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.
3. How we use your information
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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].
Email marketing and automation providers we may use include Mailchimp, Kit, ConvertKit, MailerLite, Brevo, ActiveCampaign, AWeber, GetResponse, Klaviyo, Omnisend, Systeme.io, Beehiiv, Substack, Flodesk, or similar services. These providers may store subscriber information, manage subscriptions, send emails, track opens and clicks, manage tags, run automations, and help us measure email performance.
6. Affiliate links and product recommendations
Home Grown Tomatoes may publish product reviews, buying guides, comparisons, tutorials, recommendations, sponsored content, 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 Amazon Associates, Awin, ShareASale, Impact, CJ Affiliate, Rakuten Advertising, ClickBank, PartnerStack, FlexOffers, Skimlinks, Sovrn Commerce, eBay Partner Network, Etsy affiliate programmes, individual gardening brands, seed suppliers, tool suppliers, compost suppliers, greenhouse suppliers, grow light suppliers, software companies, ecommerce retailers, course providers, 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 and advertising technology providers we may use include Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, Google Ads, Mediavine, Raptive, Ezoic, Monumetric, Media.net, SHE Media, AdThrive, Microsoft Advertising, Meta Ads, Pinterest Ads, TikTok Ads, Taboola, Outbrain, or similar advertising services.
If personalised advertising is used, visitors may be able to adjust ad preferences through the relevant advertising provider, browser settings, cookie consent tools, or industry opt-out tools.
8. Analytics, pixels, and tracking technologies
We may use analytics and tracking tools to understand how visitors use the website, improve the user experience, measure campaigns, track conversions, and understand which content performs best.
Analytics, tracking, and measurement tools we may use include Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity, Bing Webmaster Tools, Meta Pixel, Pinterest Tag, TikTok Pixel, Google Ads conversion tracking, Facebook conversion tracking, Hotjar, Crazy Egg, Plausible, Fathom, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, Semrush tools, affiliate tracking scripts, heatmap tools, or similar services.
Non-essential analytics, advertising, and tracking cookies should only be used where appropriate consent has been obtained.
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, subscriptions, 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, checkout, course access, and product delivery may be processed by third-party providers such as Stripe, PayPal, Gumroad, Shopify, WooCommerce, Lemon Squeezy, ThriveCart, SamCart, Payhip, Podia, Teachable, Kajabi, Thinkific, Systeme.io, SendOwl, Easy Digital Downloads, Memberful, Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, Ko-fi, 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.
Contact, form, survey, and automation tools we may use include Google Forms, Typeform, Tally, Jotform, Gravity Forms, WPForms, ConvertKit forms, Mailchimp forms, Zapier, Make, n8n, Airtable, Notion, Google Sheets, or similar tools.
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, review widgets, or affiliate widgets.
Embedded content providers may include YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, X, Google Maps, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon product widgets, affiliate product widgets, or similar services.
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. Website hosting, security, and technical services
Our website may use hosting, performance, security, domain, DNS, and technical providers such as Cloudflare, GitHub, Astro, Netlify, Vercel, WordPress, Namecheap, Google Workspace, or similar services.
These providers may process technical information such as IP addresses, server logs, request logs, security events, browser data, and device information to provide hosting, security, performance, and maintenance services.
15. 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.
- Customer support tools.
- Professional advisers, such as accountants, legal advisers, or tax advisers.
- Authorities, regulators, courts, or law enforcement where required by law.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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].
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. Contact
For questions about this Privacy Policy or how we use personal information, contact:
RheaNest Media
Website: growtomatoesathome.com
Email: [email protected]