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Privacy Policy

How Happy Hours processes personal data when you use CuriVexa.

Updated: June 24th, 2026

1 Introduction

1.1

This Privacy Policy (hereinafter: “Policy”) is used by Happy Hours B.V., trading under the name Happy Hours, a company with limited liability under the laws of the Netherlands, with its registered office and primary place of business at Boreelplein 41, 7411 EH Deventer, the Netherlands and registered in the register of the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce under registration number 77170407 (hereinafter: “Happy Hours” or “we”).

Happy Hours can be reached via our Contact Form.

1.2

Happy Hours is committed to protecting your privacy. This Policy describes what we do with your data and applies to all information that identifies you or may be used to identify you (“Personal Data”) by Happy Hours, including but not limited to processing via the Happy Hours websites (hereinafter: “Websites”).

The Websites are intended for general audiences over the age of 16 years old. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 16 years old.

1.3

If you are not at least 16 years old (or 13 years old in the United States), please do not use the Websites. Our Services are not intended for use by children under these ages.

If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a child under the applicable age without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the applicable age, please contact us via our Contact Form.

1.4

This Privacy Policy is provided in English. Translations to certain other languages may be available and can be requested by contacting us here.

1.5

For ease of reference, each section of this Privacy Policy is set out below:

  • Introduction
  • Processing of Personal Data
  • Purposes of the Processing
  • Legal Basis of the Processing
  • Recipients of Your Personal Data
  • Retention of Your Personal Data
  • Safeguarding Your Personal Data
  • Your Rights
  • Amendments and Questions

2 Processing of Personal Data

2.1

Happy Hours is a data controller under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This means that with regard to any Personal Data referred to in this Policy, Happy Hours determines the purpose for which we process this data and the means necessary for processing it.

As a data controller, we process the data set out in this section. Happy Hours does not engage in automated decision-making.

Data Collected Directly From You

2.2

When you access our Websites, we may automatically collect the following information about you and/or your device:

  • Your anonymous IP address;
  • Your mobile device identifier;
  • Information about your settings, such as language settings, browser information (user agent), and operating system;
  • Query string;
  • Your Website preferences;
  • Your location and time zone.

Data You May Provide to Us

2.3

Access to the Websites, their content and any search results generated through the Websites generally do not require you to submit Personal Data to us other than the information listed above.

Under certain circumstances, you may wish to provide us with more information about yourself, for example in relation to an enquiry submitted via our Contact Form.

When you contact us, we may process:

  • Your name;
  • Your company name;
  • Your email address;
  • Any other Personal Data you provide to us.

For our website we use Google reCAPTCHA before you can submit our Contact Form. It helps us determine whether a visitor is a human or a bot and protects our contact form against spam and abuse.

The reCAPTCHA API may collect information including:

  • Cookies placed by Google during the previous six months;
  • Mouse clicks or taps;
  • Scrolling behaviour;
  • CSS information;
  • System date and time;
  • IP address;
  • Google account login status;
  • Browser language settings;
  • Installed browser add-ons;
  • JavaScript objects;
  • Form completion speed.

This information is sent to Google for analysis. It is used to improve reCAPTCHA and for security purposes and is not used for personalized advertising.

2.4

If you choose to provide additional Personal Data, we recommend limiting this to the absolute minimum and discourage the submission of sensitive Personal Data.

Data Collected Via Our Partners

2.5

Third parties may process data related to you through our Websites in order to provide products and services.

We use advertisements from partners including Google, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo. Because ad personalization is disabled, these partners do not create advertising profiles based on your interests.

Advertisements are only based on:

  • The topic of the website;
  • Your current search query;
  • Your general location.

Happy Hours is not responsible for tracking cookies that you may previously have accepted while visiting third-party websites.

For more information about Google's privacy practices, please visit the Google Privacy Policy.

2.6

Third-party providers may place cookies, ad tags and beacons to provide analytics and advertising services.

The IP address, country, browser information and displayed results may be processed in order to provide our services.

User behaviour is never tracked to match advertisements or organic results to a visitor profile. Search results and advertisements are shown solely based on the user's search query.

The necessary cookies are essential for operating our Websites and providing our services. They support functionality such as page rendering, navigation, fraud prevention and security improvements.

See the Happy Hours cookie policy.

3 Purposes of the Processing

The primary purposes for processing Personal Data are:

  • Providing our services;
  • Improving our services;
  • Securing our services;
  • Communicating with users;
  • Exercising and safeguarding our rights;
  • Compensating partners;
  • Complying with legal obligations.

4.1

We process Personal Data on the following legal grounds:

  • Performance of a contract;
  • Legitimate interests;
  • Consent.

Our legitimate interests include operating Happy Hours search websites, providing search results and advertisements relevant to user search queries, preventing fraud and improving security.

5 Recipients of Your Personal Data

5.1

Happy Hours may transfer Personal Data to:

  • Suppliers and service providers;
  • Companies within the Happy Hours group;
  • Professional service providers;
  • Advertising partners;
  • Law enforcement agencies;
  • Fraud prevention partners;
  • Third parties involved in mergers, acquisitions or restructuring.

5.2

Where Personal Data is transferred outside the EEA, appropriate safeguards, including Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), will be implemented.

6 Retention of Your Personal Data

6.1

We retain Personal Data only as long as necessary.

  • Spam detection data: 7 days
  • Conversion data: 30 days

Afterward, data is retained only where legally required or for audit and compliance purposes.

7 Securing Your Personal Data

7.1

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures, including:

  • Pseudonymisation and encryption;
  • Confidentiality and availability controls;
  • Recovery procedures;
  • Regular testing and evaluation of security measures.

8 Your Rights

8.1

You may have the following rights:

  • Right to object;
  • Right of access;
  • Right to rectification;
  • Right to restriction;
  • Right to erasure;
  • Right to data portability;
  • Right to withdraw consent;
  • Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

8.2

You may exercise these rights by contacting us via our Contact Form.

8.3

To process your request, we may ask for additional information necessary to verify your identity.

9 Amendments and Questions

9.1

Happy Hours may amend this Policy at any time. Any amended version will be published on the Website.

9.2

If you have questions about this Policy or wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us via our Contact Form.