Cookie Policy for Gardeners Spitalfields
Gardeners Spitalfields and the team that manage gardens in Spitalfields take your privacy seriously. This cookie policy explains what cookies are, how we use them across our gardener services and community pages, and the choices you have. It applies to visitors who interact with content provided by Gardeners in Spitalfields, whether reading plant care notes, browsing event listings, or viewing photographic archives of Spitalfields gardeners.
We use a small number of cookies to deliver essential features and to help us understand how people use our gardener resources. Cookies are small text files stored on your device that improve functionality and allow performance monitoring across pages. This policy describes cookie types and how gardeners of Spitalfields manage them.
Scope: This statement covers cookies set by our pages and third-party services we employ to measure performance and to support limited promotional activity for community events. It does not include contact details, guides, or testimonials and focuses exclusively on cookie usage for functionality, analytics, and marketing purposes.
Types of cookies we use
We categorize cookies into three primary types so you can make informed choices:
Essential cookies: These cookies are necessary for core features to work. They enable secure browsing, session management, and access to restricted areas used by organisers of the Spitalfields garden projects. Without these cookies, some services and forms would not function correctly.
Analytics cookies: Analytics cookies help us measure how visitors interact with pages about Gardeners Spitalfields, which plant pages are most read, and which event listings attract interest. These cookies are solely for performance monitoring and improvement; they aggregate information such as page views, time spent on pages, and error tracking so we can enhance content and navigation for community gardeners.
Marketing and third-party cookies
Marketing cookies may be used sparingly to present community event information and occasional promotions related to gardening activities. These are generally set by third parties and help us show relevant notices about workshops or seasonal planting drives that may interest Spitalfields gardeners. You can opt out of these cookies if you prefer.
User control and choices: You have control over whether cookies are stored on your device. Most browsers let you block or delete cookies through settings. For analytics and marketing cookies, many services provide opt-out links, and browser add-ons can reduce tracking. To change preferences, adjust your browser or device settings to refuse non-essential cookies; essential cookies remain required for some features.
Below is a simple summary list of examples of cookies we may use:
- Essential: session identifiers, security tokens
- Analytics: page view counters, performance timers
- Marketing: preference signals for event promotions
Purpose: performance monitoring — Performance cookies collect anonymous, aggregated data to help us understand site speed, content popularity, and errors encountered by visitors. This information supports improvements such as faster loading plant guides, clearer event calendars for Gardeners Spitalfields, and more intuitive navigation for Spitalfields gardeners seeking volunteering opportunities. Performance monitoring does not identify you personally and is used only to enhance the user experience.
Retention and security: Cookie data is retained only as long as needed for the purpose for which it was set or as required by the third-party provider. We do not use cookies to store sensitive personal information. Aggregated analytics data is held securely and processed under appropriate safeguards.
Updates to this policy: We may revise this cookie policy to reflect changes in technology or how gardeners and visitors use our resources. When changes are significant, we will make a clear note on the relevant pages so members of the Gardeners Spitalfields community and other Spitalfields gardeners are aware of updates.
