Last updated: 12 September 2026
Gardeners Guide respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.
This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used and protected when you visit Gardeners Guide, including information collected through cookies, analytics, advertising services, affiliate links and any forms available on the website.
This policy applies to gardenersguide.co.uk.
1. Who We Are
Gardeners Guide is an independent gardening website providing gardening advice, growing guides, product recommendations, comparisons and other gardening-related content.
Website: gardenersguide.co.uk
Contact email: info@gardenersguide.co.uk
For the purposes of applicable UK data protection law, the person or organisation operating Gardeners Guide is the data controller for personal information collected directly through this website.
2. Information We May Collect
Depending on how you use Gardeners Guide, we may collect several types of information.
Information You Provide
You may voluntarily provide personal information when you:
- Contact us
- Complete a form
- Subscribe to a newsletter
- Enter a competition or promotion
- Communicate with us by email
- Use another interactive feature on the website
This information may include your:
- Name
- Email address
- Message or enquiry
- Any other information you choose to provide
We only ask for personal information where it is reasonably necessary for the relevant service.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit Gardeners Guide, certain technical information may be collected automatically.
This can include:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Approximate geographic location
- Referring website
- Time spent on pages
- Links clicked
- Date and time of visits
- Advertising and cookie identifiers
This information may be collected through cookies and similar technologies.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use information collected through Gardeners Guide to:
- Operate and maintain the website
- Improve our content and user experience
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Respond to enquiries
- Measure website traffic and performance
- Detect technical or security problems
- Prevent fraud or misuse
- Display and measure advertising
- Measure the performance of affiliate links
- Comply with legal obligations
We do not sell your personal information.
4. Cookies
Gardeners Guide may use cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies are small files stored on your device by websites and related services.
They can be used for purposes such as:
- Remembering preferences
- Measuring website traffic
- Understanding visitor behaviour
- Providing website functionality
- Measuring advertising
- Delivering personalised advertising where consent has been provided
- Measuring affiliate referrals
Some cookies are necessary for the website to operate, while others may require your consent.
Where required by law, non-essential cookies will only be used after you have provided the appropriate consent.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings, although disabling certain cookies may affect how some parts of the website work.
5. Google AdSense and Advertising
Gardeners Guide may use Google AdSense and other advertising services to display advertisements.
Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses and other technologies to:
- Display advertisements
- Measure advertising performance
- Prevent fraud and abuse
- Limit how often advertisements are shown
- Understand interactions with advertisements
- Personalise advertising where permitted and where the appropriate consent has been obtained
Depending on your location and consent choices, advertisements may be personalised or non-personalised.
Google may use information from your visit to this website and other websites in accordance with its own privacy policies and advertising practices.
You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services through Google’s privacy and advertising information pages.
Where required, Gardeners Guide will request consent before allowing advertising technologies to store or access information on your device.
6. Google Analytics
Gardeners Guide may use Google Analytics or similar analytics services to understand how visitors use the website.
Analytics services may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Approximate location
- Device and browser information
- How visitors arrived at the website
- How long visitors spend on pages
- Interactions with website content
We use this information to understand which content visitors find useful and to improve Gardeners Guide.
Where analytics cookies require consent, they will not be activated until the appropriate consent has been provided.
7. Amazon Associates and Affiliate Links
Gardeners Guide participates in affiliate marketing programmes, which may include the Amazon Associates Programme.
Some links on this website are affiliate links.
If you click an affiliate link and subsequently make a qualifying purchase, Gardeners Guide may receive a commission from the retailer.
This does not normally increase the price you pay.
Affiliate partners may use cookies or other tracking technologies to identify that you arrived at their website through Gardeners Guide and to attribute qualifying purchases.
Once you leave Gardeners Guide and visit a third-party retailer, that website’s own privacy policy and cookie practices apply.
Gardeners Guide does not control how third-party retailers process your information.
As an Amazon Associate, Gardeners Guide earns from qualifying purchases.
8. Affiliate Links to Other Retailers
In addition to Amazon, Gardeners Guide may occasionally link to other retailers or services through affiliate programmes.
These companies may use cookies or similar technologies to track referrals and qualifying purchases.
Where appropriate, affiliate relationships will be disclosed clearly.
Our editorial content and recommendations are intended to help readers make informed decisions. The existence of an affiliate relationship does not change the price paid by the customer unless specifically stated otherwise.
9. Third-Party Websites
Gardeners Guide contains links to external websites.
These may include:
- Retailers
- Manufacturers
- Gardening organisations
- Reference sources
- Affiliate partners
- Advertisers
Once you leave Gardeners Guide, we are not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of third-party websites.
You should review the privacy policy of any external website before providing personal information.
10. Embedded Content
Some pages may include embedded content from third-party services.
This could include:
- Videos
- Images
- Social media content
- Maps
- Other interactive content
Embedded content may behave as though you had visited the third-party website directly.
Those services may collect information about you, use cookies or track your interaction with the embedded content.
Their own privacy policies apply to this processing.
11. Contact Forms and Email
If you contact Gardeners Guide, we may retain the information you provide so we can:
- Respond to your enquiry
- Maintain correspondence
- Resolve problems
- Keep appropriate business records
We will not add you to a marketing mailing list simply because you contacted us unless you have separately agreed to receive marketing communications.
12. Email Marketing
If Gardeners Guide introduces a newsletter or other email marketing service, you will only receive marketing emails where there is an appropriate lawful basis for sending them.
Where consent is relied upon, you can withdraw that consent at any time.
Every marketing email will provide an appropriate way to unsubscribe.
We may use a third-party email service provider to manage subscriptions and deliver emails.
If so, that provider may process personal information on our behalf.
13. Legal Basis for Processing
Under UK data protection law, we need an appropriate legal basis when processing personal information.
Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on:
Consent
For example, where you consent to certain cookies or marketing communications.
Legitimate Interests
Where processing is reasonably necessary to operate, protect and improve Gardeners Guide and those interests are not overridden by your rights.
Contract
Where processing is necessary to provide something you have specifically requested.
Legal Obligation
Where we are required to process or retain information to comply with the law.
14. How Long We Keep Information
We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Retention periods may vary depending on:
- The type of information
- Why it was collected
- Legal requirements
- Security requirements
- Whether an ongoing relationship exists
Information that is no longer required will be deleted, anonymised or otherwise appropriately disposed of where reasonably possible.
15. Sharing Your Information
We may share information with trusted third-party service providers where necessary to operate Gardeners Guide.
These may include providers of:
- Website hosting
- Analytics
- Advertising
- Email services
- Security services
- Website functionality
- Affiliate tracking
These organisations may process information according to their own privacy policies or under agreements requiring them to process information on our behalf.
We may also disclose information where required by law or where reasonably necessary to protect our legal rights.
16. International Data Transfers
Some third-party services used by Gardeners Guide may process information outside the United Kingdom.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, appropriate safeguards should be used where required by applicable data protection law.
These may include adequacy regulations or approved contractual protections.
17. Your Data Protection Rights
If UK data protection law applies to you, you may have rights regarding your personal information.
Depending on the circumstances, these can include the right to:
- Request access to your personal information
- Ask us to correct inaccurate information
- Ask us to delete certain information
- Restrict certain processing
- Object to certain processing
- Request transfer of certain information
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
These rights are not absolute and may depend on the circumstances.
To exercise your rights, contact us at:
info@gardenersguide.co.uk
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.
18. Complaints
If you have concerns about how Gardeners Guide handles your personal information, please contact us first so we can try to resolve the issue.
You may also have the right to complain to the UK’s data protection regulator:
Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
Further information about your rights and making a complaint is available from the ICO.
19. Children’s Privacy
Gardeners Guide is a general gardening information website and is not specifically directed at children.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children through the website.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us.
20. Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information handled through Gardeners Guide.
However, no website or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should therefore take appropriate care when submitting information online.
21. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:
- Changes to Gardeners Guide
- New services or technologies
- Changes to advertising or analytics providers
- Changes to legal requirements
When the policy changes, the Last updated date at the top of this page will be revised.
We recommend checking this page occasionally for updates.
22. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how Gardeners Guide handles personal information, please contact:
Gardeners Guide
Website: gardenersguide.co.uk
Email: info@gardenersguide.co.uk
Last updated: 12 September 2026