Privacy Policy - Marin County Flowers

Last updated: July 2026

Marin County Flowers (verde-flowers.com) exists to help people in and around Marin County find flower delivery services quickly. We're a referral and information resource - we don't sell flowers ourselves, and we don't handle payments. This page explains, in plain terms, what happens with your information when you visit.

1. The Short Version

We collect a small amount of information when you use our contact form, some automatic technical data through your browser, and we use standard analytics and cookies to understand how the site is used. We never sell your personal information. Details follow below.

2. When You Reach Out to Us

If you use our contact form, we ask for your name, your email address, and whatever message you'd like to send us. That's the extent of what we request directly - we don't ask for phone numbers, payment details, delivery addresses, or anything else through this site. You're always free to leave fields blank or skip the form entirely if you'd rather not share that information; you just won't hear back from us if you don't give us a way to respond.

3. Information Gathered Automatically

Like nearly every website, ours picks up some technical information automatically as part of normal operation. This typically includes:

- Your IP address
- The type of browser and device you're using
- Which pages you viewed and how you navigated the site
- The site or search engine that referred you here
- A general, approximate location inferred from your IP address (typically city or region level - not precise or pinpoint location)

None of this is tied to your name unless you've also filled out our contact form using the same device or session.

4. Cookies and Similar Tools

We use cookies and comparable tracking technologies for a few purposes: keeping basic site features working properly, understanding traffic patterns through analytics, and measuring how well our referral and affiliate links to flower delivery partners are performing. Your browser gives you control here - you can block, limit, or delete cookies through your browser's settings at any time. Doing so may affect some site functionality but won't prevent you from browsing our listings.

5. Why We Use This Information

Broadly, the data described above helps us:

- Keep the site running and improve it over time
- Respond to messages sent through the contact form
- Understand which referral links and partners visitors are actually using, so we can keep our recommendations useful
- Spot and prevent abuse, spam, or misuse of the site

6. Analytics Tools We Rely On

We use third-party analytics services, such as Google Analytics or similar platforms, to understand overall traffic and behavior on the site. These providers may set their own cookies and collect data according to their own privacy policies, which operate independently of this one. We encourage you to review those policies if you want more detail on how those specific companies handle information. Where these tools offer opt-out mechanisms, you're welcome to use them.

7. What Happens When You Click "Order" or "Find a Florist"

Marin County Flowers is a directory, not a florist or delivery service. When you choose to proceed with an order, you'll typically be redirected to an independent third-party website - a florist, delivery network, or marketplace - that handles the transaction itself. That company processes your payment and personal details under its own separate privacy policy, which we don't control and aren't responsible for. We'd encourage you to review the privacy terms of any third party before completing an order with them.

8. We Don't Sell Your Information

To be direct about it: we do not sell your personal information to third parties, and we never will. Any data we collect is used for the purposes described in this policy - not packaged up and sold off.

9. How Long We Keep Things

Messages submitted through our contact form are generally retained only as long as needed to address your inquiry and for a reasonable period afterward for record-keeping, after which they may be deleted. Analytics data is typically retained according to the retention settings of the analytics platform we use, which commonly ranges from many months to a couple of years, depending on configuration.

10. Your Choices

You have a few practical options if you'd like to limit what's collected:

- Skip the contact form, or provide only what you're comfortable sharing
- Adjust your browser's cookie settings to block or clear cookies
- Use available opt-out tools offered by analytics providers
- Decline to click through to third-party ordering sites if you'd prefer not to share information with them

11. Not Intended for Children

This site is meant for a general adult audience and isn't directed at children. We don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If we become aware that we've inadvertently collected such information, we'll take steps to delete it.

12. Security and Updates

We take reasonable, sensible precautions to protect the information we collect, but no website can guarantee absolute security, and we can't promise that data transmitted online will never be intercepted or accessed without authorization. We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time as our practices or applicable laws change; when we do, we'll update the "Last updated" date above. Continuing to use verde-flowers.com after changes take effect means you accept the revised policy.