Cookies Policy

Welcome to our website! We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience. This cookie consent notice explains how we collect, process, and utilize cookies by M/s. Smiling Starz Welltech & Edutech Platform LLP on its platform. By continuing to use our site, you consent to the placement of these cookies as described below.

What are Cookies?

“Cookies” are small text files stored on your device (such as a computer or smartphone) when you visit a website. They are used for various purposes, including remembering your preferences, tracking your browsing activity, and providing personalized ads. Cookies can be categorized based on their purpose and duration, and they may be set by the website you’re visiting (first-party cookies) or by other companies (third-party cookies). For more information about cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

  • Types of Cookies We Use

The section below covers the many types of cookies we use on our website and why we use them. 

By their purpose:

Necessary Cookies: Necessary Cookies are essential for the basic functionality of our website, enabling features like logging in, making reservations, and saving preferences. They also enhance security by preventing fraudulent use of login credentials and protecting data from unauthorized access. These cookies are always active.

Performance Cookies: Performance Cookies gather information to enhance website performance and identify any issues encountered during your visit. We use them for analytics, such as tracking visitor numbers and identifying popular pages. These cookies are activated only with your consent.

Functional Cookies: Functional Cookies enhance website functionality and personalize your experience by remembering settings like location and language preferences. They are activated only with your consent.

Advertising/Targeting Cookies: Advertising/Targeting Cookies help us understand your behavior, preferences, and interactions to provide relevant advertising. They may be set by us or our partners to tailor content to your interests. These cookies are activated only with your consent.

Social Media Cookies: Social Media Cookies are set by social media services to enable content sharing, view embedded social media videos, and provide a personalized browsing experience. They allow social networks to create a profile of your interests.

Analytics Cookies

  • Google Analytics: These cookies help us analyze website traffic, track user behavior, and improve our services. We use aggregated data to understand how visitors interact with our site.

Advertisement/Target Cookies

  • Google AdSense: Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services
  • Meta Ads: Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers

Performance Cookies

  • Google Universal Analytics: This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.

By who sets them:

  • First-party Cookies: These are The Smiling Souls’s own Cookies, and the website you visit stores them directly on your device. First-party cookies serve a variety of purposes, such as identifying you when you return to our website, allowing you to log in to your accounts using your credentials, and remembering the status and details of your current reservation.
  • Third-party Cookies: These are developed by entities other than The Smiling Souls, primarily for tracking and advertising purposes. For example, these Cookies can enable you to receive personalized adverts based on your interests. es: These are created by parties other than The Smiling Souls, essentially for tracking and advertising purposes. For instance, these Cookies can allow you to receive personal ads that match your interests.

By the period, they remain active:

  • Session Cookies: These cookies are temporary and last only for the duration of your website visit. They store information in temporary memory and are deleted once you close your browser. For example, session cookies remember your hotel selection until you finish booking.
  • Persistent Cookies: Unlike session cookies, persistent cookies remain on your device after your website visit ends. They store information, settings, or sign-on credentials for a period set by the cookie provider.

 

  1. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can manage your cookie preferences by adjusting your browser settings or using our cookie settings panel. Please note that blocking certain cookies may impact your experience on our website.

 

  • Your Consent

Necessary Cookies will always be active on your device, but we need your permission to place Performance, Functional, Advertising/Targeting, and Social Media Cookies, as well as other related technologies. If you wish to change your cookie settings, including removing your consent to this processing, we recommend that you use the links provided below. You may need to reload the page before the changes in the settings take effect.

  • Additional information

Protecting your personal data is of utmost importance to us. Please review our Privacy Notice (https://thesmilingsouls.com/privacy-policy/) which explains how we collect, use and share your Personal Data, as well as your rights to request, access, rectify, erase, restrict, or object to how we process your Personal Data, and the right to data portability, as well as the process by which you may exercise your rights.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our cookie practices, please contact: 

Email Address: dpo@thesmilingsouls.com

Last Updated: 16-Sep-24