Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
This website uses cookies to collect information, cookies are small data files which are placed on your computer or other mobile devices (e.g. smart ‘phones or ‘tablets’) as you browse this website. They are used to ‘remember’ when your computer or device accesses this website. The cookies are essential for the effective operation of this website and to enable to you shop with us online. Cookies are also used to improve the product offered and advertised to our customers, both on this website and elsewhere.
What information is collected?
Some cookies collect information about browsing and purchasing behaviour by people who access this website via the same computer or device. This includes information about pages viewed, products purchased and the customer journey around a website. We do not, however, use cookies to collect or record information on users’ name, address or other contact details. SCOTTS (LONDON) LIMITED is able to use cookies to monitor individual customer browsing and purchasing behaviour but third parties are not able to identify customers using cookies.
Who sets the cookies?
The cookies stored on your computer or other device when you access this website are set by SCOTTS (LONDON) LIMITED, our suppliers who partner with us to help deliver a high quality website and on-line shopping experience, and other third parties. Some cookies are set by or on behalf of SCOTTS (LONDON) LIMITED and are necessary to enable customers to a make purchases on our website. Cookies may sometimes also be set by third parties who participate with us in affiliate marketing programmes however none of these third parties collect any personal data from which they would be able to identify individual customers.
What are cookies used for?
The main purposes for which cookies are used are:-
- Technical purposes essential for the effective operation of our website, particularly in relation to on-line transactions.
- To help promote SCOTTS (LONDON) LIMITED marketing campaigns.
- To enable SCOTTS (LONDON) LIMITED to collect information about the browsing and shopping habits and activities of customers, this includes the monitoring of how successful our campaigns and customer competitions have been.
- To enable SCOTTS (LONDON) LIMITED meet its contractual obligations to make payments to third parties when a product is purchased by someone who has visited our website from a site operated by those parties.
How do I disable cookies?
If you want to disable cookies you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How to do this will depend on the browser you use and we provide further detail below on how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers:-
For Microsoft Internet Explorer: 1. Choose the menu “tools” then “Internet Options” 2 Click on the “privacy” tab 3 Select the setting the appropriate setting
For Mozilla firefox: 1. Choose the menu “tools” then “Options” 2 Click on the icon “privacy” 3 Find the menu “cookie” and select the relevant options
For Opera 6.0 and further: 1. Choose the menu Files”> “Preferences” 2 Privacy
What happens if I disable cookies? This depends on which cookies you disable, but in general the site may not operate properly if cookies are switched off. If you only disable 3rd party cookies you will not be prevented from making purchases on this site. If you disable all cookies you will be unable to complete a purchase on this site.