Gardeners Mill Hill Cookie Policy

Welcome to the cookie policy for Gardeners Mill Hill. This policy explains how cookies and similar technologies are used by the Mill Hill gardeners team to support site functionality, improve performance, and personalise experiences. Gardeners Mill-Hill and related services use a small set of cookies to remember user preferences and to ensure safe, reliable operation of essential features across devices.

Scope and purpose

This cookie notice covers cookies placed by Gardeners Mill Hill and by third parties on pages where our content appears. It clarifies the types of cookies used, why we use them for performance monitoring, and how you can manage your choices. The policy applies to Mill Hill Gardeners content, tools and embedded features that rely on cookie data to function correctly.

Cookie categories include three primary types used by Gardeners' Mill Hill:

• Essential cookies — required for core site operations such as session management and security.
• Analytics cookies — used to measure and analyse site usage and to support performance monitoring.
• Marketing cookies — used to deliver and measure relevant promotions and to tailor content.

Essential cookies

Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the site to operate. These cookies do not collect information that could be used for marketing or tracking outside the necessary session details. If you disable essential cookies you may not be able to access certain features or secure areas employed by the Mill Hill gardeners administration tools.

Analytics and performance monitoring — Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the site and how content performs over time. We use aggregated data to run performance monitoring, identify slow pages, and prioritise improvements to load speed and reliability. Performance monitoring cookies collect metrics such as page load times, error rates, and interaction patterns to support better experiences for Mill Hill Gardeners and returning visitors.

Analytics cookies are typically anonymous or pseudonymous and do not identify you directly. Data collected contributes to improving layout, accessibility, and the speed of tools used by gardeners at Mill Hill. These cookies are essential for ongoing quality assurance and technical optimisation.

Marketing cookies — Marketing cookies enable targeted content and promotional measures. They may be placed by third-party advertising partners to provide relevant offers and to measure campaign effectiveness. Marketing cookies can track interactions across multiple visits and are used to build profiles for more relevant messaging to visitors of Gardeners Mill Hill channels.

How you can control cookies: you have choices. Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies through settings. Additionally, where appropriate, opt-out mechanisms for analytics and marketing are provided by the vendors that set those cookies. The Mill Hill gardeners team encourages visitors to review browser privacy settings and opt-out tools to align cookie behaviour with personal preferences.

Retention and third-party cookies — Cookie duration varies: session cookies expire when you close your browser while persistent cookies remain for a specified period. Some cookies are set by trusted third-party providers; these providers maintain their own privacy and cookie policies and are responsible for their data practices. Gardeners Mill Hill uses contractual and technical controls to limit what these third parties may collect.

Managing preferences — To adjust your cookie consent or change settings, use your browser controls or any consent tool presented on pages. You can clear cookies, set browser-level exceptions for specific domains, and review privacy settings on the services that place cookies. Actions you can take include:

• Blocking all cookies — may affect functionality.
• Deleting cookies — will reset preferences and may log you out of sessions.
• Opting out of analytics and marketing cookies where vendor options exist.

We regularly review cookie usage to ensure cookies used by Mill Hill's gardeners remain limited to what is necessary for performance, security and legitimate enhancement of the user experience. This policy will be updated when cookie practices change or new technologies are adopted.