This cookie policy was last updated on 19 June 2025 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://www.smartgecko.academy (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for the sake of simplicity, all these technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below, we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small, simple file that is sent along with the pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored in it may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of code used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website, used to track traffic on a website. To do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences are remembered. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, items remain in your shopping cart until you pay. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistics cookies in order to optimise the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies, we obtain insights into the use of our website. We ask for your permission to place statistics cookies.
5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
5.4 Social media
On our website, we have included content from LinkedIn to promote web pages (e.g. "like", "pin") or to share them (e.g. "tweet") on social networks such as LinkedIn. This content is embedded with code obtained from LinkedIn and places cookies. This content may store and process certain information for personalised advertising purposes.
Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which may change regularly) to find out what they do with your (personal) data processed using these cookies. The data retrieved is anonymised as much as possible. LinkedIn is located in the United States.
6. Placed cookies
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on "Save preferences", you authorise us to use the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this cookie policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may then no longer work properly.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you revisit our website.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it and how long it will be retained.
- Right of access: you have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right at any time to supplement, correct, have deleted or block your personal data.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and to transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We will comply, unless there are certain grounds that justify this processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this cookie policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear about it, but you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (the data protection authority).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our cookie policy and this statement, please contact us using the following contact details:
Smart Gecko AG
Zürcherstrasse 64
8852 Altendorf
Switzerland
Website: https://www.smartgecko.academy
Email:
Phone number: +41555052760
This cookie policy was synchronised with cookiedatabase.org on 1 September 2023.