Privacy Policy

Cookie Policy

This site, like many others, uses small files called cookies to help customise your experience. Find out more about cookies and how you can control them.

This page contains information on what ‘cookies’ are, the cookies used by flowersassociates.com and how to switch cookies off in your browser, how to specifically disable third party advertising cookies, and some useful links for further reading on the subject. If it does not provide the information you were looking for, or you have any further questions about the use of cookies on flowersassociates.com, please contact us.

What are cookies?

‘Cookies’ are small text files that are stored by the browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store such things as user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a “memory” for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately.

How does this site use cookies?

A visit to a page on flowersassociates.com may generate the following types of cookie:

Anonymous analytics cookies:

• Every time a user visits our website, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie.
• These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before.
• Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don’t, we generate new ones.
• This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site.

How do I turn cookies off?

It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. For example, we cannot tell if you are signed in without using cookies, so you would not be able to post comments.

All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. In order to understand these setttings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari

Social Media

We also offer a ‘social’ widget on our web pages, where content can be shared easily on the following sites – Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook.  These sites may set a cookie when you are logged into their service.  Flowers Associates has no control or liability over these cookies set, so you should check the relevant third party’s cookie policy for more information. 

Useful Links

If you would like to find out more about cookies and their use on the Internet, you may find the following links useful:

• Microsoft Cookies guide
• All About Cookies

The IAB has provided the following website to give information specifically about privacy issues around Internet advertising:

• youronlinechoices.co.uk/uk

For further legal information about privacy issues, you may find these links useful:

• Data Protection Act 1998
• The Information Commissioner’s Office

If you would like to contact us about cookies please email us