Who we are
We are a group of people who care more about people than physical things, including money. We tech permaculture because we believe people want to help themselves and others. We believe that when good solutions and knowhow is made available people will join us in making Earth a better place.
Our primary website address is: https://growpermaculture.com.
Comments
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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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
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Cookies
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If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Embedded content from other websites
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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.
You should know that we are NOT interested in making money by selling your information and treat you the same way we treat ourselves.
Who we share your data with
We never share your data with anyone else, unless required by law.
How long we retain your data
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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you are taking our courses we are also retaining your information indefinitely, or you would not retain access to it, or them.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Terms of Service
Common curtesy and good manners are expected. If you have an upset please reach out to us via the contact form and we will seek to address it. We offer this service with the intent to help you increase your own survival potential as well as those around you. We expect that you are here to learn about permaculture in good faith.
We care about people and always seek to take actions that aid more than it destroys. This means we re-evaluate any steps that may be harsh before doing so, to see if it can be done in a more gentile way using understanding and agreements first. We live on this rock floating through space and should always aim to get along.
Some people “carry their emotions on their sleeves” that is to say are reacting with a lot of violent emotions. Fortunately that is not as common in the permaculture community. This is to say if you are found to cause upsets and are not demonstrating a willingness to resolve things amicable we will take issue with such behavior.
If your intentions are not in good faith we may very well be forced to terminate your account. If so you can reach back out to us to try to resolve it. But even our willingness has a limit, and when others are negatively affected by someone’s action we have even less.
Having said all that we wish for you to win and have a very productive time and walk a way with new friends and a certainty that you can make a difference!