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Leaf Locator Privacy Policy

Last updated: January 29, 2025

Introduction

Welcome to Leaf Locator! This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information about you when you access or use:

  • Leaf Locator’s websites, portals, applications (including mobile applications), channels, software, and widgets (collectively, the “Websites”); and
  • Any services, features, media, functions, content, tools, and links offered via the Websites (collectively, the “Services”).

This Privacy Policy applies to all users of our Websites and Services. Additional privacy policies or statements may be posted on specific sections of our Websites or Services, but in case of any conflict, this Privacy Policy will prevail.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will notify you by email, push notification, in-app notification, or a prominent notice on our Websites.

1. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information to enhance our Websites and Services. This information falls into the following categories:

A. Information You Provide

  • Account Information: When you create an account (“User Account”), you may provide personal information such as your full name, email address, home address, phone number, postal code, gender, profile bio, and birth date.
  • Public Content: Any information you contribute or post on our Websites or Services (“Public Content”) is intended for public consumption, including reviews, tips, photos, videos, comments, likes, favorites, posts, events, bookmarks, friends, lists, compliments, and your User Account name and profile photo.
  • Transactional Information: If you initiate a transaction through our Websites or Services, you may provide personal information such as your name, date of birth, telephone number, delivery address, email address, and identification details. This can include order history, photographs, or signatures necessary to process an order.
  • Other Requests: From time to time, we may offer promotional campaigns or request your participation in surveys, requiring you to provide personal information such as your full name, phone number, mailing address, email address, and professional information.

B. Information We Collect Automatically

  • Transactional Information: We automatically collect information such as the date and time a transaction was initiated or when its status changes.
  • Location Information: With your consent, we collect information about your precise or approximate geographic location, for instance, when you use location-based features. We may collect this information from your mobile device if you have enabled such functionality or infer your location from other information we have collected.
  • Other Browsing and Device Information: We automatically collect information about your interactions with our Websites and Services, including browser type, domain name, referring website, exit website, access dates and times, device ID, and browsing activities within our Websites or Services (e.g., links clicked, searches conducted, time spent on specific pages).

C. Information from Other Sources

  • Third-Party Service Providers: Some of our third-party service providers collect information from you directly and share some of that information with us. For example, if you place an order using a credit card, our payment processor will provide us with payment-related details such as the type of credit card used and the name on your card.
  • Other Third-Party Sources: If you create a User Account using a third-party login service (such as Facebook or Google), the provider will share personal information about you, such as your name and email address, to enable us to create a User Account for you.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use your information to:

  • Process your requests for Services, products, or information;
  • Provide you with customer support;
  • Offer personalized content and recommendations;
  • Improve, upgrade, and enhance our Websites and Services;
  • Analyze system administration, debug and identify repairs, and back up our systems to allow for disaster recovery;
  • Detect security incidents and protect against malicious or illegal activities;
  • Comply with applicable legal requirements and protect our legal rights and the legal rights of our users and other third parties;
  • Engage in marketing activities, such as sending you promotional offers or newsletters (you can opt out at any time);
  • Engage in other legitimate business activities as permitted by law.

3. How We Share Your Information

We generally do not share your personal information, except in the following limited circumstances:

  • At Your Direction: We may share your personal information with third parties to fulfill orders or requests you place on our Websites or through our Services.
  • Service Providers: We may share your information with service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as communications and hosting services, network security, technical and customer support, tracking and reporting functions, quality assurance testing, payment processing, marketing and promotional features, identification verification, product listings, and brand management.
  • Affiliates and Partners: We may share your information with our affiliates or business partners for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
  • Business Transfers: In the event that Leaf Locator is acquired by or merged with another company, or involved in any other business deal involving the sale or transfer of all or part of our business or assets, we may transfer or assign your information as part of or in connection with the transaction.
  • Legal Requirements: We may disclose information from or about you to government officials, law enforcement, or private parties if we believe that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process and legally binding law enforcement instructions and orders, or to protect our rights, reputation, property, or that of our users, affiliates, clients, partners, or the public.
  • Aggregated Information: We may share user information in the aggregate with third parties, including the general public in our marketing materials and in our non-public discussions with third parties such as advertisers, brand managers, and content distributors.

4. Cookies and Other Web Technologies

A. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They help us enhance your experience by remembering your preferences, analyzing site traffic, and providing personalized content.

B. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, local shared objects such as HTML5, advertising identifiers (including mobile identifiers such as Apple’s IDFA or Google’s Advertising ID), and similar technology in connection with your use of our Websites or Services. These technologies help us:

  • Remember your preferences and settings;
  • Analyze how you interact with our Websites and Services;
  • Deliver personalized advertisements;
  • Improve the functionality and performance of our Websites and Services.

C. Third-Party Cookies

We may allow third parties to incorporate their cookies or other technologies into our Websites and Services to perform services on our behalf, such as analytics or advertising services. These third parties may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites.

D. Managing Cookies

You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our Websites and Services.

5. Your Rights Regarding Your Information

You have the following rights regarding your personal information:

  • Access and Review: You can access and review the information you provided to us by logging into your User Account or contacting us at [email protected]
  • Correct and Update: You can correct or update your information by updating your User Account directly or contacting us at [email protected]
  • Delete: You can request the deletion of certain personal information by contacting us at [email protected] Please note that deleting certain information may limit your ability to use some features of our Websites and Services.

In some circumstances, we may retain information about you for legitimate business or legal purposes, or as required by law.

6. Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. These measures include encryption, access controls, and secure servers. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will notify you by email, push notification, in-app notification, or a prominent notice on our Websites. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.