Cookie Policy for Gardener Temple

Welcome to the Gardener Temple cookie policy. This document explains how Gardener Temple and the gardener temple family of services use cookies and similar tracking technologies. It describes the types of cookies we deploy, how they help deliver and improve services, and the choices you have about cookie control. GardenerTemple aims to be transparent about data collection while ensuring a smooth experience.

The policy applies when you interact with any part of Gardener Temple's online presence. It covers cookies placed by the service and by third parties operating on our behalf or through integrations. Cookies are small text files stored on your device that remember information about your visit, preferences, or device. They are essential to basic site functionality and to measure and improve performance.

Cookies at Gardener Temple are grouped below by purpose and type. Understanding these classifications helps you make informed choices about privacy and performance monitoring. We explain essential, analytics, and marketing cookies, including how each category supports the gardener temple experience without compromising core functionality.

Types of Cookies Used

The following categories are used by Gardener Temple and affiliated services:

• Essential cookies: These are necessary for the operation of the site. They enable core features like navigation, security, and access to secure areas. Blocking essential cookies may prevent basic functions from working.
• Analytics cookies: Used to collect information about how visitors use Gardener Temple and gardener temple pages. They help us measure performance, analyze trends, and identify areas for improvement.
• Marketing cookies: These cookies remember your visits and interactions to present relevant content and promotions across sessions and third-party platforms.

Analytics cookies specifically support performance monitoring by capturing aggregated metrics such as page load times, error rates, and usage patterns. This monitoring allows GardenerTemple teams to optimize speed and reliability. Performance monitoring is distinct from user profiling: we focus on site health, resource usage, and anonymized signals unless you have explicitly consented to identified analytics.

How Cookies Help Performance and Your Control Options

Cookies used for performance monitoring let us detect slow pages, broken scripts, and excessive load so we can prioritize fixes. For example, analytics cookies may log the time it takes for a page to render or whether a feature fails under certain conditions. This data is typically aggregated and non-identifying; when used in a way that could identify a visitor, we obtain consent first.

You control cookies on your device. Most browsers provide settings to accept or reject cookies, clear stored cookies, or notify you when cookies are set. Gardener's Temple recommends allowing essential cookies to preserve functionality, while providing options to opt out of analytics and marketing cookies through browser controls or preference settings when available.

If you block analytics cookies, GardenerTemple may have limited ability to measure site performance and improve speed or reliability. If you block marketing cookies, you may still see ads but they will be less relevant. We encourage users to review browser and device settings to manage cookie preferences responsibly.

Retention and third-party cookies: Retention periods vary by cookie type and provider. Essential cookies typically persist for the length of a session, while analytics and marketing cookies may remain longer. Third-party cookies placed by partners are subject to those partners' policies; we seek to work with vendors who follow recognized privacy standards.

Security and changes: We take steps to protect cookie data from unauthorized access and to limit retention where feasible. This cookie policy may be updated periodically to reflect new services, technology changes, or legal requirements. When material changes occur, notice will be provided in the policy text.

Summary of choices: You can accept all cookies, accept only essential cookies, or customize settings for analytics and marketing. The gardener temple cookie framework is built to respect preferences while enabling necessary monitoring for performance and stability. Thank you for reviewing how Gardener Temple uses cookies to enhance your experience.