Cookie Policy

DISCLAIMER

Your use of the Website is also subject to our:

Terms of Use www.smartdigitalhq.com/terms 

Disclaimers www.smartdigitalhq.com/disclaimers 

Privacy Policy www.smartdigitalhq.com/privacy-policy 

Please review Terms of Use, Disclaimers, Privacy Policy,  which also govern the Website and inform users of various limitations regarding the information provided on the Website. Your agreement to Terms of Use,  Disclaimers and  Privacy Policy  is hereby incorporated into this Cookie Policy.

WHAT ARE COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to delete or turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings.

If you disable cookies installation or you delete cookies from your computer’s hard disk you may be unable to use some of the features of our website, products and services.

Smart Digital HQ uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of the Smart Digital HQ website, and their website access preferences. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE

Essential

These are strictly necessary cookies. They are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely. 

Statistics or performance cookies

These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement. 

Session Cookies

These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for a variety of purposes, such as remembering what a user has put in their shopping cart as they browse a website. Session cookies also permit users to be recognized as they navigate a website so that any item or page changes they make are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire after a browser session; thus, they are not stored long term.

Functional

These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms. 

Preferences

These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.

Marketing (Advertising or Targeting Cookies)

We show advertisements on our website. These cookies are usually placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve advertisements on other websites that are related to your interests. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns. The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well. You can disable these cookies. You will still though see advertisements if there are any, but they will not be personalized for you based on your browsing experience.

We may also use cookies for:

Help remember and process the items in the shopping cart; Allowing you to share content with social networks; Affiliate marketing; Allowing you to post comments;Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited; Personalizing content that you see on our website; Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits; Keep track of advertisements; Remarketing our products or services to you; Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details; Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

The cookies currently on smartdigitalhq.com are related to Google Analytics and  DoubleClick. 

We don’t collect any personal information from you unless you supply it and we need it (for example, signing up to our email newsletter).

We won’t share your personal information with anyone else, except when required by some third party services who provide services, such as sending out our email newsletter.

We don’t store your personal information on our servers except when necessary for the functioning of the website (for example, the information you enter when leaving a comment).

We may share generic aggregated demographic information, not linked to any personal identification information, regarding visitors and users, with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers.

Cookies are only used to collect information about how visitors interact with our website. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, such as the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. We do not share personal data with Google.

Web Beacons

We may also use a technology called web beacons to collect general information about your use of our website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect through web beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people who open our emails. Web beacons also help us to understand the behavior of our customers, members, and visitors.

Google Ad and Content Network Privacy notice

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s past visits to our website. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. 

Google Analytics Privacy notice

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website. We have enabled Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with PD. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Google Remarketing

Our website may use a remarketing advertising service. Our remarketing service is provided by Google and other companies that show our ads on websites across the Internet. With remarketing you may see ads for our products you have previously looked at. As an example, suppose you visit a website that sells computers, but you do not buy a computer on your first visit to that website. The website’s owner might like to encourage you to revisit his/her site and buy a computer by showing you his/her ads again on other websites that you visit. We use remarketing for similar purposes. For this to happen, Google will read a cookie that is already in your browser, or they place a cookie in your browser when you visit our site or other sites using remarketing.

You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies and remarketing at this link: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en   or you can opt out using the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/ .

Facebook Remarketing

Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet, and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. With Facebook remarketing you may see our ads on Facebook after you have visited our site. For this to happen, Facebook uses a Custom Audience Pixel that is activated when a visitor lands on a webpage and a unique “cookie” is placed in their browser. Facebook lookalike audience targeting allows us to show ads on Facebook to people who are similar to those who have already visited or made a purchase from our website. To opt out of Facebook’s collection and use of information for ad targeting visit: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217 

THIRD-PARTY AND ADVERTISING PARTNERS COOKIES

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Smart Digital HQ.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on our website, which are sent directly to users’ browsers. They may automatically receive the user’s IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. 

Note that Smart Digital HQ has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. Our Cookie and Privacy Policies do not apply to other advertisers or websites. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND SERVICES

Our Website may contain links to other Websites (“Linked Websites”). The Linked Websites are not under our control and we are not responsible for the contents, privacy and cookie policies of any Linked Website, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Website, or any changes or updates to a Linked Website. We are providing these links as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply our endorsement of that website or any association with its operators.

Certain services made available via smartdigitalhq.com are delivered by third-party Websites and organizations. By using any product, service, or functionality originating from our Website, you hereby acknowledge and consent that we may share such information and data with any third party with whom we have contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of our users and customers.

DISABLING COOKIES

The use of the cookies described above improves the functionality of the Website and your experience of using them. If you do not want these cookies to be served on your device, you are able to disable them by changing the settings within the Website, or on your device. Please note that if you do decide to disable cookies you may not be able to access some of the Website, and some of the features of the Website may not function properly. By continuing to use the Website, including using social networking media functionality, you consent to the relevant cookies being set on your device. You can change your browser settings by clicking the appropriate link as follows. Here is how to disable cookies in different Internet browsers:

Disable Cookies in Chrome

Disable Cookies in Firefox

Disable Cookies in Safari

Disable Cookies in Internet Explorer

If you require any more information or have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please feel free to contact us by email at info at smartdigitalhq dot com

Updated on December, 2022