This Cookie Policy explains how SMMARO and services used by the website may use cookies, browser storage, pixels, tags, and similar technologies.
It should be read together with the SMMARO Privacy Policy, which explains how information associated with the website may be handled more broadly.
Last updated: September 4, 2026
Cookie Policy — Page Contents
1. About This Cookie Policy
This policy explains what cookies and similar technologies are, why they may be used on SMMARO, which categories may apply, and how you can manage or delete them.
This policy covers:
- Cookies and browser storage
- Blogger and Google technologies
- Analytics, when enabled
- Advertising, when enabled
- Affiliate attribution
- External links and social sharing
- Consent choices and browser controls
The exact technologies present on SMMARO can change when Blogger, Google, the website theme, analytics services, advertising services, affiliate systems, or other site features change.
2. What Cookies & Similar Technologies Are
Cookies are small pieces of data that a website or service provider can store in or read from your browser.
They may support website operation, security, preferences, analytics, advertising, attribution, and fraud or abuse prevention.
| Technology | What It Does |
|---|---|
| Cookies | Store small pieces of data in the browser for website or third-party functionality. |
| Local Storage | Stores browser data that can remain after a session until removed. |
| Session Storage | Stores browser data for a limited browser session. |
| Pixels / Web Beacons | May support measurement, advertising, reporting, or attribution. |
| Tags / URL Parameters | Can help identify traffic sources, campaigns, or qualifying actions. |
3. Cookie & Technology Categories
| Category | Main Purpose | Usually Optional? |
|---|---|---|
| Essential / Functional | Site operation, security, forms, and core functionality | Generally necessary where required for the requested service |
| Functional Browser Storage | Preserve technical or interface state | Depends on the function |
| Analytics | Measure traffic, engagement, and website usage | Usually optional where consent is required |
| Advertising | Ad delivery, frequency control, reporting, and measurement | Optional where consent is required |
| Affiliate Attribution | Attribute qualifying actions after an affiliate link is used | Depends on the provider and applicable rules |
The exact category and legal treatment of a technology can depend on its purpose, provider, configuration, and applicable law.
4. Blogger & Google
SMMARO is hosted on Blogger, a Google service.
Blogger and related Google services may use cookies or similar technologies to operate, secure, and deliver Blogger-hosted websites.
Google provides more information in its own policies:
Google's technologies, settings, and retention practices may change independently of SMMARO.
5–6. Essential Technologies & Browser Storage
5. Essential & Functional Technologies
Some technologies may be necessary for the website or platform to function correctly.
They can support page delivery, security, basic Blogger functionality, contact-form operation, interface behavior, abuse prevention, and technical state required for a feature.
Some essential or functional technologies may operate without optional consent where permitted by applicable law because they are necessary to provide a requested service or core website function.
6. Functional Browser Storage
Some SMMARO website scripts may use local storage, session storage, or similar browser storage for technical or interface purposes.
Unlike traditional cookies, these technologies store information through browser APIs.
They may be used to preserve limited technical state or support website behavior.
You can usually remove this information through your browser's site-data or privacy controls.
7–8. Analytics & Advertising
7. Analytics
The SMMARO Blogger theme supports Google Analytics when an Analytics account is enabled.
If Google Analytics is enabled on the live site, analytics technologies may be used to measure website traffic and interactions.
Depending on configuration, analytics may process pages viewed, referring sources, device and browser information, approximate location, engagement information, configured events, and other technical usage data.
Analytics storage or measurement should follow the visitor's consent choice where applicable.
Where required by law, analytics technologies should not be treated as essential merely because they are useful for website measurement.
If Google Analytics is not enabled on the live site, this section does not mean that SMMARO is claiming to use it.
8. Advertising
The SMMARO Blogger theme supports Google AdSense and may also include direct advertising placements.
If Google AdSense or another advertising provider is enabled, advertising technologies may be used for ad delivery, impression measurement, click or interaction measurement, frequency control, invalid-traffic detection, reporting, attribution, and personalized or non-personalized advertising where applicable.
Google advertising cookies or similar technologies may be used when a page containing Google advertising tags causes the browser to communicate with Google's advertising systems.
Third-party advertising providers may also place or read cookies, use web beacons, process IP addresses, or use other identifiers as part of ad serving and measurement.
Where applicable law requires consent for advertising technologies, those technologies should follow the visitor's consent choice.
If advertising technology is not enabled on the live site, this section does not mean that SMMARO is claiming to use it.
Optional analytics and advertising technologies should follow the visitor's consent choice where applicable.
9–11. Affiliate, External Links & Cookie Types
9. Affiliate Attribution
Some SMMARO links may be affiliate links.
Affiliate links can contain tracking parameters or identifiers that help a merchant or affiliate network determine whether a qualifying action occurred after a click.
After you follow an affiliate link, the destination service or affiliate provider may use cookies or similar technologies under its own policies.
SMMARO may receive compensation if a qualifying action is attributed to an affiliate relationship.
The third-party merchant or affiliate provider controls its own cookies, attribution technology, and retention practices.
10. External Links & Social Sharing
SMMARO includes links to external websites, software tools, advertisers, social networks, messaging platforms, and other services.
A normal external link does not mean that the destination website automatically sets its own cookies on SMMARO.
However, once you click a link and visit or interact with an external service, that provider's own cookies, tracking technologies, privacy policy, and account settings may apply.
SMMARO may also provide social-sharing links that open or redirect to third-party platforms. Those platforms control their own technologies independently.
11. First-Party & Third-Party Cookies
Depending on Blogger, Google, browser configuration, and the services enabled on the site, cookies may appear as first-party or third-party cookies.
First-party cookies are generally associated with the domain you are visiting and may support website operation, security, or other functionality.
Third-party cookies may be associated with an external provider used for analytics, advertising, platform functionality, or another service.
The exact cookies and how browsers classify them can vary by provider, browser, and configuration.
12–14. Consent & Your Choices
12. Consent & Your Choices
Some cookies or similar technologies may require consent before they are used, depending on your location, the purpose of the technology, the provider, the type of processing, and applicable law.
Where consent is required, SMMARO may present cookie or privacy controls that allow visitors to make choices about optional technologies.
Available controls may vary depending on region and the services enabled on the site.
A Cookie Policy explains technologies and purposes. It does not itself collect or manage consent.
Where a consent banner or consent-management tool is used, it should apply the visitor's choices where required.
13. Managing Cookies & Browser Storage
| Control | What You May Be Able to Do |
|---|---|
| Browser settings | View, delete, or block cookies. |
| Third-party cookie controls | Restrict third-party cookies where supported. |
| Site data controls | Clear local storage, session storage, and related site data. |
| Private browsing | Use browser privacy modes where available. |
| Google settings | Manage certain Google account or advertising preferences. |
| SMMARO consent controls | Review available choices when such controls are presented. |
Blocking all cookies or site storage may affect website functionality.
14. Withdrawing or Changing Consent
Where optional technologies are based on consent, applicable law may give you the right to withdraw or change that consent.
The method available depends on the consent system used by the live website.
If a preference or consent control is available on SMMARO, you can use it to review or change available choices.
You can also clear cookies or browser storage through your browser, although deleting stored preferences may cause a cookie notice to appear again.
15. Cookie Duration
Session Cookies
Session cookies generally expire when the browser session ends.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies can remain for a defined period or until deleted.
Browser Storage
Local storage, session storage, and similar browser technologies may remain for different periods depending on the code or provider that created them.
SMMARO does not set one universal retention period for all third-party technologies because providers may use different expiration and retention rules.
Where a consent tool or third-party service provides more specific information about cookie duration, that information should be treated as the more specific source for that technology.
16–18. Changes, Privacy Policy & Contact
16. Changes to This Cookie Policy
SMMARO may update this Cookie Policy when website features change, Blogger or Google technologies change, analytics or advertising services are added or removed, affiliate systems change, consent controls change, legal requirements change, or the policy needs clarification.
The Last updated date should be changed whenever a meaningful revision is published.
17. Privacy Policy
For broader information about personal data, third-party services, analytics, advertising, retention, privacy rights, and contact requests, read the SMMARO Privacy Policy.
18. Contact
If you have a question about cookies, browser storage, consent choices, or this Cookie Policy, use the Contact SMMARO page.
Please include enough information for us to understand your question without sending unnecessary sensitive information.
Your choices matter.
Where optional technologies require consent, SMMARO should apply the choices available to visitors through the site's consent controls and the settings provided by browsers and third-party services.