🍪 Cookies Policy

✅ What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, tablet, or phone) when you visit websites. They help websites function properly, improve performance, and remember useful information like your shopping cart contents or login status.

🔹 Why We Use Cookies

At Snuggle Plushie, we use cookies to:

  • ✅ Ensure essential site functionality (e.g., cart, checkout, login)
  • ✅ Understand how visitors use our website to improve the experience
  • ✅ (Optionally) Display personalized content or ads through trusted partners

Currently, we primarily use essential and functional cookies. If non-essential cookies (such as analytics or marketing) are used, they are only activated when you provide consent.

🔹 Types of Cookies We Use

  • ✅ Essential Cookies: These are required for core site operations. Without them, things like the cart or checkout won't work.
    Examples:
    cart_currency – Stores your cart’s currency
    secure_customer_sig – Keeps you securely logged in
    cart_sig – Verifies cart integrity
  • ✅ Performance & Analytics Cookies: These help us understand how people use our website, so we can improve functionality and layout.
    Examples:
    _shopify_y / _y – Shopify analytics cookies
    _ga, _gid – Google Analytics (if enabled)
  • ✅ Marketing & Advertising Cookies: These cookies help display relevant ads and measure the effectiveness of campaigns. They are only used with your permission.
    Examples:
    _fbp – Facebook pixel
    IDE, NID – Google Ads cookies

🔹 Third-Party Cookies

We may use third-party services (such as Google, Meta, and Judge.me) to provide analytics, reviews, or enhanced features. These services may place cookies on your device to enable functionality like review widgets, session tracking, or usage analysis.

These cookies are considered non-essential under GDPR and will only be used if you provide consent through our cookie banner. You can learn more by reviewing their privacy policies, such as Judge.me’s Privacy Policy.

🔹 Your Choices

You can control or block cookies through your browser settings. Please note that choosing "Essential Cookies Only" may limit some website features.

Learn how to manage cookies:

🔹 Consent

When you visit our website, we display a cookie banner that allows you to choose between:

  • Accept All Cookies: You consent to the use of all cookies, including third-party analytics and marketing services like Google, Meta, and Judge.me.
  • Essential Cookies Only: We will only use cookies strictly necessary for the website to function correctly.

You can change or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time via the link in our website footer or in your browser settings.

🔹 Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy as our use of cookies evolves or to comply with legal requirements. Please check this page periodically. The “Last updated” date reflects the most recent version.