This privacy policy sets out how Arabic Seeds uses and protects any information that you give when you use this website arabicseeds.com. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected.
Contact us if you have questions.
Arabic Seeds may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 07/11/2016.
We will never sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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Membership subscription:
We collect information about users during the membership signup process as well as some basic activities such as the dates they make purchases, login to the site, or cancel/pause/resume their subscriptions with us, order information such as your membership subscriptions, payment dates and amounts, and username / email address.
When you subscribe with us, we’ll ask you to provide an email address. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- — Send you information about your account and subscriptions. This may include payment receipts, password reset emails, and payment reminders.
- — Create your membership account
We store information about you for as long as your account exists.
Payments
We accept payments through PayPal and Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal or Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Arabic Seeds does NOT store full credit card information on our website or on your account. Your credit card information is encrypted and stored with our payment processors, Paypal and Stripe.
Please see the PayPal and Stripe Privacy Policies for more details.
Comments
Visitor/User comments are checked through an automated spam detection service called Akismet, before being manually approved by us (or deleted if deemed inappropriate for our audience and purposes).
When visitors/users 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.
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.Â
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.
Contact forms
Cookies
arabicseeds.com uses cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
- We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.Â
- 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.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Newsletter services
We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By signing uo to our newsletters, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp’s privacy practices here.
If you opted-in or signed up on our blog or other pop-up forms on arabicseeds.com, we may periodically send email about our membership, new blog-posts, freebies, resources, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
Analytics
We use Jetpack and Google Analytics to gather informations about the pages most visited by our users or visitors, the location of our visitors.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.