Cookie Policy — Gardeners Fitzrovia

Gardeners Fitzrovia and related services use cookies and similar technologies to ensure a secure, efficient and personalized experience. This policy explains what cookies are, the different categories we use, and how you can control them. The purpose is to be transparent about data collection by Fitzrovia Gardeners and to describe how cookie-based performance monitoring helps us improve site speed and reliability for visitors.

Our approach at the Gardeners of Fitzrovia balances core functionality with privacy. Essential cookies are strictly necessary for the basic operation of features that protect user sessions and maintain security. These required cookies enable navigation, session management, and access to secure areas. Without them, some services provided by Gardeners-Fitzrovia may not function correctly. We do not use essential cookies for tracking beyond the scope of maintaining system stability and integrity.

Cookie categories and their roles

Cookies fall into several categories: essential, analytics, and marketing. Analytics cookies collect anonymous usage statistics so we can measure how people interact with content and identify performance issues. Marketing cookies help tailor third-party advertising experiences but are never used to build profiles that are shared with external parties for unrelated commercial purposes. These cookie categories help gardeners Fitzrovia operate responsibly while delivering relevant and timely content.

Performance monitoring and analytics explained

Performance monitoring is a fundamental reason we use analytics cookies. By aggregating anonymous metrics — page load times, resource errors, and interaction patterns — Fitzrovia Gardeners can detect slow pages, memory leaks, and other technical faults. This data lets us prioritize improvements that reduce load times, enhance reliability, and lower the chance of downtime. Performance monitoring is about optimizing the technical experience, not about identifying individual users.

Below is a simple breakdown of cookie types employed by Gardeners of Fitzrovia and their purposes:

• Essential cookies: Maintain session security, enable login-related functionality, and prevent fraud.
• Analytics cookies: Collect aggregate usage statistics for performance monitoring, error detection, and capacity planning.
• Marketing cookies: Support limited personalization of content and advertising experiences, subject to user consent.

These lists are representative and may be updated as technologies and services evolve. We ensure that cookie use remains proportionate and focused on improving the experience for visitors to Gardeners Fitzrovia resources.

User control and consent: you have options. You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings or in-application controls where available. Opting out of analytics cookies will reduce our ability to perform detailed performance monitoring, which could slow our capacity to identify and resolve technical issues quickly. However, opting out will not prevent essential cookies needed for core functionality. Respecting your choices is central to how Gardeners-Fitzrovia handles consent. We store your cookie preferences in a way that honors your selections without compromising necessary security measures. If you choose to withdraw consent for marketing cookies, any personalization or third-party targeting will cease.

Data retention and security: analytics and marketing cookies have finite lifespans and are retained only as long as necessary to fulfill their purpose, for example short-term session analytics or a few months for marketing preferences. We do not combine cookie-derived identifiers with unrelated personal records to create unexpected profiles. Security measures are used to minimize risk, and access to aggregated analytics data is limited to authorized technical staff and partners engaged in performance improvements.

Changes to this policy: updates may be made to reflect new practices or technologies used by the gardeners in Fitzrovia community. When material changes occur, we will reflect those in this policy text. Reviewing the cookie categories periodically helps ensure clarity about how essential, analytics, and marketing cookies are used. This policy aims to be clear, practical, and centered on improving performance monitoring and user control while protecting core functionality.

Effective governance: The Gardeners Fitzrovia cookie approach focuses on transparency, minimal data use, and allowing users meaningful control. If you manage cookies via your device or application settings, those choices will be respected and applied to limit non-essential tracking while maintaining essential protections that keep services operating safely and reliably.