Cookie Policy — Gardener Highbury

Welcome to the Gardener Highbury cookie policy. This notice explains how gardener-highbury uses cookies and similar technologies to make services work, to measure performance, and to support marketing. It sets out the types of cookies used, how you can exercise control, and the specific purpose of performance monitoring for improving site speed and experience.

What are cookies and why Gardener Highbury uses them

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a site. They allow the gardener highbury service to remember preferences, recognise returning devices, and collect aggregated data to keep things running smoothly. Cookies do not store sensitive personal information by themselves. This policy covers session cookies, persistent cookies, and third-party cookies implemented on our pages.

Cookie categories applied by Gardener Highbury

• Essential cookies: These are necessary for the basic operation of the service. They enable functions such as secure access to parts of a page and session management. Without these essential cookies, certain features cannot operate.
• Analytics cookies: Also described as performance cookies, these collect information about how visitors use gardener-highbury resources so we can monitor, analyse, and improve overall performance.
• Marketing cookies: Used to deliver relevant content or advertising. They may be set by third parties and used across different sites to build a profile of interests.

Purpose: performance monitoring and site health

The primary purpose of our analytics cookies is performance monitoring. Performance monitoring enables gardener highbury to measure page load times, identify slow pages, detect errors, and prioritise improvements. Aggregated metrics help engineers understand where resources are consumed and how changes affect responsiveness. These insights are used to optimise images, caching, and server responses so that users experience faster and more reliable interactions.

User control and managing cookies

You can control cookies in several ways. Most browsers allow you to accept or block cookies, delete stored cookies, or set preferences for specific sites. If you block analytics or marketing cookies, you may still use the essential features of gardener-highbury but performance tracking and personalised content will be limited. Consider the following options:

• Browser settings: Adjust cookie permissions or clear cookies from your browser preferences.
• Cookie selectors: Use any available consent tools to enable or disable categories of cookies.
• Device controls: Some mobile devices include privacy settings that limit tracking.

Third-party cookies, retention and security

Gardener Highbury may permit third-party services to set cookies for analytics and marketing purposes. These third parties have their own policies for retention and use. We require partners to handle anonymous aggregated data responsibly. Retention periods vary by cookie type: session cookies expire when the session ends; persistent cookies remain for a defined period to support preferences and measurement. We do not store financial or full identity information in cookies, and we take reasonable steps to protect data associated with cookie signals.