Privacy Policy

Last updated: 23 June 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Home Grown Tomatoes collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects personal information when you visit this website, subscribe to emails, click affiliate links, read product reviews, buy digital products, download resources, contact us, or otherwise interact with our content.

Home Grown Tomatoes is operated by RheaNest Media. In this Privacy Policy, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to Home Grown Tomatoes and RheaNest Media.

Website: growtomatoesathome.com
Contact email: [email protected]

1. Who this policy applies to

This policy applies to website visitors, readers, email subscribers, customers, people who download free resources, people who buy digital products, people who click affiliate links, people who contact us, and anyone else who interacts with Home Grown Tomatoes.

2. Information we may collect

We may collect personal information directly from you, automatically through website technology, or from third-party service providers.

Information you provide directly

• Your name.
• Your email address.
• Messages you send through contact forms, email, surveys, or questionnaires.
• Newsletter sign-up details.
• Free resource, checklist, guide, ebook, or lead magnet download details.
• Survey, quiz, comment, review, testimonial, or feedback responses.
• Information submitted when buying an information product, digital product, course, guide, template, ebook, membership, or similar product.
• Billing details and transaction details, where applicable.
• Any other information you choose to provide to us.

Payment card details are normally processed by third-party payment providers and are not stored directly by us.

Information collected automatically

• IP address.
• Browser type and version.
• Device type.
• Operating system.
• Pages visited.
• Time spent on pages.
• Links clicked.
• Referring website, search engine, advert, or social media platform.
• Approximate location, such as country or region.
• Affiliate link clicks.
• Advertising interactions.
• Email opens, email clicks, and subscription preferences, where email marketing tools are used.
• Cookie consent choices.

Information from third parties

We may receive limited information from third-party services, such as website hosting providers, analytics providers, email marketing platforms, affiliate networks, payment processors, advertising networks, ecommerce platforms, form tools, survey tools, automation tools, spam prevention tools, and security providers.

3. How we use your information

We may use personal information for the following purposes:

• To operate, maintain, protect, and improve the website.
• To publish gardening guides, tomato growing articles, product reviews, buying guides, comparisons, and related content.
• To send newsletters, updates, free resources, offers, affiliate promotions, digital product offers, and marketing emails where you have subscribed or where we are otherwise legally allowed to do so.
• To deliver free downloads, lead magnets, guides, checklists, ebooks, email courses, and other resources.
• To process purchases of digital products, information products, courses, guides, templates, ebooks, memberships, or similar products.
• To respond to enquiries, support requests, complaints, and customer service messages.
• To analyse website traffic and understand which content visitors find useful.
• To measure affiliate link performance and affiliate commissions.
• To show, personalise, limit, and measure advertising, where advertising is used.
• To run surveys, promotions, competitions, giveaways, or research.
• To detect spam, fraud, abuse, security risks, or technical problems.
• To comply with legal, tax, accounting, regulatory, and consumer protection obligations.
• To protect our rights, users, website, business, and services.

4. Lawful bases for using personal information

Where UK data protection law applies, we rely on one or more lawful bases to use personal information.

• Consent: for example, when you subscribe to a newsletter, accept non-essential cookies, agree to receive marketing emails, or submit information voluntarily.
• Contract: for example, when we need to deliver a paid product, digital download, course, membership, or customer support.
• Legitimate interests: for example, improving the website, protecting security, preventing fraud, understanding content performance, responding to enquiries, and running an affiliate content business, provided your rights do not override those interests.
• Legal obligation: for example, keeping records required for tax, accounting, consumer law, regulatory compliance, or legal claims.

5. Email marketing and newsletters

If you subscribe to our email list, we may send you gardening tips, tomato growing advice, product recommendations, affiliate promotions, digital product offers, updates, and related marketing emails.

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting us at [email protected].

We may use an email marketing provider to store email addresses, manage subscriptions, send emails, and track opens and clicks. Email marketing providers may include services such as Mailchimp, Kit, ConvertKit, MailerLite, Brevo, ActiveCampaign, or similar platforms. Once a provider is chosen, this policy should be updated to name the specific provider.

6. Affiliate links and product recommendations

Home Grown Tomatoes may publish product reviews, buying guides, comparisons, tutorials, recommendations, and affiliate content.

Some links on this website may be affiliate links. This means that if you click a link and buy a product or service, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Affiliate partners and affiliate networks may use cookies, tracking links, pixels, tags, or similar technologies to record that you clicked from our website and to attribute a sale, lead, sign-up, or other tracked action to us.

Affiliate programmes and networks we may use include, but are not limited to, Amazon Associates, Awin, ShareASale, Impact, CJ Affiliate, Rakuten Advertising, ClickBank, PartnerStack, individual brand affiliate programmes, gardening retailers, seed suppliers, tool suppliers, compost suppliers, greenhouse suppliers, grow light suppliers, software companies, and information product providers.

When you click an affiliate link and leave this website, the privacy policy, cookie policy, and terms of the third-party website will apply.

7. Advertising

We may display advertising on the website. Advertising partners may use cookies, pixels, tags, device identifiers, IP addresses, browser information, usage data, and similar technologies to serve ads, personalise ads, measure ad performance, prevent fraud, and manage ad frequency.

Advertising partners may include Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, Mediavine, Raptive, Ezoic, Monumetric, or other ad networks and advertising technology providers. Once advertising partners are chosen, this policy should be updated to name the specific providers.

8. Analytics, pixels, and tracking technologies

We may use analytics tools to understand how visitors use the website. These tools may collect information such as pages visited, time on page, referral source, browser, device type, approximate location, and interactions with the site.

Analytics and tracking tools may include Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Microsoft Clarity, Meta Pixel, Pinterest Tag, TikTok Pixel, affiliate tracking scripts, heatmap tools, or similar services. Once tools are chosen, this policy should be updated to name the specific tools used.

9. Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies as described in our Cookie Policy. Cookies may be used for website functionality, analytics, affiliate tracking, advertising, embedded content, security, and user preferences.

10. Digital products, information products, and payments

If we sell digital products, information products, ebooks, guides, templates, courses, memberships, workshops, email courses, or similar products, we may collect information needed to process the order and deliver the product.

This may include your name, email address, billing details, order history, customer support messages, and transaction information.

Payments may be processed by third-party providers such as Stripe, PayPal, Gumroad, Shopify, WooCommerce, Lemon Squeezy, ThriveCart, Payhip, Podia, Teachable, Kajabi, or similar providers. We do not normally store full payment card details ourselves.

11. Contact forms and messages

If you contact us, we may collect your name, email address, message content, and any other information you choose to provide. We use this information to respond to you and keep appropriate business records.

12. Comments, reviews, testimonials, and user submissions

If the website allows comments, reviews, testimonials, guest posts, user photos, questions, or user submissions, we may collect the information you submit, including your name, email address, website, comment, image, or other content.

Do not submit personal information that you do not want to be public. We may edit, reject, or remove user-submitted content at our discretion.

13. Embedded content

Articles may include embedded content such as videos, images, social media posts, maps, forms, podcast players, product widgets, adverts, or review widgets.

Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited that website directly. Those third parties may collect data, use cookies, track interactions, and monitor your use of the embedded content.

14. Who we may share information with

We do not sell your personal information. However, we may share limited information with trusted service providers where necessary to operate the website and business.

• Website hosting providers.
• Email marketing providers.
• Analytics providers.
• Affiliate networks and affiliate partners.
• Advertising networks and advertising technology providers.
• Payment processors.
• Ecommerce platforms.
• Course, download, membership, or digital product platforms.
• Form, survey, quiz, and automation tools.
• Spam prevention and security providers.
• Professional advisers, such as accountants, legal advisers, or tax advisers.
• Authorities, regulators, courts, or law enforcement where required by law.

15. International transfers

Some service providers may process or store information outside the United Kingdom. Where this happens, we aim to use providers that apply appropriate safeguards required by applicable data protection law.

16. How long we keep information

We keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

• Email subscriber information: until you unsubscribe or request deletion, subject to reasonable suppression records.
• Customer purchase records: as long as needed for delivery, support, tax, accounting, consumer law, and legal obligations.
• Contact messages: as long as needed to respond and keep appropriate business records.
• Analytics data: according to the retention settings of the analytics provider.
• Affiliate tracking data: according to the retention settings of the relevant affiliate network or partner.
• Cookie consent records: as long as needed to prove consent or refusal choices.

17. Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational steps to protect personal information. However, no website, email system, payment system, or internet transmission is completely secure.

18. Your rights

Depending on where you live and which laws apply, you may have rights over your personal information, including the right to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you.
• Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Ask us to delete your information.
• Ask us to restrict certain processing.
• Object to certain processing.
• Withdraw consent where we rely on consent.
• Request a copy of your data in a portable format, where applicable.
• Complain to a data protection authority.

To make a privacy request, contact us at [email protected].

19. Children’s privacy

This website is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us and we will take appropriate action.

20. Third-party websites

Our website may link to third-party websites, including affiliate partners, retailers, advertisers, social media platforms, payment providers, embedded content providers, and information product platforms. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, policies, or actions of third-party websites.

21. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.

22. Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy or how we use personal information, contact:

RheaNest Media
Website: growtomatoesathome.com
Email: [email protected]