Cookie policy

Last updated: 22 September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how BODYKAARS uses cookies and similar technologies on www.bodykaars.nl.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that may be stored on or accessed through your device when you visit a website.

Cookies may be used to:

make the website function technically;
remember your shopping basket;
provide security;
remember preferences;
analyse website usage;
make marketing more relevant.

Similar technologies may also be used to store or access information on your device.

2. What categories of cookies do we use?

BODYKAARS may use the following categories.

Essential cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website and webshop to function properly.

They may be required for:

shopping basket functionality;
checkout;
account functionality;
security;
fraud prevention;
network management;
session management;
remembering privacy and cookie choices.

Strictly necessary cookies generally do not require prior consent.

These cookies cannot always be disabled through the normal marketing cookie settings where they are necessary to provide a website function you have requested.

Preference cookies

Preference cookies can remember settings so that the website better reflects choices you have previously made.

Where prior consent is legally required, these cookies will only be placed after you have made the relevant choice.

Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies can help us understand how visitors use the website.

Certain limited and privacy-friendly analytics may in some circumstances be used without consent.

For analytics that have a greater impact on your privacy, we ask for prior consent.

Marketing cookies

Marketing and tracking cookies may be used to:

measure advertising;
create audiences;
make advertising more relevant;
track behaviour across services or websites.

Where consent is legally required, these cookies will not be placed until you have given your consent.

3. Shopify

Our webshop is hosted and technically operated through Shopify.

Shopify uses essential cookies and similar technologies to:

operate the webshop;
manage shopping baskets and checkout;
provide accounts and sessions;
prevent fraud and misuse;
provide website security.

The specific cookies used may change as Shopify updates its services.

4. hCaptcha

BODYKAARS uses hCaptcha on certain forms.

hCaptcha helps distinguish genuine users from automated misuse or spam.

Technical information may be processed where necessary to provide this security function.

5. Analytics and advertising

Where BODYKAARS uses analytics or advertising technologies that require consent, these will only be activated after you have provided consent through our cookie settings.

The specific services used may change as our marketing or analytics tools change.

The current options and categories are displayed through our cookie settings.

6. Your choices

On your first visit, where legally required, we provide a cookie choice that allows you to:

accept cookies;
reject non-essential cookies;
manage preferences by category.

Non-essential categories should not be enabled by default.

You may continue to use the website if you reject non-essential cookies, although certain optional features may function differently.

7. Changing or withdrawing consent

You can change your cookie preferences or withdraw previously given consent through the Cookie settings or Cookie preferences link on our website.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.

8. Deleting cookies through your browser

You can also view, block or delete cookies through your web browser.

The method varies depending on your browser.

Blocking essential cookies may prevent parts of the webshop, such as the shopping basket or checkout, from functioning properly.

9. Retention periods

Cookies may be session cookies, which disappear after you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a defined period.

The retention period depends on the purpose and provider of the cookie.

BODYKAARS aims not to retain cookies for longer than necessary for the relevant purpose.

For tracking cookies, we aim to use the shortest reasonably appropriate retention period.