Who we are
Our Garden is a tropical garden located in south Southwest Florida. Our website address is: http://thetropicalgrower.com. Our e-mail address is thetropicalgrower@gmail.com. Visit our Contact page. Contact
Intellectual Property Rights
All copyrights, trademarks, patents and other intellectual property rights in and on our website and all content and software located on the site shall remain the sole property of The Tropical Grower or its licensors. The use of our trademarks, content and intellectual property is forbidden without the express written consent from The Tropical Grower.
You must not:
- Reproduce, duplicate, create derivative, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for any purpose.
- Republish material from our website without prior written consent.
- Sell or rent material from our website.
- Redistribute any content from our website, including onto another website.
You may:
- Post links from external websites and social media to this site.
Endorsements
On occasion, we will offer recommendations and links to products which we may receive compensation for making. We do not endorse or recommend any products we have not used in Our Garden. As a commitment to our readers, recommendations do not come lightly or without the full picture.
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.
Acceptable Use
You agree to use our website only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of the website. Prohibited behavior includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any other user, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within our website.
You must not use our website to send unsolicited commercial communications. You must not use the content on our website for any marketing related purpose without our express written consent.
Restricted Access
We may in the future need to restrict access to parts (or all) of our website and reserve full rights to do so. If, at any point, we provide you with a username and password for you to access restricted areas of our website, you must ensure that both your username and password are kept confidential.
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.
Ad Sense and Cookies
Our site uses Ad Sense by Google for advertising purposes. We have disabled personal recommendations in order to comply with some of the more stringent privacy policies. You may see ads that are less relevant to you. These ads use cookies, but not for personalization. Users may opt out or control use of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
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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.
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 (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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability
The Tropical Grower makes no representations, warranties, or assurances as to the accuracy, currency or completeness of the content contain on this website or any sites linked to this site. We’re actual growers, and we share our journey. Period.
All the materials on this site are provided ‘as is’ without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of merchantability, noninfringement of intellectual property or fitness for any particular purpose. In no event shall The Tropical Grower or its agents or associates be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for loss of profits, business interruption, loss of information, injury or death) arising out of the use of or inability to use the materials, even if The Tropical Grower has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damages.