Who We Are

Herb Heaven operates this website.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why

Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the information shown on the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent. This data helps us detect and prevent spam. An anonymized hash of your email may be shared with the Gravatar service to display your profile picture if you use Gravatar. You can view Gravatar’s privacy policy here. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

Media Uploads
If you upload images to our site, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS), as visitors can download and extract this information.

Contact Forms
Information submitted via our contact forms is not stored on the website but used solely to communicate with you via email. We may use automated spam detection tools to protect our inbox.

Cookies

  • If you leave a comment, you can opt-in to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last one year.
  • When you log in, we use temporary cookies to check if your browser accepts cookies. These contain no personal data and expire when you close your browser.
  • Additional cookies save your login info and screen preferences (lasting from two days to one year). Selecting “Remember Me” keeps you logged in for two weeks. Logging out clears these cookies.
  • When you edit or publish content, a cookie storing the post ID is saved for one day, with no personal data included.

Embedded Content
Articles may contain embedded content (videos, images, etc.) from other websites. These external sites may collect data about you, use cookies, and track your interactions with their content, including if you’re logged into those sites.

How Long We Retain Your Data

  • Comments and their metadata are kept indefinitely to help automatically approve follow-ups.
  • Registered users’ personal information is stored in their profiles, which they can view, edit, or delete (except usernames). Site administrators also have access.

Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you. You may also ask us to delete your personal data, excluding any we must retain for legal, administrative, or security reasons.

Where We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be processed through automated spam detection services to ensure site security.