When you visit our website, we use cookies. Cookies are small text files that a website can write to your computer, mobile or other device. Any such cookie is typically stored on your computer’s hard drive and permits our Site to recognise you when you return to the Site. For example, if you put an item in your favourites list and come back later, it will still be there. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving your user experience.
We use two types of cookies: persistent cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie and are activated each time the user visits forestgarden.co.uk; session cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.
Look at the Cookie Chart at below for further details.
| Cookie | Purpose | 1st or 3rd party | 3rd party policies |
| PHPSESSID | This cookie is essential for the identification of a user on the Forest Garden website. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser. | 1st | |
| MailChimp | We use MailChimp to manage all subscriptions to our mailing lists and to manage emails sent to subscribers of those lists. | 3rd | https://mailchimp.com/legal/cookies/ |
| Google Analytics | These cookies collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site and the pages they visited. | 3rd | https://policies.google.com/technologies/types |
| Liveperson | This cookie maintains user sessions for Live Chat and for collecting usage information. | 3rd | https://www.liveperson.com/uk/policies/use-of-cookies |
Analytics
When someone visits www.forestgarden.co.uk, we use third-party services, such as Google Analytics to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is anonymous. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.