Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to all personal information given and received. “Nature Helps Me” defines personal information as anything that would personally identify you: your name, your phone & email contact information, your physical and/or mailing address, your preferences, and other information that is not generally available to the public. Of course, this policy applies to “Nature Helps Me” and no other companies or entities.

“Nature Helps Me” gathers personal and technical information about you (name and email address) when you sign up for newsletter or other “Nature Helps Me” services.
Children under 13 must have a parent or guardian approve registry with the “Nature Helps Me” services. “Nature Helps Me” will not contact children under 13 for personal information, sales promotions, or marketing purposes.

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

NatureHelps.Me operates the website for “Nature Helps Me”. It is “Nature Helps Me”’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
“Nature Helps Me” does not sell, trade, or otherwise disclose email lists or other information of commentators or users to third parties without your permission.
However, by commenting you may receive emails from any “Nature Helps Me” services on occasion. Periodically, “Nature Helps Me” may email you to let you know of an upcoming news story, blog post, contest or other event.

From time to time a sponsor of “Nature Helps Me” or other company might provide a special offer to “Nature Helps Me” readers, and “Nature Helps Me” may keep you up to date or send you an email notifying you of an offer or impending promotion. Please note that your email address or other contact information will not be passed on directly to sponsors.
Other than as set out above, we will always contact you first to seek your permission prior to giving your email or other contact information to a third party.
You always have the opportunity to select whether or not to continue to receive any of our communications.
In order for “Nature Helps Me” to support activities, “Nature Helps Me” may receive monetary compensation or other types of remuneration for my endorsement, recommendation, testimonial and/or link to any products or services from this blog.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, “Nature Helps Me” collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Nature Helps Me’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Nature Helps Me’s visitors use its website. From time to time, “Nature Helps Me” may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

“Nature Helps Me” also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on “NatureHelps.Me blogs. “Nature Helps Me” only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Nature Helps Me’s websites choose to interact with “Nature Helps Me” in ways that require “Nature Helps Me” to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that “Nature Helps Me” gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Those who engage in transactions with “Nature Helps Me” are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, “Nature Helps Me” collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with “Nature Helps Me”. “Nature Helps Me” does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

“Nature Helps Me” 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 Nature Helps Me’s behalf or to provide services available at Nature Helps Me’s websites, 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 Nature Helps Me’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. “Nature Helps Me” 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, “Nature Helps Me” discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when “Nature Helps Me” believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of “Nature Helps Me”, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an “Nature Helps Me” website and have supplied your email address, “Nature Helps Me” 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 “Nature Helps Me” and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. 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. “Nature Helps Me” takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. “Nature Helps Me” uses cookies to help “Nature Helps Me” identifies and track visitors, their usage of “Nature Helps Me” website, and their website access preferences. “Nature Helps Me” visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Nature Helps Me’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Nature Helps Me’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If “Nature Helps Me”, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that “Nature Helps Me” goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of “Nature Helps Me” may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

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Comments

By commenting on NatureHelps.Me, users and visitors give NatureHelps.Me the right to display the comment and any other information that users and visitors make available during the comment process. The Official NatureHelps.Me Comment Policy can be viewed here.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, NatureHelps.Me may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in NatureHelps.Me’s sole discretion. NatureHelps.Me encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a NatureHelps.Me account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.