Check our cookie & privacy policy
We are neither lawyers nor jurists.
Nor are we particularly interested in a European legislation.
Yet we have collected some valuable information about cookies & privacy and we are happy to share it.
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Learn a few things about GDPR, cookies, and privacy for small businesses and websites.
The regulation was approved on May 2016 and enforced since 25 May 2018 with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
It represents the EU’s pathetic attempt to govern a phenomenon, to which it was unprepared and gave the usual bureaucratic answer.
Don’t get us wrong, something needed to be done.
Now, try to go to the European Commission’s main page about GDPR and try to click on More information about companies and individuals (last check: Feb 2021).
You will be redirected to the homepage.
it is just one among many examples of the European institutions doing the right thing the wrong way.
Do I need to be GDPR compliant?
You are exempt from many things, for example appointing a data protection officer. But you must still have a policy and it must be clearly visible on your website. Technically, visitors cannot browse your site before they have explicitly consented to your policy (e.g. by clicking ‘ok’). Show me more resources.
Do I need a lawyer?
No, you don’t. But here are a few principles you should always keep in mind about your users’ rights: what data you collect, how you use them, the deletion/correction of their data on demand, whom you share their data with – and why.Show me more resources.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that collect information about users’ behavior. If you visit a blog about biking, advertisers can use this information to show you relevant ads on other websites and social media. Show me more resources.
How do I know which cookies are on my website?
This is an easy one. If you host a Youtube video, a Googlee Analytics snippet or any third party service, you know you have cookies. Go to any online tool, such as Cookie bot and run a diagnostics.
You can even create your own policy with the help of the Generator of GDPR Cookies Policy Show me more resources.
What do I risk if I am not GDPR compliant?
Again, we are not lawyers and this is no legal advice. However, the EU will never be able to scan and enforce GDPR on millions of websites. What they will probably do is to check randomly. And if you are among the unlucky ones, you are probably fucked (sorry!). Show me more resources.
THE SMART BLOG HAS THE ANSWER
When you have a small business and an even smaller websites, there is so much to be aware of.
Take a look at our several blogs (tech, digital, marketing, and much more) and you may just find what you are looking for.
Data protection, privacy, and cookie policy for Smart Videos
Smart Videos, on behalf of Alessandro Cozzutto (independent worker, registered in Belgium under the enterprise number BE0675.869.571), does not collect any direct information or data about its users.Any information that users may share, while visiting this website, goes through third part cookies and platforms, such as Google Analytics or Youtube (see more below). Third part email or telephone services, such as Gmail, Aruba Webmail, Mobile Vikings or Ho,
process and store any contact information, which users may decide to share via this website’s contact details.By sharing their data with these external services, users authorise Alessandro Cozzutto/Smart Videos to use these data with the mere purpose to provide users with the services, information, and content, which they may request.
What are cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How we use cookies?
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.You can learn how to manage cookies on your web browser by following the Browser Cookies Guide.
The cookies we set
This website hosts no autonomous cookie. All cookies on this website are a consequence of the implementation of third part services, frameworks, and platforms, which are necessary to give a full and transparent overview of our services
Third-party cookies
For some specific features (video players, contact form, etc.), we use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
Orders processing related cookies
This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities via Jotform or Calendly and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
Surveys related cookies
From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways.For these to work the following social media sites (including Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram),will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’susually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Generator of GDPR Cookies Policy.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
- Email: hello [at] smartvideos.eu
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