Cookies Policy

1. About This Policy

Smart Marketing First Inc. ("Smart Marketing First", "we", "us", "our") uses cookies on smartmarketingfirst.com (the "Service"). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this policy. This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, how third parties we partner with may use them on the Service, your choices, and where to get more information. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

2. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. The cookie file is stored in your browser and allows the Service, or a third party, to recognize you, make your next visit easier, and make the Service more useful to you. Cookies can be "persistent" (they stay on your device until they expire or you delete them) or "session" cookies (they are erased when you close your browser). We also use similar technologies such as pixels, tags, and local storage; where this policy says "cookies", it covers those technologies too.

3. How Smart Marketing First Uses Cookies

When you use and access the Service, we may place several cookie files in your web browser. We use cookies to enable certain functions of the Service, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, and to enable advertisement delivery, including behavioural advertising. The cookies we may use on the site fall into four categories:

• Strictly necessary
• Performance
• Functionality
• Targeting

Some cookies fulfill more than one of these purposes.

4. Strictly Necessary Cookies

"Strictly necessary" cookies let you move around smartmarketingfirst.com and use essential features such as secure areas and forms. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the services you request.

We use strictly necessary cookies to:

• Identify you as logged in to smartmarketingfirst.com and authenticate you.
• Make sure you connect to the right service when we change how the site works.
• Protect the site and your submissions for security purposes, including spam and fraud prevention.
• Remember your cookie consent choices so we do not ask you on every page.

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using smartmarketingfirst.com, so if you block them we cannot guarantee how the site will perform during your visit.

5. Performance Cookies

"Performance" cookies collect information about how you use smartmarketingfirst.com — for example, which pages you visit and whether you experience any errors. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you on their own. They are used to help us improve how the site works, understand the interests of our visitors, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising.

We use performance cookies to:

• Carry out web analytics and provide statistics on how the site is used.
• Perform affiliate and referral tracking, including telling partners that one of our visitors also visited their site.
• Obtain data on how many visitors viewed a particular service or offer page.
• Measure errors that occur so we can fix them.
• Test different designs and layouts for the site.

Some of our performance cookies are managed for us by third parties.

6. Functionality Cookies

"Functionality" cookies are used to provide services or to remember settings so we can improve your visit.

We use functionality cookies to:

• Remember settings you have applied, such as layout, text size, preferences, and colours.
• Remember whether we have already asked you to complete a survey or booking form.
• Remember whether you have already engaged with a particular component, banner, or list, so it does not repeat.
• Show you when you are logged in.
• Provide and display embedded video and audio content.

Some of these cookies are managed for us by third parties.

7. Targeting Cookies

"Targeting" cookies track your visit to smartmarketingfirst.com, as well as other websites, apps, and online services — including the pages you have viewed and the links you have followed — which allows relevant ads to be shown to you.

We may use targeting cookies to:

• Display targeted ads to visitors of smartmarketingfirst.com on other platforms.
• Improve how we deliver personalized ads and content.
• Measure the success of ad campaigns and limit how often you see the same ad.

8. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may use third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, embed media, and support scheduling and chat tools. These providers set their own cookies and are governed by their own privacy and cookie policies. Third-party providers we may use include analytics platforms, advertising and social platforms, video hosts such as YouTube and Vimeo, and booking or form tools.

9. Cookies for Media Playback

We use cookies to save playback preferences, monitor video completion rates, and improve interaction analytics on the videos and case studies published on the Service. Visitors covered by the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive must provide explicit consent before these cookies are activated.

10. AI Personalization Cookies

Some features on the Service use cookies to deliver personalized recommendations and content suggestions, such as showing you the service pages or case studies most relevant to your industry and location. You can manage these cookies through our Cookie Settings, or by blocking cookies in your browser.

11. Your Choices Regarding Cookies

If you would like to delete cookies, or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your browser. Most browsers also offer a private or incognito mode that clears cookies when the window is closed. Note that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you may not be able to use all of the features we offer, your preferences may not be stored, and some pages may not display properly.

• Consent (GDPR / ePrivacy): Visitors in the European Economic Area and the UK are asked for consent before non-essential cookies are set, and may withdraw that consent at any time through our Cookie Settings.
• Opt-out (CCPA/CPRA): California residents can opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information through our Privacy Preferences, or by using a Global Privacy Control signal sent by your browser.
• Canada (PIPEDA / PIPA BC): You may withdraw consent to non-essential cookies at any time by adjusting your browser settings or contacting us. We do not sell your personal information.
• Advertising opt-outs: You can also opt out of interest-based advertising through industry tools such as the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada and the Network Advertising Initiative.

12. Do Not Track

Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" signal. There is no common industry standard for how these signals should be handled. Where we are able to detect a recognized opt-out signal, such as Global Privacy Control, we treat it as a request to disable non-essential cookies.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the tools we use or to applicable law. The current version is posted at https://smartmarketingfirst.com/cookies with an effective date. Continued use of the Service after an update means you accept the updated policy.

14. Contact

Smart Marketing First Inc.
5-31445 Upper Maclure Road, Abbotsford, BC, V2T 5S2, Canada
Email: Info@smartmarketingfirst.com