Last updated: 1 September 2026

This policy explains how barkr.eu uses cookies and similar technologies, and how you control them. It supplements our Privacy Policy.

1. What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file placed on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies — local storage, session storage and tracking pixels — do comparable things. Together we refer to them all as “cookies” in this policy.

Cookies set by barkr.eu are first-party cookies. Cookies set by other organisations whose services appear on our pages are third-party cookies.

2. Your consent

Under Romanian Law 506/2004 and the GDPR, we may store cookies on your device without consent only where they are strictly necessary to provide a service you have requested. Everything else — analytics, session recording, embedded media, marketing — requires your prior consent.

When you first visit, our consent banner lets you accept or reject each non-essential category. We do not load those cookies until you accept. Rejecting them does not restrict your access to the shop.

To change or withdraw your choice at any time, reopen the consent banner from the link in the site footer. Withdrawal is as easy as giving consent, and takes effect immediately for future page loads.

3. Categories we use

3.1 Strictly necessary — always active

These make the shop function. They cannot be switched off, and they do not require consent.

PurposeSet byTypical duration
Remembering your shopping basket and its contentsbarkr.euSession to 2 days
Keeping you signed in to your accountbarkr.euSession to 14 days
Securing checkout and preventing cross-site request forgerybarkr.euSession
Recording your cookie consent choicesbarkr.euUp to 12 months
Firewall and abuse protectionbarkr.euSession

3.2 Statistics — consent required

These tell us how the site is used so we can improve it.

PurposeSet byTypical duration
Measuring visits, pages viewed, traffic sources and conversionsGoogle AnalyticsUp to 2 years
Session analytics — recording mouse movement, scrolling, clicks and a replay of the visit, plus aggregated heatmapsMicrosoft ClarityUp to 1 year

Session recording captures how you interact with our pages. We do not use it to identify you, and the tool masks text input by default, but it is more intrusive than page-count analytics — which is why it sits behind consent and why we are naming it explicitly here rather than describing it as “statistics”.

3.3 Functional and embedded content — consent required

PurposeSet byTypical duration
Playing embedded videos and remembering playback preferencesYouTube (Google)Up to 2 years
Messaging widgetbarkr.eu / WhatsAppSession

Embedded videos do not load until you consent. Where you have not consented, you will see a placeholder with a link to view the video on its own platform.

3.4 Payment and anti-spam

PurposeSet byTypical duration
Processing payments, and fraud detection on transactionsPayPalSession to 3 years
Distinguishing humans from automated submissions on our formsGoogle reCAPTCHASession to 6 months

These are necessary to take payment securely and to keep our forms usable. Google reCAPTCHA collects device and behaviour information and is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

4. Controlling cookies in your browser

Independently of our banner, you can block or delete cookies through your browser settings, and most browsers offer a setting to reject third-party cookies entirely. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will stop the basket and checkout from working.

You can also opt out of Google Analytics across all sites using Google’s browser opt-out add-on.

5. Transfers outside the EEA

Several of the third parties above are established in the United States. Transfers are covered by the safeguards described in section 3.3 of our Privacy Policy.

6. Changes

We update this policy when we add or remove a tool. The date at the top shows when it was last revised.

7. Contact

Questions about cookies: barkr.agility@gmail.com