Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which The Green Creator referred to as “we,” “us,” and “our.” collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”, or ”Users”) of the https://thegreencreator.com and the https://www.thegreencreator.nl websites (“Site”, ”Website”, or ”Sites”). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by The Green Creator.

By visiting The Green Creator Sites you are agreeing with our privacy policy. If you disagree with our policies and practices, your option is to not use our website.

This Privacy Policy outlines how we gather and utilize the personal information you supply to us through our Website, including information collected through electronic messages such as email and text. It does not apply to information gathered through other means, such as offline or through any other websites operated by our Site or third parties.

We may revise this Privacy Policy as our information practices change. If there are any significant updates, we will notify you through email or a notice on the Website before they become effective. We advise you to regularly check this policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Your Privacy

The Website is committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of visitors to our website. We respect your privacy and only process your personal data for the purpose for which you have provided them

The following privacy policy details information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it, the limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep your information secure.

We gather personal information from you to personalize your experience on our website.

If you wish to opt out of data collection, please reach out to us at [email protected]

Collection/use of personal information

To maintain the proper functioning of our Website, we gather information about your computer’s technical specifications such as your IP address, the date and time of your visit, your browser type, the pages you visited before entering/exiting our site, and your operating system.

We may collect the following information:

Contact information including email address.
Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests.
Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers.
Time and date of visit.
Referring/exit pages.
IP address.
Browser and operating system information.

The information may be logged for the following purposes: system administration, order verification, internal marketing, and troubleshooting.

The data collected may be used to:

Display the Website and its contents.
Provide information, products, or services.
Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
Perform our obligations and enforce our rights from contracts with you (including billing and collection).
Notify you of changes to the website.

The information will be kept in the database until the time limit for making claims under the Terms of Use has passed.

Browsing Data Collection / Personal Information Collection

Additionally, to maintain proper use of the Website, we collect the following personal information from you:

Website Visitors

Personal information means any information that may be used to identify you, such as your name, title, phone number, email address, or postal address.

We use several products to analyse traffic to our website in order to understand our visitors’ needs and to continually improve our site for them, such as Google Analytics. We collect only anonymous, aggregate statistics. There are some services on our website that require you to be registered. For example, to receive our newsletter. As part of the registration process, we collect your personal information. We use this information to send you newsletters if you’ve opted-in to receive them. We will never sell, rent or trade email lists with other companies and businesses for marketing purposes.

We may collect personal information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, subscribe to the newsletter, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address. Users may, however, visit our Site anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities. The Green Creator also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments. The Green Creator only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described above, except that blog commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Servers

In order to access the website, we collect the following personal information from you via the server:

IP address
Server date and time
Browser and operating system information

This information is stored on the server until the expiration of the time limit for making claims under the contract. The Company does not use this information to identify individuals.

Contact Forms

To process your requests submitted through the contact form, we collect the personal information included in the form. This information will be kept in the database until the expiration of the time limit for making claims under the contract.

Information received via contact form submissions are not used for marketing purposes.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Mobile Services

If you access the website from your mobile device, we may collect non-personal information from it. This can include your location, usage of the mobile site, and device type. The information collected will be kept in the database until the expiration of the time limit for making claims under the Terms of Use.

Email

We may use your email to send our newsletter and for promotional purposes. The emails we send may contain a code that tracks your engagement with the email, including if it was opened and which links were clicked. This information will be stored in the database until the expiration of the time limit for making claims under the Terms of Use.

You can opt-out of receiving promotional communications by following the unsubscribe instructions in the promotional email or by reaching out to us at [email protected]. Please note that it may take up to 14 days for us to process your opt-out request.

Non-personal identification information

We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.

How we use collected information

The Green Creator may collect and use Users personal information for the following purposes:

to run a promotion, contest, survey or other Site feature
to send Users information they agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to them.
to send periodic emails such as newsletters

If you decide to opt-in to our mailing list, they will receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.

How long?

We don’t keep your data any longer than is necessary for the processing of the purposes for which your data was collected.

We save your name and e-mail address as long as you are registered to the newsletter.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

How we protect your information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site.

The Green Creator discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Green Creator’s behalf or to provide services available at The Green Creator’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Green Creator’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Green Creator will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Green Creator discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Green Creator believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Green Creator, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an The Green Creator website and have supplied your email address, The Green Creator may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Green Creator and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Green Creator takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

A cookie is a small file, which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. A cookie allows us to analyse traffic patterns to our website. A cookie cannot give us access to your computer or to information beyond what you provide us.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.

We use cookies to ensure the website works properly and for the following purposes:

To keep track of your preferences.
Provide support.
Track website statistics (such as number of visitors, type of device and browser used, time spent on the website, and visited pages).

The information collected will be stored in the database until the expiration of the time limit for making claims under the Terms of Use.

To do this, we may use a third-party website that implements tracking code provided by the third party into our website’s code. The code is based on cookies and may also use other tracking technologies. The information collected is completely anonymous and does not allow your identification.

You can choose to not accept browser cookies by adjusting your browser settings, but doing so may prevent you from accessing certain parts of the website.

Advertising

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The Green Creator and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

This Site is affiliated with Mediavine Productions (“Mediavine”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site. Mediavine uses standard and widely-available tools for the placement and serving of ads, including those provided by Google, Inc. and its affiliates. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site. To help understand your interests, Mediavine, Google and our other advertising partners will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with Mediavine, Google, and our other third party partners. You can view, delete, opt out or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us delete it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or Mediavine related to advertising on the Site, you can contact Mediavine at [email protected]. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences icon. (Available in the EU.)

Affiliate links

The Website is involved in affiliate marketing through the use of tracking links embedded in the site. When you click on a link for one of our affiliate partners, a cookie is placed on your browser to track sales for commission purposes.

The Website is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and Bol.com, programs designed for sites to earn advertising fees through advertising and linking to Amazon.com or Bol.com. These programs involve posting custom links from Amazon/Bol, which track referrals to Amazon/Bol listings and use cookies to track visits for commission purposes.

In addition to the these programs, the Website may use other affiliate programs and referral links to third-party sites. If you click on an affiliate link, please be aware that the third-party site’s privacy policy governs what happens to any personal information you submit. The Website is not responsible for third-party use or disclosure of your personal information.

The Shop section on the Website is a collection of products with affiliate links. These purchased are made with Amazon.com/Bol.com. Once you have used these links to leave our Website and potentially make a purchase, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information or purchases, which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites. Those sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you’ll need to check that site’s privacy statement.

We may use other affiliate programs and use affiliate referral links to third party sites. If you click on an affiliate link, please be sure to read that third party’s privacy policy to understand what happens to the personal information you submit to that third party. We do not have knowledge of or control over what happens to the personal information that you submit to third parties and are not responsible for those third parties’ disclosure or use of your personal information.

Links to other websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites of interest, such as via a link, an affiliate program, a collaboration with embedded link(s) or via the shop with affiliation links.

However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information, which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Those sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you’ll need to check that site’s privacy statement.

Google Adsense

Some of the ads may be served by Google. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. DART uses “non personally identifiable information” and does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, etc. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/processorterms/

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and collects aggregate data from our website visitors, such as which areas of our Site receive the most traffic, how often visitors go to a particular page and the duration of their visits, general geographical location information, or the source of referred traffic to our Site (e.g., visits via search engine search or Pinterest, etc.). Google Analytics also collects the IP address assigned to you on the date of your visit. We do not separately aggregate or store your IP address with any of your personal information outside of the data we access in Google Analytics. Learn more about Google Analytics, including its use of cookies here.

Aggregated Statistics

The Website may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. The Green Creator may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Green Creator does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Google Analytics collects information from users from the Website.

Sharing your personal information

We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above. We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.

Newsletters are send with MailChimp. Read more about MailChimps policies here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/pri vacy/

Comments

When guests make comments on the website, we gather information from the comment form as well as the visitor’s IP and browser information to help prevent spam.

Children

Our Website is intended for individuals who are 18 years or older. Minors under 18 must have consent from a parent or guardian to utilize specific features on our website. We do not intentionally gather personally identifiable information from minors under 18. Additionally, we do not target or solicit information from children below 13 years of age. If you come across any information we have collected from minors under 13, please reach out to us.

California privacy rights

The California Civil Code Section 1798.83, commonly referred to as the “Shine the Light” law, allows California residents to request, once a year and for free, information about the categories of personal information we may have shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes, as well as the names and addresses of these third parties, in the previous calendar year. If you are a California resident and wish to make this request, please send a written request to us using the provided contact information.

If you are a California resident under 18 years of age and have provided your personal information to the Website, you have the right to request the removal of any publicly posted data. To make this request, please contact us with the contact information provided below and include details about the public post(s) and a statement confirming your residency in California. Although we will take steps to remove the data from public display on the Website, we cannot guarantee complete or comprehensive removal from all of our systems, including archived or cached versions of the Website.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), passed in 2018, provides California residents with new rights regarding their personal information collected by businesses. Although we do not sell your information, we may work with third-party service providers and affiliates who may access your information through the use of beacons, tracking pixels, or cookies as outlined in our Privacy Policy. If you are a California resident, you may have additional privacy rights under California law.

Additional rights of EEA (European Economic Area) residents

As a resident of an EEA country, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

access your personal data.
ensure the accuracy of your personal data.
to request deletion of your personal data.
the right to restrict further processing of your personal data.
the right to file a complaint with a local supervisory authority if your data is misused.

If you feel that our processing of your personal information violates data protection laws, you have the legal right to file a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. This can be done in the EU member state where you reside, work, or where the alleged violation occurred.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Green Creator has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using this Website, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Website. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Access your data

Upon request, we inform visitors of our website about the personal data processed. Any incorrect data can be limited, corrected, supplemented or deleted. If you wish to access this information, or wish to change your personal details, please contact us via the e-mail address below. You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.

Updating Your Personal Information and Unsubscribing

You can unsubscribe to our newsletter at any time, by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our newsletter emails or by emailing: [email protected]. By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of the information you provide to us, as outlined in this Privacy Policy. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time and without notice, so make sure you check back occasionally. If you have any questions or concerns about our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information, please contact us at [email protected].

Please be aware, however, that it may not be technologically possible for us to erase or otherwise remove every record of the information you have provided to us, such as information stored on backup tapes or backup servers. We are not responsible for and cannot control the personally identifiable information that you have provided to third parties.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, about deleting or correcting your personal data or your dealings with this site, please contact The Green Creator.