Cookie Policy for Gardeners Mayfair

Gardeners Mayfair takes your privacy and preferences seriously. This cookie policy explains how cookies and similar technologies are used by Gardeners of Mayfair and related services to deliver a reliable, personalised experience. The policy describes the types of cookies we use, including essential, analytics and marketing cookies, and how each category supports site functionality and performance monitoring for our Mayfair gardeners community.

We use straightforward language so that Mayfair gardeners and visitors can make informed choices. Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a site. They do not identify you personally by name but help recognise your device and remember preferences, language settings and basic session information to improve interactions with Gardeners-Mayfair resources.

Our intention is transparency: we explain cookie types, how we use them, and how you control them. This policy covers first-party cookies set by Gardeners Mayfair and third-party cookies set by partners for analytics and marketing. Please read on to learn about cookie categories and the role cookies play in performance monitoring and reporting.

Types of Cookies We Use

Gardeners Mayfair utilises three core cookie categories. Each serves a distinct purpose and has different implications for privacy and functionality:

• Essential cookies: necessary for core functionality, security and access to account areas.
• Analytics cookies: used for performance monitoring, measuring site speed, error rates and aggregated usage to help improve content and layout.
• Marketing cookies: help deliver relevant advertising and measure campaign effectiveness while respecting user choices.

Essential (required) cookies enable critical features such as secure logins, shopping sessions or booking interfaces for Mayfair gardening services. These cookies cannot be switched off in our systems without impacting essential website functions. They are typically set in response to actions you make, like setting privacy preferences or logging in.

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the site by collecting aggregated, anonymous data about pages visited, time spent and load performance. We use this information purely for performance monitoring: to identify slow pages, recurring errors and opportunities to optimise the experience for both Gardeners Mayfair staff and customers. Marketing cookies are optional and used only with consent to serve personalised content and ads; they may be set by advertising partners.

User Control and Managing Cookies

You have control over cookie preferences. Most browsers allow you to manage cookies via settings where you can block or delete cookies. Blocking certain categories may affect site features; for example, turning off essential cookies may prevent secure areas from functioning. To control analytics and marketing cookies, use the cookie settings banner or your browser / device settings.

Options we provide include: a clear cookie consent banner to accept or reject non-essential cookies, toggles for analytics and marketing preferences, and the ability to withdraw consent at any time. We recommend leaving essential cookies enabled to maintain security and core access to features used by Mayfair gardeners and visitors. When analytics are enabled, we only process aggregated performance data used for improving load times, diagnosing errors and making design decisions.

Retention and third-party cookies: some cookies persist only for a session while others remain for months. Third-party partners may set persistent cookies for analytics or advertising; their policies govern those cookies. We do not sell personal data and limit data collection to what is necessary for performance monitoring, analytics and lawful marketing activity. For any preferences you change, we store your choice so you are not repeatedly asked.