Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how houseofplants.ca collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you purchase the website.

Collecting Personal Information

When you visit the site, we collect information about your device, your interaction with the site, and information necessary to process your purchases . In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as "Personal Information". 

Device information

  • Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the site.
  • Purpose of collection: to load the site accurately for you and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our site.
  • Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels 
  • Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor, Shopify

Order information

  • Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number.
  • Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
  • Source of collection: collected from you.

Sharing Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

  • We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
  • We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
  • We often outsource deliveries to a third-party company. In this situation, only necessary information such as the recipient's name, delivery address, and contact information is shared with this company to fulfill the delivery service. 

Behavioural Advertising

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. 

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative's ("NAI") educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

Using Personal Information

We use your personal information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.

A cookie is a small amount of information that's downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don't have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it's their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor. We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our site and to provide our services.