Privacy Policy

 

What information do we collect?

  • Florida Garden Supplies collects information from you any time you register on floridagardensupplies.com, when you place an order, when you enter a contest or sweepstakes, give feedback in a survey, respond to any electronic communication such as email, or from your active participation in any other of our sites features.
  • When a purchase is made, we will request your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, payment information such as a credit card or other information. We do allow however, that you can visit the site anonymously.
  • If a gift purchase is made, we will also collect information about the gift recipient so that we can fulfill their order. Any gift recipient’s information that is collected is not used for any marketing purposes.
  • Our website uses “cookies” to provide you with a better online experience and so we can gather information about visitor’s behaviors on our website. If you would like more information about our usage of “cookies”, please refer to the section below titled “Why do you use cookies?”.

How does Florida Garden Supplies use the information they collect?

When you register with us, purchase products, respond to one of our surveys or marketing promotions, provide feedback in a survey or marketing communication, surf our website, or utilize other features on our website, that information will be used in the following ways:

  • To personalize and improve your shopping experience by delivering the specific types of content and product offerings that appeal to you most.
  • To give us the opportunity to provide better customer service in responding to your customer service requests.
  • To speedily process your purchases and transactions.
  • To offer you a survey, contest or promotional opportunity.
  • If you have opted-in to receive our e-mail newsletter, we may send you periodic e-mails. Typically these go out once per month. If you would like to be removed from our list, and no longer receive promotional e-mails from us. You will not receive e-mail newsletters if you have not opted-in. If you register or participate in any of our site features or marketing programs, you will be given a choice as to whether or not you would like to receive our “members-only” content and promotions through our e-mail newsletter.

Why do we use “cookies”?

Cookies are very small computer files that a website or its service provider transfers to your computer through the Internet Web browser that you are using, if you have not turned off that feature. What a cookie does, is it allows a website or service provider to take a snapshot of your computer browser to remember specific information such as if you were already logged in, what browser you were using, operating system, digital device, etc. For example, if you fill up your shopping cart with items, our website will deposit a cookie instructing your computer to remember the items in your shopping cart when you revisit our website for a specied period of time. This also allows us to maintain specific navigation preferences or settings such as product grid view or list view, which allows for a better visitor experience. Cookies are also used to compile visitor data about site traffic and interaction such as how many pages you visit, which pages were looked at and for how long, how did you find our website, which page did you initially visit our website on and which page did you leave from, etc. This allows us to try to analyze visitor behavior to provide a much better user experience.

There is an option on Internet browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Safari,that allow you to either have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can even turn off cookies all together. However, please keep in mind that by turning off cookies, you may restrict some elements and features that may affect your shopping experience. If you choose to turn off your cookies, and by doing so it disrupts the ordering process.

Do we share or sell the information we collect to 3rd parties?

We do not provide your information by sell, trade, or free transfer to 3rd parties except as described below. The term “outside parties” does not include floridagardensupplies.com. This also does not include 3rd parties who help us with operations of our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, however, these parties are required to keep all information confidential. We also reserve the right to release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

How can you opt-out, modify or remove information you have provided to us or entered into our website?

If you need or would like to modify your e-mail subscriptions, please let us know by modifying your preferences in the “My Account” section. You also can choose to unsubscribe at the bottom of any one of our email campaigns, and that will also automatically put a filter on our campaigns prohibiting us from sending you any marketing emails. Please provide up to 14 days to be removed from our email campaign list. 

If you would like to remove all of your online account information from our secured database, sign into the “My Account” section of TheBigTomato.com and remove all information you would like removed. Please be advised that we are required to maintain information concerning each sale for both record keeping and serve requirements related to that transaction. 

Third party links & Website References

Our goal is to provide you with the best site experience that we can possibly create. In doing so, there are times where we will reference or link to another 3rd party site. Each of these sites will have their own privacy policies that you should review if there are any concerns, and we take no responsibility or liability for the interaction between you and those 3rd party websites. Because we are concerned about the integrity of our website, we appreciate any feedback or information about these 3rd party sites.

Does our privacy policy ever change?

We do reserve the right to change our privacy policy. If we do make those changes, they will be posted on this page. Any policy changes will only affect information collected after the date this policy page is updated.This policy was last modified on May 6, 2020.

Questions, comments and feedback

We are happy to answer any questions you have, and we appreciate any comments, concerns or feedback regarding our policy. Please fill out our contact form with any questions or concerns about privacy.

NOTICE: Online Policy Only

This online privacy policy is only in effect to accounts an information collected specifically through floridagardensupplies.com and not to information collected offline.

Terms and Conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

Your consent

By choosing to use or interact with our website, you are consenting to our privacy policy.