Website: https://housengarden.co.uk
Company: House and Garden
Email: support@housengarden.co.uk
1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website.
They help the website recognize your device and store certain information about your preferences or actions.
Cookies can be:
- First-party cookies – set by the website you are visiting.
- Third-party cookies – set by other websites or services (such as advertising networks or analytics providers).
2. How We Use Cookies
At House and Garden, we use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Ensure our Website functions properly;
- Improve performance and user experience;
- Analyze how visitors use our site;
- Deliver personalized advertisements through Google AdSense and other advertising partners;
- Measure the effectiveness of our ads and content.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
a. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the Website to operate correctly.
They enable core features like page navigation, security, and access to secure areas.
You cannot disable these cookies through our cookie settings.
b. Performance & Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use the Website (for example, which pages are visited most often).
We use this data to improve performance and user experience.
We use tools like Google Analytics to gather this information anonymously.
c. Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow the Website to remember your choices (like language or region) to provide enhanced and personalized features.
d. Advertising & Targeting Cookies
We use Google AdSense and other advertising partners to show personalized and non-personalized ads on our Website.
These cookies help deliver ads more relevant to your interests and limit the number of times you see the same ad.
Advertising cookies may track your activity across websites for interest-based advertising.
For more details about how Google uses cookies in advertising, visit:
👉 https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
4. Google AdSense and Third-Party Cookies
We participate in the Google AdSense program, which uses cookies and technologies such as:
- Google Advertising Cookies (DoubleClick cookies) – to serve and optimize ads;
- Web beacons and similar technologies – to measure ad performance and prevent fraud.
Personalized Advertising
- Google may use cookies to personalize ads based on your previous interactions with this or other websites.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting:
👉 Google Ads Settings
Non-Personalized Ads
In regions where required (e.g., EEA and UK), users can choose to receive non-personalized ads, which do not use cookies for targeting.
For more details, see Google’s policies:
5. Consent Management
When you visit housengarden.co.uk for the first time, a cookie consent banner will appear, giving you the option to:
- Accept all cookies;
- Reject non-essential cookies; or
- Manage cookie preferences.
Your consent choices are stored and can be modified at any time via our “Cookie Settings” link on the Website footer.
For visitors from the EEA or the United Kingdom, no advertising or analytics cookies are placed until you provide consent — in full compliance with Google AdSense requirements and GDPR.
6. Managing and Disabling Cookies
You can control or delete cookies at any time by adjusting your browser settings.
To manage cookies:
- Google Chrome: Manage cookies in Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox: Manage cookies in Firefox
- Microsoft Edge: Manage cookies in Edge
- Safari: Manage cookies in Safari
Please note: if you disable cookies, certain parts of the Website may not function properly.
7. Third-Party Services That Use Cookies
We may use third-party services that place cookies on your device, including:
- Google AdSense (advertising)
- Google Analytics (analytics and performance)
- YouTube or other embedded content providers (video content or interactive media)
Each third-party service has its own privacy and cookie policies, which we encourage you to review.
8. Data Collected via Cookies
The data collected may include:
- IP address, browser type, device information;
- Geographic location (country or city level);
- Pages visited, time spent, and click interactions;
- Information about ads viewed or clicked.
This data may be used in aggregate to improve our Website and ad delivery but does not personally identify you unless you have voluntarily provided information elsewhere on the site.
9. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in technology, legal requirements, or our data practices.
When we do, the revised version will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date.
We recommend reviewing this policy regularly to stay informed about how we use cookies.
10. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact:
House and Garden
📧 Email: support@housengarden.co.uk
🌐 Website: https://housengarden.co.uk
✅ Complies with:
- Google AdSense Program Policies
- Google EU User Consent Policy
- UK GDPR & EU GDPR
- ePrivacy Directive (Cookie Law)
