Steve Hanson Landscaping Privacy Policy
Last Modified: February 9, 2024

Introduction

 We at Steve Hanson Landscaping respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Policy.  This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us when you visit the website www.stevehansonlandscaping.com, any successor or subdomain thereof or any other website where we post this Policy (collectively, our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.

 This Policy applies to any information we collect on the Website, including any information in any forms or messages submitted by you to us through our Website or using the contact information provided on our Website.  This Policy does not apply to any other information that we may collect by any other means. 

 Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.  If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you can choose not to use our Website.  By accessing or using our Website, you agree to this Policy.  This Policy may change from time to time.  When we make changes to this Policy, we will post the updated Policy on our Website and update the Policy’s “Last Modified” date.  We will also provide notice of any material changes as explained in the section below titled “Changes to Our Privacy Policy.”  Your continued use of the Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.

 Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

Personal Information We Collect

We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Website.  This may include information by which users may be personally identified or information about a user that is maintained in personally identifiable form (collectively, “Personal Information”).  Specifically, we may collect the following:

●       Your full name.
●       Your company’s or organization’s name.
●       Your e-mail address.
●       Your postal address.
●       Your job title.
●       Your IP address or mobile device ID.
●       The Technical Information described in the section below titled “Traffic, Usage and Computer/Device Information.”
●     Any other information (including Personal Information) you choose to provide in any forms or messages submitted by you to us through our Website or using the contact information provided on our Website.

 How We Collect Information

 With the exception of your IP address or mobile device ID (which we collect automatically as you navigate through or interact with our Website, as described below in the section titled “Traffic, Usage and Computer/Device Information”), we collect information directly from you when you provide it or submit it to us or our third-party service providers in connection with your use of the Website, such as by requesting information from us, responding to a voluntary survey you have agreed to complete, contacting us for customer service inquiries or reporting a problem with our Website, submitting an inquiry to us using the contact methods provided on our Website, or otherwise contacting us about our Website or our business. 

Traffic, Usage and Computer/Device Information

 Additionally, as you navigate through and interact with our Website or interact with e-mail messages you receive from us, we may automatically collect certain traffic data, usage information, and information about your computer equipment or mobile device, such as your browser and operating system, your wireless carrier, the geographic region from which you are accessing the Website, time stamped logs regarding access times and duration of visits, the pages of our Website that you visit, whether you opened the e-mail message we sent to you and whether you clicked on any links in the message, configuration data, clickstream analytics and your actions and patterns when you use our Website or interact with our e-mail messages (collectively, “Technical Information”).  The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies that are stored on the browser of your computer or mobile device, small embedded electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) and other types of embedded code.  We collect this information to manage our content and improve users’ use of our Website; to count and review the number of users of our Website and their usage patterns; to track key performance indicators such as pages accessed, frequency of access and other statistical information related to our Website and the performance of our e-mail messages (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity); to identify the portion of users who access our Website via different web browsers or mobile operating systems; to recognize if a user is a return user of our Website; to store information about a user’s visits; to remember a user’s preferences; and for similar purposes in connection with monitoring, maintaining and improving our Website and our e-mail messaging.  

 You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies.  If you choose not to accept cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts or pages of our Website, or certain parts, pages or features of our Website may not function properly.  To learn more about cookies and how to disallow or manage them, go to: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

How We Use Your Information 

Generally 

We may use the information we collect about you or that you provide to us, including Personal Information, to: 

●       Provide our Website and its contents to you.
●       Provide you with information or services you request from us.
●       Authenticate or otherwise verify your identity in connection with your requests via the Website or otherwise.
●     Provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries and customer service and support requests, including to investigate and address your concerns and to monitor and improve our responses.
●       Help maintain the safety, security and integrity of our Website, databases and other technology assets and our business.
●       With respect to Technical Information, fulfill the purposes described in the section above titled “Traffic, Usage and Computer/Device Information.”
●       Notify you about changes to our Website, our other products or services or this Policy.
●       Respond to lawful requests for information through court orders, subpoenas, warrants and other legal processes or obligations.
●       Enforce any contracts between you and us, including for billing and collection, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
●       Evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which information (including Personal Information) held by us is among the assets transferred.
●       Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide the information.
●       Serve any other purpose that we describe when you provide the information and for any other purpose with your consent.

Use of Personal Information for Marketing Purposes

We may use your Personal Information to provide you with marketing and promotional information about our Website, products and services.  If you do not wish to have your Personal Information used by us to contact you for marketing purposes, you can opt out by sending us an e-mail with your request to info@stevehansonlandscaping.com.  This opt-out does not apply to information provided as a result of a product purchase, service experience or other transactions.  

Tracking 

Tracking involves the use of cookies, web beacons or other embedded code or tracking technologies to collect, analyze and store information on a user’s behavior over time on multiple sites, including information on the sites visited, products viewed, products purchased and other online interactions.  Tracking information can be used to enable companies to make interest-based (behavioral) advertising available to users on multiple sites that they visit. 

We do not currently collect Personal Information about your online activities over time and across third-party sites for tracking purposes.  In addition, we do not currently allow third parties to collect Personal Information through or using our Website that could be used by them to analyze and store information about your online activities over time and across third-party sites for tracking purposes.  Therefore, our Website does not respond to any “do not track” signals sent by your browser or mobile device, and if your browser or mobile device sends a “do not track” signal to our Website, our Website will not treat you differently from users who do not send such signals.

Disclosure of Your Information 

We may share your Personal Information with third parties in the following circumstances: 

●       We may disclose Personal Information to any contractors, service providers and other third parties who need to know such information (or such contractors, service providers or other third parties may collect Personal Information directly from you on our behalf while you use our Website) to provide services to us that support our hosting, maintenance, operation and promotion of our Website and our business and our permitted uses of Personal Information under this Policy.  For example, we may use a third-party cloud-hosting infrastructure service provider (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure); we may use a customer-relationship-management software platform offered by a third-party service provider; and we may use third-party service providers to collect and analyze technical data derived from your use of the Website. 

●       We may disclose Personal Information to our affiliates or to a buyer or other successor to our business in the event of a sale of equity or assets, reorganization, merger, divestiture or a similar corporate transaction, whether as a going concern or as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, and any due diligence review with respect to any such proposed transaction. 

●       We may disclose Personal Information to comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to meet national security and law enforcement requirements or to respond to any government or regulatory request or audit. 

●       We may disclose Personal Information to enforce or apply any legal agreements between us and you, or if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of our users or others. 

We may also disclose your Personal Information for any purpose disclosed when the information is provided, and for any other purpose with your consent.

Third-Party Sites and Services 

Our Website and our e-mail messages to you may include links to blogs, social media and third-party websites.  These third-party sites have their own privacy policies and terms of use and are not controlled by this Policy.  You should carefully review any terms, conditions and policies of such third-party sites before visiting them or supplying them with any Personal Information.  If you follow a link on our Website or e-mail messages to any third-party site, any information you provide to that site will be governed by its own terms of use and privacy policy and not this Policy. 

We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information you provide to a third-party website or the information practices used by any third-party site, including links to any third-party site from our Website or e-mail messages.  We make no representations, express or implied, concerning the accuracy, privacy, safety, security or the information practices of any third-party site.  The inclusion of a link to a third-party site on our Website or in our e-mail messages does not constitute any type of endorsement of the linked site by us.  We are not responsible for any loss or damage you may sustain resulting from your use of any third-party website or any information you share with a third-party website. 

Users Outside of the United States 

Our Website is hosted in the United States and is provided from the United States.  It is possible that certain information will be stored on servers in multiple other countries on the “cloud” or other similar distributed hosting platforms.  If you are accessing our Website from the European Union, Asia or any other jurisdiction with laws governing personal data collection, use and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please note that by using the Website and providing your Personal Information to us and others through the Website you are expressly and knowingly consenting to the transfer of your Personal Information from your home country to the United States and other jurisdictions as indicated above (where laws may differ from the laws of your jurisdiction) and you are expressly and knowingly consenting to our use and disclosure of such Personal Information in accordance with this Policy. 

Children Under the Age of 16 

Our Website and our products and services are not intended for children under 16 years of age, and no one under age 16 may provide any information to us or others on or using the Website or otherwise.  We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under age 16.  If you are under 16 years of age, do not use or provide any information on or through the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, IP address or mobile device ID.  If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 16 years of age without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.  If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under age 16, please contact us at info@stevehansonlandscaping.com. 

Data Security 

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure.  The safety and security of your information also depends on you.  Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure.  Although we have implemented security measures that we think are adequate, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to or using our Website.  Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk.  We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Website. 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy 

We post any changes we make to our Policy on this page.  If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page.  The date this Policy was last modified is identified at the top of the page.  You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this Policy to check for any changes. 

Contact Information 

We are Steve Hanson Landscaping.  To ask questions or to submit comments about this Policy and our privacy practices, you may contact us via e-mail at info@stevehansonlandscaping.com.