Terms and Conditions
Copyright Information
The information presented on this website may not be copied or reproduced in any format (including dissemination on the internet) without express permission from The National Gardens Scheme. Head Office. The National Gardens Scheme reserves all rights to the information held within these pages and the database from which that information is garnered. The unauthorised extraction or re-utilisation of any information presented on this website is strictly prohibited.
The copyright in the photographs is retained by the individual photographers named in credits on photographs. Where no such credits exists, the copyright is retained by the owner of the garden to which the photograph refers.
For further information and enquiries please contact the National Gardens Scheme Head Office.
The National Gardens Scheme
A company limited by guarantee.
Registered in England & Wales Charity No. 1112664 Company No. 5631421
Registered & Head Office Hatchlands Park East Clandon Guildford Surrey GU4 7RT
Privacy Policy
The National Gardens Scheme is committed to the protection of your privacy. No information collected by us on this website will be sold, rented or loaned, unless consented by you.
In accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 all personal information given to us through this website will only be held and used with care and in accordance with this policy.
Use of information
The NGS will not collect any personal information about you, except where it is specifically and knowingly provided by you, for example when you register for an eBulletin or buy products from our website.
When personal information is collected it may be used to corroborate you identity and to enable us to provide you with the services we offer through this website and to process and fulfil requests for information as well as to further develop this website to be useful to you and enable the NGS to provide further services on this website in the future.
We may share non-personal aggregate statistics (group) data about visitors to this website, for analysis. The NGS do not sell or share any information outside the NGS about you as an individual user of this website unless you agree to us doing so.
When you view this website by linking from another web page the NGS may store the name of that web page for the purposes of internal administration and analysis.
Safety and security
As soon as any WorldPay customers enters into the order process, all of the information that is transferred between the NGS website, and WorldPay, is encryptyed using industry standard 128 bit SSL encryption. For more information regarding WorldPay click here»
Cookies
Your browser should be set to allow your computer to accept cookies from The National Gardens Scheme website. If your computer rejects cookies then some parts of The National Gardens Scheme website may not be accessible to you. For more information on cookies from Wikipedia click here » (the NGS does not endorse or verify the information supplied in third-party websites particularly those authored through user contribution).
Links to other websites
We may from time to time refer or establish relations with charities, organisations, public bodies and companies that will enable you to access their websites directly from our website. Each charity, organisation, public body, company operates its own policy regarding the sale of personal data and the use of cookies. If you have a particular interest in, or concern regarding the way your data will be used then you are advised to read the Privacy Statement on the relevant website.
We will try to provide you with links to high quality, reputable websites which we believe will be of interest and relevant to you, but please note that such third party websites are not under our control and we do not contribute to the content of such websites. When you click through to any of these websites you leave the area controlled by the NGS. We cannot accept responsibility for any issues arising in connection with the third party’s use of your data, the website content or the services offered to you by these websites.
Your rights
In addition to these policies your personal data is protected in the UK by the Data Protection Act 1998. Under this act the NGS will only process any data we hold about you in a lawful and fair manner. The NGS will keep your data securely to prevent unauthorised access by third parties.
Your personal data may have to be disclosed if we are required to disclose it by law, or as a result of a lawful request by governmental or law enforcement authority.
Policy changes
Any changes to this Privacy Policy made by the NGS will be posted here and will take immediate effect.