Privacy & Cookie Policy
Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 25/10/24
We are TGC (2015) Limited, a company registered in England under number 09409991. Our registered office is Tong Lane, Bradford BD4 0RY.
Welcome to the Tong Garden Centre website. Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you use our website https://www.tonggardencentre.co.uk (the “Site”), as well as your choices regarding your data.
By using our Site, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
- Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following types of personal information about you:
- Contact Information: Such as your name, email address, phone number, and address.
- Account Information: Details you provide when creating an account, including your login credentials.
- Payment Information: Information necessary to process payments, like card details and billing information (processed securely through third-party payment processors).
- Usage Data: Details of your visits to our Site, including IP address, browser type, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and referring websites.
- Marketing Preferences: Information on your preferences regarding receiving communications from us.
- How We Use Your Information
We use your information for the following purposes:
- Providing Our Services: To fulfill your orders, manage your account, and respond to inquiries.
- Improving the Site: To monitor and improve our Site and to enhance user experience.
- Marketing and Advertising: To send you promotional information, updates, and offers that may interest you.
- Targeted Advertising: We may share your information with third-party advertising platforms, such as Google Ads and Meta (Facebook), to create custom audiences and show you relevant ads based on your interactions with our Site.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with our legal obligations, such as record-keeping for tax purposes.
- Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
We only share your personal data with third parties when necessary and for the purposes mentioned above. The types of third parties we may share data with include:
- Service Providers: Such as payment processors, shipping companies, and IT service providers.
- Advertising Partners: Including Google Ads and Meta (Facebook), for the purpose of delivering targeted ads and custom audiences.
- Please review Google’s Privacy Policy and Meta’s Data Policy for information on how these third parties handle your data.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our Site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and show you targeted ads. Cookies are small data files stored on your device when you visit our Site.
- Types of Cookies: Essential cookies (required for website functionality), performance cookies (to monitor usage), and advertising cookies (for personalized ads).
- Managing Cookies: You can adjust your cookie preferences in your browser settings. Note that disabling certain cookies may impact site functionality.
- Your Privacy Rights
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Access: Request a copy of your data.
- Rectification: Request that we correct any inaccuracies.
- Erasure: Request deletion of your data under certain conditions.
- Restrict Processing: Request a limitation on how we process your data.
- Data Portability: Request that we transfer your data to another organization.
- Withdraw Consent: You may withdraw your consent for us to process your personal information at any time, particularly concerning marketing communications.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hello@ygcgroup.co.uk.
- Opting Out of Targeted Advertising
You may opt out of targeted ads by adjusting your preferences:
- Data Security
We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, please note that no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
- Data Retention
We retain your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
- Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements. We encourage you to review this page regularly. Significant changes will be communicated on our Site or via email.
- Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- Email: hello@ygcgroup.co.uk
- Address: Tong Garden Centre, Tong Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD4 0RY, United Kingdom
- Phone: 0113 285 3506
This Privacy Policy provides transparency about how TGC(2015) Ltd (Registered Company: 09409991) collects, uses, and shares customer data, aligning with GDPR and advertising compliance.
Cookie Policy
What we collect
We may collect the following information:
- name
- contact information including email address
- demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
- other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- Internal record keeping.
- We may use the information to improve our products and services.
- We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided consent.
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
- We may tailor our online promotions to you through partner sites and networks based on your browsing history
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How we use cookies
This website use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc (“Google”). The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google you may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
To enable cookies you will be provided with a notification when you visit the Store, requesting for you to “Allow Cookies”
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
For further information about Cookies and how to turn off or on, please see here.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
- if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by letting us know using our Contact Us information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email us this request to data@tonggardencentre.co.uk our use our Contact Us information form.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address or use our Contact Us information.) We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
If you would like us to delete information we store about you, please email us at the address above or make the request using our Contact Us information. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
List of Cookies we collect
The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.
Cookie Name |
Cookie Description |
FORM_KEY |
Stores randomly generated key used to prevent forged requests. |
PHPSESSID |
Your session ID on the server. |
GUEST-VIEW |
Allows guests to view and edit their orders. |
PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART |
A link to information about your cart and viewing history, if you have asked for this. |
STF |
Information on products you have emailed to friends. |
STORE |
The store view or language you have selected. |
USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE |
Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies. |
MAGE-CACHE-SESSID |
Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE |
Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE-SECTION-INVALIDATION |
Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
MAGE-CACHE-TIMEOUT |
Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
SECTION-DATA-IDS |
Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
PRIVATE_CONTENT_VERSION |
Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
X-MAGENTO-VARY |
Facilitates caching of content on the server to make pages load faster. |
MAGE-TRANSLATION-FILE-VERSION |
Facilitates translation of content to other languages. |
MAGE-TRANSLATION-STORAGE |
Facilitates translation of content to other languages. |
REMARKETING TAG |
Facilitates creation of an audience to retarget with advertisements |