The Gr0ve Privacy Policy

1. Who This Policy Covers

This policy applies to The Gr0ve website at thegr0ve.com and to official public channels that link back to the site, including The Gr0ve Pinterest business profile and other social profiles.

When you leave thegr0ve.com for another service, that service handles information under its own privacy policy. That includes Pinterest, Substack, Stripe, Google, Amazon, Cloudflare, and any external site linked from the library.

2. Information The Gr0ve Collects

Information you choose to provide

You may provide information when you email The Gr0ve, subscribe through a Substack form, support the project through a Stripe link, reply on a social platform, or otherwise contact the operator. This may include your name, email address, message content, payment-support context, or social profile information.

Information collected automatically

The site may collect standard technical information through hosting, analytics, and security tools. This can include page URLs visited, referrer, approximate location, browser, device type, operating system, IP-derived security signals, and timestamps.

Affiliate and outbound-link information

Some kit pages use affiliate links, including Amazon Associates links. If you click an affiliate link, the destination service may know that the visit came from The Gr0ve and may place its own cookies or identifiers.

3. How Information Is Used

• To operate, secure, and improve the website.
• To understand which pages are useful through analytics and aggregate traffic reports.
• To respond to direct messages, collaboration inquiries, corrections, and support questions.
• To send newsletter updates when you subscribe through Substack.
• To process voluntary support or membership payments through Stripe.
• To maintain affiliate disclosure, referral attribution, and commercial recordkeeping.
• To understand public performance of posts and Pins through platform analytics.

4. Cookies, Analytics, and Similar Tools

The Gr0ve uses Google Analytics on parts of the site to understand aggregate site usage. Google Analytics may use cookies or similar identifiers according to Google's own policies and settings.

Substack forms, Stripe support links, affiliate links, and external social platforms may also use cookies or identifiers when you interact with them. These tools are operated by their respective providers.

5. Third-Party Services

The Gr0ve uses or links to third-party services that may process information independently. Current public-site services include:

• Cloudflare Pages for hosting, security, DNS, and delivery.
• Google Analytics for aggregate website analytics.
• Substack for newsletter signup forms and newsletter delivery.
• Stripe for voluntary support and membership payment links.
• Amazon Associates and other affiliate destinations for kit links.
• Pinterest and other social platforms for public profiles, posts, analytics, messages, and referral traffic.

Those services have their own privacy policies, terms, retention practices, and user controls.

6. Pinterest and Social Profiles

The Gr0ve may maintain a Pinterest business profile and other public social profiles. If you visit, follow, save, comment on, message, or otherwise interact with The Gr0ve on Pinterest, Pinterest may process information about that activity under Pinterest's own policies.

The Gr0ve may see public interactions, messages you send, and aggregate analytics provided by Pinterest or other platforms. The Gr0ve uses that information to understand audience interest, respond when appropriate, and improve public publishing.

7. How Information Is Shared

The Gr0ve does not sell personal information for money. Information may be shared with service providers that help operate the site, deliver newsletters, process payments, provide analytics, support affiliate attribution, or secure infrastructure.

Information may also be disclosed if required by law, to protect the site and its users, to respond to lawful requests, or as part of a future business or infrastructure transfer connected to The Gr0ve.

8. Your Choices

• You can unsubscribe from Substack emails through the unsubscribe link in those emails.
• You can control or block cookies through your browser settings.
• You can use Google's browser add-on or Google account settings to limit Google Analytics where available.
• You can use Pinterest and other social-platform privacy settings to control platform-level personalization and advertising choices.
• You can contact The Gr0ve to request access, correction, deletion, or limitation of information that The Gr0ve directly controls.

9. Retention

The Gr0ve keeps information only as long as it is useful for the purpose it was collected, needed for operational records, required by law, or needed to protect the site and respond to legitimate inquiries.

Newsletter data is primarily managed by Substack. Payment data is primarily managed by Stripe. Analytics data is managed according to the settings and retention practices of the relevant analytics provider.

10. Children

The Gr0ve is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information directly to The Gr0ve, contact the operator so it can be removed.

11. International Visitors

The Gr0ve is operated from the United States, while public services used by the site may process information in other countries. If you access the site from outside the United States, your information may be processed where The Gr0ve and its service providers operate.

12. Changes to This Policy

This policy may be updated as The Gr0ve changes its website, social channels, analytics setup, newsletter tools, support links, affiliate programs, or advertising tools. The updated date at the top of this page will show when the policy last changed.

13. Contact

Questions, privacy requests, correction requests, and platform-related inquiries can be sent to [email protected].