Privacy Policy


Who Is Learn Dirt?

My name's Dan Hennion, I'm one dude with a garden and a website.

I'm here to inspire you to grow regeneratively, and pass on what I've learned from gardening regeneratively in the desert.

Thanks for visiting my site!


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.


Cookies

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.


Third-Party Cookies

Our website uses Google AdSense and Google Analytics, which may set cookies on your browser. These cookies collect information about your browsing behavior and are used for advertising and analytics purposes.

Google AdSense uses cookies to serve personalized ads based on your interests and browsing history. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about how you use our website, including the pages you visit and how long you stay on each page.

You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings or our cookie consent tool.


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.


Affiliate Disclaimer

This affiliate disclosure details the affiliate relationships of Learn Dirt with other companies and products.

Some of the links are “affiliate links”, a link with a special tracking code. This means if you click on an affiliate link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission.

The price of the item is the same whether it is an affiliate link or not. Regardless, we only recommend products or services we believe will add value to our readers.

By using the affiliate links, you are helping support the Service, and we genuinely appreciate your support.

Affiliate advertising programs that the Service uses are:

  • Amazon Services LLC Associates Program

Dan Hennion is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Pages on this Service may include affiliate links to Amazon and its affiliate sites on which the owner of this Service, Dan Hennion, will make a referral commission.


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.

Data Retention for Analytics and Advertising

Data collected by Google Analytics is retained for 26 months by default. After this period, the user and event data is automatically deleted from Google Analytics' servers.

Google AdSense data retention varies depending on the specific purpose and type of data. For more information, please refer to Google'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.

For data collected by Google AdSense and Google Analytics, you can use Google's My Activity page to view and manage the data associated with your Google account.


Where we send your data

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

Third-Party Data Processing

We use Google AdSense and Google Analytics on our website, which means that some of your data is sent to Google for processing:

  • Google AdSense: Information about your browsing behavior and interests is sent to Google to serve personalized ads.
  • Google Analytics: Information about how you use our website is sent to Google for analytics purposes.

Google processes this data in accordance with their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review Google's Privacy Policy for more information on how they handle your data.


Advertising

We use Google AdSense to display ads on our website. Google AdSense may use cookies and other technologies to personalize ads based on your interests and browsing history. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings page.


Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website.

This data is used in aggregate form to improve our website and user experience. We do not use Google Analytics to track individual users or to collect any personally identifiable information.

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.