Minneflora Permit Notifications is a standalone notification service hosted on the Minneflora website. It is not part of Minneflora’s plant-identification functionality.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following information:
- Your mobile telephone number
- Your email address, when email notifications are offered
- The locations, jurisdictions, permit categories, or notification topics you select
- Your notification preferences
- Records of your consent to receive notifications
- Records of messages sent to you and your opt-out requests
- Technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, and basic website usage data
You may choose not to provide certain information, but we may then be unable to provide the requested notifications.
2. How We Use Information
We may use the information we collect to:
- Send permit-related alerts and service notifications you requested
- Manage your subscription and notification preferences
- Confirm your enrollment or opt-out request
- Respond to questions and support requests
- Maintain the security and reliability of the service
- Diagnose technical problems
- Comply with legal and regulatory requirements
- Prevent fraud, misuse, or unauthorized access
We do not use your enrollment in Minneflora Permit Notifications to send unrelated promotional text messages unless you separately and expressly consent to receive them.
3. SMS Notifications and Consent
When you voluntarily subscribe to SMS notifications, you consent to receive automated text messages from Minneflora Permit Notifications at the mobile number you provide.
Message frequency varies depending on your selected notification topics and whether relevant permit activity occurs. Message and data rates may apply.
Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of purchasing any goods or services.
You may opt out at any time by replying STOP to a message. You may reply HELP for assistance. After you opt out, we may send one final message confirming that your subscription has been canceled.
Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
4. Mobile Information and Messaging Consent
We do not sell, rent, or share mobile telephone numbers, SMS opt-in information, or messaging consent with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes.
Information may be provided to service providers that help us deliver and operate the requested notification service, such as telecommunications providers, hosting providers, and technical infrastructure providers. These providers may use the information only to perform services on our behalf and not for their own marketing or promotional purposes.
The foregoing excludes text-messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties, excluding aggregators and providers of the text-message services necessary to deliver the messages you requested.
5. Service Providers
We may use third-party service providers to operate the service, including:
- Twilio or another communications provider for SMS delivery
- Cloud-hosting and database providers
- Email-delivery providers
- Website analytics, security, and monitoring providers
These providers may process information only as reasonably necessary to provide their services to us and subject to their applicable contractual and legal obligations.
6. Legal Disclosures
We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:
- Comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other legal process
- Protect the rights, property, or safety of Northwoods Digital, our users, or others
- Investigate suspected fraud, abuse, security incidents, or violations of our Terms of Use
- Complete a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, or similar business transaction, subject to appropriate protections
Mobile opt-in information and messaging consent will not be transferred to another party for that party’s marketing or promotional use.
7. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, maintain consent and opt-out records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
If you unsubscribe, we may retain limited records of your telephone number and opt-out request to ensure that we honor your preference and do not inadvertently enroll you again without new consent.
8. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information. However, no website, database, or communications system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
9. Your Choices
You may:
- Reply STOP to unsubscribe from SMS messages
- Use any unsubscribe link included in an email
- Contact us to update or correct your information
- Ask us to delete information that we are not legally or operationally required to retain
To make a privacy request, contact us using the information below.
10. Children’s Privacy
Minneflora Permit Notifications is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected such information, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
11. Third-Party Websites
Our website may contain links to websites operated by government agencies or other third parties. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or availability of those websites.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. We will post the updated policy on this page and revise the effective date above. Material changes may also be communicated through the website or another reasonable method.