Privacy Policy

Introduction

Welcome to OptoGrow. These Terms & Conditions govern your access to and use of OptoGrow’s services and website (optogrow.com). By accessing or using our services, you agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions and our Privacy Policy.

Use of Services

Like most website operators, optogrow.com collects non-personally-identifying information, such as browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.

OptoGrow’s purpose in collecting this information is to better understand how visitors use its website.

From time to time, OptoGrow may release non-personally-identifying information in aggregate form, e.g., by publishing a report on website usage trends.

OptoGrow also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

OptoGrow does not use IP addresses to identify its visitors and does not disclose such information, except under the same circumstances as it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

User Responsibilities

Certain visitors to optogrow.com choose to interact with OptoGrow in ways that require OptoGrow to gather personally-identifying information.

The amount and type of information that OptoGrow gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who use our forums to provide a username and email address.

In each case, OptoGrow collects such information only as necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with optogrow.com.

OptoGrow does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information.

All information collected on optogrow.com will be handled in accordance with GDPR legislation.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

OptoGrow discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on OptoGrow’s behalf or to provide services available through optogrow.com, and (ii) have agreed not to disclose it to others.

Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using optogrow.com, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

OptoGrow will not rent or sell personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, OptoGrow discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, if you give permission to have your information shared, or when OptoGrow believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of OptoGrow, third parties, or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of optogrow.com and have supplied your email address, OptoGrow may occasionally send you an email to inform you about new features, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date with what’s going on with OptoGrow and our services.

If you send us a request (for example, via a support email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

OptoGrow takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Intellectual Property

We use the information you provide to register for an account, attend our events, receive newsletters, use certain other services, or participate in the OptoGrow community in other ways.

We will not sell or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please contact us at [email protected].

Termination

OptoGrow may terminate or suspend access to our services immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any breach of these Terms. Upon termination, your right to use the services will immediately cease.

Our legitimate interests in the effective delivery of information and services to you
Explicit consent that you have given
Legal obligations

Access to Data

You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all your personal information, please follow the instructions at the end of this section.

If you would like to request access to your account data, please email us at

[email protected].

Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your personal information on our systems only for as long as we need to, for the success of OptoGrow and the programs that support it.

We keep contact information (such as mailing list information) until a user unsubscribes or requests that we delete that information from our live systems.

If you choose to unsubscribe from a mailing list, we may keep certain limited information about you so that we may honor your request.

OptoGrow will not delete personal data from logs or records necessary to the operation, development, or archives of OptoGrow.

OptoGrow shall not retain personal data longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.

Rights in Relation to Your Information

You may have certain rights under data protection law in relation to the personal information we hold about you. In particular, you may have the right to:

Request a copy of personal information we hold about you
Ask that we update the personal information we hold about you, or independently verify personal information that you have updated yourself
Ask that we delete personal information that we hold about you from live systems, or restrict the way in which we use such personal information (for information on deletion from archives, see the section on Retention of Personal Information)
Object to our processing of your personal information
Withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information (to the extent such processing is based on consent and consent is the only permissible basis for processing)

If you would like to exercise these rights or understand if these rights apply to you, please follow the instructions at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to other websites provided by third parties not under our control. When following a link and providing information to a third-party website, please be aware that we are not responsible for the data provided to that third party.

This privacy policy only applies to the websites listed at the beginning of this document, so when you visit other websites, even when you click on a link posted on optogrow.com, you should read their own privacy policies.

Aggregated Statistics

OptoGrow may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, OptoGrow may reveal how many downloads a particular version received or which plugins are most popular. However, OptoGrow does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described in this policy.

Aggregated Statistics

Additionally, information about how you use our website is collected automatically using “cookies.” Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information.

This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, optogrow.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion. OptoGrow encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.

If you have an optogrow.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes.

Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact Information

If you have an optogrow.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes.

Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Additional Information for EU Users

OptoGrow adheres to GDPR and provides additional rights for EU users as follows:

Right to Rectification: You can request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect.
Right to Erasure: You can request erasure of your personal data when it is no longer necessary for us to retain it.
Right to Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to stop processing your data under certain circumstances.
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and the right to transmit that data to another controller.
Right to Object: You can object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.
Right to Not be Subject to Automated Decision-Making: You have the right to not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected] with the necessary details of your request.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We will post any adjustments to the Privacy Policy on this web page, and the revised version will be effective when it is posted. If you are concerned about how your information is used, bookmark this page and read our Privacy Policy periodically.

Additional Notes

Please be aware that we may still need to retain certain personal information for record-keeping purposes, to complete transactions, or when required by law.

For any further questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please reach out to us at the contact information provided above.