Open Garden Squares Weekend Cookie Usage Policy

This website makes limited use of cookies to help you in your interactions with the site.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files placed on your computer's hard drive, or in your browser memory, when you visit our website. They tell us what parts of the site you visit, what you like and what's most relevant to you. What cookies don't do is store any personal or confidential information about you.

To ensure you get the best from our website, we advise that users keep cookies active on their machine whilst visiting our website. You may not be able to use certain functions if you browse with cookies disabled.

What does this site specifically use cookies for?

• The 'My Gardens' feature uses a cookie to remember which gardens you have put on your list. When you return to the site from the same computer, the system will use the list you compiled in previous sessions. This cookie expires after 180 days.

• This site uses Google Analytics (http://www.google.co.uk/analytics/) to allow us to track how popular our site is and to record visitor trends over time. The cookie contains no personally-identifiable information, but it does use your computer's IP address to determine where in the world you are accessing the site from, and to track your page visits within the site.

Additional information

From time to time, we may embed external content from third party websites (e.g. Facebook, YouTube, Eventbrite) within our website. These websites may utilise cookies and the Privacy Policy that will apply to such third-party content will be published on the website of the third-party content provider.

Opting out of cookie usage

You can stop third-party cookies being stored on your computer by blocking them within your browser. Blocking these cookies will not affect your browsing experience.

You can also block all cookies through your browser - however, you may find that certain areas of our site will no longer work, notably the My Gardens feature; so we would not recommend this.

We understand that Article 5 (3) of the e-Privacy Directive came into force on 25th May 2011 and that the UK government is currently exploring how best to technically implement this directive. Open Garden Squares Weekend has provided this information to abide with the spirit of Article 5 (3) of the e-Privacy Directive.

For further information about managing and disabling cookies, you can refer to your browser's help section or user guide. Alternatively, the Interactive Advertising Bureau has produced a guide (see www.allaboutcookies.org), which explains to users how cookies work and can be managed.