Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 5 March, 2025

Who We Are

Welcome to Palmer Landscape Design. Our website address is: https://palmerlandscapedesign.com. We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data.

Information We Collect and Why

1. Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the information provided in the comments form, along with the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.Additionally, an anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. You can review Gravatar's privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

2. Media

If you upload images to our website, avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract location data from images posted on the site.

3. Contact Forms

When you submit information via a contact form, we collect the details you provide for communication purposes.

4. Cookies

If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies. These last for one year for convenience.A temporary cookie is set when you log in to check if your browser accepts cookies. It is discarded when you close your browser.Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. Selecting "Remember Me" extends login persistence for two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.An additional cookie is saved when you edit or publish an article, which expires after one day.

5. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves similarly to visiting those websites directly, meaning they may collect data, use cookies, and track your interactions.

6. Analytics

We may use third-party analytics tools to collect information about your website usage to enhance our services.

How We Share and Retain Your Data

a) Comments and associated metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-ups automatically.

b) Registered users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except for their username. Website administrators can also access and manage this data.

Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you or request that we erase it, except where we are required to retain data for legal or security purposes.

Where We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How We Protect Your Data

We implement security measures to safeguard your personal data from unauthorized access, alteration, or misuse.

Third-Party Data Sharing

We do not sell or share your data with third parties except for essential services such as spam detection and analytics.