Cookie Policy
Last updated: 20 September 2026
Hugs and Kitties (“we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on this website to ensure the website functions properly, protect our contact and booking forms from spam, and help us understand how visitors use our website.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, which types of cookies we use, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They can be used to remember your preferences, enable website functionality, improve security, and provide information about how visitors use a website.
Some cookies are necessary for the website to function correctly, while others, such as analytics cookies, are only used with your consent.
2. How We Use Cookies
Hugs and Kitties uses a limited number of cookies for the following purposes:
- To remember and manage your cookie consent preferences
- To protect our website and forms against spam and automated abuse
- To support the operation of our contact and booking forms
- To understand how visitors use our website through Google Analytics
We do not use cookies on this website for advertising or personalised advertising.
3. Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies are required for the basic operation, security and functionality of the website. These cookies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary for providing the website or a service requested by you.
Our website currently uses the following necessary cookies:
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Provider: Hugs and Kitties / CookieYes
Purpose: Used to store and manage your cookie consent preferences.
Duration: Up to 1 year.
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Provider: Google reCAPTCHA
Purpose: Used by Google reCAPTCHA to help distinguish between human visitors and automated bots and protect our forms from spam and malicious activity.
Duration: Persistent.
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Provider: Google reCAPTCHA
Purpose: Used by Google reCAPTCHA to help protect our forms against spam and automated abuse.
Duration: Session.
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Provider: WPForms
Purpose: Used by the website’s form system to support form functionality and recognise interactions associated with a user.
Duration: Approximately 1 year.
4. Analytics Cookies
With your consent, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors interact with our website. This may include information such as pages visited, how visitors arrived at the website, and general website usage.
The analytics cookies currently detected on our website are:
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Provider: Google Analytics
Purpose: Used to distinguish visitors and collect information about website usage for analytics purposes.
Duration: Approximately 13 months.
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Provider: Google Analytics
Purpose: Used to maintain and count page views and session information for Google Analytics.
Duration: Approximately 13 months.
Analytics cookies are non-essential and should only be activated after you have given your consent through our cookie banner.
5. Third-Party Services
Some cookies and related technologies used on this website are provided by third parties.
These currently include:
Google Analytics — used to help us understand website usage and performance.
Google reCAPTCHA — used to protect our forms from spam and automated abuse.
CookieYes — used to manage cookie consent and preferences.
These third-party providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.
6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our website, you can choose whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies through our cookie consent banner.
Necessary cookies cannot normally be disabled through the banner because they are required for the website to function correctly.
You can change or withdraw your consent to non-essential cookies at any time using the cookie preferences control available on our website.
You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Please note that blocking certain necessary cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.
7. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example if we introduce new website features, change the services we use, or if the cookies used by those services change.
The “Last updated” date at the top of this page will show when this policy was most recently revised.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how Hugs and Kitties uses cookies, please contact us through the contact details or contact form provided on our website.