Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. SmartSearch.com uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience, to analyse our traffic, to enable social media features and allow us to improve our site. 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. This information does not usually identify you, but it offers you a better user experience when visiting our website.

We use the following cookies:

• Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website and use of its features, and therefore cannot be switched off in our systems. Without these cookies, you will be unable to use the SmartSearch.com site. The use of these cookies for the purposes described is based on our legitimate interest to ensure the proper technical functioning of, access to and use of the SmartSearch.com site and to provide you with the service(s) you have expressly requested.
• Performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. It is in our legitimate business interests to use these types of cookies but you can restrict these at any time. Without these cookies the site may not perform or look as expected. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. These cookies are optional and are used to remember the choices you have made, for example the country you visit from, your language and any changes you have made to text size and other parts of the web pages that you can customise to improve your user experience and to make your visits more tailored and enjoyable. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly. 
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. To measure the effectiveness of and marketing or information initiatives [We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.] Without these cookies the site may not perform or look as expected and you may not be targeted with ads that are relevant to your interests. We will ask for your consent to use these cookies.
• We use both first and third party cookies. Any cookies that are set by the website that you are visiting are called first party cookies, whilst any cookies from a domain different from the domain of the website you are visiting are called third party cookies
• Some cookies are deleted once you close your browser (“session cookies”). Persistent cookies on the other hand stay on your browser for a longer period and are not deleted once you close it. The tables below contain details on the lifespan of the cookies we use.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Please note that some third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

We do not share the information collected by the cookies with any third parties.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Changes to our cookies notice

If we change anything important about this notice/policy we will notify you through a pop up on the website for a reasonable length of time prior to and following the change or another appropriate method. 

Contact

In case of any queries please contact our data protection office dpo@smartsearch.com

This cookies notice is last updated on 9^th April 2021