Cookie Policy
This policy explains how NuzzleFox uses cookies and similar technologies, why they are used and how you can accept, reject or change your preferences.
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Essential technologies help our shop, basket, checkout and security features work. Optional analytics technologies are only activated where the relevant permission has been given through our cookie banner.
Cookies at a Glance
The most important information about how cookies work on the NuzzleFox website.
Essential means essential
Some technologies are required for baskets, checkout, security, accounts and remembering your privacy choice.
Analytics is optional
Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity are not activated by our consent plugin unless analytics permission is given.
You can reject them
You can reject non-essential technologies and continue using the main shopping features of the website.
You can change your mind
Reopen Cookie settings at any time to review or change your analytics choice.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website places on, or reads from, your computer, tablet, mobile phone or other device.
They can help a website remember information about your visit, such as the contents of your basket, whether you are signed in or the privacy choices you have made.
Similar technologies can perform related functions. These may include local storage, pixels, tags, scripts, software development kits and other technologies that store information or access information held on a device.
In this policy, we generally use the word “cookies” to include cookies and similar storage or access technologies.
How NuzzleFox Uses Cookies
NuzzleFox may use cookies to:
- Keep the website functioning correctly.
- Maintain and protect website security.
- Operate the WooCommerce shopping basket and checkout.
- Remember items added to a basket.
- Support optional customer accounts and login sessions.
- Process payments and reduce fraud.
- Remember whether you accepted or rejected analytics cookies.
- Understand website use where analytics permission has been given.
- Identify technical, navigation and usability issues.
We do not use cookies to sell your personal information.
Cookie Categories
Essential Cookies
These support functions such as security, baskets, checkout, payments, accounts and remembering cookie choices. The website may not operate correctly without them.
Always activeAnalytics Cookies
These help us understand how visitors use the website, which pages are useful and where technical or usability improvements may be required.
OptionalFunctionality Technologies
These may remember preferences or provide enhanced website features. Whether permission is needed depends on the technology and how it is used.
Depends on useMarketing Technologies
These may be used to measure advertising or create marketing profiles. NuzzleFox does not currently intend to activate advertising or retargeting pixels at launch.
Not currently used4. Our Cookie Consent Banner
When you first visit the NuzzleFox website, our cookie banner allows you to:
- Accept all available cookie categories.
- Reject non-essential cookies.
- Open the settings and choose whether analytics is allowed.
Your choice is stored so that we do not need to ask on every page you visit. The preference may be remembered for up to 180 days, depending on the plugin settings in use.
A small Cookie settings button should remain available on the website after a choice is saved. You can use it to reopen the banner and change your preference.
The cookie used to remember your privacy choice is itself considered necessary because it enables the website to respect the instruction you gave us.
Cookies We May Use
The table below describes cookies and similar technologies that may be present on the NuzzleFox website.
Exact names and durations may vary when WordPress, WooCommerce, Stripe, Google, Microsoft or another service updates its technology.
| Cookie or technology | Provider | Purpose | Category | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nuzzlefox_cookie_consent | NuzzleFox | Remembers whether analytics cookies were accepted or rejected. | Essential | Up to 180 days |
| woocommerce_cart_hash | WooCommerce | Helps WooCommerce recognise when the contents of the shopping basket change. | Essential | Session |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | WooCommerce | Helps the website determine whether the shopping basket contains products. | Essential | Session |
| wp_woocommerce_session_ | WooCommerce | Provides a unique identifier so basket and shopping-session information can be located. | Essential | Typically two days |
| wordpress_logged_in_ | WordPress | Recognises a signed-in customer or administrator and supports account sessions. | Essential | Session or login duration |
| wordpress_sec_ | WordPress | Supports secure authentication and protects signed-in areas. | Essential | Session or login duration |
| wordpress_test_cookie | WordPress | Checks whether the visitor’s browser accepts cookies. | Essential | Session |
| Stripe payment and fraud-prevention technologies | Stripe | Support secure payment processing, authentication, fraud prevention and transaction security. | Essential | Varies |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Helps distinguish website interactions and measure website use after analytics permission has been given. | Analytics | Typically up to two years |
| _ga_<container-id> | Google Analytics | Helps maintain and measure an analytics session after permission has been given. | Analytics | Typically up to two years |
| _clck | Microsoft Clarity | Helps associate website interactions with a browser after analytics permission has been given. | Analytics | Typically up to one year |
| _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Helps connect multiple page views into a Clarity session after analytics permission has been given. | Analytics | Typically one day |
| MailPoet subscription and email technologies | MailPoet | May support newsletter sign-up, subscription status and email campaign measurement, depending on the features configured. | Essential or analytics, depending on use | Varies |
This table is intended to be transparent rather than absolute.
A cookie may only appear after a particular action, such as signing in, adding a product to the basket, opening checkout or accepting analytics.
WordPress and WooCommerce
The NuzzleFox website is built using WordPress and WooCommerce.
These systems may use essential cookies to:
- Operate the shopping basket.
- Remember products added to the basket.
- Maintain a checkout session.
- Support optional customer accounts.
- Authenticate signed-in customers and administrators.
- Protect the website from misuse or unauthorised access.
Rejecting optional analytics should not prevent you from browsing products, adding products to the basket or completing a standard purchase.
Stripe Payment Technologies
NuzzleFox uses Stripe to process card and other supported online payments.
Stripe may use cookies or similar technologies to:
- Process and authenticate payments.
- Reduce fraudulent or unauthorised transactions.
- Protect Stripe, NuzzleFox and customers.
- Remember information required during the payment process.
- Meet financial, security and regulatory requirements.
Technologies that are genuinely required to complete a payment or provide transaction security may be treated as essential.
Stripe controls some of the technologies it provides and handles information under its own privacy and cookie arrangements.
Google Analytics 4
Where you have accepted analytics cookies, NuzzleFox may use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the website is found and used.
Information may include:
- Pages viewed.
- Approximate session duration.
- Website navigation and interactions.
- Browser, device and operating-system information.
- General location information.
- Referral and campaign information.
- Technical and diagnostic information.
We use this information to review website performance, improve content, understand customer journeys and identify technical or navigation problems.
Google Analytics 4 should remain switched off through the NuzzleFox cookie-consent plugin until analytics permission is given.
Microsoft Clarity
Where you have accepted analytics cookies, NuzzleFox may use Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors interact with the website.
Depending on its configuration, Clarity may provide:
- Heatmaps.
- Click and scrolling patterns.
- Page navigation information.
- Technical and device information.
- Session recordings of website interactions.
These features help us understand where pages may be confusing, difficult to navigate or not operating correctly.
Clarity is not intended to record payment-card information or identify visitors personally. Microsoft controls some aspects of the service and processes information under its own arrangements.
Microsoft Clarity should remain switched off through the NuzzleFox cookie-consent plugin until analytics permission is given.
MailPoet
NuzzleFox uses MailPoet to manage newsletter subscriptions and send news, product updates and offers.
MailPoet may use website or email technologies to:
- Process newsletter sign-up forms.
- Remember subscription-related actions.
- Maintain unsubscribe preferences.
- Measure whether an email was delivered or opened.
- Measure selected links within a marketing email.
Some MailPoet functions may not use browser cookies at all. Email measurement may instead use links or small pixels included within an email.
Marketing email preferences are separate from website cookie choices. Rejecting analytics cookies does not automatically unsubscribe you from a newsletter, and unsubscribing from a newsletter does not automatically alter your website-cookie choice.
Embedded and Third-Party Content
Some pages may include content or functionality provided by another organisation, such as:
- Videos.
- Maps.
- Social-media content.
- Review platforms.
- Payment or delivery tools.
- External forms or widgets.
The third party may place or access cookies when the content loads or when you interact with it.
We will review new embedded services before adding them. Where non-essential cookies are involved, we will seek to prevent them from loading until the appropriate choice has been made.
How to Manage Your Cookie Choices
Use the banner
On your first visit, choose Accept all, Reject non-essential or Choose cookies.
Continue shopping
Essential website and shopping functions remain available even when optional analytics is rejected.
Change your choice
Select Cookie settings at the bottom of the website to reopen the controls and update your preference.
Changing your preference affects future use. Technologies already stored on your device may remain until they expire or are removed through your browser settings.
Browser and Device Controls
Most browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies through their privacy or security settings.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
- Delete existing cookies.
- Block all cookies.
- Block third-party cookies.
- Allow cookies only for selected websites.
- Delete cookies automatically when the browser closes.
- Send privacy preference signals where supported.
Blocking all cookies may prevent baskets, checkout, account login, payment or other essential website functions from working correctly.
Browser instructions vary. Check the help or privacy section of your browser or device for the controls available to you.
Do Not Track and Browser Signals
Some browsers or devices send signals intended to communicate privacy preferences.
Standards and browser behaviour are still developing. Our main method of recording and applying your website-cookie choice is the NuzzleFox cookie-consent banner.
We may update our systems to recognise additional browser-based preference signals where appropriate and technically supported.
How Long Cookies Remain
Session cookies
Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser, although the exact behaviour may depend on your browser settings.
Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies remain for a stated period or until they are deleted. They may remember a login, basket, preference or analytics identifier between visits.
The duration of a third-party cookie is generally set by the relevant provider and may change when that provider updates its service.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this policy when:
- New website features or services are introduced.
- A provider changes its cookies or technology.
- We add or remove analytics, marketing or embedded services.
- Our consent controls change.
- Legal or regulatory requirements change.
The latest version will be published on this page and the update date will be shown at the bottom.
Related Information
This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our:
- Privacy Policy, which explains how personal information is used and protected.
- Terms & Conditions, which explains the conditions applying to purchases and website use.
Questions About Cookies?
Contact NuzzleFox if you have a question about this policy, the technologies used on our website or how to change your privacy choices.
Last updated: July 2026