Last Updated: 12/6/2025
This Privacy Policy describes how MicrobeGrower collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from www.microbegrower.com (the "Site"), subscribe to The Regenerative Grower newsletter, or utilize our soil assessment services.
We collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, as well as information collected automatically when you use our Site.
When you attempt to make a purchase, subscribe to our newsletter, or book a consultation, we collect certain information from you, including:
Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number.
Billing & Shipping Information: Billing address and shipping address (for physical products like SFW Inoculants).
Payment Information: We do not store full credit card numbers. Payment transactions are processed through secure third-party payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal).
Service Data: If you hire us for soil assessment or consulting, we may collect data regarding your property location, soil sample history, and specific land management goals to provide our services.
When you visit the Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.
We use the collected information for the following professional business purposes:
Order Fulfillment: To process and ship orders for physical goods (e.g., Inoculants) and provide order confirmations.
Service Delivery: To analyze soil data and provide consulting reports or microscopy results.
Communication: To communicate with you regarding your order, subscription, or inquiries.
Newsletter Distribution: To send The Regenerative Grower newsletter and related educational content via our platform provider (Ghost).
Improvement: To screen for potential risk or fraud and to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site).
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to outside parties for marketing purposes. We do share your Personal Information with trusted third parties to help us conduct our business, as described below:
Service Providers: We use third parties to assist with specific functions, such as website hosting (Ghost), email delivery, payment processing, and shipping carriers.
Compliance with Laws: We may share your information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
When you place an order or subscribe through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. However, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
Depending on your location, you may have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted.
Opt-Out: You may unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of our emails.
Access/Delete: If you would like to exercise your right to access or delete your data, please contact us at the email address below.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail or mail.
MicrobeGrower
P.O. Bo 103
Porter, Maine 04068