Privacy & Advertising Policy
Effective date: July 20, 2026
This Privacy & Advertising Policy explains how Xerophyte Garden handles information associated with your use of xerophyte.garden, including information related to email, website operations, analytics, cookies, external services, and advertising.
By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described below.
Information You Choose to Provide
You may voluntarily provide information when you email Xerophyte Garden. This information may include:
- Your name and email address
- The contents of your message
- Plant photographs or other attachments
- Image ownership or licensing information
- Page URLs and correction requests
- Any other information you choose to include
Please do not send sensitive personal, financial, medical, account, or identity information through email.
How Email Information Is Used
Information submitted by email may be used to:
- Read and respond to your message
- Investigate plant-guide corrections
- Review image attribution or licensing concerns
- Resolve broken links or technical issues
- Evaluate relevant business or advertising inquiries
- Protect the website from spam, abuse, or unlawful activity
- Maintain records of important corrections and permissions
Email may be delivered through a hosting provider and forwarded to another managed inbox. Messages may therefore be processed by the email and hosting services used to operate Xerophyte Garden.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit Xerophyte Garden, the website, hosting provider, security tools, analytics services, advertising services, or embedded third-party features may automatically receive technical information such as:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Approximate location derived from an IP address
- Referring and exit pages
- Pages viewed and links selected
- Date and time of access
- Cookie or similar identifier information
- Errors, security events, and performance information
This information may be used to operate, secure, maintain, measure, and improve the website.
Server Logs and Website Security
Web servers commonly create logs when visitors request pages or files. Hosting, caching, spam-prevention, firewall, and security services may process technical information to deliver content, prevent attacks, identify errors, and protect the website.
Security systems may temporarily block or examine activity that resembles automated abuse, unauthorized access, malicious requests, or excessive traffic.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small files or identifiers stored through a browser or device. Xerophyte Garden and its service providers may use cookies, local storage, pixels, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies for purposes including:
- Remembering preferences
- Maintaining website functionality
- Measuring traffic and performance
- Preventing fraud and abuse
- Understanding how visitors use the website
- Displaying and measuring advertising
- Providing personalized or non-personalized content and advertisements where permitted
You can use your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Blocking some technologies may affect website functionality, saved preferences, analytics, or advertising.
Analytics
Xerophyte Garden may use analytics or performance services to understand aggregate website usage. These services may process technical information such as page views, approximate location, device information, referral sources, and interactions with the website.
Analytics information helps identify popular content, broken pages, performance problems, and opportunities to improve navigation and plant guides.
Google Advertising
Xerophyte Garden may participate in Google AdSense or use other Google advertising services.
Google and other third-party vendors may place and read cookies on a visitor’s browser or use web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies to collect information as a result of advertising being served on this website.
Google may use information from this website and other websites or applications that use Google services to provide, measure, personalize, and improve advertisements and services, subject to applicable settings, consent choices, and law.
Learn more about how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Personalized and Non-Personalized Advertising
Depending on your location, consent choices, browser settings, and the advertising configuration in use, advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized.
Personalized advertising may use information about interests or prior activity to select more relevant advertisements. Non-personalized advertising may use contextual information, such as the page being viewed, general location, or device information.
You can review or change certain Google advertising preferences through Google My Ad Center.
Consent Choices
Visitors in certain locations may be shown a consent message that provides choices concerning cookies, personal data, analytics, and advertising.
Where required, Xerophyte Garden and its advertising partners may request consent before using certain cookies or processing information for personalized advertising. Available choices depend on location, applicable law, and the services active on the website.
You may also be able to change or withdraw choices through a privacy or cookie settings link displayed on the website.
External Links
Xerophyte Garden links to botanical databases, university programs, government resources, gardening organizations, Facebook groups, blogs, nurseries, image sources, and other external websites.
External websites have their own privacy, advertising, security, and data-collection practices. Xerophyte Garden does not control those practices. Review the policies of an external service before providing information or creating an account.
Embedded Content
Pages may contain embedded or remotely supplied content, such as images, videos, social media features, maps, or other third-party material.
Embedded content may allow its provider to receive technical information, use cookies, or record interactions as though you had visited that provider directly.
Advertising and Editorial Content
Advertising supports website operation but does not determine botanical classifications, plant-care conclusions, safety warnings, or corrections.
An advertisement displayed near an article does not constitute an endorsement of the advertised product, seller, claim, or service. Visitors should independently evaluate products and follow label directions and applicable safety guidance.
If affiliate links or sponsored material are introduced, the applicable commercial relationship will be disclosed near that content.
Information Sharing
Information may be processed or shared with service providers when reasonably necessary to:
- Host and deliver the website
- Provide email service
- Measure traffic and performance
- Display or measure advertising
- Prevent spam, fraud, and security threats
- Comply with legal obligations
- Protect the rights, safety, and integrity of the website or others
Xerophyte Garden does not sell email correspondence as a mailing list.
Data Retention
Information is retained only as long as reasonably useful for the purpose for which it was received, website security, correction documentation, image permissions, dispute resolution, or legal compliance.
Technical logs and information controlled by hosting, analytics, advertising, or other service providers may be retained according to those providers’ policies.
Children’s Privacy
Xerophyte Garden provides general gardening information and is not directed to children under 13. The website does not knowingly request personal information from children under 13.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information, contact us so the situation can be reviewed.
Information Security
Reasonable measures are used to protect the website and communications, but no website, email service, storage system, or internet transmission can be guaranteed completely secure.
Do not send passwords, payment-card information, government identification numbers, medical records, or other highly sensitive information by email.
Your Privacy Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have rights or choices concerning certain personal information. These may include requesting access, correction, or deletion, or objecting to particular processing.
To make a privacy request, email contact@xerophyte.garden. Describe the information or interaction involved so the request can be evaluated. Identity verification may be required when appropriate.
You can also control some data collection through:
- Your browser’s cookie and privacy settings
- Device privacy settings
- A consent or privacy settings control displayed on the website
- Google My Ad Center
Policy Changes
This policy may be updated when website features, service providers, advertising practices, or legal requirements change. The effective date at the top of the page indicates when the current version took effect.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent to:
For other website questions, visit the Contact Xerophyte Garden page.
Nikolett Emmert
