Effective Date: June 22, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how Urban Green Place ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your information when you use our website, https://urbangreenplace.com (the "Site").
1. Introduction
Welcome to Urban Green Place. We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy will inform you about the types of information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have regarding your information. By using our Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information to provide and improve our service to you. The types of information we may collect are:
- Contact Information: When you submit a contact request or inquiry through our website, we collect your email address. This is provided by you voluntarily so that we can respond to your message.
- Location Information: To help you find parks near you, we request access to your current location. This information is processed locally in your web browser and is used by Google Maps services integrated into our Site to identify nearby parks. We do not store your location data on our servers.
- Usage Data (through Google Analytics): We use Google Analytics to understand how our visitors use the Site. This service collects information such as your IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data. This information helps us improve the functionality and user experience of our Site. For more information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please visit Google's page on "How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps."
- Cookies and Web Beacons (through Google AdSense): We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our Site. Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites. These cookies allow Google and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
3. How We Use Your Information
The information we collect is used in the following ways:
- To Respond to Inquiries: To use the email address you provide to communicate with you and answer your questions or requests.
- To Provide and Maintain our Service: Primarily to help you discover parks in your vicinity.
- To Improve Our Site: To understand how our services are being used and to make improvements.
- To Personalize Your Experience: To serve relevant advertisements that may be of interest to you.
4. How Your Location Information is Handled
Your privacy is paramount. When you grant permission for our Site to access your location, this information is used by your browser to interact with Google Maps and find nearby parks. This process happens on your device and is not transmitted to or stored on the Urban Green Place servers.
5. Google's Use of Data
As we use Google Analytics and Google AdSense, Google is a third-party vendor that has access to certain data. Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet. You can find more information on how Google manages data in its ad products in their privacy policy.
6. Your Choices and Opt-Outs
You have the following choices regarding your data:
- Location Services: You can choose to deny or revoke access to your location data at any time through your browser settings.
- Providing Contact Information: You are not required to submit a contact request. If you do, you consent to us using your email to respond. We will not use this email address for marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
- Cookies: You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
- Google Analytics: You can opt-out of having your activity on the Site available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
- Personalized Advertising: You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting their Ad Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
7. Data Security
We are committed to protecting your data. While we do not store personal information such as your location on our primary servers, any information you provide, such as your email address via a contact form, is handled with care. We take reasonable steps to protect this information, but please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
8. Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information.
9. 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. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by visiting the contact page on our website.