Cookie Policy

About The Smart Deal

The Smart Deal is an event organized by Kurrant, taking place physically at the Smart City Expo World Congress. Our websites, thesmartdeal.io and private.thesmartdeal.io, are dedicated to providing information about the event, facilitating participant registration, enabling startup submissions, and providing investor access to startup information. The information collected through these websites is managed and processed with the utmost care and confidentiality by Kurrant.

Use of Cookies

Our websites use cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users and to enhance your experience. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

Types of Cookies We Use

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.
• Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our websites. This helps us to improve the way our websites work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our websites. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences.
• Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our websites, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our websites and any advertising displayed on them more relevant to your interests.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to better understand how visitors interact with our sites. This helps us improve our services and provide you with a better experience. Google Analytics collects data such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and pages visited on our sites. All this information is anonymized and used for analytical purposes only.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Platform Cookies

On our private.thesmartdeal.io platform, we use cookies to:

• Maintain your session and authentication status
• Remember your preferences and settings
• Track your interactions with startup profiles (for investors)
• Monitor platform performance and user experience

Managing Cookies

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can manage or block cookies by:

• Browser Settings: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.
• Cookie Consent Tool: Use our cookie consent banner to select which types of cookies you accept.

Please note that if you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of our websites may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Event Collaboration

We collaborate with the Smart City Expo World Congress, and share necessary registration information and startup submissions with them to ensure a seamless event experience and to facilitate potential business connections.

Consent Mechanism

When you first visit our websites, you will be presented with a cookie banner that allows you to accept or decline non-essential cookies. By clicking "Accept All Cookies," you consent to the use of all cookies. By clicking "Essential Cookies Only," you consent only to the use of strictly necessary cookies.

Additionally, when registering on our Platform, users must explicitly consent to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service by selecting the designated checkbox before proceeding.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and we encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy or our data practices, please contact us at contact@thesmartdeal.io.