Golden Acres Nurseries Ltd Privacy and Cookie Policy

Privacy Policy in Brief
Golden Acres Group is committed to protecting your privacy and has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the website at URL: www.golden-acres-nursery.co.uk

• Golden Acres does not disclose visitors’ information to third parties.
•Any information that you provide us with, whether it be business or personal information (such as your name or address), cannot be seen by third parties.
• This site may at times contain links to other, third party websites; Golden Acres Nurseries Limited is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
•This privacy statement is not presented as a legally binding contract.

Privacy Policy in Detail
Information We Collect and Use
There are sections in our website where we may ask you to register in order to gain receive information, or to be able to download various items, or to make contact with Golden Acres Group. Any information you provide will remain the secured property of Golden Acres Nurseries Limited. Under no circumstances will it be sold or rented to any third party. Golden Acres Group may, however, use your contact information to send you any information you have specifically requested or any other information or news about our company and services. Your details maybe used in an aggregated form for marketing analysis of our website traffic.

In addition to any personal information you may provide, Golden Acres Nurseries Limited may, on occasion use software or other tools that enable the collection of relevant technical information, for example the IP address (Internet protocol) (IP), the operating system deployed on your computer, the browser used for access, various traffic patterns, as well as the address of any referring websites. Golden Acres Nurseries Limited always traces how a visitor arrives at the Golden Acres Group website, however we will not attempt to gather information from websites that you have visited prior to visiting the Golden Acres Group website.

Use of Personal Information
Golden Acres Group may use your personal information for the following purposes:
•To enable you to use the site without repeatedly entering passwords or logins.
•To provide information or services that you have requested.
•To alert you to company news, other updated information and new products and services from Golden Acres Nurseries Limited

Hyperlinks to Other Websites:
•Golden Acres Nurseries Limited may provide links on our site that direct to external, third party websites.
•We have no control over the content other sites, nor the usage of information they gather.
•We recommend that you always review the privacy policies at any third party sites you visit; they may not follow the same policies as us.

Opting Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. This site gives users the following options to discontinue receiving future communications by any of the following means:

•Send an e-mail to our marketing department indicating your request to be unsubscribed from a specific list.
•In writing to: Marketing, Golden Acres Nursery, 397 Christchurch Road, West Parley, Ferndown, Dorset BH22 8SJ
•You can call our marketing department on this telephone number: 01202 581368

The Golden Acres Group website cookie
The Golden Acres Group website uses a “session cookie” to identify your browser “session” as you move between pages on the website and perform activities.

The website cookie allows our website to recognise each subsequent request from your browser as being the same browser that made the initial request to our website.

By knowing that each subsequent request is related to the first, our website is able to track your actions as you move around the website and to provide interactive features.

The cookie itself is a very small text file that is stored on your device (for example, your PC or your phone) by your web browser. It contains a simple text code that your browser sends back to our website each time you browse to a new page. This allows the website to look up your specific session and associate data for that session with your browser. The data itself is not stored in your cookie but on the server(s) operating the website.

Google Analytics
The Golden Acres Group website uses cookies to allow Google Analytics to function correctly. Google Analytics is a free web analytics tools that helps us understand how visitors engage with the Golden Acres Group website. These cookies have names that begin with __utm such as __utma and __utmz.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously; it reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. The cookies store information such as the number of visits to the website and what site referred the visitor to the web page. We use the information to view reports about how visitors interact with the website and to help us improve the website. A different set of cookies is used for each website, and visitors are not tracked across multiple sites.

Information about these cookies and how to reject or delete them: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html and http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ads/#toc-analytics.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Google’s privacy policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html

How to control and delete cookies
You may restrict or block the cookies which are set by the Golden Acres Group website, or any other website, through your browser settings.

To find out more about cookies and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org. Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the Golden Acres Group website.

Local Shared Objects (Flash Cookies)
The Golden Acres Group website uses Adobe Flash Player to provide video content. Local Shared Objects (commonly known as Flash Cookies) may be used to improve user experience, for example to save your playback preferences. Flash Cookies are similar to cookies, however they are managed differently.

How to disable Flash Cookies:
Information on how to disable and delete Flash Cookies is provided on the Adobe website at http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/security. Your experience of the Golden Acres Group website may be affected if you restrict the use of Flash Cookies.