Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Your consent applies to the following domains: smileconnection.co.uk

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

As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The 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.

The third-party cookies used on our websites are used 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.

Essential: Some cookies 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: 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.

Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. 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.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on 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.

The below list details the cookies used in our website.

Cookie	Description
Advertising	Facebook Audience Network Personal Data: Cookies; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example); Usage Data
Analytics	Google Analytics and Google Ads conversion tracking Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data Google Analytics (Google Inc.) Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant. Google Ads conversion tracking (Google Inc.) Google Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google Inc. that connects data from the Google Ads advertising network with actions performed on this Application. Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Contacting the User	Phone contact Personal Data: phone number Phone contact (this Application) Users that provided their phone number might be contacted for commercial or promotional purposes related to this Application, as well as for fulfilling support requests. Personal Data collected: phone number.
Displaying content from external platforms	YouTube and Vimeo video video widget Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data Vimeo video (Vimeo, LLC) Vimeo is a video content visualization service provided by Vimeo, LLC that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages. Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. YouTube video widget (Google Inc.) YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google Inc. that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages. Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
Further information about Personal Data	DenGro DenGro is a Customer Relationship Management service provided by DenGro Limited to Smile Connection Providers. Details of the DenGro privacy policy are available at https://www.dengro.com.
Remarketing and behavioral targeting	Google Ads Remarketing and Facebook Remarketing Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data Facebook Custom Audience Personal Data: Cookies; email address Google Ads Remarketing (Google LLC) Google Ads Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google LLC that connects the activity of this Application with the Google Ads advertising network and the DoubleClick Cookie.  Users can opt out of Google's use of cookies for ads personalization by visiting Google's Ads Settings. Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant. Facebook Remarketing (Facebook, Inc.) Facebook Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of this Application with the Facebook advertising network. Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant. Facebook Custom Audience (Facebook, Inc.) Facebook Custom Audience is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of this Application with the Facebook advertising network. Personal Data collected: Cookies; email address. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.
Tag Management	Google Tag Manager Personal Data: Usage Data This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on this Application in a centralized fashion. This results in the Users' Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data. Google Tag Manager (Google LLC) Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC. Personal Data collected: Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.