Website: gardenandforest.co.uk
Business: Garden & Forest UK Ltd
Email: hello@gardenandforest.co.uk
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit a website.
We also use similar technologies such as pixels, tags, scripts, local storage and tracking technologies.
These technologies help websites function, remember preferences, analyse performance, measure advertising and improve user experience.
2. How we use cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies to:
Operate our WooCommerce shop.
Remember basket and checkout information.
Keep the website secure.
Enable account login and customer sessions.
Measure website traffic.
Understand how visitors use our website.
Improve products, content and website performance.
Run Google Ads and Google Shopping campaigns.
Measure conversions.
Support remarketing or personalised advertising where consent has been given.
Improve advertising relevance.
3. Types of cookies we use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the website to work.
They may be used for:
Shopping basket.
Checkout.
Customer login.
Security.
Fraud prevention.
Cookie preference storage.
Website load balancing or hosting.
These cookies cannot usually be switched off because the website cannot operate properly without them.
Analytics and performance cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.
We may use Google Analytics or similar tools to collect aggregated statistics about visits, pages viewed, traffic sources, device types and website performance.
These cookies are only used where required consent has been given.
Advertising and marketing cookies
These cookies help us run and measure advertising campaigns.
They may be used by Google Ads, Google Merchant Centre, Google tags or similar platforms to:
Measure ad performance.
Track conversions.
Prevent repetitive ads.
Build audiences.
Show relevant ads.
Support remarketing.
Support personalised or non-personalised ads depending on your consent choices.
The ICO states that storage and access technologies used for online advertising generally require consent.
Functionality cookies
These cookies remember choices you make, such as preferences, forms, display choices or account-related settings.
4. Google cookies and advertising technologies
We may use Google technologies including Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager and Google Merchant Centre-related tracking.
Google may use cookies or similar technologies for ad measurement, frequency capping, aggregated reporting and personalised or non-personalised ads.
Where required, these cookies will only be used after you give consent.
5. Consent
When you first visit our website, you may be shown a cookie banner or consent tool.
You can choose whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies.
Continuing to browse the website is not treated as valid consent for non-essential cookies. ICO guidance requires a clear and deliberate consent action for non-essential cookies and says users should be able to enable or disable them easily.
6. Managing cookies
You can manage cookies by:
Using our cookie banner or cookie settings tool.
Changing your browser settings.
Deleting cookies from your device.
Blocking third-party cookies in your browser.
Please note that blocking some cookies may affect website functionality.
7. Third-party cookies
Some cookies may be set by third parties, including Google and other service providers.
Third parties may process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies.
We recommend reviewing the privacy information of relevant third-party providers.
8. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, law, advertising platforms or website functionality.