Who we are
Our website address is: https://michigannativespecies.com.
What information does Michigannativespecies.com collect from website visitors and how is this information used?
Sponsored and Affiliate Advertising Disclosure:
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchase.
We do not collect personal information regarding purchases made through our affiliate links. Once you leave our website, your transactions are solely between you and the supplier. Your personal and financial (payment) and transaction information is not available, utilized, shared with us.
Please see Amazon.com’s Legal Policies here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ref_=hp_bc_nav&nodeId=GWFZQ8U37JV9AUT5
Purchased made directly from this website:
Products offered for direct sale from this website are purchased through a third party merchant processor. We do collect your name, address, phone number, email address and information required to complete your transaction. This information is never shared or sold with any third party; other than digitally transmitting payment information to our processer.
Please see the merchant processor’s Privacy Policy here:
When you visit the Michigannativespecies.comwebsite, your browser automatically sends our website servers an Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, in order for you to view our website content. This IP address, in addition to other information shared by your browser, is delivered anonymously, and is not personally identifiable.
We use this IP address and browser information only to manage our website, enhance the viewer’s experience, build general traffic and use statistics, and ensure performance.
We also utilize “cookies” to assist your browser in using this website (in order to deliver information.) This information is not personally-identifiable, and will be reviewed to address errors, general visitation information (in the form of name/value pairs, not associated with your personal information,) and with 3rd party function-monitoring services such as Google Analytics.
This information is never shared with any person or entity, other than those running the services, and always anonymously. Statistical information is collected by Google, is for the purpose of providing generic data regarding visitation to our website. Google’s Privacy Policy.
Information that is retained by your browser, such as cookies designed to facilitate your visit, are stored according to your computer settings. We do encourage viewers to clear their browsing history regularly, for enhanced security.
We may store contact information that you have submitted through a form on this website;) including your Name, Address and phone number.
We will never rent, sell or trade your personal information with any third party.
Links provided through this website are managed by other organizations that provide their own Privacy Policies.
How do we protect your information?
Michigan Native Species takes every precaution available to us to protect our website users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, their information is protected both online and off-line. Our servers are in a locked, secure data center, and managed by a dedicated team of internet security experts.
Our online transactions (form submittal.) use a secure server and encryption to protect your personal information during processing. However, information sent through the internet utilizes several channels during delivery, over which we have no control. For this reason, we request you do not send sensitive information regarding your case through the internet.
Your Rights
Although we periodically purge and refresh our data, you may also request we update or remove your information including Name, address, phone number, and any other information you have provided from our database; at any time. Please contact us through our website to have your information deleted from our database.
Your data is always stored under current TLS/SSL encryption standards and only accessed directly by authorized members of our Website Team.
Subscription Email messages that you join through MichiganNativeSpecies.com will provide an opportunity to opt-out of the mailing list, which will clear your data from the database. We utilize 3rd Party sources for this purpose. Please visit the appropriate Privacy Policy for these services, which will be displayed when you subscribe.
If you have any questions regarding how your information is stored or used, please contact us through our website contact form.
Additional Policies Specific to the software used to operate this website:
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
