Privacy Policy

Introduction

Jeff's Landscape Inc. dba Velvet Green Organic Lawn Care ("Company" or "We") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website Velvet Green Organic Lawn Care (our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On this Website.
• In email text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website
• Via mobile phone communications.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party
• any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries, if applicable), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. We have the sole right, in our discretion, to update this policy at any time. We will post a notification on the website when changes are made and revise the date at the top of this page. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

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Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• Personal Information, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("Personal Information")

• Customer Records, such as account information and customer support messages, and purchase history or products/services you viewed.
• about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies or other tracking technologies

Information You Provide to Us

You directly provide us with data when you create a user account, place an order, or use or view the Website via your browser’s cookies. The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of contacting us regarding services, requesting future services, etc. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders, if applicable. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, session activity, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
• Certain geographic information, or information regarding your mobile device if/when you access the website via a mobile device.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches
• Recognize you when you return to your Website

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website may be served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies (alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies) to collect information about you when you use our website.

The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. (For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.)

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To provide you with notices about your services, including expiration and renewal notices.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website when applicable
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.
• We may also use your information to contact you about services that may be of interest to you.
• We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
• We do not share any opt-in mobile information with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
• We do not sell, rent, license, trade or exchange Personal Information with or to any third parties, except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide, as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them).
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Velvet Green Organic Lawn Care's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Velvet Green Organic Lawn Care about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the "email a friend" feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use or terms of sale and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Velvet Green Organic Lawn Care, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. In the case of using third party advertising, in order not to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to info@velvetgreenlawn.com
  
• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by the Company to promote our services, you can opt-out by sending us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions or using the “unsubscribe” option via email marketing platforms when applicable. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.

We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs starting with HTTPS instead of HTTP.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

You can help us to protect your Personal Information by: (i) using a secure mobile web browser; (ii) not sharing any password or log-in data with others; and (iii) changing your password frequently. We are not responsible for any breaches of a user’s profile and access to their Personal Information which is attributed to lost or stolen usernames and passwords. In the event of an inadvertent disclosure of a user’s username and password, users are advised to change their password as soon as they become aware of such disclosure.

In the event we become aware of a security breach, we will notify you and any applicable regulator where we are legally required to do so.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@velvetgreenlawn.com.

Your Data Protection Rights

All Website users are entitled to the following:

● Access—You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a reasonable fee for this service.

● Rectification—You have the right to request we correct any of your data you believe is inaccurate, or to complete information that is incomplete.

● Erasure - You have the right to request that we delete your data, under certain conditions.

● Restrict Processing—You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your data, under certain conditions.

● Object to Processing—You have the right to object to our processing your data, under certain conditions.

● Data Portability—You have the right to request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

We are required to respond to your requests within one month. To exercise any of these rights, use any of the means of contact below.

We will not deny you services, charge you different prices, or provide different service levels because you exercised your privacy rights.

If you submit a request, we may need to verify your identity by asking for basic account or contact information. Authorized agents may submit requests on your behalf, but we may require proof of your authorization.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

How You Can Manage Your Data

At the time you provide personal information, we will give you the option of declining any future offers or information about new products, promotions, or services. In addition, many of the messages that we may send you, such as electronic newsletters, have procedures within them to cancel the receipt of similar information in the future or later editions. You may also be given the opportunity to “opt out” of certain features or functions, including but not limited to Mobile messaging.

Governing Law

Unless otherwise expressly stated herein, the laws of the United States of America and the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts without regard to the principles of conflicts of laws, will govern this Privacy Policy, your use of the Website, and all matters relating to your access to, and/or use of, the Website, including all disputes between you and us arising from or related to the Website. You also agree that the Website will be deemed solely based Massachusetts.

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Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

info@velvetgreenlawn.com

781-983-1200