Cookie Policy — Gardening Osterley
Gardening Osterley is committed to protecting your privacy while providing a useful and accessible online experience. This cookie policy explains what cookies and similar technologies we use when you browse our Osterley gardening information, why we use them and how you can exercise choice. Please read this notice carefully to understand how essential functions operate, how analytics help improve site performance, and how marketing cookies may be used for relevant outreach across platforms.
We use cookies to support core services and improve user experience when visiting our Osterley Garden pages. Cookies we deploy fall into three main types described below, and each type has a specific role in how our site operates and responds to visitors. The categories help you decide which cookies you accept or decline, and they reflect different technical and commercial needs for the Gardening in Osterley content.
Categories of cookies include:
- Essential cookies: Necessary for site operation, login sessions, security checks and form functionality. These cookies make it possible to navigate pages, submit forms and protect services against abuse; without them basic interactions may fail.
- Analytics cookies: Collect aggregate information about visitor behaviour to measure and enhance site performance, page load times and feature usage. They help us understand how visitors use the Osterley gardening resources so we can optimise navigation and content delivery.
- Marketing cookies: Used to deliver relevant adverts and measure campaign effectiveness across platforms, and to provide tailored content for users interested in Gardening Osterley activities. These cookies may be set by third-party partners involved in promotion and outreach.
Performance monitoring and analytics for Osterley Garden pages
Our analytics and performance monitoring cookies collect aggregated metrics such as page views, session duration, navigation paths and load times. These measures are essential to understand how the Osterley Garden content is performing: they help us identify slow pages, broken links and opportunities to streamline content delivery. Performance monitoring focuses on technical improvement and user experience rather than identifying individual visitors.
How analytics support improvements: anonymous statistics indicate where visitors spend time, which horticultural topics are most popular and which interactive tools may need optimization. For example, performance monitoring can reveal high-latency pages that benefit from file compression, or interactive plant care tools that require caching improvements to be responsive on mobile devices.
Marketing cookies are used sparingly and only where necessary to support outreach and awareness of Osterley Gardening Services initiatives. These cookies can be set by third-party partners to tailor advertising and to measure ad reach. If you prefer not to receive targeted advertising, you can disable marketing cookies via preference controls or use browser-based opt-out tools; doing so will not affect the essential functionality of the site.
User control, retention and third-party cookies
To control cookies for Gardening Osterley content you can use the cookie preference panel provided on the site or adjust your browser settings. Most modern browsers allow you to block third-party cookies, clear existing cookies, and set exceptions for trusted sites. If you choose to disable cookies, certain interactive features or personalised elements may be limited because essential cookies support functionality like secure sessions and form submissions.
Our retention practices vary: session cookies expire when you close the browser, while persistent cookies remain for defined periods to support remembered preferences and analytics used in long-term performance monitoring. We do not use analytics cookies to store personally identifiable information; those cookies only capture anonymous metrics necessary to maintain and improve site efficiency and content relevancy.
Changes and acknowledgements: We may update this cookie policy as our services and technologies evolve. By continuing to use the Osterley gardening pages after changes are posted you acknowledge the updated policy. This cookie statement outlines cookie types, clarifies user control options and explains the purpose of performance monitoring so you understand how cookie data helps us deliver a faster, more reliable Gardening Osterley resource.