Gardeners Golders Green Cookie Policy
Welcome to the cookie policy for Gardeners Golders Green. This policy explains how Gardeners of Golders Green and Golders Green gardeners use cookies and similar technologies to provide services, measure performance, and personalise basic features. Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit pages. This statement describes essential concepts, cookie types, user options and our purpose for performance monitoring in plain language.
Our cookie approach balances functionality and privacy for visitors to Gardeners in Golders Green. Some cookies are strictly essential to make the site work — they manage sessions, remember consent, and protect security. Other cookies support analytics so our team of Golders Green gardeners can understand overall usage patterns and improve page speed and layout. A third group, marketing cookies, helps us show relevant content where permitted, but these are not necessary for basic browsing.
Cookie categories used by our Greeners at Golders Green include:
- Essential cookies — required for navigation, signing in to restricted areas, and securing the service. These enable core features and cannot be disabled without affecting site functionality.
- Analytics cookies — used for performance monitoring and traffic analysis. These cookies collect anonymised metrics about page visits, speed, and errors to help our gardeners optimise the experience.
- Marketing cookies — used to present relevant information and advertising where explicitly consented. They may be set by third parties to display tailored content.
Purpose for performance monitoring
We use analytics and performance cookies to monitor performance and improve how our services, pages and resources behave under load. Performance monitoring helps us identify slow pages, resource bottlenecks, script errors and mobile responsiveness issues that affect visitors to Gardeners Golders Green and related pages. The data is aggregated or anonymised: it focuses on trends rather than individual identities. This monitoring is essential for maintaining fast page load times, reducing downtime, and ensuring the overall reliability of the gardening content and tools provided.
User control is important. You can manage cookie preferences using the cookie settings banner or through your browser. Options include disabling non-essential cookies, deleting stored cookies, or selecting preferences for analytics and marketing cookies. Turning off analytics cookies will limit our performance insights, but core functionality powered by essential cookies will continue to work for most interactions on the Golders Green gardening pages.
How to change settings: To change cookie settings, use the privacy controls presented when you first visit, or adjust preferences in your browser to block or remove cookies. Popular browsers provide simple options to block third-party cookies, clear all cookies for a site, or prompt before accepting cookies. If you choose to block essential cookies, some features may not operate correctly.
Third-party cookies and retention
Third-party cookies may be placed by analytics platforms or advertising partners. These parties have their own policies; when they set cookies, their terms control how they use collected data. We limit third-party cookie use and require partners to adhere to privacy-respecting practices suitable for Gardeners Golders Green and local gardening audiences.
We retain cookies for set periods depending on their purpose: session cookies last only until the browser closes, while analytics cookies may remain for months to provide meaningful trend data. Marketing cookies often persist longer to avoid repeatedly asking permission for the same choices. All retention is reviewed periodically to ensure it remains necessary and proportionate.
Changes to this policy: We may update this cookie policy to reflect changes to technology, legal requirements, or our operations. Substantive changes will be highlighted where appropriate, and visitors are encouraged to review cookie settings regularly to stay informed about how cookies are used by Gardeners Golders Green and associated services.
