Cookie Policy dated 2026-07-26

Wereldwinkel Zoetermeer uses cookies and similar technologies to ensure that the webshop functions properly, to gain insight into the use of our website, and to enable visitors to use external services such as Google Maps.

On your first visit to our website, we ask for your consent to place cookies where legally required. You can adjust your preferences at any time via the cookie banner.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, tablet, or smartphone when you visit a website. Some cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. Other cookies help us improve the website or make it possible to display external content.

Which cookies do we use?

Wereldwinkel Zoetermeer uses the following categories of cookies.

1. Necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for the webshop to function properly.

Among other things, they ensure that:

• products remain in your shopping cart;

• you can log in securely;

• your order can be processed correctly;

• payments via Mollie can be processed securely;

• the security of the webshop remains ensured.

No consent is required for these cookies.

These cookies are placed by, among others:

• Shopify

• Mollie

2. Analytical cookies

With your consent, we use Google Analytics to gain insight into the use of our website.

This information helps us improve the webshop.

We use Google Analytics exclusively to collect anonymized statistics. We do not use this data to personally identify visitors or to show advertisements.

You can accept or reject these cookies via the cookie banner.

3. Personalization cookies

When you give your consent, cookies may be used to remember your preferences on the website so that, on a subsequent visit, the website better matches your settings.

4. Marketing cookies

Wereldwinkel Zoetermeer does not use marketing cookies.

We do not show personalized advertisements or share data with advertising networks such as Meta (Facebook) or Google Ads for marketing purposes.

The “Marketing” category is displayed in our cookie banner because it is a standard part of the Shopify platform.

5. External content (Google Maps)

We display an interactive Google Maps map on our contact page.

When you give your consent, Google may process data such as your IP address and place cookies.

More information about this can be found in Google’s privacy policy.

Deleting or adjusting cookies

You can delete placed cookies or block the placement of cookies through your browser settings.

You can also change your cookie preferences at any time via the cookie banner on our website.

Changes

We may amend this cookie policy when our website or legislation changes.

The most recent version is always available on this page.

My advice

I would not make this any longer. For your organization, this is exactly right: it aligns with the privacy policy, describes the actual situation, and remains easy for visitors to read.

One final point of attention

Before we publish this, I would like to perform one more technical check:

Is Google Analytics actually configured so that it is loaded only after someone has accepted “Analytics”?

That is an important part of compliance. If Analytics is loaded before consent, we will need to adjust the implementation. Once we get to setting up Analytics, we will check this together. After that, we can publish the cookie policy with confidence.