Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of information that a website may store in your browser or on your device when you visit it.

Cookies can serve different purposes, such as enabling website features, maintaining security, remembering preferences, or, on some websites, supporting analytics and advertising.

Other technologies, such as browser local storage, may perform similar functions. For convenience, this Policy may refer to these technologies collectively as “cookies and similar technologies.”

2. Our Approach to Cookies

Doll Finds Hub follows a data-minimization approach. We do not want to use tracking technologies simply because they are technically available.

Our goal is to use only cookies and similar technologies that are reasonably necessary for the operation, security, and usability of the website, or that you have chosen to allow where consent is required.

We do not currently plan to use:

• Google Analytics 4 (GA4);
• Meta Pixel;
• TikTok Pixel;
• advertising cookies used to build behavioral profiles of visitors;
• browser or device fingerprinting to identify individual visitors;
• third-party cross-site tracking systems for personalized advertising.

If these practices change in the future, we will review this Policy and, where required, update the website's consent controls before using the relevant technologies.

3. Essential Cookies

Some cookies or similar technologies may be necessary for Doll Finds Hub to function properly and securely.

They may be used, for example, to:

• provide basic WordPress functionality;
• maintain website security;
• help prevent abuse, malicious activity, or technical attacks;
• store technically necessary settings;
• remember language preferences or other choices;
• provide functionality that you have specifically requested.

Where a cookie or similar technology is strictly necessary to provide a requested service or operate the website, prior consent may not be required where permitted by applicable law.

4. Language Preferences

Doll Finds Hub is available in multiple languages. The website or the tools it uses may remember your selected language to make future visits more convenient.

Depending on the final technical configuration, this functionality may use a cookie, browser local storage, or another similar mechanism.

5. Doll Finds Hub Internal Statistics

Doll Finds Hub may use a first-party internal statistics system to help us understand how the website and its content perform.

For example, we may count:

• the total number of page views;
• the popularity of particular articles, products, or other content;
• interactions with certain internal website elements;
• clicks on affiliate buttons or links.

An aggregated page-view count may be displayed publicly on certain pages. This number represents the total number of recorded views and is not intended to identify individual visitors.

More detailed internal statistics are intended for administrative use and are not displayed publicly.

We intend to design our internal statistics system to help us understand content performance rather than create persistent profiles of individual visitors or detailed long-term histories of their browsing behavior.

Whether this system uses any cookie or other local identifier will depend on its final technical implementation. We will review this section once the system has been completed and update it if necessary.

6. Affiliate Links

Doll Finds Hub uses affiliate links and may participate in affiliate programs, including the AliExpress Affiliate Program.

An affiliate link may contain a referral or affiliate identifier that allows the relevant third-party service to recognize that a visit originated from Doll Finds Hub.

When you click an affiliate link and leave Doll Finds Hub for AliExpress or another third-party website, that service may use its own cookies, affiliate identifiers, referral information, or similar technologies to attribute the referral or an eligible purchase.

Cookies and similar technologies used after you reach a third-party website are controlled by that third party rather than Doll Finds Hub and are subject to the third party's own privacy and cookie practices.

If you have questions about affiliate links used on Doll Finds Hub, you are welcome to contact us at partners@dollfindshub.com.

7. Third-Party and Embedded Content

Doll Finds Hub may include links to or embedded content from external platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, or other third-party services.

A standard external link is different from embedded content. When embedded content is loaded directly on a page, the relevant third-party platform may receive technical information and, depending on its configuration, may use its own cookies or similar technologies.

Where reasonably practical, we aim to use more privacy-friendly embedding methods, delayed loading, click-to-load functionality, consent controls, or similar approaches that reduce unnecessary transmission of information to third parties.

The final list and configuration of embedded third-party services will be reviewed once the website's technical setup is complete.

8. Google Search Console and Search Engines

Doll Finds Hub may use Google Search Console to monitor website indexing, search visibility, search queries, and technical issues relating to how the website appears in Google Search.

We do not use Google Search Console as a behavioral tracking system for individual Doll Finds Hub visitors.

Search engines may also independently crawl and index publicly available pages of Doll Finds Hub in accordance with their own technologies, policies, and practices.

9. Consent and Cookie Choices

Not every cookie requires user consent. Whether consent is required depends on the purpose of the cookie or similar technology and the law applicable in the particular circumstances.

If Doll Finds Hub introduces optional cookies or similar technologies that require prior consent under applicable law, we will provide an appropriate choice mechanism before those technologies are activated.

We do not want to ask visitors to consent to categories of tracking technologies that the website does not actually use.

10. Browser Controls

Most web browsers allow you to view, delete, or block cookies and to change how websites are permitted to store them.

You can use your browser settings to manage cookies. Please keep in mind that blocking strictly necessary cookies or browser storage may affect the operation of certain website features.

If you encounter a cookie associated with Doll Finds Hub and are unsure why it is being used, please feel free to contact us at privacy@dollfindshub.com. We will be happy to look into it.

11. How Long Cookies Last

Cookies may be session cookies, which generally expire when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which may remain for a defined period or until they are deleted.

The actual duration depends on the particular cookie and the purpose for which it is used.

Once the technical setup of Doll Finds Hub is complete, we will review the cookies and similar technologies actually used by the website, their purposes, and their durations. If appropriate, we will add a more detailed cookie table to this Policy.

12. Browser Privacy Signals

Some browsers, extensions, and privacy tools may send privacy preference signals, including “Do Not Track” or other browser-based preference signals.

The legal and technical treatment of these signals may vary depending on the jurisdiction and the particular signal involved. Where applicable law requires Doll Finds Hub to recognize a particular privacy preference mechanism, we will review and implement the appropriate response as part of the website's privacy configuration.

Because Doll Finds Hub does not currently use behavioral advertising pixels, GA4, or third-party cross-site advertising trackers, the amount of tracking on the website is intentionally limited.

13. Changes to This Cookie Policy

Doll Finds Hub may evolve over time, and the cookies or similar technologies used by the website may change as features, plugins, security tools, or third-party services are added, removed, or updated.

If a change materially affects our use of cookies or visitor privacy, we will update this Policy and revise the “Last updated” date.

Once the website's development and technical configuration are complete, this Policy will be reviewed again against the actual production setup, including installed WordPress plugins, our internal statistics system, multilingual functionality, security tools, embedded content, affiliate functionality, and other active technologies.

14. Contact Us

If you have a question about cookies, internal statistics, privacy, or a technology used by Doll Finds Hub, please feel free to contact us.

If something about the website's privacy behavior concerns you, we welcome direct communication and will make a reasonable effort to review the issue and find a practical solution.

• Cookies, privacy, and personal data: privacy@dollfindshub.com
• Legal and formal inquiries: legal@dollfindshub.com