Cookie policy

This cookie policy was last updated on February 7, 2024, and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://www.theworldofdogsandcats.com (hereinafter: “the website”), uses cookies and other related technologies (for simplicity, all these technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties that we have engaged. In the document below, we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file sent along with the pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of code used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is an invisible tag?

An invisible tag (or web tag) is a small piece of invisible text or image on a website, used to track traffic on a website. To do this, various data about you is stored using invisible tags.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure the proper functioning of certain parts of the website and the consideration of your preferences as a user. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website, and for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until your payment. We can place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Statistical cookies

We use statistical cookies to optimize the user experience on our website. With these statistical cookies, we obtain information about the use of our website. We ask for your permission to place statistical cookies.

5.3 Advertising cookies

On this website, we use advertising cookies, which allow us to gain insight into campaign results. This is done based on a profile we create based on your behavior on https://www.theworldofdogsandcats.com. With these cookies, you, as a visitor to the website, are linked to a unique ID, but these cookies will not profile your behavior and interests for personalized advertising purposes.

5.4 Marketing/tracking cookies

Marketing/tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage used to create user profiles for displaying advertising or tracking the user on this website or across multiple websites for similar marketing purposes.

Because these cookies are marked as tracking cookies, we ask for the right to place them.

5.5 Social media buttons

We have included buttons on our website for Pinterest to promote web pages (e.g., “Like”, “Save”) or share (e.g., “Tweet”) on social networks such as Pinterest. These buttons work with pieces of code coming from Pinterest themselves. This code places cookies. These social media buttons may also store and process certain information to show you personalized advertisements.

Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which may be changed regularly) to understand what they do with your (personal) data processed using these cookies. The data retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Pinterest is located in the United States.

6. Cookies placed

Google Ads Optimization
Marketing/Tracking

Google Adsense

Marketing/Tracking

Google Ads

Marketing/Tracking

Google Analytics

Statistics, Functional

Marketing/Tracking

Cookie Notice for GDPR

Functional

WordPress

Functional

Complianz

Functional

Miscellaneous

Purpose pending investigation

7. Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a popup with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Save my preferences”, you authorize us to use the cookie categories and extensions that you have selected in the popup, as described in this cookie policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer function properly.

7.1 Manage your consent settings

Functional Experience

8. Your rights regarding personal data

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained.
Right of access: you have the right to access your personal data that we know.
Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have your personal data removed, or blocked at any time.
If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and have your personal data deleted.
Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
Right to object: you can object to the processing of your data. We comply unless there are compelling reasons for the processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this cookie policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the data protection authority, such as the CEPD).

9. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies cannot be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not function properly if all cookies are disabled. If you delete cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you revisit our websites.