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Late Summer 2026 The Living Garden Issue Vol. 01
The Sunday Garden Letter
CULTIVRA.

Cookie Policy​

Last updated: August 31, 2026

CULTIVRA uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, understand how readers interact with our content, remember preferences, support advertising, measure performance, and improve the overall user experience.

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, which types of cookies may be used on thecultivra.com, why they are used, and how you can manage your choices.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites store on your browser or device when you visit them. Cookies may contain identifiers and other information that allow a website or third-party service to recognize a browser, remember preferences, measure activity, or provide certain features.

Some cookies remain on your device only while your browser is open. These are commonly known as session cookies. Other cookies remain for a defined period or until you delete them. These are commonly known as persistent cookies.

Similar technologies—including pixels, tags, scripts, web beacons, local storage, and software development tools—may perform functions similar to cookies. References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.

How CULTIVRA Uses Cookies

CULTIVRA may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Operate, secure, and maintain the website

  • Remember visitor choices and consent preferences

  • Understand how visitors find and use the site

  • Measure page views, traffic, engagement, and website performance

  • Identify technical errors and improve functionality

  • Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, and invalid traffic

  • Support affiliate-link tracking

  • Display and measure advertising

  • Limit how often an advertisement is shown

  • Support forms and interactive gardening tools

  • Provide embedded content or features from third-party services

The cookies used may vary depending on the page you visit, the features you interact with, your location, your browser settings, and the consent choices available to you.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies help the website function properly and securely. They may support features such as:

  • Website security and fraud prevention

  • Network and server management

  • Page loading and basic navigation

  • Form functionality

  • Interactive gardening tools

  • Saving cookie and privacy preferences

  • Maintaining technical sessions

These cookies are generally necessary for the services you request and cannot always be disabled through the website’s consent tool.

You may be able to block them through your browser, but parts of the website may not function correctly as a result.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices or provide enhanced features.

They may remember settings such as language, display preferences, information entered into certain tools, or other selections made during a previous visit.

If these cookies are disabled, some preferences or personalized features may not be retained.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how visitors interact with CULTIVRA.

They may collect information such as:

  • Pages visited

  • Time spent on the website

  • Referring websites or search engines

  • Links and features used

  • General device and browser information

  • Approximate geographic location

  • Website errors and performance information

  • Interactions with articles and gardening tools

We may use analytics providers, including Google Analytics or similar services, to process this information.

Analytics information helps us evaluate content performance, improve navigation, identify technical problems, understand which resources readers find useful, and create a better website experience.

Depending on your location and applicable legal requirements, analytics cookies may be used only after you provide consent.

Information about how Google processes information from websites using its services is available here:

How Google Uses Information From Sites or Apps That Use Its Services

Advertising Cookies

CULTIVRA uses or may use third-party advertising services, including Google AdSense.

Advertising providers may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, local storage, and other identifiers to:

  • Serve and display advertisements

  • Measure advertising performance

  • Prevent fraud and invalid traffic

  • Limit how frequently an advertisement appears

  • Produce aggregated advertising reports

  • Select contextual advertisements

  • Personalize advertisements where permitted and consented to

Google and other advertising providers may place or read cookies on your browser or use similar technologies when advertisements are served on CULTIVRA.

Personalized advertisements may be based on information such as previous visits to CULTIVRA or other websites, subject to your consent choices and applicable law.

Non-personalized advertisements are generally selected using contextual information, such as the content of the page. They may still use cookies or similar technologies for frequency control, security, fraud prevention, and aggregated reporting.

You can learn more about Google’s use of information and advertising technologies at:

How Google Uses Information From Partner Sites

How Google Uses Cookies in Advertising

You may manage certain Google advertising preferences through:

Google My Ad Center

Affiliate Tracking Cookies

CULTIVRA may participate in affiliate marketing programs.

When you click an affiliate link, the relevant retailer, affiliate network, brand, or service provider may place a cookie or use another tracking technology to record that the visit originated from CULTIVRA.

If you later complete a qualifying purchase or action, this information may be used to attribute a commission to CULTIVRA at no additional cost to you.

Affiliate cookies are controlled by the relevant retailer, affiliate network, or service provider. Their duration, purposes, and use are determined by that third party and may vary between programs.

Additional information is available in our Affiliate Disclosure.

Embedded Content and Third-Party Features

Pages on CULTIVRA may include content or features provided by third parties, such as:

  • Videos

  • Social media posts

  • Pinterest content

  • Sharing tools

  • Maps

  • Forms

  • Product links

  • Retailer content

  • Interactive resources

These third parties may place cookies or collect information when their content is loaded, displayed, or used.

Depending on the service, this may include information about your browser, device, IP address, interactions, or activity across other websites.

Third-party services may include platforms such as Google, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, affiliate networks, analytics providers, advertising providers, security services, and other technology providers.

CULTIVRA does not control cookies placed directly by third parties. Their collection and use of information are governed by their respective privacy and cookie policies.

Your Cookie Choices

Where required by applicable law, CULTIVRA requests permission before using non-essential cookies.

Through the consent notice or cookie settings available on the website, you may be able to:

  • Accept non-essential cookies

  • Reject non-essential cookies

  • Choose which cookie categories to allow

  • Change or withdraw your consent

Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they support the basic operation, security, or privacy settings of the website.

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before your preference was changed. Your updated choice will apply to the future use of cookies on that browser or device.

If you use a different browser or device, clear your browser data, or use private browsing, you may need to make your selections again.

Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most browsers allow you to view, block, or delete cookies through their settings. Browser controls vary, so consult your browser’s help or privacy section for instructions.

Blocking all cookies may affect the appearance, availability, or functionality of some parts of CULTIVRA.

Deleting cookies may also remove previously saved preferences, including your cookie-consent selection and information stored by certain interactive tools.

Browser settings do not necessarily prevent every form of data collection performed through technologies other than cookies.

Cookie Duration

The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose and the service that placed it.

Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies may remain for a defined period or until you remove them.

Third-party providers may change their cookies, purposes, and retention periods as their services evolve.

Where available, additional information about cookie categories, providers, purposes, and consent choices may be displayed through the website’s cookie-preference tool or the relevant provider’s policies.

Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, applicable privacy laws may provide certain rights concerning personal information collected through cookies and similar technologies.

These may include the right to request:

  • Access to personal information

  • Correction of inaccurate information

  • Deletion of certain information

  • Restriction of certain processing

  • Withdrawal of consent

  • Objection to certain forms of processing

The rights available to you may depend on your location and the circumstances surrounding the collection and use of your information.

For more information about the information CULTIVRA collects, how it may be used, and how to submit a privacy request, please review our Privacy Policy.

You may also contact us at hello@thecultivra.com.

Children’s Privacy

CULTIVRA is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly use cookies to collect personal information from children under 13.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information through the website, please contact us so we can review and address the situation.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

CULTIVRA may update this Cookie Policy when our practices, services, technologies, advertising relationships, or legal obligations change.

The revised policy will be published on this page, and the “Last updated” date will be changed accordingly.

We encourage visitors to review this Cookie Policy periodically.

Contact CULTIVRA

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or CULTIVRA’s use of cookies, please contact us:

CULTIVRA

Website: thecultivra.com

Email: hello@thecultivra.com