Last updated: November 2, 2026.
Plants Spark Joy is a personally operated website at https://plantssparkjoy.com. For privacy questions or requests about information associated with the site, contact hello@plantssparkjoy.com. Tell us which interaction your request concerns, such as an earlier newsletter subscription or a message you sent. Please avoid sending sensitive information that is unnecessary for your request.
Information used to operate the website
The website provides articles, guides and external links. It has no customer-account, visitor-login or public-commenting feature. Newsletter signup is currently unavailable.
When your browser requests a page, image or other resource, hosting and delivery services receive technical information needed to deliver it, such as the requested resource, IP address and browser/network information. The site is hosted on Vercel, and some content uses external image and CDN delivery. These providers' processing and retention depend on the services used and their applicable terms and policies.
If you email the privacy address, your message includes information you choose to send, such as your address, message and attachments. That information is handled through email services and used to address your enquiry. There is no automatic public account or export/deletion portal on this site.
The site has no separate audience-analytics integration. Advertising services have their own measurement practices, described below.
Saved guides and browser storage
Where a Save guide control is offered, it stores selected guide identifiers in local storage on that browser/device. It does not create an account or a cloud-saved profile, or send the selection to a cloud profile or analytics service.
You can remove a saved guide through the control or clear the site's stored data in your browser. The feature has no built-in expiry; a selection may remain until removed or browser storage is cleared or otherwise removed. This is separate from cookies or storage used by external content and advertising services.
External content and links
Some articles use externally hosted images or embedded content. Loading it can connect your browser to its provider, which may receive technical information and use its own cookies or storage. An embed can contact its provider when a page loads; this notice does not promise it waits until Play is pressed. External links take you to another service with its own privacy practices.
The providers involved depend on the resources loaded on the page and the links you choose to follow. See relevant provider information, including Vercel, Google/YouTube, and the provider shown on the content or destination you use.
Advertising and privacy choices
Plants Spark Joy uses Google AdSense where advertising is enabled. Google advertising and consent code also loads on public pages without a visible ad placement so applicable privacy controls can operate. This involves connections to Google before a privacy choice is collected.
Google and participating advertising vendors may use cookies or similar technologies to serve and measure advertisements, including ads based on visits to this or other websites. Personalization and participating vendors depend on available choices, applicable consent and the configuration in use. See Google's advertising information, how Google uses information from partner sites, and Google ad-personalization settings. The consent message provides information about participating vendors; a configured partner list does not mean every partner receives data on every visit.
Where the European consent message applies, you can choose Consent, Do not consent or Manage options. Use Privacy and cookie settings to reopen and change the choice. Google’s AdSense integration uses these choices and applicable privacy signals to control which ads may be served. Depending on the choices and configuration, eligible ads may be personalized, nonpersonalized or limited. Choosing nonpersonalized ads does not replace any consent that is required.
For supported US-state privacy choices, use Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information where the configured message applies. That opt-out is separate from European consent withdrawal. Google can apply restricted data processing to eligible Google requests based on applicable opt-out or Global Privacy Control signals. This does not mean no information is collected or no cookies are used, and it does not control every separate provider. Contact hello@plantssparkjoy.com for questions about other information or providers.
Former newsletter and historical information
The former WordPress site used Mailchimp for its newsletter. The newsletter has not been used recently and is currently inactive. Newsletter signup on the current site is off.
Historical audience information, subscription preferences, unsubscribe/suppression records or newsletter exports may remain in the former Mailchimp account or retained newsletter records. Inactivity or removal of the old signup widget does not establish that this information was deleted. If you previously subscribed, contact hello@plantssparkjoy.com about subscription or data requests. Unsubscribing, archiving and deleting information are different actions; Mailchimp's contact-state information explains that distinction.
WordPress does not hold visitor comments or reader or visitor accounts. This statement concerns reader and visitor records, rather than administrator access used to operate the site.
If newsletter signup or campaigns resume, the signup information and relevant subscription and privacy choices will be provided before signup or campaigns resume. The current site does not offer newsletter signup.
Retention, questions and requests
Saved-guide choices have the browser-storage lifetime described above. Retention of other information depends on its category, purpose and the systems involved; a removed signup form or unsubscribe does not itself establish deletion. Contact the privacy address with a question about a specific record or its retention. Requests about historical records will need to be checked against the relevant systems.
You may ask about information associated with you and request access, correction or deletion. The response depends on information actually held and requirements applicable to the request. The rights and requirements that apply can vary with the processing and your location. If identity or record details are needed to handle a request, please provide only information reasonably relevant to it.