Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

The North Dallas Landscapes Company and its affiliated companies and subsidiaries gather certain types of information from visitors. We are providing this privacy policy to help you understand the types of information we gather, how it is used and shared, and how you can update or modify user profile or registration information you have provided to us online. This policy applies only to information collected online at scotts.com or other sites where this policy has been linked (the “North Dallas Landscapes Website”).

Information Collected

  • General Browsing Information: Any time you visit the North Dallas Landscapes Website, we gather certain non-personally identifiable information regarding the means you use to access the North Dallas Landscapes Website. This non-personally identifiable information includes the type and version of your browser, your service provider, your IP address, and any search engine you may have used to locate the North Dallas Landscapes Website. We use this information to help diagnose problems with our server, administer the North Dallas Landscapes Website, and compile broad statistical data. In addition, North Dallas Landscapes gathers certain navigational information about where you go on the North Dallas Landscapes Website. This information enables us to determine which areas of the North Dallas Landscapes Website are most frequently visited and helps us to tailor the North Dallas Landscapes Website to the needs and interests of our online visitors.
  • Personal Information Voluntarily Provided: We gather personal information you provide to us (such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, demographic information, ) when you request information about a product or service, register on the North Dallas Landscapes Website, request email reminders or email newsletters, sign up for a service, enter one of our sweepstakes or contests, take a survey or use any of the other interactive portions or features of the North Dallas Landscapes Website. When personally identifiable information is requested on the North Dallas Landscapes Website, some requests are marked as “Required”; this personally identifiable information is necessary to allow you to participate in the feature or service you’ve requested.
  • Information Provided by You Relating to a Job Opportunity: If you elect to voluntarily create a job interest profile through the North Dallas Landscapes Websites to show interest in a job opportunity with North Dallas Landscapes, you will be providing your name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address and information with respect to work experience, educational background, position sought and at your option, the information contained in your resume.

How Your Information Is Used

  • We use the information collected at the North Dallas Landscapes Website for the following purposes:
  • To understand your needs and preferences, to develop, market, sell or provide products and services, and possibly to conduct surveys, research and evaluations.
  • To complete your request for services or respond to your use of features on the North Dallas Landscapes Website.
  • To tailor your experience on the North Dallas Landscapes Website to your interests and geographic region.
  • To respond to your inquires about our products and services.
  • To inform you of special events and offers or programs offered with our selected companies.
  • To manage and develop North Dallas Landscapes’s business and operations, administer accounts, collect and process payments.
  • To detect and protect North Dallas Landscapes and other third parties against error, negligence, fraud, theft and other illegal activities and to audit compliance with policies.
  • As permitted by, and to comply with, any legal or regulatory requirements.
  • Any information you provide to us about your interest in a job opportunity at North Dallas Landscapes will be accessed by North Dallas Landscapes’s personnel for the purpose of considering, and possibly responding to, your interest in North Dallas Landscapes and for planning and monitoring our recruitment campaigns.

Disclosure of Personal Information
We collect and maintain the personal information of our consumers for the use of North Dallas Landscapes and its affiliated companies, such as Scotts Lawn Service and Smith & Hawken. We do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to third parties, and do not share or trade your personally identifiable information with third parties other than as described below.

  • Selected Companies: North Dallas Landscapes may work with select retailers and other companies at various times to provide expanded services that relate to North Dallas Landscapes Website or its visitors. As part of such a relationship, North Dallas Landscapes may share with these companies or these companies may interact with your browser, collect or have access to some or all of the information collected in connection with certain interactive functions offered on the North Dallas Landscapes Website (such as, the E-Mail Reminder Service) or on other web sites where North Dallas Landscapes provides advertisements and interactive functions.
  • Service Providers: North Dallas Landscapes may use other companies and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples include administering e-mail services, monitoring website activity and running special promotions, such as sweepstakes, contests or surveys. Such parties only have access to the personal information needed to perform these functions and may not use or store the information for any other purpose.
  • Business Transfers: In the event that North Dallas Landscapes sells or transfers a particular portion of its business assets, consumer information may be one of the business assets transferred as part of the transaction.If substantially all of the assets of North Dallas Landscapes or a North Dallas Landscapes affiliated company or brand are acquired, consumer information may be transferred as part of the acquisition.
  • Compliance with Law/Safety: North Dallas Landscapes may disclose specific personal information based on a good-faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with or conform to the law or that such disclosure is necessary to protect the users of the North Dallas Landscapes Website, the Website itself, or the public.

Managing Email Communications
You may always discontinue your receipt of future email newsletters and/or other email communications you previously requested from North Dallas Landscapes by logging on to your registered account and changing the preferences for the applicable newsletter and/or email communication.
To change what email communications you receive from North Dallas Landscapes:
Click here to change your Newsletter/Email preferences online.
Email a request to unsubscribe from all Scotts publications to [email protected]

Policies on Children
To ensure compliance with federal law, North Dallas Landscapes does not knowingly collect or maintain information provided by children under the age of 13.

Use of Cookies
North Dallas Landscapes may use a browser feature known as a “cookie.” Cookies are small files placed on your hard drive that assist in providing you with a customized browsing experience. North Dallas Landscapes uses cookies to provide you with the convenience of not having to reenter information, such as user IDs and passwords, multiple times during your visits to the North Dallas Landscapes Website. Cookies can also be utilized to help provide you with information targeted to your interests, based upon your prior browsing on North Dallas Landscapes Website. The “help” section of the toolbar on most browsers will inform you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you upon the receipt of a new cookie, or how to disable the use of cookies completely. As the North Dallas Landscapes Website has been designed to take advantage of the use of cookies, should you configure your browser to decline their use, certain features of the North Dallas Landscapes Website may not function correctly and you may be required to reenter any user IDs and passwords more frequently. We, or our service providers may also use a technology stored in e-mails to help us confirm your receipt of, and response to, our e-mails and to provide you a more personalized experience.

Accessing North Dallas Landscapes Website from Outside of the United States
If you are visiting the North Dallas Landscapes Website from a location outside of the United States, your connection will be through and to servers located in the United States. Any information you provide during your visit will be processed and maintained on our Web server and/or other internal systems located within the United States.

External Links
The North Dallas Landscapes Website contains links to other sites that are not a part of the North Dallas Landscapes family, including the link to PlantersPlace.com. North Dallas Landscapes is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites. To help ensure the protection of your privacy, North Dallas Landscapes recommends that you review the privacy policy of any site you visit via a link from the North Dallas Landscapes Website.

Passwords
To access registration information that you create on the North Dallas Landscapes Website, you will need to use a password that you create. To protect the integrity of the information contained in this record, you should not disclose or otherwise reveal your password to third parties. If you forget your password, click on “forgot password” in the login screen and we’ll send you an e-mail with a link to a unique URL, where you may change your password.

Public Forums
North Dallas Landscapes may make blogs, chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users at various times on the North Dallas Landscapes Website. Please remember that, unless otherwise stated, any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information in these areas (including uploading photos into these areas). North Dallas Landscapes has specific terms of use for these features and you must agree to comply with these terms of use prior to your initial use of these public forums.

Correcting and Updating Information
Your can update or modify your registration information if you elect to register with a North Dallas Landscapes website by logging into your registration information and following the instructions provided to update or modify such information.

Updates to Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be revised over time as new features are added to the North Dallas Landscapes Website. Should there be a material change to our information collection or use practices, the change will be applied only to information collected on a going forward basis and the “Effective Date” of the policy will be updated.

Notification of Changes
This privacy policy may be revised over time as new features are added to the North Dallas Landscapes Website. Should there be a material change to our information collection or use practices, the change will be applied only to information collected on a going forward basis and the “Effective Date” of the policy will be updated.

Security Statement
North Dallas Landscapes limits the number of employees that have access to the databases that contain personal information of our customers, and our employees are advised of the importance of confidentiality. While we implement these security measures, you should be aware that 100% security is not always possible.

Contacting North Dallas Landscapes
If you have questions concerning this privacy policy, you may contact us at (214) 275-4998.