Privacy Policy

Our website address is: https://seedsforspecialneeds.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

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

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.

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.

We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose. We may also process your data to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights or to fulfill business obligations.

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 (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.

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.

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

We use your information that is collected or received to send marketing and promotional communications, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. We may also use your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising.

If you have any questions or comments, you can reach us at madeha.ayub@seedsforspecialneeds.com

Additional information

We protect your data through a system of organizational and technical security measures that have been implemented on this website. However, despite our safeguard measures to protect the security of any personal information, no electronical transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security measures. However, we will do our best to continue to take all necessary precautions to prevent such mishaps.

This website may contain advertisements from third parties that are not affiliated with us but may link to other websites. We cannot guarantee the safety and privacy data your provide to any third parties. Any data collected by third parties is not covered under this privacy policy. You should review the policies of such third parties and contact them directly to respond to your questions.