Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 11/4/2023

Welcome to Larkspur & Tea ("we", "us", or "our"), a haven for enthusiasts of diverse products and aficionados of curated reviews. Your privacy is pivotal to the trust you place in us, and we are staunchly committed to safeguarding it. This policy delineates the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the blog Larkspur & Tea (our "Blog") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

On this Blog.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Blog.
Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Blog, which provides dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Blog.

It does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by any third party; or
Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Blog.

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 Blog. By accessing or using this Blog, you agree to this privacy policy.

1. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

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

By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, or telephone number ("personal information");
That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your product preferences and your interactions with our Blog; and/or
About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Blog, 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, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
From third parties, for example, our business partners.

2. Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Blog may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Blog. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our blog, posting material, or requesting further services. 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 Blog.
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 Blog and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Blog.
Your search queries on the Blog.

3. Usage Details, IP Addresses, Cookies, and Other Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Blog, we may automatically collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Blog, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Blog.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

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 Blog and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Blog according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Blog.

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 Blog. 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 Blog.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Blog may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Blog. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
Web Beacons. Pages of our the Blog 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 Larkspur & Tea, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain blog content and verifying system and server integrity).

4. Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Blog are 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 Blog. 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.

5. 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 Blog 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 [account/subscription], 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 Blog or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Blog.
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 our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form/registration form). 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.

6. 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 Larkspur & Tea's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Larkspur & Tea about our Blog users is among the assets transferred.
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to/not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

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 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 Larkspur & Tea, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

7. 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. 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. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form/registration form). You can also always opt-out by sending us an email with your request to Meghan@larkspurandtea.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 own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form/registration form) or at any other time by logging into the Blog and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to Meghan@larkspurandtea.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by adjusting your user advertising preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to Meghan@larkspurandtea.com. For this opt-out to function, you must have your browser set to accept all browser cookies.

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 several third-party ad networks, including those operated by members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). For more information about this practice by NAI and DAA members, and your choices regarding having this information used by these companies, including how to opt-out of third-party ad networks operated by NAI and DAA members, please visit their respective websites: [https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1] (https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1) and [www.aboutads.info/choices] (http://www.aboutads.info/choices).

8. Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Blog and visiting your account profile page.

You may also send us an email at Meghan@larkspurandtea.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

9. Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Blog that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to Meghan@larkspurandtea.com.

10. Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions and orders will be encrypted using SSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depend on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Blog, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Blog like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Blog.

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 Blog. 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 Blog.

11. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Blog home 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 Blog and this privacy policy to check for any changes.