Effective date: September 28, 2026
Tools for Gardeners respects visitor privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be processed when you use toolsforgardeners.com, why it is used, when third parties may receive it, and the choices available to you.
Information you provide
You may choose to enter information into calculators and planning features, including a ZIP code, garden dimensions, crop choices, dates, and similar garden details. The current location preference is stored in your browser's local storage so the site can display it on later visits. It is not submitted to a Tools for Gardeners account because the current site does not provide user accounts.
The Contact page prepares an email in your own email application. The website does not transmit or store the fields entered in that form. If you send the prepared email, your email provider transmits the message to us. We then receive the name, email address, message, and any other information you include. We use contact messages to respond, investigate feedback, protect the site, and maintain relevant business records.
Please do not send sensitive personal, health, financial, or account information through email.
Information collected automatically
Web hosting, security, analytics, and advertising services may automatically process technical information when a browser requests a page. This may include an Internet Protocol address, browser and device type, operating system, requested address, referring page, general geographic area, timestamps, and diagnostic or security events.
We may use this information to deliver pages, prevent abuse, troubleshoot errors, understand aggregate site use, improve tools, and measure advertising. The exact information depends on which services are active when you visit.
Cookies, local storage, and analytics
Tools for Gardeners uses local storage to remember garden location information that you voluntarily enter. The site may also use cookies and similar technologies for essential functions, preferences, audience measurement, advertising, and affiliate attribution. Our Cookie Policy explains these technologies and browser controls in more detail.
If analytics is enabled, an analytics provider may measure page views, referrals, approximate location, device characteristics, and interactions with site features. We use measurement data to understand performance and improve content. We do not ask analytics providers to collect the contents of messages prepared through the Contact page.
Google AdSense and advertising partners
Tools for Gardeners may use Google AdSense. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies or similar technologies to serve, limit, personalize, and measure ads. Google's use of advertising cookies may allow it and its partners to serve ads based on a visitor's prior visits to this site or other sites.
Visitors can manage personalized advertising through Google's advertising settings and can review Google's current policies describing how it uses information from sites and apps that use its services. Depending on location and consent choices, ads may be personalized or non-personalized. Other certified advertising vendors may process data under their own privacy policies.
Advertising services are operated by third parties. Tools for Gardeners does not control their independent systems, retention periods, or policy changes. Any consent interface presented on the site should be used to record available choices where required.
Affiliate links and external sites
Some pages may contain clearly disclosed affiliate links. When you follow one, the destination site or affiliate network may set a cookie or receive referral information so it can attribute a qualifying purchase. External sites collect and use information under their own terms and privacy policies. A link does not make Tools for Gardeners responsible for another site's privacy practices.
How information is shared
We may share information with vendors that provide hosting, security, analytics, advertising, email, and technical support. These providers process information for their services and may act under their own policies where applicable. We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal process, protect rights and safety, investigate abuse, or complete a business transfer.
We do not sell contact messages for money. Some privacy laws define certain advertising or analytics disclosures as a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising. Where those laws apply, we will provide the choices they require.
Retention and security
We keep contact correspondence only as long as reasonably needed to answer the message, maintain records, resolve disputes, or meet legal obligations. Service providers set their own retention periods for technical, analytics, and advertising data. Local storage remains on your device until you clear it or the browser removes it.
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures appropriate to the site. No website, email system, or Internet transmission can be guaranteed completely secure.
Your privacy choices and rights
You can decline to enter a location, clear local storage and cookies, change browser permissions, or use available advertising and consent controls. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, or information about certain disclosures. These rights may have exceptions.
To make a privacy request, email contact@toolsforgardeners.com with the subject "Privacy request." We may need to verify the request before acting. Authorized agents should identify their authority. You may also have the right to contact a local data protection authority.
Children
Tools for Gardeners is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly request personal information from children under 13. A parent or guardian who believes a child sent us personal information may contact us to request deletion.
Changes and contact
We may update this policy as the site, vendors, or legal requirements change. The effective date identifies the current version. Material changes may also be highlighted on the site when appropriate.
Questions and privacy requests can be sent to contact@toolsforgardeners.com.