Effective date: January 2022
The Hallowed Gram and/or Hallowed Gram (“us,” “we,” or “our”) operates the https://hallowedgram.com/ website (the “Service”). “Hallowed Gram” is simply a shortened version of the full official title of this website which is “The Hallowed Gram” which may be written shorthand as just Hallowed Gram or “THG” at times.
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://hallowedgram.com/
Information Collection And Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
- Cookies and Usage Data
Usage Data
We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Examples of Cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
- Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Use of Data
Hallowed Gram uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain the Service
- To notify you about changes to our Service
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
- To provide customer care and support
- To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
- To monitor the usage of the Service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
Transfer Of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by your submission of such information, represents your agreement to that transfer.
Hallowed Gram will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure Of Data
Data isn’t disclosed to any third parties that aren’t anonymized to protect user privacy. Data that may be shared may include but not be limited to survey results, Google analytics or advertising analytics, and/or any other anonymized site user interaction data.
Legal Requirements
Hallowed Gram may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- To comply with a legal obligation
- To protect and defend the rights or property of Hallowed Gram
- To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
- To protect against legal liability
Security Of Data
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Hallowed Gram promises to treat all user data as we treat our own.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
This website is built on WordPress, uses a Code Supply Co. theme, is hosted on WPX, and uses a variety of plugins. All theme, plugin, and hosting providers are carefully vetted for security, stability, and reliability.
Hallowed Gram cannot, however, guarantee perfection from any of these 3rd parties, and as such, users should be cognizant that websites such as Hallowed Gram are more an amalgamation of various service providers than a singular platform created and managed entirely by one individual, which it is not.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
- Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
- Mantis Ad Network: This website may occasionally use third-party analytics from the cannabis display advertising firm Mantis Ad Network. Mantis has a long track record of reliability in the cannabis publishing ecosystem and, as such was carefully selected as a reliable and safe monetization avenue. You can read up more on Mantis’ ad policies as well as their own terms and conditions.
Links To Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit to avoid any deceit outside of Hallowed Gram’s control
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
External links will largely be relegated to a few primary use cases, such as to add educational context (links to studies or news), to share more detail about the subject matter (links to brand sites or other publications), and occasionally affiliate links as well (tracked links to e-commerce companies).
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). The Hallowed Gram’s content is only to be consumed by adults who are of the legal age to purchase or use cannabis in their respective nations, states, and/or cities. Hallowed Gram always advises readers to follow their local law and to consult with local authorities whenever anything is vague. Hallowed Gram is not a legal counsel or legal authority on cannabis.
Hallowed Gram does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children have provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
We also leave the onus to abide by our age restrictions on users. We cannot physically prevent people from accessing our website, and it will come down to individual responsibility and guardian responsibility to prevent underage access or access by individuals in territories where such subject matter is controversial.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Comments
We don’t publish a lot of comments, but if/when we do, there is some built-in information shared via the WordPress platform. When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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: httpss://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Surveys
To better understand and serve our audience, The Hallowed Gram will regularly share and promote polls on various cannabis subject matter. These polls are informal and designed to be casually informative more than anything else.
Hallowed Gram asks that users only vote once and are honest in their replies. All polls are managed via a poll plugin that anonymizes responses so no personal information is shared.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
All photos uploaded to Hallowed Gram are the intellectual property of Hallowed Gram, and unauthorized use will result in Digital Copyright action taken, including takedown requests.
Any content or media submitted to Hallowed Gram in any form of guest collaboration or guest feature becomes the property of Hallowed Gram once submitted. We’ll be happy to help edit, update, or remove content by request, but once up, it is a part of the brand.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
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.
We cannot take responsibility for any content that is embedded yet lives on other websites as those websites are operated independently of The Hallowed Gram and have their own tracking and privacy disclosures. We do our best never to link to or embed any content from a website we don’t trust, but alas, we are also human, and websites change, so we cannot guarantee absolute safety in other corners of the web.
Who your data may be shared with
If you are a logged-in user or guest contributor and request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. All other data is completely anonymized and only shared in aggregate, such as the total number of monthly Google Analytics sessions, for example, wherein you are simply relegated to a session with no personal identifiable information shared.
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.
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. It may take up to a week for action to be taken simply given the side-hustle nature of this website. Time starts when confirmation of your request is sent back to you.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. That’s it. This is a community of stoners for stoners and our data stays with us to help grow the community.