Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://thesoil-moisture-meter.com. We specialize in providing educational content and product solutions to help gardeners make smarter watering decisions using soil moisture meters and related tools.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect and prevent spam.

An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you’re using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract location data from images.

Cookies

When 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 you don’t have to re-enter your details when leaving another comment. These cookies last for one year.

If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to check if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, several cookies are set to save your login information and screen display choices.

• Login cookies last for two days
• Screen options cookies last for one year
• If you select “Remember Me”, your login persists for two weeks
• Logging out removes login cookies

When editing or publishing an article, a cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply records the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you had visited the external site.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content — especially if you have an account and are logged in to those websites.

Who We Share Your Data With

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

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to allow us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.

For users who register on our website (if applicable), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.

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 your personal data we hold, including any data you’ve 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 required to retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to protect the site and its users.