Privacy Policy

Who we are

STL Compost is a gardening and landscaping solutions company based in St. Louis, Missouri providing premium compost, soils, and mulch to residential and commercial customers. Our store website address is store.stlcompost.com. Our main website address is www.stlcompost.com. Our email address for general correspondence is info@stlcomposting.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Orders

When visitors purchase products on our site, we collect the data shown in the order form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. We retain this information in the users on-line account for reference. We may consult this data to contact you regarding your purchase.

In addition, we use our order data in Google Analytics to track activity and functionality of our website, all in compliance with Google’s required privacy policies.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

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.

How long we retain your data

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, 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.

Where we send your data

We do not sell any customer data to third parties. We retain your information for communication on purchases and may send information for marketing purposes if you opt-in at checkout.