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Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement

Information was last updated: 14th February 2021

Your privacy and trust are important to us. This Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (hereinafter “Privacy Policy”) explains how we process personal information in relation to this website. This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites, apps, destinations, or other offerings that we do not own or control, even if they are linked to from our website.

Who we are and Disclaimers

Hello. Our website address is:  https://thesmart.net. We are digital publishers. We offer fresh and up-to-time content to make your life better. Here are to your attention lifestyle news, traveler’s life hacks, things to know about money and business. We offer just information. We do not provide any advice or any consultation. If you do something based on our information, you do this at your own risk. The health, your money. your life are very important, so any time you should consult your doctor at first or visit an expert. We have no responsibility for any of your actions or decisions.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on this site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Cookies and Advertisement

We dislike unrequested marketing. But sometimes it happens because of different things. When you use this website, our servers automatically record info that your browser sends whenever you visit a site (it’s called log data). This log data may include info such as your IP address, the domain from which you are visiting us or your browser type. It also may collect the info about the web-pages you visit on the website, the search terms you use, and any ads on which you click.

We only collect and store on our database the minimum of info we need in order to provide you with the service you choose to use. We may use all this data as a statistic only. We have never sold user data to anyone at all.

Cookies

Like many websites, we also use this cookie technology to collect some additional site usage data and in order to improve our website. What does it mean ”cookies”? A cookie is a tiny data file that we transfer to your computer’s hard disk. We use a few cookies here: session cookie, google analytic cookie and sometimes social media cookie. We don’t use cookies to collect personally identifiable information. Xtaro.net may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our website and to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on our website.

Analytics and Ads

From time to time we cooperate with third party companies in order to improve our free tools and services. These organizations may collect information from you automatically. Among these companies are advertising networks and content providers. So these may set their own cookies when you visit xtar.net. For instance, we use third-party analytics providers including Google Analytics. We also partner with some ads companies to support our marketing efforts and this also help us to maintain performance of this website. So these companies may set and read their cookies and similar technologies in order to gather info about your online activity across sites and services.

Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, also uses cookies to serve ads on xtar.net. The use of cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this site as well as other sites on the internet. If you want to learn more about how Google manages data, please go to: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

To opt out of the DART cookies you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html . Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies. And you can view more info on Google Ad Partner WebSites here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites