Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 2026

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://spruceshake.com. Spruceshake provides expert advice on gardening, landscape design, and home maintenance. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a transparent experience on our site.

2. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies to enhance your experience, analyze site traffic, and serve personalized advertisements. By using Spruceshake, you consent to the use of cookies.

Google AdSense: As a third-party vendor, Google uses cookies to serve ads on our site based on your prior visits. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to Spruceshake and/or other sites on the Internet.
Affiliate Links: We participate in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and partner with Angi. These third-party partners use cookies to track clicks and purchases to process referral commissions.

3. Comments & Media

When visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection. If you upload images, please avoid embedding location data (EXIF GPS).

4. Embedded Content

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). 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 according to their own privacy policies.

5. Data Retention and Your Rights

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. For users that register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. You have the right to request an export of your personal data or to have us erase any personal data we hold about you.

6. Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We do not sell your personal data to third parties.

7. Contact Information

For any privacy-related inquiries, please contact us through our official contact page or at our registered address in Portland, Oregon.

Milan S.

Milan S. is a technical expert and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in property maintenance and landscape engineering. Established in 2015, Spruceshake is his platform for sharing precise, professional-grade gardening and structural home improvement advice. With a background in telecommunications and a passion for sustainable design, Milan focuses on the technical side of gardening—ensuring that every project is built to last.

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