Smart Bet Cookie Policy

This page explains how Smart Bet uses cookies and similar technologies on its Ethiopian website, mobile site, and app-related services where applicable. These technologies may support secure login sessions, account protection, fraud and abuse prevention, website performance, analytics, marketing measurement, language and user preferences, and responsible gaming and age-restriction controls where applicable.

Not every technology described here is necessarily active on every service. The purposes and categories below explain Smart Bet cookies; the operator must confirm the current inventory, providers, settings and retention details before publication. Optional tracking should be distinguished from technology needed to operate and protect an account.

What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file or browser storage item that helps a website remember information about a visitor or device. For example, it can help a site recognize an existing login session when someone moves between account pages, rather than requesting a password on every page.

Similar technologies can include pixels, tags, software development kits (SDKs), local storage and device identifiers, if used. These may record interactions or retain settings without creating a conventional cookie. Browser controls do not necessarily manage all app-based technologies, so device privacy settings may also be relevant.

Why Smart Bet Uses Cookies

A working account journey needs continuity: moving from sign-in to an account page should not lose the session or interrupt a protected payment flow. Cookies may help keep users signed in securely, identify suspicious activity, remember consent choices and language preferences, and improve loading and navigation.

Other uses include understanding which pages are useful and measuring campaigns without exposing sensitive account details. Where implemented, cookies can support legal, security and responsible gaming obligations. Necessary technologies serve essential functions; optional analytics or advertising technologies may depend on consent, browser settings and applicable requirements. A cookie category should reflect its actual purpose, not simply its label.

Types of Cookies We May Use

The following categories describe possible uses. A preference tool or confirmed cookie inventory, where available, should identify the technologies actually deployed and explain whether users can switch them off.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Essential cookies may support registration, secure account access, session continuity, payment flow protection, age-gate checks, fraud prevention and storage of cookie preferences. Without them, a request may lose its connection to the correct account or browser session.

For Smart Bet login and Smart Bet registration, check the official domain and eligibility requirements before entering account-holder information. Remembering an age-gate response does not replace identity verification or the requirements explained in the Age Restriction Policy.

Security and Fraud Prevention Cookies

Security technologies may help detect suspicious patterns, reduce automated abuse and support safer sessions. Their purpose can include protecting account access and the integrity of betting, keno, live betting and gaming areas, where those services are available. They do not guarantee that an account is safe from every threat.

Cookies may also help maintain responsible gaming controls where implemented. They are not a substitute for account-based self-exclusion or deposit limits. Review the Responsible Gaming information for available measures. Detailed detection rules are not disclosed here because that could weaken protection.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Smart Bet analytics cookies may help identify slow pages, loading errors, device types, navigation paths and content that users find difficult to understand. This can guide service improvements, especially when comparing mobile and desktop access.

Analytics data may be aggregated or pseudonymized where applicable; that does not automatically make it anonymous. Analytics should improve the service, not publicly expose private betting details. Optional measurement must be separated from essential operational monitoring according to its actual purpose.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may remember language, region, odds format, device preferences or a chosen login preference. Cookie consent choices may also be stored, although remembering those choices can be an essential function rather than an optional convenience.

Preferences may not carry across browsers or devices. For the Smart Bet app, where available, check whether controls are app-specific or browser-based. Obtain any app or APK only through a verified operator channel; a remembered preference is not evidence that a download source is authentic.

Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Smart Bet marketing cookies may measure advertising campaigns, identify referral sources, limit repetitive ads and help show more relevant offers. These purposes do not imply guaranteed bonuses, winnings or eligibility for an offer.

Smart Bet tracking cookies used for marketing may involve recording visits or interactions across services, depending on the implementation. Users may manage them through website cookie settings, browser controls or third-party advertising settings where available. Rejecting optional advertising should not be confused with closing an account or activating self-exclusion.

First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are set by Smart Bet. Third-party cookies may be set by external service providers used for analytics, security, payment verification, advertising, hosting, fraud prevention or support tools. A provider's involvement does not mean that every provider receives the same information.

No vendor names are confirmed in this draft. The category-level description may be updated as providers change. Before publication, the operator should supply a verified inventory identifying each provider, purpose, duration and required or optional status. If vendor names are supplied, a provider table should be added. Third-party privacy notices should explain their own processing and available controls.

How Long Cookies Stay on Your Device

Smart Bet session cookies usually expire when the browser closes or the session ends. Browser session-restoration features can affect this behavior, so closing a window is not a reliable substitute for signing out of an account.

Persistent cookies remain for a defined period unless deleted earlier. They may retain preferences or measurement identifiers between visits. Exact lifetimes depend on the individual technology and configuration; no fixed period is asserted here. Device storage duration is also distinct from retention of information collected on the operator's systems.

How Users Can Manage Cookies

Website controls generally manage choices for that service, while browser controls apply more broadly to browser storage. Device settings may cover app permissions or advertising identifiers. Use the controls that match the technology rather than assuming one switch covers everything.

1. Step 1: Open the website cookie banner or preference center, if available. Review the categories and reject optional analytics or marketing cookies where supported.
2. Step 2: Check browser privacy settings to block selected cookies or clear browsing data. Review device privacy settings separately for app-related services.
3. Step 3: Revisit the site to check your saved choices. Clearing storage may remove preferences, sign you out or cause a consent request to appear again.

Disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect login, account security, payments or betting and gaming features. Avoid clearing storage during a deposit or withdrawal request; first check the transaction record and status. Cookie deletion does not cancel a payment or remove KYC requirements.

When comparing mobile and desktop controls, check whether they are available, how many steps they require and whether choices persist. Before a transaction, separately review payment authorization, fees, limits, processing time and the withdrawal procedure in the Terms and Conditions. Cookies do not establish these conditions or bypass verification.

Cookies and Personal Data

Some cookies and similar technologies may involve personal data, including online identifiers that can be linked to an account or device. Pseudonymization reduces direct identification but does not necessarily take information outside data protection requirements.

For Smart Bet privacy and cookies, read this page alongside the Privacy Policy, which should explain data collection, storage, processing, user rights and contact options. The operator's actual practices must determine the wording, subject to applicable Ethiopian laws and regulations. This policy does not establish licensing and regulatory status; users should verify current operator identification and relevant information from the competent authority.

Updates to This Cookie Policy

Smart Bet may revise this policy when technologies, providers, legal requirements or website features change. Changes should be reflected in the cookie inventory and preference information, with renewed choices requested where required.

Last updated: [Operator to confirm publication or revision date].

Contact Us

For questions about cookie categories, stored preferences or privacy controls, use Contact Us. Describe the browser or app, the affected setting and any error message. Use a verified official communication channel and do not send passwords, one-time codes or full payment credentials.

Compliance review note: Before publication, the operator's legal/compliance team must verify deployed technologies, providers, durations, consent controls and consistency with the Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, and applicable Ethiopian requirements. Replace the date placeholder and confirm that all described features reflect actual practices.