Privacy Policy

Who we are

Thyme Wisper Herb Shop, Inc. is an online alternative health resource. Our website address is: https://thymewisper.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

Contact forms

We store user input data sent through the contact forms on this website, along with meta information about the submissions, including the time stamp, the origin IP address, and the user agent (browser).

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.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics for MailChimp newsletters.

Who we share your data with

PayPal for payment processing

PayPal’s privacy policy

MailChimp for newsletter subscriptions.

We provide personal Information about you to MailChimp for their newsletter service. When we upload our distribution list or integrate with their service with another website or service (for example, when we connect our e-commerce account with Mailchimp), or when you sign up for a Thyme Wisper Herb Shop, Inc. newsletter on a Mailchimp or other signup form, we provide certain contact information or other personal Information about you such as your name or email address. You may have the opportunity to update some of this information by electing to update or manage your preferences via an email you receive from Thyme Wisper Herb Shop, Inc.

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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Your contact information is what you provide in your profile if you create an account (log-in) and will be the information you choose to give, minimally username, name and email address. All comments and contact forms throughout the website require name and email address with option of giving your website address. Signup forms for the newsletter require name and email address, as well. Contact information for the sale and shipping of products require name, billing address, shipping address and phone number. All financial information is kept by PayPal, not Thyme Wisper Herb Shop, Inc.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), no personal financial information received or kept on Thyme Wisper Herb Shop, Inc. website (see PayPal privacy policy link above),

What data breach procedures we have in place

If a data breach is discovered, all users of the website will be notified via email and a declaration of the data breach will be posted on the Thyme Wisper Herb Shop, Inc.

What third parties we receive data from

PayPal provides data needed to process payments.

MailChimp provides data needed to assess newsletter acceptance.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to the website. For instance, we monitor the most popular pages on the website or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others, although we do not presently do so. However, we do not disclose personally-identifying information.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

None known at this time