Cookies Policy

Effective date: September 15, 2025
Site: Garden Growth Tips (gardengrowthtip.com)
Owner: Jake Meadows — contact@gardengrowthtip-com

1) What are cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. Related technologies include local storage, pixels, tags, SDKs, and device identifiers. These tools help the site function, measure performance, remember preferences, and deliver relevant advertising.

2) How and why we use cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Operate core features such as page navigation, load balancing, security, and spam prevention
  • Understand site performance and audience engagement
  • Remember preferences such as consent choices and language
  • Test and improve layouts, speed, and content
  • Deliver, cap frequency, measure, and improve advertising, including interest-based ads

Cookies may be session cookies (deleted when you close your browser) or persistent cookies (remain until they expire or you delete them).

3) Categories of cookies

  1. Strictly necessary
    Required for the site to work and to provide requested services. These cannot be disabled via our consent tools.
  2. Performance and analytics
    Help us understand how visitors use the site, which pages are popular, and where we can improve.
  3. Functionality
    Remember choices and enhance features, such as remembering that you have dismissed a banner.
  4. Advertising and targeting
    Used to deliver and measure ads, limit ad frequency, detect fraud, and personalize ads where permitted.
  5. Optimization and testing
    Support experiments that compare versions of pages to improve speed, layout, or monetization.
  6. Security and fraud prevention
    Help detect spam or abuse and protect the site and our users.

4) First- and third-party cookies

  • First-party cookies are set by gardengrowthtip.com.
  • Third-party cookies are set by service providers and advertising partners to support analytics, ads, and optimization.

Our primary monetization and ad-tech partners include:

  • Google AdSense
    Uses cookies and identifiers to deliver and measure ads, including interest-based ads where permitted. Controls for ad personalization are available via Google’s ad settings and partner choices.
  • Journey by Mediavine
    Operates programmatic advertising with a network of demand partners. Cookies and similar technologies are used to serve ads, cap frequency, measure performance, and detect fraud.
  • Ezoic
    Provides ad optimization, testing, and consent management. Ezoic and its partners may set cookies to run experiments, improve speed, and deliver ads.

Partners may receive or collect pseudonymous information about your device and browsing to provide their services. Their practices are governed by their own privacy policies and vendor lists.

  • Consent banner
    Where required by law, we obtain your consent for non-essential cookies via a consent banner or preferences panel provided by our ad/consent partners. You can review or change your choices at any time using the Manage Cookies link in our footer or banner.
  • Browser and device settings
    Most browsers let you delete or block cookies and control site data. If you block cookies, some features may not work as intended.
  • Interest-based advertising choices
    You can use the tools offered by major ad platforms and industry groups to opt out of personalized ads on this browser. These choices are typically browser-specific and may rely on cookies to remember your preferences.
  • Global Privacy Control (GPC)
    Where legally required, we treat a valid GPC signal as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
  • Do Not Track
    Because there is no common standard, we do not respond to DNT signals.
  • EEA/UK
    For visitors in the EEA/UK, we rely on consent for non-essential cookies and legitimate interests for strictly necessary cookies. You can withdraw consent at any time through the Manage Cookies link.
  • California (CPRA) and other US state laws
    Some third-party advertising disclosures may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. California residents can opt out by using the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information option in the Manage Cookies panel. Similar rights may exist in other US states.
  • Other regions
    We follow applicable local laws regarding consent and cookie use.

7) Retention and expiration

Cookie lifespans vary. Some expire at the end of a session; others persist from days to months. We and our partners set durations appropriate to their purpose and legal obligations. Your browser may show current cookies and their expirations.

The specific cookies and vendor partners on this site can change over time as we update services and advertising demand partners. The most accurate, current list of vendors and purposes is available in the Manage Cookies preferences panel.

9) Changes to this Cookies Policy

We may update this policy to reflect changes in technology, law, or our services. The “Effective date” above shows the latest version. Material changes will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, within the consent banner.

10) Contact

Questions about this Cookies Policy or your choices can be sent to:

  • Jake Meadows, Garden Growth Tips
  • Email: contact@gardengrowthtip-com

Optional implementation notes for your page

  • Add a visible Manage Cookies link in your footer that opens your consent/preferences panel (from Ezoic or Mediavine).
  • If you support a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link, point it to the same panel with the CPRA opt-out control.
  • If you publish a separate Privacy Policy, link to it from this page and from your footer.