Cookie Policy of My City Plants
This document informs Users about the technologies that help My City Plants to achieve the purposes described below. Such technologies allow the Owner to access and store information (for example by using a Cookie) or use resources (for example by running a script) on a User’s device as they interact with My City Plants.
For simplicity, all such technologies are defined as "Trackers" within this document – unless there is a reason to differentiate.
For example, while Cookies can be used on both web and mobile browsers, it would be inaccurate to talk about Cookies in the context of mobile apps as they are a browser-based Tracker. For this reason, within this document, the term Cookies is only used where it is specifically meant to indicate that particular type of Tracker.
Some of the purposes for which Trackers are used may also require the User's consent. Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.
My City Plants uses Trackers managed directly by the Owner (so-called “first-party” Trackers) and Trackers that enable services provided by a third-party (so-called “third-party” Trackers). Unless otherwise specified within this document, third-party providers may access the Trackers managed by them.
The validity and expiration periods of Cookies and other similar Trackers may vary depending on the lifetime set by the Owner or the relevant provider. Some of them expire upon termination of the User’s browsing session.
In addition to what’s specified in the descriptions within each of the categories below, Users may find more precise and updated information regarding lifetime specification as well as any other relevant information — such as the presence of other Trackers — in the linked privacy policies of the respective third-party providers or by contacting the Owner.
Activities strictly necessary for the operation of My City Plants and delivery of the Service
My City Plants uses so-called “technical” Cookies and other similar Trackers to carry out activities that are strictly necessary for the operation or delivery of the Service.
Third-party Trackers
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Platform services and hosting
These services have the purpose of hosting and running key components of My City Plants, therefore allowing the provision of My City Plants from within a unified platform. Such platforms provide a wide range of tools to the Owner – e.g. analytics, user registration, commenting, database management, e-commerce, payment processing – that imply the collection and handling of Personal Data.
Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.
Shopify (Shopify Inc.)
Shopify is a platform provided by Shopify Inc. that allows the Owner to build, run and host an e-commerce website.
Personal Data processed: billing address, device information, email address, first name, last name, payment info, phone number, shipping address, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Canada – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- _ab: 3 years
- _cmp_a: 1 day
- _customer_account_shop_sessions: 1 month
- _landing_page: 14 days
- _orig_referrer: 14 days
- _pay_session: duration of the session
- _s: 30 minutes
- _secure_account_session_id: 1 month
- _secure_session_id: 1 day
- _shopify_country: duration of the session
- _shopify_d: duration of the session
- _shopify_evids: duration of the session
- _shopify_fs: 1 year
- _shopify_ga: indefinite
- _shopify_m: duration of the session
- _shopify_s: 30 minutes
- _shopify_sa_p: 30 minutes
- _shopify_sa_t: 30 minutes
- _shopify_tm: duration of the session
- _shopify_tw: duration of the session
- _shopify_y: 1 year
- _storefront_u: 1 minute
- _tracking_consent: duration of the session
- _y: 1 year
- c: 2 years
- card_update_verification_id: 20 minutes
- cart: 14 days
- cart_currency: 14 days
- cart_sig: 14 days
- cart_ts: 14 days
- cart_ver: 14 days
- checkout: 28 days
- checkout_prefill: 5 minutes
- checkout_queue_checkout_token: 2 years
- checkout_queue_token: 2 years
- checkout_session_lookup: 21 days
- checkout_session_token: 21 days
- checkout_session_token*: 21 days
- checkout_token: 2 years
- checkout_worker_session: 3 days
- customer_account_locale: 1 year
- customer_account_new_login: 20 minutes
- customer_account_preview: 7 days
- customer_auth_provider: indefinite
- customer_auth_session_created_at: indefinite
- customer_payment_method: 1 hour
- customer_shop_pay_agreement: 20 minutes
- discount_code: indefinite
- dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart: 30 minutes
- hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout: indefinite
- identity-state: 1 day
- identity-state-*: 1 day
- identity_customer_account_number: 3 months
- keep_alive: 14 days
- localization: 14 days
- login_with_shop_finalize: 5 minutes
- master_device_id: 2 years
- order: 21 days
- pay_update_intent_id: 20 minutes
- preview_theme: indefinite
- previous_step: 2 years
- profile_preview_token: 5 minutes
- remember_me: 2 years
- secure_customer_sig: 1 year
- shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings: 16 hours
- shopify_pay: 2 years
- shopify_pay_redirect: 1 hour
- source_name: indefinite
- storefront_digest: 3 years
- tracked_start_checkout: 2 years
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Tag Management
This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on My City Plants in a centralized fashion.
This results in the Users' Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data.
Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)
Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Other activities involving the use of Trackers
Functionality
My City Plants uses Trackers to enable basic interactions and functionalities, allowing Users to access selected features of the Service and facilitating the User's communication with the Owner.
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Contacting the User
Contact form (My City Plants)
By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes My City Plants to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.
Personal Data processed: city, company name, county, email address, first name, last name, number of employees, phone number, physical address, profession, state, Trackers, Usage Data, various types of Data, website and ZIP/Postal code.
Experience
My City Plants uses Trackers to improve the quality of the user experience and enable interactions with external content, networks and platforms.
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Content commenting
Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of My City Plants.
Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments.
If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when Users do not use the content commenting service.
Comment system managed directly (My City Plants)
My City Plants has its own internal content comment system.
Personal Data processed: email address, first name, last name, Trackers, Usage Data, username and website.
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Interaction with data collection platforms and other third parties
This type of service allows Users to interact with data collection platforms or other services directly from the pages of My City Plants for the purpose of saving and reusing data.
If one of these services is installed, it may collect browsing and Usage Data in the pages where it is installed, even if the Users do not actively use the service.
ConvertKit widget (ConvertKit LLC)
The ConvertKit widget is a service for interacting with the ConvertKit email address management and message sending service provided by ConvertKit LLC.
Personal Data processed: email address, first name, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Interaction with external social networks and platforms
This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of My City Plants.
The interaction and information obtained through My City Plants are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network.
This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
It is recommended to log out from the respective services in order to make sure that the processed data on My City Plants isn’t being connected back to the User’s profile.
Facebook Like button and social widgets (Meta Platforms, Inc.)
The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Meta Platforms, Inc.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets (Pinterest, Inc.)
The Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Pinterest platform provided by Pinterest Inc.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- _pin_unauth: 1 year
- _pinterest_ct_ua: duration of the session
Measurement
My City Plants uses Trackers to measure traffic and analyze User behavior to improve the Service.
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Analytics
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) (Google LLC)
Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of My City Plants, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- AMP_TOKEN: 1 hour
- _ga: 2 years
- _gac*: 3 months
- _gat: 1 minute
- _gid: 1 day
Clicky (Roxr Software Ltd)
Clicky is an analytics service provided by Roxr Software Ltd.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- _first_pageview: 10 minutes
- _jsuid: 1 year
Fathom Analytics (Conva Ventures Inc.)
Fathom Analytics is an anonymized analytics service provided by Conva Ventures Inc. that gives the Owner insight into the use of My City Plants by Users without needing to identify them. Data collected is anonymized by making use of hashing techniques. Further information may be found here and within the service's privacy policy.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Canada – Privacy Policy.
Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC)
Google Analytics 4 is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of My City Plants, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
In Google Analytics 4, IP addresses are used at collection time and then discarded before Data is logged in any data center or server. Users can learn more by consulting Google’s official documentation.
Personal Data processed: number of Users, session statistics, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- _ga: 2 years
- _ga_*: 2 years
Rebrandly (RadiateCapital Limited )
Rebrandly is a service provided by RadiateCapital Limited , that allows the Owner to create personalized URLs and to measure their effectiveness, as well as User interactions with them. Rebrandly may also enable the Owner to retarget Users.
Personal Data processed: clicks, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
WordPress Stats (Automattic Inc.)
WordPress Stats is an analytics service provided by Automattic Inc.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- tk_tc: duration of the session
Marketing
My City Plants uses Trackers to deliver personalized marketing content based on User behavior and to operate, serve and track ads.
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Advertising
This type of service allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes. These communications are displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on My City Plants, possibly based on User interests.
This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below.
Some of the services listed below may use Trackers to identify Users or they may use the behavioral retargeting technique, i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behavior, including those detected outside My City Plants.
For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.
Services of this kind usually allow Users to opt out of such tracking. Users may learn how to opt out of interest-based advertising more generally by visiting the relevant opt-out section in this document.
Google AdSense (Google LLC)
Google AdSense is an advertising service provided by Google LLC. This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of My City Plants and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.
Users may decide to disable all the DoubleClick Cookies by going to: Google Ad Settings.
In order to understand Google's use of data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- AID: 2 years
- ANID: 2 years
- Conversion: 3 months
- DSID: 14 days
- FCNEC: 1 year
- FLC: 10 seconds
- FPAU: 3 months
- FPGCLAW: 3 months
- FPGCLDC: 3 months
- FPGCLGB: 3 months
- IDE: 2 years
- NID: 6 months
- RUL: 1 year
- TAID: 14 days
- __gads: 2 years
- __gsas: 2 years
- _gac_: 3 months
- _gac_gb_: 3 months
- _gcl_au: 3 months
- _gcl_aw: 3 months
- _gcl_dc: 3 months
- _gcl_gb: 3 months
- _gcl_gf: 3 months
- _gcl_ha: 3 months
- id: 2 years
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
Meta ads conversion tracking (Meta pixel) (Meta Platforms, Inc.)
Meta ads conversion tracking (Meta pixel) is an analytics service provided by Meta Platforms, Inc. that connects data from the Meta Audience Network with actions performed on My City Plants. The Meta pixel tracks conversions that can be attributed to ads on Facebook, Instagram and Meta Audience Network.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
Storage duration:
- _fbp: 3 months
- fr: 3 months
Mediavine (Mediavine, Inc.)
Mediavine is an advertising service provided by Mediavine, Inc.
Mediavine Partners may also separately collect Data about Users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that Data to Data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across Users’ online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This Data includes: Usage Data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between Users and advertisements and websites, geolocation Data, traffic Data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
Storage duration:
- __uid_2: 20 years
- _lr_env: indefinite
- _lr_env_exp: indefinite
- _lr_pairId: indefinite
- _lr_pairId_exp: indefinite
- _pbjs_userid_consent_data: 1 month
- addtlConsent: indefinite
- centro: 14 days
- criteo: 14 days
- euconsent-v2: 1 year
- grow-faves-debug: indefinite
- grow-faves:accessToken: indefinite
- grow-faves:anonymousBookmarks: indefinite
- grow-faves:anonymousId: indefinite
- grow-faves:anonymousSubscriber: indefinite
- grow-faves:authSource: indefinite
- grow-faves:cookiesNotAllowed: indefinite
- grow-faves:expirationTime: indefinite
- grow-faves:fullScreenListStyle: indefinite
- grow-faves:hasSeenSignUpTooltip: indefinite
- grow-faves:hasSeenSubscribeTooltip: indefinite
- grow-faves:id5Data: indefinite
- grow-faves:liverampEnvelope: indefinite
- grow-faves:publinkData: indefinite
- grow-faves:recentlyViewedPageIds: indefinite
- grow-faves:refreshToken: indefinite
- grow-faves:renderInRegularDom: indefinite
- grow-faves:unverifiedReaderId: indefinite
- grow-faves:unverifiedReaderSubscribedWidgetIds: indefinite
- grow:debug: indefinite
- growAuth: indefinite
- growMeSnowplowUserInfo: indefinite
- growMeVersion: indefinite
- growShowSubscribePopupWidget: 2 years
- growSpotlightShown: 2 years
- grow_authsource: 10 years
- grow_check_third_party_cookie_support: 5004 years
- grow_unverified_reader_id: 5004 years
- grow_unverified_readerid: 10 years
- grow_unverified_readerid_http_only: 10 years
- growme_has_logged_in: 10 years
- growme_readerid: 10 years
- growme_version: 30 minutes
- mediavine_session: 30 minutes
- mv_cmp_version: 1 year
- mv_tokens: indefinite
- mv_tokens_invalidate-verizon-pushes: indefinite
- oauthState: indefinite
- usprivacy: duration of the session
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Managing contacts and sending messages
This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User.
These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.
ConvertKit (ConvertKit LLC)
ConvertKit is an email address management and message sending service provided by ConvertKit LLC.
Personal Data processed: email address, first name, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Remarketing and behavioral targeting
This type of service allows My City Plants and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of My City Plants by the User.
This activity is facilitated by tracking Usage Data and by using Trackers to collect information which is then transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.
Some services offer a remarketing option based on email address lists.
Services of this kind usually allow Users to opt out of such tracking. Users may learn how to opt out of interest-based advertising more generally by visiting the relevant opt-out section in this document.
Google Ads Remarketing (Google LLC)
Google Ads Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google LLC that connects the activity of My City Plants with the Google Ads advertising network and the DoubleClick Cookie.
In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Users can opt out of Google's use of Trackers for ads personalization by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- AID: 2 years
- ANID: 2 years
- Conversion: 3 months
- DSID: 14 days
- FCNEC: 1 year
- FLC: 10 seconds
- FPAU: 3 months
- FPGCLAW: 3 months
- FPGCLDC: 3 months
- FPGCLGB: 3 months
- IDE: 2 years
- NID: 6 months
- RUL: 1 year
- TAID: 14 days
- __gads: 2 years
- __gsas: 2 years
- _gac_: 3 months
- _gac_gb_: 3 months
- _gcl_au: 3 months
- _gcl_aw: 3 months
- _gcl_dc: 3 months
- _gcl_gb: 3 months
- _gcl_gf: 3 months
- _gcl_ha: 3 months
- id: 2 years
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
How to manage preferences and provide or withdraw consent
There are various ways to manage Tracker related preferences and to provide and withdraw consent, where relevant:
Users can manage preferences related to Trackers from directly within their own device settings, for example, by preventing the use or storage of Trackers.
Additionally, whenever the use of Trackers is based on consent, Users can provide or withdraw such consent by setting their preferences within the cookie notice or by updating such preferences accordingly via the relevant consent-preferences privacy widget, if available.
It is also possible, via relevant browser or device features, to delete previously stored Trackers, including those used to remember the User’s initial consent preferences.
Other Trackers in the browser’s local memory may be cleared by deleting the browsing history.
With regard to any third-party Trackers, Users can manage their preferences via the related opt-out link (where provided), by using the means indicated in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.
Locating Tracker Settings
Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses:
Users may also manage certain categories of Trackers used on mobile apps by opting out through relevant device settings such as the device advertising settings for mobile devices, or tracking settings in general (Users may open the device settings and look for the relevant setting).
How to opt out of interest-based advertising
Notwithstanding the above, Users may follow the instructions provided by YourOnlineChoices (EU and UK), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar services. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.
The Digital Advertising Alliance offers an application called AppChoices that helps Users to control interest-based advertising on mobile apps.
Consequences of denying the use of Trackers
Users are free to decide whether or not to allow the use of Trackers. However, please note that Trackers help My City Plants to provide a better experience and advanced functionalities to Users (in line with the purposes outlined in this document). Therefore, if the User chooses to block the use of Trackers, the Owner may be unable to provide related features.
Owner and Data Controller
My City Plants - 522 46th Av, LIC, NY 11101, US
Owner contact email: info@mycityplants.com
Since the use of third-party Trackers through My City Plants cannot be fully controlled by the Owner, any specific references to third-party Trackers are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, Users are kindly requested to consult the privacy policies of the respective third-party services listed in this document.
Given the objective complexity surrounding tracking technologies, Users are encouraged to contact the Owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of such technologies by My City Plants.