Privacy Policy

At Aussie Botanica, accessible from our website, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Aussie Botanica and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

1. Consent & User Rights

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. We provide cookie preference controls on your first visit, enabling you to toggle Google Analytics and personalized advertising tracking. You can clear or update your preferences at any time by clearing your browser's cookies or localStorage database.

2. Information We Collect

Aussie Botanica is designed as an informational plant encyclopedia. We do not require users to create accounts, sign in, or provide personal details (such as names, phone numbers, or email addresses) to read our care guides.

If you contact us directly or request a specific plant profile, we may receive additional information about you such as your email address, the contents of the message, and any attachments you choose to send.

3. Log Files & Standard Analytics

Aussie Botanica follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

4. Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Aussie Botanica uses "cookies". These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

5. Advertising Partners & Google DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google is one of the third-party vendors on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to our site and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL: policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Some of the advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners include:

• Google AdSense: Serves contextual display ads based on user interest and search intent.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Aussie Botanica, which are sent directly to users' browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Aussie Botanica has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

6. Affiliate Network Disclosures

Aussie Botanica participates in various affiliate marketing programs. We contain outgoing outbound product outbound links to leading nurseries (such as Bunnings Warehouse and Flower Power). When you click on one of these referral links and purchase a plant or product, we may receive a small affiliate commission from the retailer at no additional cost to you. These tracking cookies are placed by the retailer networks to allocate referral credit.

7. Third Party Privacy Policies

Aussie Botanica's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our team at hello@aussiebotanica.com.au.