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Cookie Policy
1. Introduction
This cookie policy applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
Our website, happypuppies.nl (hereinafter: "the site"), uses cookies and similar technologies. For convenience, all such technologies are referred to as "cookies" throughout this document. This document explains how and why we use cookies on our site.
2. What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small, simple file that is sent along with pages of this site and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or other device. The information stored in it can be sent back to our servers or to the servers of relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What Are Scripts?
A script is a piece of programme code used to make our site function properly and interactively. This code runs on our server or on your device.
4. What Is a Web Beacon?
A web beacon (also called a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a site used to map traffic on that site. Various data about you are stored through the use of web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the site work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make visiting our site easier and more convenient. We may place these cookies without your prior consent.
6. Cookies We Place
Our website places no tracking or marketing cookies. No cookies are placed when a page loads. We only use the functional and strictly necessary tools below.
| Tool | Purpose | What is stored | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crisp | Live chat | Crisp runs in full privacy mode: no tracking or analytics cookies, and no visitor tracking. Messages you send through the chat are processed by Crisp to deliver them (see our privacy policy). | Functional |
| Burst Statistics | Visitor statistics | No cookies. Burst runs cookieless and anonymises all visit data. Burst is a WordPress plugin on our own server; the statistics are not shared with third parties. | Statistics (cookieless, anonymised) |
| Cloudflare Turnstile | Spam protection on forms | Checks that a form is sent by a human. To do this, Cloudflare processes technical data about your browser and device. | Strictly necessary |
| Light/dark mode preference | Remembers whether you view the site in light or dark mode | One setting (hp-theme) in your browser's local storage (localStorage), only if you switch the mode yourself. This is not a cookie and stays on your own device. |
Functional |
Our multilingual plugin, TranslatePress, places no cookies by default. Our caching plugin, WP Rocket, which keeps a page cache on our own server, also places no cookies on visitors.
Affiliate partner tracking (amazon.nl & bol.com)
Our blog and recommendation pages may contain affiliate links to amazon.nl and bol.com. When you click one of these links, you are redirected to the respective partner platform. Happy Puppies does not place any cookies through these links. However, the partner platforms may set their own tracking cookies on their own domains (amazon.nl and bol.com). These cookies are placed and managed by those platforms, not by Happy Puppies, and fall outside the scope of this cookie policy. Please refer to the respective privacy and cookie policies of Amazon and bol.com for full details.
| Platform | Category | Cookie window | Where set |
|---|---|---|---|
| amazon.nl | Third-party tracking (not set by us) | 24 hours | amazon.nl domain only - not happypuppies.nl |
| bol.com / partner.bol.com | Third-party tracking (not set by us) | 5 days | bol.com domain only - not happypuppies.nl |
7. Consent
Because our website places no tracking or marketing cookies and only uses functional and strictly necessary tools (see section 6), prior consent is not legally required: functional technologies may be used without consent, as described in section 5.1. For that reason, we do not display a cookie banner.
8. Enabling and Disabling Cookies
You can use your internet browser to delete cookies automatically or manually. You can also specify that certain cookies should not be placed, or adjust your browser settings to receive a notification each time a cookie is placed. For more information, consult the Help section of your browser.
9. Your Rights Regarding Personal Data
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
To exercise these rights, please contact us. You may also lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority.
10. Contact
For questions or comments about our cookie policy, please contact us:
- 🏢 Happy Puppies, Camila de Diago
- 📍 Address: Loosduinseweg 65H, 2571 AA The Hague, Netherlands
- 🌐 Website: happypuppies.nl
- 📧 Email: dpo@happypuppies.nl
- 📞 Phone: +31 6 34698983
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