Our Herb Garden participates in the Adsense contextual advertising program and in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.
In order to continue participating in the Adsense and Amazon programs, we are required to include a privacy policy that discusses cookies and other technical stuff.
Tracking of Data – Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Advertising
This site is partially supported through the Google Adsense contextual advertising program and other advertising programs.
These advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases conditions of your browser such as the inclusion of Flash. Many Advertisers use Geo-targeting technology (using your IP address to provide a location) to allow them to provide targeted offers as well as providing adverts tailored to the content this is referred to as contextual advertising.
Cookies
Third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of their ads being served on several of our websites. This is being done in an attempt by the advertisers to present ads based on your browsing history to match your personal interests. For example, Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy or http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you’ve set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.