets of LandSteward or its affiliated entities (including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). In addition, LandSteward reserves the right to allow access to its systems to third parties providing necessary technical services when such access is required in order to provide those services and to provide your personally identifiable information to third parties who provide services on behalf of LandSteward, provided that such third parties are bound by LandSteward's Privacy Policy. Please note, however, that LandSteward reserves the right to share any personally identifiable or other information about you which you provide to (or which is gathered by) the LandSteward website with any or all of its subsidiaries and affiliates and will also have access to any such information which you provide to (or which is gathered by) the web sites of any LandSteward partner or affiliate.
LandSteward has numerous security measures in place to protect you from the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or anything else about LandSteward, you can contact us at the following email address: feedback@landsteward.com
