Privacy Policy:

We value you and respect your privacy. We promise not to sell, share or use your information without your permission.

Gourmet Mushroom Products (GMHP)

Our website address is: https://gmushrooms.org

Privacy Policy 

Our privacy policy is simple; your personal information is always safe at GMHP. We will never provide your information to anyone for any reason and your e-mail address will never be sold.

Required Legal Policy Statement

Because we value your patronage, we want to address any privacy concerns you may have.  To that end, we have set forth our privacy policy for handling the information you share with us online.  We want your decision to do business with us to be an informed one.

1.   Collecting Information

When you visit our Website, we may collect information about you that you voluntarily choose to share with us.  This identification information may include, but is not limited to, your name, your physical address, your e-mail address, your telephone and fax numbers, details of your real estate and lending needs and preferences, and other details of your life. What may be less obvious to you is that, when you visit our Website, we may collect data involving your usage through the use of “cookies” (i.e. small text files placed on your computer by a Website), Web server logs, and other Web tools.  This technology allows us to customize your online experience, as well as track your Internet use.  The tracking data we collect may include, but is not limited to, the date and time you visit, the time you spend, the Web pages you view, the other Websites you visit, your search queries, and basic information about your computer, such as your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, your domain name, your browser type, and the name of your Internet service provider.  You may deactivate cookies if you do not want your browsing to be tracked, but doing so may hinder your online experience. When visiting our Website, you are NOT directed, through hyperlinks, to other Websites that are beyond our control.  Furthermore, when you are visiting our Website, other companies, such as third party advertisers and sponsors, are NOT gathering information about you.

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.

For users that register on our website (if any), 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.

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

2.   Using Information Collected

We do not share any personal data with anyone.

We primarily use the identification information you voluntarily share with us to customize your online experience and to do what you have asked of us. use your identification information to tell you about our products and services, but you may instruct us not to send communications to you by following the procedure indicated below under “Contacting Us.”  On occasion, we use your identification information to validate your identity.  As for usage tracking data, we primarily use that information to operate and improve our Website, and to further our marketing efforts. As a general rule, we do not share your information with unaffiliated third parties. We may, however, share your information with our own personnel and our service providers to the extent necessary to fulfill your requests.  We may also share your information with our affiliates, but we will not share it with unaffiliated third parties for direct marketing purposes.  We reserve the right to disclose your information under limited circumstances, such as to cooperate with law enforcement or judicial authorities as required by law or legal process, to protect our own legal rights, or to protect the public good. Whenever you are online, you run the risk that the information you give out will fall into the wrong hands.  Although we implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to safeguard your privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you provide to us.  We accept no responsibility or liability for the activities of third parties.

3.   Updating Information

If you would like to review the information about you that we have collected through our Website, or to change that information, you can make that request by following the procedure indicated below under “Contacting Us.”  We may require that you verify your identity before we process your request.

Cookies

In this subsection you should list the cookies your web site uses, including those set by your plugins, social media, and analytics. We have provided the cookies which WordPress installs by default.

Suggested text: 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

5.   Updating Our Privacy Policy

We may, from time to time, change our Privacy Policy.  We will notify you of any changes by posting our updated Privacy Policy on our Website and inserting a new “Effective Date.”

6. How we protect your data

HTTPS: Site, Encryption, Spam filtering, Brute force attack protection, Akismet anti spam, block suspicious-looking sign in activity, staff training in data protection.

7.   Contacting Us

If you would like to send us a request as indicated above, or if you have any other questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, you may contact us:

Contact information

Gourmet Mushrooms and Mushroom Products
Home Mushroom Growing Kits Since 1989
GMHP – P.O. Box 515 – Graton, CA 95444
Phone:707 829-7301
Fax: 707 823-9091
email:  MushroomKits@gmushrooms.org

 Effective Date: This Privacy Policy is effective as of February 8, 2019

We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.

What we collect and store

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

• Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
• Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
• Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

• Send you information about your account and order
• Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
• Process payments and prevent fraud
• Set up your account for our store
• Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
• Improve our store offerings
• Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for XXX years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

Who on our team has access

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:

• Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
• Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.