This page explains which cookies and similar technologies happygiftlist.com uses, what they are for and how you can refuse the ones that are not needed. For everything else about your personal data, see our privacy policy.
What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores in your browser, so it can recognize your browser on the next page or the next visit. Websites can also store information in your browser's local storage, which works in a similar way. On this page, “cookies” covers both.
Some cookies are needed to make the site work, for example to keep you signed in. Others, such as analytics cookies, are not needed and you can refuse them.
Cookies the site needs
These cookies are required for things you ask for, such as signing in or keeping your language. They do not track you and do not need your consent.
| Name | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|
| __Secure-next-auth.session-token | Keeps you signed in. | 30 days, or until you sign out |
| __Host-next-auth.csrf-token | Protects sign-in against forged requests. | Until you close your browser |
| __Secure-next-auth.callback-url | Remembers which page to return to after signing in. | Until you close your browser |
| user_firstName, user_lastName, user_email | Only when you sign up with Google or Facebook and your name or email address is missing: holds what you typed while your account is created. | 15 minutes |
| NEXT_LOCALE, language | Remembers the language you chose. | Until you close your browser |
| country | Remembers your country, to show prices in your currency and to know whether to show the cookie banner. | Until you close your browser |
| cookieConsent (local storage) | Remembers whether you accepted or refused analytics cookies. | Until you clear your browser data |
| hg-app-banner-dismissed (local storage) | Remembers that you closed the banner for our Android app. | Until you clear your browser data |
| hg-giftlist-draft, hg-drawnames-draft (local storage) | Keeps what you typed in the form for a new list or draw, so you do not lose it if you sign up halfway. | Used for 24 hours, then ignored and replaced by the next draft |
| hg-join-... (local storage) | After you join a Secret Santa draw that is open for sign-ups, remembers your name and personal link on this device. | Until you clear your browser data |
Cookies for statistics
| Name | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|
| _ga, _ga_TM1939T37V | Google Analytics: counts visits and shows us which pages and buttons are used, so we can improve the site. Google stores this data for us and may process it in the United States. | Up to 2 years |
| hg_src | Our own cookie. When you arrive through a link with a campaign tag (for example from our newsletter), or open a shared list or draw link, it remembers that tag and the page you landed on. If you then create an account, list or draw, we can count which link brought you. It contains nothing else and is never shared. | 30 days |
By using happygiftlist.com, you agree to our cookie policy and to the cookies described on this page, including those from Google Analytics. We also let Google use the analytics data to measure our Google Ads campaigns.
If you do not want analytics cookies, you can switch them off at any time with the “Reject analytics cookies” button at the bottom of this page. Google Analytics then stops collecting data in this browser and we remove its cookies. The same button, which then reads “Allow analytics cookies”, switches them back on.
More about how Google uses this data: How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Cookies from other companies
- Google reCAPTCHA: when you use the sign-up form or the contact form, Google loads reCAPTCHA to tell people from bots. Google can set its own cookies for this on google.com.
- Shops and affiliate networks: when you click a link to a shop, the shop and, for some shops, an affiliate network (such as Amazon, bol.com, eBay, Skimlinks, Sovrn or LinkPizza) can set cookies on their own sites to see that you came from Happy Giftlist. That is how we may earn a commission. These cookies are set on their websites, not on ours, and their own cookie policies apply.
- Signing in with Google or Facebook takes you to their site, where their own cookies and policies apply.
Share buttons for WhatsApp, Facebook and similar services are plain links. They do not load anything from those services until you click them.
The apps
The Happy Giftlist apps for iPhone and Android do not use browser cookies. What the apps store on your phone, and the analytics they use, is described in our privacy policy.
Blocking or deleting cookies
Besides the button below, you can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block the cookies the site needs, signing in and some other parts of Happy Giftlist will stop working.
Questions
Happy Giftlist is run by BV Wuyts Consultancy (enterprise number 0691.978.994, Belgium). Questions about cookies can go to [email protected] or through our contact form.