Privacy Policy

This document is an electronic record in terms of Information Technology Act, 2000 and rules there under as applicable and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. This electronic record is generated by a computer system and does not require any physical or digital signatures.

This document is published in accordance with the provisions of Rule 3 (1) of the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011 that require publishing the rules and regulations, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Use for access or usage of www.pestsdiseases.com. This privacy statement explains how www.pestsdiseases.com. (collectively, “we“, “us“, “website“, “PestsDiseases“, or “PestsDiseases.com” ) collect, use, share and process information about you (collectively, “user“, “visitor“).

Please read this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use carefully to get a clear understanding of how PestsDiseases collects, uses, protects, or otherwise handles your Personally Identifiable Information. We recommend that you periodically check this page for changes. If you do not agree with these practices, please do not use, read or access PestsDiseases.com.

Note: It has come to our notice that some individuals, websites, and businesses are using PestsDiseases name to sell their products. Please be noted, PestsDiseases is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with any other company, agency, or government agency. We do not sell any products or any kind of agriculture-related products or services. If you purchase any products or services from 3rd parties (individuals, websites, and businesses) you are purchasing directly from them and PestsDiseases is not responsible for your purchase.

What Personal Information Do We Collect?

1. Information you voluntarily submit to PestsDiseases: We collect no personal information without your consent like name, email addresses, credit card numbers, etc. when you visit our website. If you choose to provide information to us, it is only used to fulfill your request for information. When you sign up for our newsletters, fill out a contact form, comment on any of our website posts, participate in a contest/promotion or respond to a survey, you may be asked to enter your name, and email address. We also collect Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of users leaving comments on website posts. IP addresses and email addresses are visible only to the website administrators.

2. Information collected and stored automatically – When you browse and read the information on this website, we automatically gather and store certain technical information about your visit. This information never identifies who you are. This information is only used to help us make the site more useful for you. With this data, we learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We never track or record information about individuals and their visits. The information we collect and store about your visit is listed below:

• Pages or URLs you have visited.
• Date and time you accessed our site.
• Internet domain of your service provider.
• Subject of the ads you click or scroll over.
• IP address from which you access our website.
• Type of browser used (Ex: Google Chrome, Firefox, etc.)
• Your device and mobile ad identifiers (e.g., Apple IDFA or Android AAID).
• Type of operating system used (Ex: Android, macOS, Microsoft Windows, etc.)
• Services or functionality you access or use including the date & time of your access.
• If you reached this website from another website, the address of that referring website.

3. Log files: PestsDiseases makes use of log files. These files merely log visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

4. Comments: When visitors leave comments on this site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and 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.

After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save 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 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. Your comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to prevent Spam.

5. Newsletters: By subscribing to our newsletter you agree to receive email from us. If you subscribe to our newsletter, we add your name and email address to PestsDiseases newsletter mailing list managed by us, or through a third-party Newsletter service. We only send emails to people who have authorized us to send Newsletters. We require all subscribers to confirm their email address upon registration. Therefore, you will receive a message with a link that you’ll have to click to confirm the email address and your will to subscribe to PestsDiseases Newsletter.

The aim of our newsletter service is to keep our users and visitors updated about new content published on PestsDiseases. A subscription to our newsletter service is not mandatory. The frequency of the newsletter issues will be at most 4 per month. We reserve the sole right to either modify or discontinue the newsletter, at any time with or without notice to you. We will not be liable to you or any third party should we exercise such right. Any new features that augment or enhance the then-current services on this site shall also be subject to these Privacy Policy & Terms.

We reserve the sole right to unsubscribe users/visitors from our newsletter service, without notice. We will do so with any subscriber we deem registered with fake data. Every newsletter contains a quick and easy unsubscribe link in its footer. You may opt-out of receiving newsletters from us by following the quick and easy unsubscribe link included in each email. You can also unsubscribe by contacting us. Your email address will not be used for any other purposes or sold to a team third-party.

How Do We Use Your Information?

• To personalize the user experience
• To deliver relevant online advertising
• To respond to your comments or inquiries
• To track and measure advertising on the Website
• To improve this website in order to serve you better
• To deliver the type of content in which you are most interested
• To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity

How Do We Protect Your Data?

We use an SSL certificate (HTTPS) by Let’s Encrypt installed through our web hosting provider Cloudways. Hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, which is the primary protocol used to send data between a web browser and a website. HTTPS is encrypted in order to increase the security of data transfer. HTTPS  makes communication between your browser and the website encrypted.

We take precautions to protect the security of your information. We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard, prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use your information. However, neither people nor security systems are foolproof, including encryption systems. In addition, people can commit intentional crimes, make mistakes or fail to follow policies. Therefore, while we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Do we Disclose Any Information to Outside Parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties. It does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Third-party Links

We may include links to third-party websites which are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access third-party websites using the links provided, the operators of such sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their own privacy policies, which may differ from ours. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those third-party websites so that you understand if/how they collect and/or use information from you or your computer. PestsDiseases does not warrant or make any representation regarding the legality, accuracy, or authenticity of content presented by such websites and shall have no liability for any loss or damages arising from the access or use of such websites.

Embedded Content

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. Videos, Images, Articles, etc.) from sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, 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.

Cookies

We use cookies to store information such as personal preferences when you visit our site. Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information downloaded to your browsing device (such as a computer or smartphone or tablet) when you visit a website. Cookies enable the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, they are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services.

We use cookies to provide, protect, and improve our products and services, such as by personalizing content, offering and measuring advertisements, understanding user behavior, and providing a safer experience. Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and therefore cannot be used to identify you personally. Please note that the specific cookies we may use vary depending on the specific websites and services you use.

Advertising cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.

We use non-persistent cookies or “per-session cookies”. Per-session cookies serve technical purposes, like providing seamless navigation through this website. These cookies do not collect personal information on users and they are deleted as soon as you leave our website. The cookies do not permanently record data and they are not stored on your computer’s hard drive. The cookies are stored in memory and are only available during an active browser session. Again, once you close your browser, the cookie disappears.

When receiving a Newsletter from us, we may place a small piece of code in that email to determine whether or not you can accept HTML images and whether or not you viewed and/or clicked on links contained in the email. This process does not leave any information on your computer, nor does it collect information from your computer. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings.

How to Manage Cookies Settings

Please note that you can configure cookies settings by accessing the browser you install to accept, block or delete some or all of cookies. If you choose to block cookies it won’t affect the user experience but, you may not be able to use all of the features of the PestsDiseases website. The functions of cookie settings may vary depending on the type and version of the browser you install. We try to list common and widely-used types of browsers as follows. You may refer to the following linkage to understand how to control your cookies settings through such browsers (The content in the following linkage is English. For your easier reading, please find the language option in the following linkage to select your preferred language).

• Opera – Check here
• Apple Safari – Check here
• Mozilla Firefox – Check here
• Microsoft Edge – Check here
• Google Chrome – Check here
• Internet Explorer – Check here

Also, if you do not use any of the following browsers, or the content in the following linkage is removed or not accessible, please visit those browsers’ privacy-related statements or support pages for further information. You may also refer to https://aboutcookies.org/ which introduces how to manage your cookies settings through various browsers.

Google Analytics

PestsDiseases uses Google Analytics and related technologies, analysis services offered by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics collects information such as users’ age, gender, interests, how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. Google uses this information on our behalf to analyze your use of this website in order to compile reports on website activities and provide additional services related to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

We use Google Analytics to analyze and regularly improve the usage of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. In addition, we gain information about the functionality of our site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We may also use Demographics and interests data in Google Analytics which provides information about the age and gender of your users, along with the interests they express through their online travel and purchasing activities. You can find more information about Demographics and Interests here.

We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics terms of use (check here) and privacy policy (check here). If you wish to opt-out from your information or data being used by Google Analytics, you may download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser add-on available here.

Advertising 

Ads or advertisements appearing on this site may be delivered to users by third-party ad serving companies, including ad networks and advertising partners. Ad serving companies may place a persistent cookie on your device such as Laptop, computer, mobile phone, etc. in order to recognize your device each time they display an online advertisement to you, and as such, they may be able to compile information over time about whether you reviewed or clicked on advertisements they display. These companies may use this information to display targeted advertisements and may associate this information with your subsequent visits, purchases, or other activities on participating advertisers’ sites.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on PestsDiseases are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.

You can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the website https://youradchoices.com/ We have no access to or control over cookies of these links to other sites and organizations, nor do we have control over or access to cookies by our third-party partners or advertisers. This Privacy Policy does not cover any use of Personal Information that a third-party advertiser or ad server may collect from you.

Google AdSense

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this website. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this website and/or other sites on the Internet. Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visiting a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements).

This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests. The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history. It uses “Non-Personally Identifiable Information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers, or credit card numbers. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ad Settings. Read more about Google ad and content network privacy policy here.

Website Hosting

Cloudways is the hosting provider of PestsDiseases. Cloudways own the servers where all the website content including the website users’ data is stored. So, Cloudways have access to this data. As a web hosting provider, Cloudways may occasionally need to process the data, whether manually such as fixing a problem, or automatically such as creating backups, migration, etc. You can read Cloudways Privacy policy here.

Social media Features / Buttons / Widgets

We may implement social media buttons and certain other widgets that allow our users to interact and share content such as the Facebook ‘Like’ button, Facebook ‘Comments’, the ‘Share this’ button, Tweet button, or interactive mini-programs that run on our website (‘Widgets’). Social media features can be hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interaction with a widget generally allows the third party to collect some information about you, for example, your IP Address.

In certain cases, the third-party might be able to identify you through its widget even if you do not use it but visit another site that also uses the widget. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the social media company providing the feature. Mentioned below are the partners whose widgets are allowed on our site.

• Twitter
• Facebook
• WhatsApp

Contact Form

We use the Google Forms service on PestsDiseases. In addition to the respective personal data that you enter in the respective forms, information on your operating system, browser, date and time of your visit, referrer URL, and your IP address is recorded. Your personal data will be pro