The Institute of Horticulture Northern Branch is committed to protecting your privacy as a user of our website www.taurusit.co.uk (“the Site”), and the confidentiality of any personal information that you may provide us with during your visit to the Site. The Institute of Horticulture Northern Branch abides by the Data Protection Act of 1998 (see Data Protection) and complies with its provisions to ensure that any data you provide is treated accordingly.

Information is gathered automatically by the web server, through the use of cookies on the Site, and also from your interaction through the submission of online forms. General information that is collected by the web server and which does not require any input on your part, apart from to log on to the Site, is data such as:

- type of browser
- operating system
- IP address
- domain name

Cookies and You

A cookie is a text-only string that is entered into the memory of your browser by our web server. The use of cookies enables our website to store information on your machine so that it can be retrieved at a later date. This is done so that we can monitor the number of people visiting our Site and to determine the country of origin of specific users. If you do not wish to accept new cookies or wish to disable cookies altogether, you can set your browser accordingly using its menu bar.

Online Forms

Any information that you provide online is captured into our database. Primarily, the information provided is used to fulfil any queries and information requests that have been sent to us, and also to keep you updated with news and promotions concerning products and services from the Institute of Horticulture Northern Branch, should you opt-in to receiving information from us.

This information is confidential and is not passed on to anyone else.

If you have any queries with regards to how we collect and use your data please email info@iohnorthern.co.uk.