The National Garden Scheme, a company incorporated in England and Wales whose registered office is at East Wing, Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, Guildford GU4 7RT (registered number Charity Number 1112664 Company Number 5631421) (“we/us/our”). We use cookies and this document explains their use.
We use cookies to provide you with a better experience when accessing our websites. They also help us to analyse how visitors use our websites and this helps us to improve the content and design of our websites.
We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.
General cookie information
Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient.
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.
This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Please state your consent ID and date when you contact us regarding your consent.
Necessary cookies information
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Statistics cookies information
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Preference cookies information
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
Marketing cookies information
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
Unclassified cookies information
Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics are persistent cookies that allow us to recognise, count the number of visitors, and provide anonymous data about how our visitors use our websites.
Using analytics cookies helps us improve the way our websites work and navigate, ensuring that users are able to find what they are looking for without difficulty. No personally identifiable data is collected about you.
For further information on analytics cookies, please click here.
Device Cookies
We use a persistent cookie to understand what device you are using and make sure the website is displayed correctly.
We use this in conjunction with the VID cookie to keep track of the logged in entity. It allows us to identify the secure zone where the entity is logged in.
A secure area for is created for each candidate and we use the VID cookie to ensure candidates log into their correct secure area.
Managing and Blocking Cookies
You can block some or all cookies by activating the setting on your browser. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our websites. This may impair your ability to fully utilise our websites.
More information about cookies can be found on the website http://www.aboutcookies.org. This also gives details on how to delete cookies from your device. For information on how to do this on your smart mobile phone or tablet browser, please consult your device’s manual, or manufacturer.
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Bots
This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
For your information these are the cookies active on our website:
Cookie: NGS Find a Garden and Shopping Basket State: This cookie is used when you use Find a Garden and/or visit the Shop area of our website. It is used to store the criteria for your current garden search and also stores your shopping basket prior to checkout. This cookie is destroyed when you close your browser.
Cookie: Hide Cookie Message: If you click to hide the cookie message, this cookie will be created to record the fact that you have clicked the hide button.
Cookie: NGS Website Survey: These cookies will be created when you first visit the NGS website in order to display a survey to you on your next visit to the site. The actual survey is conducted via the SurveyMonkey website and we have no control over what cookies survey monkey creates or how they are used.
Cookie: Google Analytics: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
Cookie: Cloudflare: Cookie purpose description: This cookie is a part of the services provided by Cloudflare – Including load-balancing, deliverance of website content and serving DNS connection for website operators.
Marketing:
Cookie purpose description: Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences.
Cookie purpose description: Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.
Cookie purpose description: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
Cookie purpose description: Recognises the user’s device and what Issuu documents have been read.
Cookie purpose description: Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences.
Cookie purpose description: Detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address.
Cookie purpose description: Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content.
Cookie purpose description: Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website.
Cookie purpose description: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
Cookie purpose description: Used in context with the website’s map integration. The cookie stores user interaction with the map in order to optimize its functionality.
Your Consent:
By clicking “CLOSE” on the cookie banner, you agree to the placement of cookies on your device, unless you actively block them. If you choose not to receive our cookies, we cannot guarantee that your experience will be as fulfilling as it would otherwise be, in fact you might not be able to access any or all of the website. Once your consent has been provided, this message will not appear again when you revisit. If you, or another user of your computer, wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you can do so by altering your browser settings.
Contact us
If you have any questions about our cookies or this cookies policy please contact us by email at [email protected]
Date of Policy: August 2024
