Privacy Policy

Introduction

BECOMING & BLOOM (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website becomingandbloom.com (the “Site”).

We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using our Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

Who We Are

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

Information We Collect

Personal Information

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

  • Submit a comment on our Site
  • Sign up for our newsletter
  • Contact us via email
  • Participate in any interactive features of our Site

The personal information we collect may include:

  • First name
  • Email address
  • Comments or feedback you provide

Non-Personal Information

When you visit our Site, we may automatically collect certain non-personal information, including:

  • Browser information
  • Operating system
  • IP address
  • Pages you visit on our Site
  • Time spent on those pages
  • Referral sources
  • Other browsing statistics

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.

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.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We and our third-party partners (such as affiliate marketing partners) may use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities on our Site. This information may include:

  • Websites you visited before our Site
  • Pages you view on our Site
  • Your browsing habits on our Site
  • Links you click on our Site

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.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the features of our Site.

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.

Social Sharing Features

Our Site offers social sharing features that allow you to share content from our website on various social media platforms. Using these features may collect your IP address and which page you’re visiting on our Site, and may set cookies to enable the feature to function properly.

When you engage with these social sharing features, you should be aware of the following:

Facebook Like, Share, and Recommend Buttons

We embed Facebook widgets to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and to “like/share/recommend” our webpages. These widgets may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

Twitter Tweet Button

We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

Pinterest Save Button

We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any social media platforms you use to better understand how they collect, use, and share your information.

How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect from you for various purposes, including to:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve our Site
  • Send you promotional newsletters or marketing communications
  • Respond to your comments, questions, and requests
  • Understand and analyze usage trends and preferences
  • Monitor and analyze the effectiveness of our Site
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Process affiliate transactions and track affiliate links
  • Detect, prevent, and address technical issues

Who We Share Your Data With

We may share your information in the following situations:

  • With third-party service providers who help us operate our Site, such as email service providers and analytics services
  • With affiliate marketing partners to track conversions and process commission payments
  • 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
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of BECOMING & BLOOM, our customers, or others

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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

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.

Third-Party Websites

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. Once you click on these links and leave our Site, we no longer have control over the information you share. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the privacy practices of these third-party websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of each website you visit.

Affiliate Links

We participate in affiliate marketing programs, which means we may receive commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. As part of this process, we use cookies to track user actions and to remember if a user has clicked through from our Site. This Privacy Policy applies to our Site only and not to these third-party retailer sites.

Analytics

We use third-party analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to help us understand how users engage with our Site. These tools may collect information sent by your device or our Site, including the pages you visit and other information that assists us in improving the Site. This information may be collected and used in accordance with the analytics service provider’s privacy policy.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

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.

Depending on your location, you may have certain additional rights regarding your personal information, including:

  • The right to access personal information we hold about you
  • The right to request correction of inaccurate personal information
  • The right to request deletion of your personal information
  • The right to opt-out of marketing communications

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Where Your Data Is Sent

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

Children’s Privacy

Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us, and we will delete such information from our systems.

California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regarding your personal information. These rights may include:

  • The right to know what personal information we collect about you
  • The right to delete personal information we have collected from you
  • The right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information (note that we do not sell personal information as defined by the CCPA)
  • The right to non-discrimination for exercising your privacy rights

To exercise your California privacy rights, please contact us using the information provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.

AI-Generated Content Disclosure

We utilize artificial intelligence tools to create portions of our content, including some images and text. While we review and curate all content published on our Site, you should be aware that some material has been generated or enhanced using AI technologies.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

  • Email: contact@becomingandbloom.com

Last Updated: April 18, 2025

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