Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. This privacy policy describes how GrowNYC collects, uses, shares and protects information obtained from your on this website.

Information We Collect

You may visit our website without disclosing any personally identifiable information.

We collect personally identifiable information if you choose to provide it to us by joining us, making a donation, subscribing to one of our publications, signing up for an event or otherwise by completing a form on the website.

E-mail messages that you send to us, including to addresses contained on this website, are not governed by this policy.

We may use browser cookies to collect non-personally identifiable information. Our web pages may incorporate web beacons or similar tracking technologies to allow us to track how the website is used. Such technologies are used to collect non-personally identifiable information, e.g. the name of your internet service provider, the IP address of your computer, your browser software and operating system, the identity of any linked-from or linked-to website, and other similar information. We may combine your information with similar information collected from other users to help improve the website and its services. We do not use this data in any way to create or maintain a personal profile of you or to collect personally identifiable information from you.

Use & Disclosure of Information

We use information provided to us through this website for the purpose for which it is provided, such as event registration, and to provide you with information about our activities in which we think we may have an interest.

We do not share your personally identifiable information obtained through this website with third parties for their marketing purposes. Aggregate non-personally identifiable information concerning your use of this website, such as information regarding which of the website’s pages are most popular, may be shared with or transferred to GrowNYC’s affiliates, licensees and partners.

Donor Privacy Policy

The following Donor Privacy Policy refers to information collected from both online and offline donors. GrowNYC does not collect or share credit card information with other companies or persons, other than your credit card issuer, to collect payment or as otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy. GrowNYC will not trade, share or sell a donor’s personal information with anyone else, nor send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations.

GrowNYC may disclose any information, including personally identifiable information, it deems necessary, in its sole discretion, to the government or private parties in order to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, investigation or governmental request. GrowNYC may also disclose such information where it believes it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or violations of GrowNYC’s Terms and Conditions, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing this website and applicable laws, or as otherwise required or permitted by law or consistent with legal requirements.

Changes to This Policy

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time. Any material changes to the policy will be published on this website. By your continued use of the website, you consent to the terms of the revised policy.

Links to Other Websites

This website may link to websites maintained by others. Please be aware that these third-party websites are governed only by their own privacy policies. We cannot be responsible for these policies.

Information Security

GrowNYC uses commercially-reasonable security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of personally identifiable information collected through this website and under our control. No security system is completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the complete security of your personally identifiable information

Questions, Comments or Changes to Your Information

If you have any questions or comments, or wish to change the information we have about you, please contact us at GrowNYC.

Updated January 23, 2017

Every year, GrowNYC holds our Annual Spring Plant Sale in order to provide community groups with affordable perennial and annual flowering plants, herbs, ground covers, and vegetables grown by Greenmarket farmers and sold in wholesale quantities.