Last modified: April 2025

INTRODUCTION

Your privacy is important to AboutTrees.com (collectively with jointly owned affiliates: “AboutTrees.com,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). We are committed to protecting your privacy through compliance with this notice (“Privacy Notice”). This Privacy Notice applies to information we collect from you or our partners when accessing our applications, technology solutions, chatterboxes, artificial intelligence or any other online service we offer (our “Services”). This Privacy Notice applies only to information we collect through our Services. Except where otherwise noted, it does not apply to information we collect through other channels. It outlines what Personal Information we collect about you through our Services and how it is used. It also explains how we process your Personal Information, who we share it with, and how we look after it.  It also tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Please read this Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information. If you do not wish to agree to our policies and practices, you must not access or use our Services. By accessing or using our Services you agree to this Privacy Notice and the Terms of Use, except where prohibited.

This Privacy Notice is subject to modifications and updates. If we make updates to this Privacy Notice, we will notify you by revising the last modified date at the top of this Privacy Notice, and if otherwise disclosed or required, we may provide you with additional notice. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice whenever you access our Services to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you. Your continued use of our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.

COLLECTING INFORMATION

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Services, including information you provide directly to us. When you use services provided through our Services, including contact or message functions, we collect the information you provide us that may personally identify you such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“Personal Information”). We may also collect information that is about you but does not individually identify you such as your internet connection and usage information while you access our Services.

When you access our Services we, or our third-party service providers, may collect information related to your experience, which may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us to, among other things, improve our Services and your experience, see which areas and features of our Services are popular, and count visits. 

Our Services contains links to third-party Services and services that are not affiliated with or owned by AboutTrees.com. If you interact with these third parties through our Services, including with our profiles on these platforms, your experience on those platforms will be governed by the privacy and other policies of those third-parties. We encourage you to choose your privacy settings on those Services accordingly. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the third-party directly. 

You also may provide information to us associated with our Services. Your content is upload or sued associated with our Services is done at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain Services, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other Services users or partners. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your content will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

As you use our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). We may also collect information from you offline including, but not limited to, phone calls. Recordings or transcripts of all interactions with AboutTrees.com may be stored an used related to our Services.

USING INFORMATION

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information, to support operation of our Services and provide you with related services. Our information collection practices allow us to provide you with a better experience when you visit our Services and use our services. When you provide us with your Personal Information, we use it to respond to your questions, comments, and requests that you have made through our Services; contact you with relevant information; ensure our contact information for you is updated and accurate; and invite you to participate in future services. In addition, we review our server logs—which contain visitors’ IP addresses—for security and fraud prevention purposes. 

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. We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. 

SHARING INFORMATION

We may share information about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Notice. We may also share aggregated or otherwise de-identified information, which could be derived from your Personal Information. We do not consider such de-identified information to be Personal Information because this information will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. 

Your Consent. With your consent or at your direction, including if we notify you that the information you provide will be shared in a particular manner and you subsequently provide such information, we may disclose information without restriction. 

Service Providers or Third Parties. We may share your Personal Information with companies that perform services on our behalf and need access to your information to carry out their work for us, such as credit-card verification, online recruiting, and web-hosting service providers.

Special Notices and Events. We may contact you with information regarding publications or activities we sponsor or host. Some of those activities may be coordinated with other organizations.

Legal or Policy Violation. We may disclose Personal Information when we, in good faith, believe disclosure is appropriate or necessary to comply with the law or a legal obligation, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law-enforcement requirements. Additionally, we may share your information if we, in good faith, believe your actions are inconsistent with this Privacy Notice or our Terms of Use, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of any third party.

Successor. We may share your Personal Information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale, or financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

YOUR CHOICES 

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us, and we respect your right to make choices about the ways we collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information.

We obtain your consent to our marketing communications via our Services when you contact us through our Services or subscribe to our correspondence on our Services. We include an “opt-out” link in emails we send you, so that you can inform us that you do not wish to receive such communications from us in the future. If at any time you have questions related to correspondence or would like to update your contact information, please contact us using the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Notice. Please provide your full name and email address so that we can identify you and process your request. We will honor your request within a reasonable period of time. Please note that you cannot opt out of transactional emails, such as communications related to transactions or agreements with AboutTrees.com.

If you prefer to use our Services without usage tracking, you can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Please note that if you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of our Services may then be inaccessible or not function properly. We do not control any third-party collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising including social-media companies with links on our Services. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used.

You can review and change your information. We may not be able to delete your information. 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.

If you delete or alter your content associated with our Services, copies of your content may remain usable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Services. Proper access and use of information associated with our Services is governed by our Terms of Use

PERSONAL INFORMATION OF MINORS

We are proud of our online information, and we strive to ensure we do not offend people of any age. However, our web pages are not intended for children or minors under the age of eighteen years. Accordingly, we do not knowingly store information from minors under the age of eighteen years. If you believe that someone under the age of eighteen years has submitted Personal Information to Us, please contact us at Support@AboutTrees.com and we will delete the information.

DATA RETENTION AND SECURITY

We store the information we collect about you for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we collected it and in accordance with applicable law and legitimate business interests.

When assessing the data retention period, we take into account the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we process the data, and the assessments of whether we can achieve those purposes through other means and of the applicable legal requirements.

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 consistent with industry standard practices. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. 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 Services. 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 our Services.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We are continually improving and adding to the features and functionality of our Services, and to the services we offer through our Services. As a result of these changes (or changes in the law), we may need to update or revise this Privacy Notice. Accordingly, we reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Notice at any time, without prior notice (unless prohibited in your jurisdiction), by posting the revised version of this Privacy Notice behind the link marked “Privacy Notice” at the bottom of each page of our Services. Your continued use of our Services after we have posted the revised Privacy Notice constitutes your agreement to be bound by this Privacy Notice as revised. However, we will honor the terms that were in effect when we gathered data from you. We will also endeavor, when feasible, to notify you in advance of significant and material changes to this Privacy Notice. For your convenience, whenever this Privacy Notice is changed, we will update the “Revised on” heading at the top of this page. Be sure you check the “Revised on” date to see if this Privacy Notice has been revised since your last visit. You may access the current version of this Privacy Notice at any time by clicking the link marked “Privacy Notice.” 

SEVERABILITY

If any provision of this Privacy Notice or the Terms of Use, is declared invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be removed from the Privacy Notice without affecting the rest of the Privacy Notice, and the remaining provisions of the Privacy Notice shall continue to be valid and enforceable.

CONTACT INFORMATION

To ask questions about or to comment on this Privacy Notice and our privacy practices, please email us at Support@AboutTrees.com