Because we, PlantFind.com, gather certain types of information about the users of PlantFind.com sites and services, we believe you, the user, should fully understand our policies regarding the use of the information we collect. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it.

What information do we compile?

In addition to the information you provide on your registration form, information relating to your browsing behavior is automatically retrieved through the site. Our purposes for collecting personal information may include customer service, network management, customer surveys, subscriptions, offers of related services and other exchanges of information at our website. We will not disclose or share this personally identifiable information collected with any unaffiliated outside companies or organizations without your prior consent, which may be “opt in” consent as set forth in Section 5 below. The aggregate data about the browsing behavior of our users allows PlantFind.com to analyze site traffic and manage our relationship with advertisers. This in turn allows PlantFind.com to provide our users with a service that is relevant to their individual interests and needs.

What we do with the information we collect?

We use your customer contact information supplied on the registration form (like your name, address, city, state and e-mail address) to send you information about our company, products and services, which may include our magazine or those of entities with whom we have certain agreements. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings. (See Section 5, below). Other information that we collect is required for us to improve our service level to you (like your general product line, number of employees or volume of business). We share aggregate information with the certain of our advertisers to ensure that the site and its content remain relevant to our members. PlantFind uses this kind of information on a need-to-know basis. This information is not available to unauthorized employees at any time.

PlantFind.com may use the personal information submitted by our users to determine the demographics of our users and to compile and distribute statistical data and general marketplace information about PlantFind.com to entities other than advertisers. These demographics will always be represented in an aggregate format and will never identify a specific user individually. The personal information you supplied to PlantFind.com will not be disclosed on an individual basis to sources outside of PlantFind.com and our affiliates. A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file contains information, such as a user ID; that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. However, the only personal information a cookie contains is the information supplied by the user on the site. A cookie is unable to read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. PlantFind.com uses cookies to track user traffic patterns from time to time.

If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser, but please be aware that some features of the Plantfind.com website may not work properly.

PlantFind.com uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site.

With whom do we share the information we collect?

Except as specifically noted above, we do not share information about individual users with any third parties or any unaffiliated outside companies. However, also as we mentioned above, we may share aggregated statistical information about the use of PlantFind.com by our users with our Web site partners in order to better tailor our content to users’ needs and to help our advertisers understand the demographics of our audience. Finally, in connection with an assignment, sale or other transfer or disposition of a portion or all of the assets or stock of PlantFind or our affiliates, we may assign, sell, license or otherwise transfer to a third party your name, address, e-mail address, member name, and any other personal information we have collected.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. PlantFind.com makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to our users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when disclosing your personal information.

User Options - Opt In/Opt Out

If for any reason we decide to collect and use personally identifiable information for any purpose not listed above, we will inform users about our use of personally identifiable information individually or by posting the revised privacy policy here. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, we reserve the right to disclose or report personal information in limited circumstances, where we believe in our sole discretion that disclosure is required under law, to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities, to perform necessary credit checks, collect or report debts owed to us, or to protect our rights or property.

We have the capacity to collect information about users relating to their interests and purchasing habits.In order to serve you better and to tailor the PlantFind.com experience to your specific needs and tastes, we offer you the option of receiving information from third parties about topics, products and services that interest you.In order to receive this specially tailored information, you must check off the box on the PlantFind.com registration form indicating that you wish to receive such information. PlantFind.com will not provide such information to you if not so indicated on your registration form.

As mentioned above, we may use customer contact information supplied on your registration form to send you information about our company, products and services. Users may opt out of receiving such mailings by sending an e-mail with their name to: info@plantfind.com.

User Options - Modifications/Corrections

PlantFind.com, Inc
1655 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd.
Suite 800
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Security Procedures

PlantFind.com operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. For all transactions using credit cards and related financial information, PlantFind.com utilizes Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol to transfer data from the browser to the server. Because the primary key is only recognized by the PlantFind.com server, data cannot be deciphered by unauthorized access.

If we decide to change the terms of this privacy policy for any reason, we will post those changes here so that you will always know the extent to which we will use or disclose content from the information we gather.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact us at info@plantfind.com, or at:

PlantFind.com, Inc
1655 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd.
Suite 800
West Palm Beach, FL 33401