Cookie Policy

Last updated: Feb 17th, 2025

About this cookie policy

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how I use them, the types of cookies I use, i.e the information I collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how I use, store, and keep your personal data secure, see the Privacy Policy. You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on my website. Learn more about who I am, how you can contact me, and how I process personal data in the Privacy Policy. Your consent applies to the following domain: teddybearsandfriends.com.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies helps to make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

How do we use cookies?

As most of the online services, my website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.The third-party cookies used on my website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with the website, keeping my services secure, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with the website.

What types of cookies do we use?

Necessary: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of my site. They allow to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. For example, these cookies store your preferences when you give your consent regarding cookies, and they allow you to add products to your basket, and checkout securely. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on the website. Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

Analytics: Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etcetera.

Performance: Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

Advertisment: Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns. This website does not use any advertisment/marketing cookies.

How can I control the cookie preferences?

Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the orange cookie icon “Consent preferences” in the lower left corner on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely. In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit Wikipedia and All About Cookies.