Privacy Policy

Effective October 1, 2019

Privacy Introduction

Protecting your private information is our priority.  This Statement of Privacy applies to Spade Landscape Services, Inc., Spade Gardens & Landscaping, and http://spadegardens.com and governs data collection and usage.  For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Spade Landscape Services, Inc. includes http://spadegardens.com, www.spadegardens.com, and Spade Gardens & Landscaping.  This Statement of Privacy also applies to any subdomains or variations of the domain http://spadegardens.com at any point unless there is separate policy specified.  The Spade Gardens & Landscaping website is a business website which provides information and conducts electronic commerce business transactions.  By using the Spade Gardens & Landscaping website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Spade Gardens & Landscaping may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name.  If you purchase our products and services, we collect billing and payment information including credit cards and banking account information.  This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.  We may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age and gender.  We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Spade Gardens & Landscaping.  This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses.  This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of res serve, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Spade Gardens & Landscaping website.

Your private information can be viewed by others, collected or recorded by any means, and used by others as they decide when you disclose or share personal information or private data in any publicly accessible setting. This includes anything the company has used previously, is still using, or may decide to use in the future. It can range from testimonials provided to us or solicited by us for our website or other marketing materials, to reviews on search engines and social media, to comments posted anywhere on our website and posted by any means.

Spade Gardens & Landscaping encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Spade Gardens & Landscaping so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information.  Spade Gardens & Landscaping is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Spade Gardens & Landscaping website.

Use of your Personal Information

  • Spade Gardens & Landscaping collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

  • Spade Gardens & Landscaping may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products and services available from Spade Gardens & Landscaping and its affiliates. Spade Gardens & Landscaping may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

  • Spade Gardens & Landscaping does not sell, rent or lease its customer list to third parties.

  • Spade Gardens & Landscaping may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Spade Gardens & Landscaping, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

  • Spade Gardens & Landscaping may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Spade Gardens & Landscaping, in order to determine what Spade Gardens & Landscaping services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Spade Gardens & Landscaping to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

  • Spade Gardens & Landscaping will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Spade Gardens & Landscaping or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights of property of Spade Gardens & Landscaping; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Spade Gardens & Landscaping, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The website for Spade Gardens & Landscaping uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. 

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature for you to save time.  The purpose of a cookie is to tell a web server that you have returned to a specific page.  For example, if you personalize Spade Gardens & Landscaping’s pages, or register with the site, a cookie helps the Spade Gardens & Landscaping website to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.  This simplifies the process of recording your personal information such as a mailing address.  Upon return to the same site, the previous information you provided can be accessed to save time.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of theSpade Gardens & Landscaping services or websites you visit. 

Security of Your Personal Information

Spade Gardens & Landscaping secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.  When personal information (such as a credit card) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol.

Children Under Thirteen

Spade Gardens & Landscaping does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from persons under the age of eighteen. Persons under the age of thirteen are expressly prohibited from attempting to access, accessing, or accessing and using our website. ownPersons who are between the ages of thirteen and eighteen are also prohibited from accessing or using our website except under the direct supervision and approval of a parent(s) or other adult over the age of eighteen. No person under the age of eighteen is allowed to purchase items for sale on our website including any Landscaping Services we offer, any merchandise, gift cards, or other goods or services we may offer periodically or permanently. Correspondingly, if you are under the age of eighteen you may not use any form of electronic payment (credit cards, debit cards, pre-paid cards, e-checks, or ACH transfers) within accounts owned by you, jointly owned by two or more parties including yourself, or wholly owned by another person or entity in a singular or multiple ownership agreement.

Opt-Out & Unsubscribe

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from Spade Gardens & Landscaping by contacting us.  Our contact info is in the last section of this document.

Changes to this Statement

Spade Gardens & Landscaping will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect changes dictated by regulatory, customer, and company concerns and feedback.  Updates to the Privacy Policy will be published online as they occur.  Spade Gardens & Landscaping encourages you to periodically review this policy as your continued use of the site reflects your acceptance of the policy.

Contact Information

We welcome feedback from you at any point. The quickest and easiest way to reach us is by visiting our Contact Page. Please send us compliments & complaints, questions & concerns, general feedback, inquiries from your green thumb or anything else you would like to know about plants and landscaping in San Francisco and the Bay Area (And, our plants come from every part of Planet Earth. San Francisco is the only place on the planet where almost every plant species will both grow and prosper.) If you hail from South Africa or are a Southie from Bostonl, we will try our best to answer your horticulture questions.

The other ways to contact us are below - each item hyperlinks to the method you choose.

  1. Our CONTACT PAGE

  2. EMAIL US

  3. PHONE US

  4. SMS/TEXT MESSAGE

Please contact us for our postal address if it is needed. We do suggest anything sent via the Postal Service be sent by Certified Mail.