Cookie Declaration

Last updated: August 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Belina Cologne uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit and use our online store.

It explains what cookies are, which types of cookies and similar technologies we may use, why we use them, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.

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

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website.

Cookies can help a website function properly, remember your preferences, improve your browsing experience and provide information about how the website is used.

In addition to cookies, we may use similar technologies such as pixels, tags, scripts and local storage. For simplicity, we refer to these technologies collectively as "cookies" in this Cookie Policy.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

to operate and secure our online store;
to provide essential shopping and checkout functions;
to remember your preferences;
to understand how visitors use our website;
to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns;
to improve our website and online store;
to support our marketing activities.

Some cookies are technically necessary for the operation of the website and do not require consent where they are strictly necessary to provide a service you have requested.

Non-essential cookies, including analytics and marketing cookies, are activated only where the required consent has been obtained.

3. Categories of Cookies

3.1 Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies are required for our website and online store to function properly.

They may be used to:

maintain your shopping cart;
enable the checkout process;
process and secure transactions;
remember essential preferences;
maintain website security;
provide essential Shopify functions;
remember your cookie consent preferences.

These cookies are generally necessary for the operation of the online store and cannot be disabled through our cookie consent banner where they are strictly required to provide the service you have requested.

4. Shopify Cookies

Our online store is hosted and operated using Shopify.

Shopify uses cookies and similar technologies to provide essential store functionality, including shopping cart and checkout functions, security, fraud prevention and other technical functions.

Depending on the features and services enabled on our store, Shopify may also use cookies or similar technologies for analytics, personalisation or other purposes.

For more information about Shopify's use of cookies and personal data, please see Shopify's privacy information:

https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

5. Analytics Cookies

With your consent, we may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors interact with our website and to improve our online store.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors use our website, including information such as:

pages visited;
interactions with the website;
approximate user behaviour and navigation;
device and browser information;
traffic sources;
information about website visits and events.

Google Analytics is activated only after the required consent has been obtained through our cookie consent mechanism.

You can withdraw or change your consent at any time through our cookie settings.

Further information about Google's privacy practices can be found here:

https://policies.google.com/privacy

6. Marketing and Advertising Cookies

With your consent, we may use marketing and advertising technologies to measure advertising performance, understand interactions with our website and improve our advertising campaigns.

Meta Pixel

We use the Meta Pixel, provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.

The Meta Pixel helps us measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on Meta platforms and understand how visitors interact with our website after viewing or interacting with advertisements.

Depending on your consent, information about your device, browser, website interactions and certain actions on our website may be processed.

The Meta Pixel is activated only after the required consent has been obtained through our cookie consent mechanism.

Further information about Meta's privacy practices can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Google Ads

We may use Google Ads and related conversion tracking technologies provided by Google.

These technologies may help us:

measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns;
measure conversions;
understand interactions with our advertisements;
improve our advertising activities.

Google Ads and related marketing technologies are activated only after the required consent has been obtained through our cookie consent mechanism.

Further information about Google's privacy practices can be found here:

https://policies.google.com/privacy

7. Cookie Consent Management

We use Pandectes as our consent management platform.

Pandectes helps us display our cookie consent banner, manage your cookie preferences and, where required, obtain and document your consent.

When you first visit our website, you can choose whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies.

Your choices regarding non-essential cookies are respected according to the consent categories available through our cookie banner.

8. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time.

You can reopen our cookie settings through the Cookie Settings function available on our website and adjust your preferences.

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

Please note that blocking or deleting certain cookies may affect the functionality of our online store.

For example, some necessary functions of the shopping cart or checkout may not work properly if essential cookies are disabled.

9. Legal Basis for Cookies

Where the storage of information on your device or access to information already stored on your device requires consent, we rely on your consent in accordance with Section 25(1) of the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act (TDDDG).

Where personal data is processed in connection with cookies, the applicable legal basis under the GDPR depends on the specific purpose of the processing.

Where processing is based on consent, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Where technically necessary cookies are used to provide a service you have expressly requested, the applicable exception under Section 25(2) TDDDG may apply.

10. Cookie Duration

Cookies may remain on your device for different periods of time.

Session cookies

Some cookies are temporary and are deleted automatically when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies

Other cookies remain on your device for a specific period or until you delete them.

The storage period depends on the individual cookie and the provider responsible for it.

The cookies and technologies used on our website may change when we add, remove or update Shopify features, applications, analytics services or marketing tools.

11. Third-Party Cookies

Some of the services used on our website are provided by third parties.

Depending on your consent and the services currently enabled on our store, third parties may include:

Shopify;
Google;
Meta;
payment providers;
fulfilment and shipping providers;
other service providers supporting the operation, analysis or marketing of our online store.

Third-party providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies.

We recommend reviewing the privacy information of the respective providers for further details.

12. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the cookies and technologies used on our website, changes to our services or changes in applicable legal requirements.

The current version of this Cookie Policy will always be available on our website.

The date at the beginning of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

13. Contact

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, please contact:

Belina Cologne
Maria-Montessori-Straße 21
51503 Rösrath
Germany

Email: hello@belinacologne.com

For information about the processing of personal data and your rights under the GDPR, please see our Privacy Policy.