Effective Date: September 2026
When you visit bloomandsoil.com, you place a degree of trust in the site whenever you subscribe to an email, leave a comment, click a link, or simply browse its gardening content. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected, how it may be used, when it may be shared, and what choices you have regarding that information.
By accessing or using bloomandsoil.com, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these practices, please discontinue use of the website.
For purposes of this policy, “Bloom & Soil,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to bloomandsoil.com and its operators.
A Note About Visitors Under 13
Bloom & Soil is intended for a general audience interested in gardening, container growing, small-space gardening, indoor herbs, and related topics. It is not directed toward children under the age of 13.
bloomandsoil.com does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that a child under 13 has submitted personal information to Bloom & Soil, please contact us at contact@bloomandsoil.com. If we confirm that such information has been collected, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
Information That May Be Collected
The information Bloom & Soil receives depends on how you use the website.
Information you choose to provide
You may voluntarily provide information such as:
- Your name
- Email address
- Telephone number, if requested through a form
- Information submitted through contact forms
- Newsletter subscription details
- Comments and information included in comments
- Any other information you voluntarily send to Bloom & Soil
Information collected automatically
When you visit bloomandsoil.com, certain technical information may be recorded automatically, including:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Internet service provider
- Date and time of your visit
- Referring and exit pages
- Pages viewed
- Time spent on pages
- Click activity
- General geographic information
- Device identifiers
- Cookie identifiers
- Other standard diagnostic and usage information
This information normally does not identify you by name, but it may qualify as personal data under certain privacy laws.
Comments and Social Interactions
When visitors leave comments on Bloom & Soil, the site may collect the information displayed in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser information. This information may be used for spam detection, moderation, security, and conversation management.
Comments may remain publicly visible unless removed by Bloom & Soil or upon a valid request where deletion is legally appropriate.
If you interact with Bloom & Soil through a third-party social media service, that platform may collect information according to its own privacy practices. Bloom & Soil does not control how social networks collect, store, or use your information.
Anything you voluntarily make public through a comment or social platform may be visible to other users.
How Information Reaches Bloom & Soil
Information may be collected through several methods, depending on the features you use.
These may include:
- Contact forms
- Comment forms
- Newsletter signup forms
- Email correspondence
- Website server logs
- Analytics software
- Advertising technology
- Affiliate tracking
- Embedded media
- Social media interactions
- Similar tracking technologies
Bloom & Soil may also use information supplied by third-party service providers that help operate the website.
How Your Information May Be Used
Bloom & Soil may use collected information to:
- Operate and maintain the website
- Improve articles, site structure, and user experience
- Understand which gardening content readers find useful
- Respond to questions or support requests
- Moderate comments
- Send newsletters or updates you requested
- Personalize website content
- Measure website traffic and performance
- Detect spam, abuse, fraud, or security threats
- Provide relevant marketing
- Measure advertising or affiliate performance
- Comply with legal obligations
- Protect Bloom & Soil, its users, and its property
We do not use personal information for purposes materially different from those described in this Privacy Policy without providing appropriate notice where required.
Server Logs and Website Analytics
Like most websites, bloomandsoil.com may use server log files.
Log files may record information such as IP addresses, browser types, operating systems, internet service providers, referring pages, timestamps, and visitor activity. This information may be used for administration, security, troubleshooting, and website performance analysis.
Google Analytics
Bloom & Soil may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with the website.
Google Analytics may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Visit duration
- Approximate location
- Device and browser information
- Referral source
- On-site activity
- IP-derived information
Google may process this information according to its own privacy practices and terms.
Visitors who want more information about Google’s handling of data should review the Google Privacy Policy on Google’s official Privacy & Terms website.
Where required by applicable law, analytics cookies or similar nonessential technologies will be subject to user consent.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Bloom & Soil may use cookies and similar browser technologies.
A cookie is a small data file stored on your device when you visit a website. Cookies can help remember preferences, measure website usage, support security features, understand visitor behavior, and provide advertising.
Cookies used by bloomandsoil.com may include:
- Essential cookies required for website operation
- Preference cookies
- Analytics cookies
- Affiliate tracking cookies
- Advertising cookies
- Security-related cookies
You can usually block, delete, or limit cookies through your browser settings.
Disabling cookies may affect certain website features.
For visitors in regions where consent is required under laws such as the ePrivacy Directive, Bloom & Soil will request permission before placing nonessential cookies where legally required. Visitors may also withdraw cookie consent using any available cookie-management controls.
Pixels, Tags, and Web Beacons
Bloom & Soil and its service providers may use tracking technologies other than traditional cookies.
These can include:
- Tracking pixels
- Web beacons
- Tags
- Conversion pixels
- Similar technologies
These tools may help measure page views, newsletter performance, affiliate referrals, advertising performance, or other visitor activity.
Advertising or analytics providers may use these technologies to recognize browsers or devices across websites.
Affiliate Links and Product Recommendations
Some content on Bloom & Soil may contain affiliate links.
If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, Bloom & Soil may receive a commission. This does not normally increase the price you pay.
Bloom & Soil may participate in affiliate programs, including programs such as Amazon Associates, when those programs are used on the site.
Affiliate links may use cookies or tracking identifiers to attribute purchases or referrals.
Where an article contains affiliate relationships, commissions, gifted products, or sponsored material, Bloom & Soil will provide an appropriate disclosure.
Product recommendations are not purchased by readers directly from Bloom & Soil unless a page specifically says otherwise.
Advertising Partners
Bloom & Soil may work with third-party advertising companies now or in the future.
Advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, device identifiers, or similar technologies to:
- Display advertisements
- Measure advertisement performance
- Limit how often an advertisement appears
- Build or infer interest categories
- Provide interest-based or personalized advertising
Third-party advertising providers may collect information about your visits to Bloom & Soil and other websites.
Visitors may be able to opt out of certain personalized advertising through the National Advertising Initiative’s consumer opt-out program and the Digital Advertising Alliance’s YourAdChoices program.
Opting out of personalized advertising does not necessarily remove advertising. It generally means the advertisements you see will be less personalized.
Content Embedded From Other Websites
Articles on bloomandsoil.com may include embedded videos, images, social posts, maps, or other content from third-party services.
Embedded content behaves much as it would if you visited the third-party website directly.
Those third parties may:
- Collect information about you
- Use cookies
- Add third-party tracking
- Record your interactions with embedded material
- Connect your activity to an account you hold with them
Bloom & Soil does not control the privacy practices of providers whose content is embedded on the site.
Links That Take You Away From Bloom & Soil
Gardening articles may contain links to nurseries, retailers, manufacturers, reference materials, government resources, universities, or other websites.
Once you leave bloomandsoil.com, this Privacy Policy no longer governs your activity.
Third-party websites maintain their own privacy policies and data practices. Bloom & Soil is not responsible for how those external websites collect, process, store, or disclose personal information.
You should review the privacy policy of any third-party site you visit.
When Information May Be Shared
Bloom & Soil does not disclose personal information indiscriminately.
Information may be shared with third parties in circumstances such as:
Service providers
Information may be provided to vendors that help with services such as:
- Website hosting
- Email delivery
- Analytics
- Spam protection
- Security
- Advertising
- Affiliate tracking
- Website maintenance
These providers may process information only as permitted by their agreements and applicable law.
Legal requirements
Information may be disclosed if Bloom & Soil reasonably believes disclosure is necessary to:
- Comply with law
- Respond to a court order
- Respond to lawful government requests
- Protect legal rights
- Investigate fraud or abuse
- Protect website security
Business transfers
If Bloom & Soil is sold, merged, reorganized, transferred, or otherwise changes ownership, information connected with the website may become part of that transaction.
Gardening Emails and Newsletter Communications
Visitors may choose to receive emails from Bloom & Soil, including gardening articles, seasonal ideas, updates, or promotional messages.
Email addresses are not added to marketing lists without a lawful basis.
Marketing emails will include an unsubscribe method where required.
Bloom & Soil follows applicable email-marketing rules, including CAN-SPAM requirements. Commercial communications will identify the sender appropriately and provide a way to stop future marketing emails.
We may still send non-promotional communications where necessary for a legal matter or support request.
Your Opt-Out Choices
You can stop receiving marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in those messages.
You may also email:
and request removal from marketing communications.
You may limit cookies through your browser settings.
Depending on your location, you may also have legal rights to object to certain forms of processing or personalized advertising.
How Long Information Is Kept
Bloom & Soil keeps personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, subject to legal, accounting, security, and operational requirements.
Retention periods may vary.
For example:
- Comments: may be retained indefinitely so follow-up comments can be recognized and moderated.
- Newsletter records: generally remain until you unsubscribe or request deletion, subject to suppression records required to honor opt-outs.
- Contact messages: may be retained for as long as needed to respond or maintain appropriate business records.
- Analytics information: may be stored according to the configuration and retention settings of the analytics provider.
- Security logs: may be retained for a limited period for website protection and investigation.
When information is no longer needed, it may be deleted, anonymized, or securely disposed of.
Steps Taken to Protect Information
Bloom & Soil uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, misuse, or loss.
These measures may include secure hosting, access controls, software updates, security monitoring, encrypted connections, and other common website-security practices.
No internet transmission, server, database, or electronic-storage system is completely secure.
For that reason, bloomandsoil.com cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted or stored online.
Rights of Visitors in the European Economic Area and United Kingdom
If GDPR or similar European privacy legislation applies to you, you may have several rights concerning your personal data.
Subject to legal conditions and exceptions, these rights may include:
- Right of access: You may request a copy of personal data held about you.
- Right to rectification: You may ask for inaccurate or incomplete information to be corrected.
- Right to erasure: You may request deletion of your personal data in qualifying circumstances.
- Right to restriction: You may ask Bloom & Soil to limit certain processing.
- Right to object: You may object to certain processing, including some forms of direct marketing.
- Right to portability: You may request eligible information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
- Right to withdraw consent: Where processing relies on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
- Right to complain: You may lodge a complaint with the relevant data-protection supervisory authority.
Where GDPR applies, Bloom & Soil generally responds to valid privacy requests within one month, subject to extensions permitted by law for particularly complex requests.
To exercise a GDPR right, email contact@bloomandsoil.com.
Bloom & Soil may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
California Privacy Rights
California residents may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by later California privacy legislation.
Depending on which provisions apply to Bloom & Soil and your information, these rights may include:
- Right to know: You may request information about categories and specific pieces of personal information collected about you.
- Right to delete: You may request deletion of eligible personal information.
- Right to correct: You may request correction of inaccurate personal information.
- Right to opt out of sale or sharing: You may request that personal information not be sold or shared for certain advertising purposes.
- Right to limit certain use of sensitive personal information: Where applicable.
- Right to non-discrimination: You will not receive unlawful discriminatory treatment for exercising your California privacy rights.
Bloom & Soil does not knowingly sell personal information in exchange for money. However, some advertising or tracking practices may qualify as a “sale” or “sharing” under California law even when no money changes hands.
If those practices apply, California residents may exercise the applicable opt-out right through any Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information control made available on the website or by contacting:
Valid CCPA requests are generally answered within 45 days, subject to extensions permitted by law.
Identity verification may be required before a request is completed.
An authorized agent may submit a request where California law permits.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Bloom & Soil may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time.
Changes may be made because website features change, new service providers are introduced, advertising or affiliate practices change, or privacy laws evolve.
When the policy is revised, the effective date shown on this page will be updated.
Your continued use of bloomandsoil.com after an updated Privacy Policy is posted constitutes acceptance of the revised policy to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Visitors are encouraged to review this page periodically.
Privacy Questions and Data Requests
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise a privacy right, believe information about a child under 13 has been submitted, or want to request access, correction, or deletion of your personal information, contact:
Bloom & Soil
Website: bloomandsoil.com
Email: contact@bloomandsoil.com
Effective Date: September 2026