Permitting Us To Use Cookies
The Mains of Drum Garden Centre
Effective Date: 20/11/24
If the settings on your software (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies, we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. If you'd like to remove or not use cookies from our site, you can learn how to do this below. However, doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
We use cookies to make our website work, including remembering your search settings. Other than not using our site, there is no way to prevent these cookies from being set.
Categories of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies: These are necessary for the website's core functionality and cannot be turned off in our systems.
Analytics/Performance Cookies: These are used to measure website traffic and user behaviour. (e.g., Google Analytics)
Advertising Cookies: Helps deliver targeted advertisements. (e.g., Google Ads)
Functional Cookies: Manages scripts and tags for website functionality. Ensures consistent typography across the website. (e.g., Google Tag Manager, Google Fonts)
Third-Party Cookies: Used for embedding forms and marketing integrations, embedding forms and marketing integrations. Supports widgets and site personalisation features. Provides enhanced e-commerce functionality (e.g., MailerLite, Elfsight, Garden Connect)
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows, which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us continuously improve our website. These analytic programs also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before, helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Turning Cookings Off
You can usually turn cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. However, doing so will likely limit the functionality of ours and a large proportion of the world’s websites, as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that your concerns about cookies relate to “spyware.” Rather than switching off cookies in your browser, you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.