Cookie Policy

1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how Clipandcraf uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit www.clipandcraft.com, browse our sewing tools and accessories, or proceed through the online ordering process.

The website is operated by Stoffe Brünink & Hemmers GmbH under the brand name Clipandcraf. Cookies are used only for specified purposes, such as maintaining essential website functions, remembering your preferences and supporting the payment process where applicable.

We handle cookie-related information in accordance with applicable German and European data protection requirements, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG) and applicable European rules governing electronic communications privacy.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies, including local storage and tracking technologies, may also store or access information on your device.

Depending on their purpose, these technologies may help the website remember your selected preferences, maintain items in your shopping basket, manage your session or support payment-related functions.

Cookies may be classified as session cookies, which are generally deleted when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain on your device until they expire or are deleted.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies support functions that you expressly request or that are essential for providing the website service. Depending on your interaction with the website, these may include cookies used to:

• Maintain your shopping basket during a browsing session.
• Manage session continuity and navigation between website pages.
• Remember your cookie consent choices.
• Support checkout operations and payment-related functions.
• Maintain essential website functionality and help identify irregular activity affecting the requested service.

These cookies do not require consent where they meet the applicable legal exemption for strictly necessary storage or access. They are not used for unrelated advertising purposes.

3.2 Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may remember selected preferences, such as language or other website settings, to provide a more consistent browsing experience.

Where these cookies are not strictly necessary for a service you have expressly requested, they will only be activated after you have given consent through our cookie banner.

3.3 Analytics Cookies

If analytics tools are implemented on the website, analytics cookies may be used to understand general browsing activity, such as page visits and interactions, so that we can assess website usage.

These cookies are non-essential unless a specific technology and use qualify for an applicable legal exemption. We will obtain your consent before activating them where required by law.

3.4 Third-Party Cookies and Stripe

Clipandcraf uses Stripe to process online payments. Depending on the payment integration and the functions used during checkout, Stripe may use cookies or similar technologies to support payment processing, authentication, payment-session continuity and the detection and prevention of fraudulent transactions.

Such technologies may be provided or processed by Stripe and may operate in connection with the checkout pages or payment components integrated into our website.

Relevant Stripe technologies may include cookies such as __stripe_mid, __stripe_sid and m, depending on the integration and services in use. Their precise functions and lifetimes may vary according to Stripe’s current implementation.

Stripe may process information associated with these technologies, including device-related identifiers and transaction-related information, for purposes connected with its services. Further information is available in Stripe’s privacy documentation at https://stripe.com/privacy and its Cookie Policy at https://stripe.com/legal/cookies-policy.

We distinguish between technologies that are strictly necessary for a payment service you have requested and those that require consent. Where consent is legally required, the relevant non-essential technologies must not be activated before you provide valid consent.

The use of Stripe does not mean that every Stripe cookie is automatically exempt from consent requirements. The applicable treatment depends on the specific technology, its purpose and the relevant legal requirements.

4. Cookie Consent and Your Choices

When you first visit our website, a cookie banner allows you to choose whether to accept non-essential cookies.

Non-essential cookies will only be activated after you click the “Accept” button on our cookie banner and thereby provide consent. You may decline non-essential cookies and continue to use the website, although certain optional functions may not be available.

Where the banner provides separate category controls, you may select your preferences for the available categories. Strictly necessary cookies may remain active where permitted by applicable law.

We do not treat simply visiting the website, continuing to browse or closing the banner as consent to non-essential cookies.

Your consent choices will be recorded where necessary to remember your preferences and demonstrate how consent was obtained.

5. Cookie Retention Periods

Cookies are retained only for the period appropriate to their stated purpose and applicable legal requirements. German and European law do not prescribe one universal expiry period for every cookie.

The following retention principles apply:

• Session cookies: Generally remain active for the duration of the browser session and are deleted when the session ends.
• Consent preference cookies: May be retained for up to six months before consent preferences are requested again, unless an earlier renewal is appropriate or required.
• Shopping basket and session cookies: May remain active for the period needed to maintain the relevant shopping or browsing session. Any longer retention must be justified by the function concerned.
• Functional cookies: May remain active for a limited period appropriate to the preference being remembered, with the expiry period specified in the cookie settings where applicable.
• Analytics cookies: Where used and consented to, their retention periods will be determined by the relevant tool, the purpose of processing and the period disclosed in the cookie settings.
• Stripe-related cookies: Their expiry periods depend on the Stripe service and integration in use. Certain cookies may be session-based, while others may persist for a longer period for payment-related or fraud-prevention purposes. Relevant details should be checked against the actual implementation and Stripe’s current documentation.

Where personal data is processed through cookies or associated technologies, the data will not be retained in identifiable form for longer than necessary for the relevant purpose, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.

You may delete cookies through your browser settings. Deleting cookies may remove saved preferences and require you to make your selections again.

6. Legal Basis for Using Cookies

Under Section 25 of the German TDDDG, storing information on or accessing information from your device generally requires prior informed consent unless a statutory exemption applies, including where the operation is strictly necessary to provide a digital service you have expressly requested.

Where cookie-related processing involves personal data, the applicable legal basis under the GDPR will also be assessed. Depending on the purpose, this may include consent under Article 6(1)(a) or another applicable legal basis where the relevant conditions are satisfied.

Where consent is required, it must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous. You may refuse optional cookies without being required to accept them as a condition of ordinary website browsing.

7. Withdrawing or Changing Your Consent

You may withdraw your consent to non-essential cookies at any time. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

To change your preferences, use the cookie settings link or preference control made available on our website. If such a control is not immediately visible, you may also contact us using the details in Section 10.

After withdrawal, we will stop using the relevant non-essential cookies and technologies where required and take appropriate steps to prevent further consent-dependent storage or access. Withdrawal may not automatically erase information already collected by third parties; requests concerning such information may also need to be directed to the relevant provider.

You may additionally manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect shopping basket functions, checkout or other requested website services.

8. Third-Party Processing and Data Protection

Where third-party services are integrated into the website, those providers may process information generated through their technologies in accordance with their respective roles and applicable privacy terms.

In particular, Stripe processes information in connection with its payment services and may use cookies or similar technologies as described in its published privacy documentation.

Depending on the circumstances, the parties may act as independent controllers or in another legally applicable capacity. The relevant responsibilities are determined by the actual processing activities and applicable law.

Where personal data is processed, applicable GDPR requirements concerning transparency, data minimisation, storage limitation and data subject rights apply. Further information about personal data processing is provided in our Privacy Policy.

9. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may revise this Cookie Policy when our website functions, cookie technologies or applicable legal requirements change.

The current version will be published on www.clipandcraft.com. Where changes materially affect consent or the purposes for which cookies are used, we will update the relevant disclosures and, where required, request consent again before activating the affected non-essential technologies.

10. Contact Information

For questions about this Cookie Policy, our cookie practices or your privacy preferences, please contact us using the details below.

Company: Stoffe Brünink & Hemmers GmbH
Brand: Clipandcraf
Company Registration Number: HRB 130185-DE117044420
Registered Address: Thüringer Str. 1, 48529 Nordhorn, Germany
Warehouse Address: Thüringer Str. 1, 48529 Nordhorn, Germany
Telephone: +49 592130838812
Email: secops@clipandcraft.com
Website: https://www.clipandcraft.com

We will review privacy-related enquiries and handle them in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.