Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Three Valleys Tree Care uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.

It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect personal information.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small files that websites can place on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit them.

Cookies can help websites operate correctly, remember preferences, understand how visitors interact with pages and improve the overall user experience.

Similar technologies, including local storage, pixels and tags, may perform comparable functions.

2. How We Use Cookies

Three Valleys Tree Care may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Ensure the website operates correctly
• Maintain website security
• Remember cookie preferences
• Understand how visitors use our website
• Measure website traffic and performance
• Identify technical problems
• Improve website content and usability
• Understand which pages or services visitors find useful
• Measure the effectiveness of advertising or marketing where such services are used

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website to operate properly.

They may be used for purposes such as:

• Website security
• Form functionality
• Network management
• Remembering your cookie choices
• Preventing fraudulent or malicious activity

Blocking these cookies through your browser may prevent parts of the website from working correctly.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These technologies help us understand how visitors use the Three Valleys Tree Care website.

Information may include:

• Pages visited
• Time spent on pages
• General website navigation
• Device or browser type
• Approximate geographic information
• How visitors reached our website

Where consent is legally required, analytics technologies will only be activated after you have made the appropriate choice through our cookie controls.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced functionality.

Where required, these cookies will only be activated after you provide consent.

Advertising and Marketing Cookies

If Three Valleys Tree Care uses online advertising or remarketing services, marketing technologies may be used to measure advertising performance or show more relevant advertising.

Where consent is required, advertising and marketing cookies will not be activated unless you have agreed to their use.

4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies may be placed directly by the Three Valleys Tree Care website. These are known as first-party cookies.

Other cookies may be provided by third-party services used on our website. These are known as third-party cookies.

Third-party technologies could potentially include services used for:

• Website analytics
• Embedded maps
• Videos
• Spam prevention or security
• Website functionality
• Advertising
• Social media integrations

5. Cookie Consent

When you visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie banner or cookie preference tool.

Where consent is legally required, you may be able to:

• Accept optional cookies
• Reject optional cookies
• Select individual cookie categories
• Change your preferences later

Your choice may itself be stored using an essential cookie so that the website remembers your preference.

6. Changing Your Cookie Preferences

You can change or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time where our website provides a Cookie Settings or similar option.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.

7. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

• View stored cookies
• Delete existing cookies
• Block all cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Allow cookies only from selected websites
• Automatically delete cookies when you close your browser

Blocking all cookies may affect the functionality of this website and other websites you visit.

8. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device

Cookies can generally be divided into two types:

Session cookies – these normally expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies – these remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.

The duration depends on the purpose of the cookie and the technology provider responsible for it.

9. Personal Information and Cookies

Some cookies or similar technologies may involve the processing of information that can identify or distinguish your browser or device.

Where this information constitutes personal data, it will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable UK data protection legislation.

10. Third-Party Services

Our website may contain or use functionality supplied by third parties.

When you interact with those services, those organisations may use their own cookies or similar technologies.

Three Valleys Tree Care does not control cookies set directly by independent third parties. We recommend reviewing the relevant provider’s privacy and cookie information where appropriate.

11. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes to:

• The cookies used on our website
• Website functionality
• Third-party services
• Legal or regulatory requirements

The latest version will always be published on our website with its most recent update date.

12. Contact Us

If you have questions about our use of cookies or personal information, please contact: