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.
Read this policy alongside the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. The categories below describe possible uses; the cookies actually active depend on the service, device, settings, and features in use.
Last updated: [Operator to confirm publication date]
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small file stored in your browser that helps a website remember information about your visit or device. For example, it can help keep your account session active when you move between pages or remember your language choice.
Similar technologies can include pixels, tags, software development kits (SDKs), local storage, and device identifiers, if used. Pixels and tags can record events such as a page opening; local storage saves information in your browser; SDKs may support functions within an app. In this policy, “cookies” also refers to these related technologies where relevant.
Why Smart Bet Uses Cookies
Some cookies are necessary for the platform to operate. Others support optional measurement, personalization, or advertising and may depend on consent, applicable requirements, and browser or device settings. Their practical purposes may include:
- Keeping users signed in and maintaining continuity between account pages.
- Protecting accounts against suspicious activity and automated abuse.
- Remembering cookie choices, language preferences, and display settings.
- Improving loading speed, navigation, and mobile usability.
- Understanding which pages are useful and where errors occur.
- Measuring campaigns without disclosing sensitive account details to advertising partners.
- Supporting applicable legal, security, age-restriction, and responsible gaming requirements.
Cookies do not replace identity verification, customer due diligence, payment authorization, or account-level controls. Users should verify the operator’s current legal and regulatory status in Ethiopia; a cookie notice is not evidence of licensing or approval by a competent authority.
Types of Cookies We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies support essential functions such as registration, login, secure account access, session continuity, payment-flow protection, age-gate checks, fraud prevention, and storage of cookie preferences. Blocking them may prevent parts of the service from working.
In a typical user journey, a session cookie helps maintain account access after Smart Bet login while you move to account or transaction pages. During Smart Bet registration, necessary storage may preserve progress between steps. An age-gate cookie may remember a completed check, but it does not replace the eligibility requirements in the Age Restriction Policy.
Security and Fraud Prevention Cookies
Security cookies and related identifiers may help detect suspicious patterns, reduce automated abuse, and protect account sessions and the integrity of betting, keno, live betting, and gaming areas. Some serve essential security functions; their classification depends on their actual purpose.
Cookies may also support recognition of restrictions relevant to Responsible Gaming, where applicable. Self-exclusion and deposit limits should not rely solely on a browser cookie that can be deleted. Detailed detection rules are not disclosed where doing so could undermine account protection.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies may help Smart Bet understand page usage, loading problems, device types, navigation paths, and content quality. For example, they can help identify a page that loads slowly on mobile connections or a navigation step where users encounter errors.
Analytics data may be aggregated or pseudonymized where applicable. Pseudonymization reduces direct identification but does not necessarily make information anonymous. Analytics should improve the service, not expose private betting activity publicly. Optional analytics choices should be explained in the available cookie controls.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may remember language, region, odds format, device preferences, or a selected login preference. Cookie-choice storage may instead be classified as necessary because it records your privacy decision. Classification depends on purpose, not just the cookie’s name.
Preferences may differ between browsers and the Smart Bet app. Browser controls generally govern website cookies, while app storage and identifiers may require in-app or device controls. On shared devices, avoid persistent login preferences and sign out when finished.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Marketing cookies may measure advertising campaigns, identify referral sources, limit repeated ads, and support more relevant offers. They do not establish eligibility for an offer or guarantee a bonus or winnings. Marketing measurement should not disclose sensitive account details to advertising partners.
Where supported, users can reject or manage these cookies through cookie settings, browser controls, or third-party advertising settings. Rejecting optional marketing cookies should not remove access to essential account functions, although the advertising shown may change.
First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are set by Smart Bet’s website. Third-party cookies may be set by service providers supporting analytics, security, payment verification, advertising, hosting, fraud prevention, or customer support. The provider’s role, purpose, and access to information should be disclosed rather than assumed.
No individual providers are identified here because a verified vendor inventory has not been supplied. The following category-level summary must be updated against the operator’s actual deployment; it is not a confirmed cookie inventory.
| Category | Purpose and example | Duration | Status | Possible provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary and security | Session continuity, preference records, payment-flow protection | Session or persistent; confirm per item | Required where essential | Operator or security service |
| Analytics and performance | Usage measurement and loading diagnostics | Confirm per item | Optional where applicable | Operator or analytics service |
| Functional | Language and display preferences | Confirm per item | Depends on purpose | Operator or functionality service |
| Marketing | Referral attribution and campaign measurement | Confirm per item | Optional | Operator or advertising service |
How Long Cookies Stay on Your Device
Session cookies usually expire when the browser is closed or the session ends. Browser session-restoration settings may affect this behavior. Persistent cookies remain for a defined period unless you delete them earlier; they may remember preferences across visits.
Exact expiry periods must be confirmed for each active cookie or storage item. A cookie’s expiry is not necessarily the retention period for associated server-side records. Deleting cookies does not automatically delete account information, transaction records, or other data held by the operator.
How Users Can Manage Cookies
- Step 1: Open the website’s cookie banner or preference center, if available. Review the purposes and accept or reject optional categories where supported.
- Step 2: Use your browser’s privacy settings to inspect, block, or delete cookies and site data. Some browsers offer separate third-party cookie controls.
- Step 3: Review device privacy settings and any app-specific controls. Repeat your choices on other browsers or devices if they are not synchronized.
Website controls can preserve necessary functions while limiting optional tracking. Browser-wide blocking is broader but may disrupt login, account security, deposits, withdrawals, or gaming features. Clearing site data may sign you out and remove saved preferences.
If a deposit or withdrawal page fails after changing settings, first check your transaction record and status before retrying. Do not repeatedly submit payment instructions without confirming the earlier result. Changing cookie settings does not remove identity-verification requirements, transaction limits, fees, or withdrawal conditions.
Cookies and Personal Data
Some cookies contain or connect to personal data, including online identifiers, device information, or account-related records. Third-party processing, retention, user rights, and contact options should be described in the Privacy Policy according to the operator’s actual practices and applicable Ethiopian laws and regulations.
Do not enter passwords, verification codes, or payment credentials into a cookie banner. Use the operator’s verified domain and authorized service channels when reviewing privacy controls or seeking assistance.
Updates to This Cookie Policy
Smart Bet may update this policy when technologies, providers, legal requirements, or website features change. The revision date should identify the latest version. Where required, material changes to optional processing should be communicated and fresh consent requested before that processing begins.
Contact Us
For questions about Smart Bet cookies, unavailable preference controls, or a privacy concern, use Contact Us. Describe the affected page, browser or app, device type, and the issue. Never send your password or one-time security codes. Ask support for the applicable privacy or complaint-handling procedure if further review is needed.
Author: Lemlem Asrat
Lemlem reviews casino, keno, virtual sports, slots, live games, and crash products only when availability for Ethiopia is confirmed. She documents test dates, navigation, mobile behavior, game information, and account controls. Products offered in other markets are never assumed to be locally accessible.