PRIVACY POLICY
What is Our Privacy Policy?
Rarity Gardens is a perennial nursery that specializes in the propagation, evaluation and sale of peonies, daylilies and Hosta. We are an Oregon state inspected nursery located at 7192 Cooper Spur Road, Mt. Hood, Oregon 97041, and online at www.raritygardens.com.
Rarity Gardens cares about your privacy and security while visiting our website. Our Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit, register and/or make a purchase from Rarity Gardens online at www.raritygardens.com.
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What Personal Information Do We Collect?
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We receive, collect and store the information you enter on our website when you register or place an order. You may be asked to provide your name, email address, mailing address, billing address, telephone number, special instructions, and other online communications. Site visitors may also visit us anonymously. Registered users may update, change or delete their personal account information at any time by logging in to their personal account pages and updating their account profile.
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How Do We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Tools?
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When you visit this website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address and time zone. Additionally, as you browse the site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the site, and information related to how you interact with the site. We refer to this automatically collected information as Device Information.
Device Information is collected using the following technologies:
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Cookies are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier.
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Log files track actions occurring on the site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
When you register, make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the website, we collect the personal information detailed in the previous section. We refer to this as Order Information. Personal Information referenced in this Privacy Policy includes both Device Information and Order Information.
How Do We Secure Your Personal Information?​
Our company is hosted on an online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored on their secure servers behind a firewall.
All direct payment gateways used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
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How Do We Communicate with Site Visitors?
We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.
How Do We Use Your Order Information?
The Order Information that we collect is used to process and fulfill any orders placed through this website including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing order confirmation updates.
We may also use this Order Information to communicate with you, screen orders for potential risk or fraud, and to provide you with information, newsletters, advertising and related information based on the preferences you shared with us during your website visit.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud, and more generally to improve and optimize our site.
How Do We Share Your Personal Information?
Sharing of Personal Information is strictly limited to the uses described above. We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights. We will never share or sell your Personal Information with third parties without your consent.