This page explains what data avagardentips.com collects, who receives it, and how to change your mind. Ads pay for this site, so ad technology is most of the answer. Read the Google section if you read nothing else.
Status as of 25 August 2026: this site is new and is not yet running advertising or analytics. No advertising cookie, no analytics cookie and no third-party script is loaded on any page today. The only cookies set are the strictly necessary WordPress ones, plus the name and email cookie you can opt into when you leave a comment. Everything below describes what will happen once display advertising is switched on, and this page is updated on the day that changes.
Who is responsible for your data
The publisher of avagardentips.com is the data controller: Ava’s Garden Tips, postal address available on request — email hello@avagardentips.com. Privacy requests go to privacy@avagardentips.com. Anything else goes to hello@avagardentips.com.
The site is run by a single independent publisher. “Ava” is a disclosed pen name for the editorial voice, not a separate person or company holding your data. The About page covers that.
What the site collects
Automatically, on every visit
- Your IP address.
- Your user agent: browser, operating system, device type.
- The referring URL, so the page that sent you here.
- Which pages you request, with dates and times.
- Approximate location worked out from your IP address, at country or region level.
- Cookies, local storage entries, and similar identifiers set by this site or by third parties.
Only when you hand it over
- Comments: the name and email you type, the comment itself, plus the IP address and user agent WordPress stores with it.
- Contact messages: your name, email address, and whatever you write.
- Your cookie choices, stored as a consent record so the banner stops asking.
The site never asks for payment details, government identifiers, health data, or precise location. Do not put those in a comment.
Cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, and other identifiers
This site and the companies it works with use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, and other identifiers to run the site, measure it, and show ads.
- Cookies are small files stored in your browser and read back on later visits.
- Web beacons, also called pixels, are tiny invisible images that report back when a page loads.
- Local storage works like a cookie with more room, and survives until something clears it.
- IP addresses and device identifiers single out a browser or device with no file stored at all.
Third parties place cookies on your browser through this site and read cookies that are already there. That includes Google, Google’s ad partners, and the consent tool. Those companies control their own cookies, and this publisher cannot see or delete them for you.
| Category | What it does | Set without consent? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Keeps pages loading, blocks abuse, remembers a comment form | Yes |
| Consent record | Stores the choice you made in the cookie banner | Yes |
| Analytics | Counts pages and visits | No |
| Advertising | Selects ads, limits repeats, measures clicks, personalizes if allowed | No |
Google, AdSense, and Google’s ad partners
This site is not yet running ads. When it does, they will be served by Google AdSense and the ad partners Google works with. When an ad loads, your browser sends information straight to Google, including the page URL and your IP address. Google may set a cookie in your browser or read one already there. Other vendors and ad networks in that chain do the same.
Google uses it to serve and measure ads, cap repeats, detect fraud, and personalize ads where you allowed it. The details are in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services and in How Google uses cookies in advertising. Google publishes the vendors it may pass data to for visitors in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland in its ad technology partners list, and the vendor list is also reachable from the cookie banner.
Control Google’s ad personalization at My Ad Center, and opt out of many other networks at optout.aboutads.info and the NAI opt-out page. Those opt-outs live in cookies, so they cover one browser and vanish when you clear cookies.
Why the site uses this data
- To deliver pages and keep the site online.
- To block attacks, spam, and scraping.
- To serve advertising, which is how the site is paid for.
- To measure which articles get read.
- To publish comments and reply to messages.
- To keep records the law requires.
Legal bases if you are in the EEA or the UK
Under Article 6 of the GDPR and UK GDPR, each purpose runs on one basis.
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Advertising cookies, ad measurement, ad personalization | Consent, Art. 6(1)(a) |
| Analytics cookies | Consent, Art. 6(1)(a) |
| Serving pages, security, abuse and fraud prevention | Legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f) |
| Publishing comments and answering messages | Legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f) |
| Keeping consent and legal records | Legal obligation, Art. 6(1)(c) |
Storing or reading non-essential cookies also needs consent under the ePrivacy Directive and, in the UK, PECR. That is what the cookie banner is for. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it, and it does not undo processing that already happened.
Who receives your data
| Recipient | What they get | Their policy |
|---|---|---|
| Google and Google’s ad partners (not active yet) | IP address, page URL, ad identifiers, cookie data | Google partner sites policy |
| Hostinger (web host) | Server logs, comment and form submissions in transit | Hostinger privacy policy |
| Complianz (consent tool) | Your consent choice, a consent ID, IP address | Complianz privacy statement |
Your data is not traded for money. Several US state laws define “sale” and “sharing” broadly, though, and letting ad partners read cookies for targeted advertising can land inside those definitions with no money involved. Treat it as sharing, and use the opt-out below if you would rather not.
International transfers
The providers above are mostly US-based, so data from EEA and UK visitors leaves its home region. Those transfers rely on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses with the UK Addendum, on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or its UK Extension where the recipient is certified, or on an adequacy decision. Ask privacy@avagardentips.com which one a named provider uses.
How long data is kept
| Data | Kept for |
|---|---|
| Server access logs | 30 days, then overwritten |
| Consent record | 12 months, then the banner asks again |
| Published comments and their metadata | As long as the comment stays published |
| Comments marked as spam | 30 days |
| Contact-form messages and email replies | 24 months |
| Records of privacy requests | 24 months |
| Advertising and analytics cookies | Lifetimes set by each provider, commonly up to 24 months |
Your rights in the EEA and the UK
- Access a copy of the personal data held about you.
- Rectification of anything inaccurate or incomplete.
- Erasure of your data, within the limits the law allows.
- Restriction of processing while a dispute is sorted out.
- Portability of data you provided, in a machine-readable file.
- Objection to processing based on legitimate interests, including profiling.
- Withdrawal of consent at any time, through the cookie banner.
- Complaint to a supervisory authority.
Email privacy@avagardentips.com to use any of these. Expect a reply within one month, extendable by two more if the request is complicated, with a reason given. You can complain to your national authority in the EDPB members list, or, in the UK, to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Your rights under US state privacy laws
If you live in a US state with a comprehensive privacy law, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, and Oregon, you can ask to:
- Know what categories of personal information were collected, why, and who got them.
- Get a copy, in a portable format where the law requires it.
- Correct information that is wrong.
- Delete information held about you.
- Opt out of sale, of sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising, and of targeted ads.
- Be treated the same either way, with no penalty for exercising a right.
- Appeal a refusal, where your state gives you an appeal right.
Send requests to privacy@avagardentips.com, or use Your Privacy Choices for the advertising opt-out. Replies come within 45 days, extendable once by 45 more when a request is complex. An authorized agent can act for you with written permission. To appeal a refusal, reply to that email. A written decision follows within 45 days, which is the shortest deadline any of these states set, and it tells you how to contact your state attorney general.
Sensitive personal information, as those laws define it, is not collected here, and no profiling with legal or similar effects happens.
Global Privacy Control
This site honors the Global Privacy Control signal. If your browser or extension sends GPC, it is read as an opt-out of sale and of sharing for targeted advertising, and ads serve without personalization. The signal is per browser, so set it on each device.
Changing your mind about cookies
- Open the “Privacy settings” control in the site footer to reopen the consent banner and change or withdraw consent.
- Use Your Privacy Choices for the US opt-out of sale, sharing, and targeted advertising.
- Clear or block cookies in your browser settings, which also clears any opt-out cookies.
Children’s privacy
This site is not directed to children under 13, and personal information is not knowingly collected from them, in line with COPPA. Nothing here is written for a child audience. If you believe a child under 13 has left personal information in a comment or a form, email privacy@avagardentips.com and it will be deleted.
Security, other sites, and changes
Traffic runs over HTTPS, software is kept updated, and admin access is limited to the publisher. No website can promise perfect security, and this one does not.
Articles link out to third-party sites, such as Cooperative Extension services, the USDA, and NOAA. Those sites have their own privacy policies, which this one does not cover.
When this policy changes in a way that matters, the effective date below changes with it, and the banner asks again where consent is involved.
Contact and dates
- Privacy requests: privacy@avagardentips.com
- Everything else: hello@avagardentips.com, or the contact page
- Postal address: postal address available on request — email hello@avagardentips.com
- Effective date: 25 August 2026
- Last updated: 25 August 2026
This policy describes how the site actually works. It is not legal advice, and it is no substitute for review by a qualified attorney against the publisher’s real vendors and jurisdiction.