COOKIE POLICY – SILLY SHEPHERDS

Last updated: October 2026

1. About cookies

Silly Shepherds uses cookies and similar technologies to operate sillyshepherds.com, support shopping features where available, remember preferences, and understand website usage where permitted by law and your choices.

Cookies are small files that may be stored on your computer, phone, or other device when you visit a website.

Similar technologies include local storage, tracking pixels, and scripts that store or access information on your device.

2. Who is responsible?

Silly Shepherds
Paul Berendsen
Vredesstraat 9
6467 LG Kerkrade
The Netherlands

Email: info@sillyshepherds.com
Website: sillyshepherds.com

Dutch Chamber of Commerce registration: 67199313

For more information about how we handle personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.

3. Categories of cookies

Strictly necessary cookies

These support essential website functions and services you request. Depending on the features you use, they may:

Keep items in your shopping cart.
Support checkout.
Maintain a signed-in customer session.
Protect the website against misuse.
Remember your cookie choices.

Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent where an applicable legal exemption allows their use.

A cookie is not considered strictly necessary simply because it is useful to us.

Preference cookies

These remember choices such as your preferred language.

Whether consent is needed depends on the purpose of the technology and applicable law. Preference technologies that require consent are only activated after you agree.

Analytics cookies

Analytics tools may help us understand:

Which pages visitors use.
How visitors navigate the website.
Whether technical problems occur.
Which features need improvement.

Where consent is required, these tools are only activated after you agree.

Some limited measurement technologies may qualify for a legal exemption. We do not assume that all analytics tools are exempt or that all analytics information is anonymous.

Marketing and tracking cookies

If we introduce advertising, retargeting, or other marketing tracking tools, we will explain their purposes and providers in our cookie information.

Where consent is required, these tools will not be activated before you give it.

Embedded media and social features

Our website may include content from services such as:

YouTube.
Instagram.
Facebook.
TikTok.
Pinterest.

An ordinary link does not normally load the linked platform’s embedded content. Once you follow the link, that platform’s privacy and cookie policies apply.

Embedded videos, posts, or social features may send information to their providers or use cookies and similar technologies.

Where consent is required, the embedded feature must remain blocked until you agree. Declining it may mean that the particular video or social feature cannot be displayed.

4. Google Analytics and other measurement services

We may use Google Analytics or another website measurement service.

The tools actually in use, their providers, and their purposes should be identified in the cookie details available through our cookie settings.

Whether consent is required depends on the tool, its configuration, and applicable law.

We do not automatically treat analytics data as anonymous. Tools requiring consent are only activated after you agree.

5. WooCommerce and shopping features

Our direct shop uses WooCommerce.

Where shopping features are available, WooCommerce may use cookies or similar technologies to:

Remember your cart.
Identify whether your cart contains products.
Maintain a shopping session.
Support checkout or customer accounts.

Only technologies that qualify as strictly necessary are used without consent on that basis. Optional extensions may require separate consent.

These provisions concern our own website. Purchases made on Amazon or another seller’s website are subject to that service’s cookie and privacy policies.

6. Language preferences

Silly Shepherds is available in multiple languages.

A cookie or similar technology may remember the language you select so you do not need to choose it again on each visit.

Where consent is required for this feature, it is subject to your cookie choices.

7. Managing your choices

Our cookie notice allows you to accept or reject optional technologies and manage the available categories.

You do not have to accept optional cookies to access the website’s core content. Some optional features, such as embedded videos, may remain unavailable if you decline the technologies they require.

Where we rely on consent:

Consent requires an active choice.
Scrolling, continuing to browse, or doing nothing does not count as consent.
Optional categories must not be enabled through preselected consent choices.
You can change or withdraw your consent through our cookie settings.
Withdrawing consent must be as easy as giving it.

Withdrawal stops future consent-based use. It does not make earlier processing carried out with valid consent unlawful.

If you cannot find or use the cookie controls, contact info@sillyshepherds.com.

8. Browser controls

You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings.

Blocking essential cookies may prevent parts of the website or shop from working correctly.

Deleting cookies may remove your saved preferences, so you may be asked to choose again.

Browser cookie controls do not necessarily manage all similar technologies. Use our website’s cookie settings to manage the choices offered there.

9. Cookie details and retention

The technologies used on our website may change when we update plugins, payment features, media embeds, or measurement tools.

Our cookie information needs to reflect the technologies actually in use. For relevant cookies and similar technologies, it should identify:

The name of the cookie or technology.
The provider.
Its purpose and category.
Its duration or expiration.
Relevant recipients of personal information.

Session cookies generally expire when the browser session ends. Persistent cookies remain until they expire or are deleted.

Cookie duration and the retention period for information collected through a cookie are not necessarily the same. Relevant personal information retention is explained in our Privacy Policy or the associated cookie details.

10. International visitors

Silly Shepherds is based in the Netherlands and welcomes visitors from other countries.

Applicable privacy rights may depend on your location and the processing involved. This policy does not limit rights you have under applicable privacy law.

Information about personal data, service providers, international transfers, and how to exercise your rights is provided in our Privacy Policy.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when our website, services, or legal obligations change.

The current version will be published on sillyshepherds.com with its update date.

Where a change requires new consent, we will request it before activating the relevant technology.

12. Questions

If you have questions about cookies or privacy, contact: