COOKIE POLICY
Welcome to The Happy Hippo Diving and our website at www.thehappyhippodiving.com. This Cookie Policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to The Happy Hippo Diving of P.O.Box 2045 Willemstad, Curacao (“The Happy Hippo Diving“, “we”, “us”, or “our”).
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. If you then return to the same website, the website recognizes the cookie and remembers your device, the choices you have made, and acts in accordance with the specific objective a cookie has. As such cookies have a name and value and one or more defined characteristics, which are returned to the website as “user-related” information. So, thanks to cookies, a website knows who you are and offers you your usual default settings.
Origins and Lifespans of Cookies
There are however classes of cookies, namely first-party cookies which are placed directly by the website. As well as third-party cookies which are created by a partner website or server. And since it would not be very beneficial if all cookies would save the same information for the same period of time, each cookie stores different data and has a lifespan (that can vary from a few minutes to a few years). In this sense, we now understand that cookies are automatically placed in the cookie folder, effectively the “brain” of your browser, that each can have a different origin, hold different information, and can have a different lifespan depending on its objective. Because of that there are several types of cookies.
Types of Cookies
The least privacy invasive type of cookies are Essential or Necessary cookies. These cookies are essential or necessary to ensure that a website works properly and is secure so that you can navigate a website and use its features. Without these cookies, certain features of a website would not function, and thus you would not be able to use certain services.
There are also Functional cookies or sometimes called convenience cookies. These cookies allow a website to remember the options a user has made (including user ID`s stored, consents given, or languages selected) and other personalization options you have selected when browsing.
Further there are also Analysis and performance cookies, which are used to monitor and improve the function and service of a website. Those can track down problems when using a website, facilitate online surveys, record visitor numbers, and provide analytics metrics.
Lastly, advertising cookies or targeting cookies. They are used to deliver customized advertising to the user. This can be very convenient, but also very annoying.
The cookies we use
We think it is important that you should have full control over your privacy online, we refrained from placing optional cookies on our website and as such we are not required to obtain any consents in accordance with Curaçao’s National ordinance on data protection (“NODP”), the Dutch Telecommunications Act (Wet van 4 februari 2015 tot wijziging van de Telecommunicatiewet) (“TA”) and the EU counterpart the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (“PECD”) . Nonetheless, this may change, and we ask you to regularly check this policy for any updates.
Changes and Updates
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. This might be for a number of reasons, such as to reflect a change in the law or to accommodate a change in our business practices and the way we use cookies. We recommend that you check here periodically for any changes to our Cookie Policy.
Validity and questions
This Cookie Policy was last updated on Saturday, 30th of September 2023, and is the current and valid version. If you have any questions about this policy or our data protection practices, please contact us using info@thehappyhippodiving.com, call +599 95211152, use our Contact Form or write to us at the above address.