Cookie Policy for Gardeners Southwark

Welcome to the cookie policy for Gardeners Southwark. This policy explains how Gardeners in Southwark and related services use cookies and similar technologies to recognise you, support site functionality and improve performance. Cookies help us deliver a reliable experience; this document sets out cookie types, user control options and the specific purpose of cookies used for performance monitoring.

The types of cookies we use are described below. We aim to be transparent about what each cookie does. Southwark gardeners services use cookies to keep essential features active, to collect analytics data and to support marketing activities where relevant. Please read each section to understand how you can manage or refuse specific cookie categories.

Overview of cookie categories: our cookie practice is grouped into three primary classes. Each class has a clear role, and you can exercise choices for non-essential cookies. The categories are:

1. Essential cookies — These cookies are necessary for the basic operation of services tied to Gardeners Southwark. Essential cookies enable core functions like secure access to protected areas, session management and form submissions. Without them, key site features would not work properly.

2. Analytics cookies — Analytics cookies collect information that helps us understand how visitors interact with content and tools. We use aggregated, anonymised metrics to track page views, load times and user flows so that Southwark gardeners can monitor performance, identify slow pages and prioritise technical fixes. The explicit purpose of performance monitoring is to measure and improve speed, reliability and resource usage.

3. Marketing cookies — Marketing cookies support showing relevant content and promotions where applicable. These may be set by third parties and help deliver targeted content, measure campaign effectiveness and limit repetitive messaging. If you opt out, personalised marketing is reduced but functional access is unaffected.

How to control cookies: you have clear choices. Most modern browsers allow you to block or delete cookies via settings. You can also refuse analytics and marketing cookies while allowing essential cookies to remain active. To manage preferences:

• Allow essential only: preserve necessary site functionality while blocking tracking and advertising cookies.
• Disable analytics: stop anonymous performance and usage data collection used for monitoring and improvement.
• Opt-out of marketing: prevent targeted campaigns and third-party ad placement based on cookie data.

Performance monitoring purpose: Analytics cookies used by our platform focus on performance metrics — load times, error rates, and resource consumption. This allows Gardeners Southwark and Southwark gardeners teams to prioritise optimisations that make pages faster, reduce downtime and improve the overall user experience. Such monitoring is anonymised and used only to enhance technical performance rather than to identify individuals.