Privacy Policy & Self-Service Cookie Controls

1. Overview & Commitment to Consumer Privacy

SmartLife Deals (“we”, “us”, or “our”) operates the website smartlifedeals.net and our omnichannel deal discovery channels across social media, messaging platforms, and broadcast newsletters. We take your privacy seriously and adhere strictly to the principle of data minimization.

Zero On-Site Financial Collection: SmartLife Deals is strictly an editorial and automated deal curation engine. We do not sell merchandise directly, process payments, operate a checkout gateway, or collect personal credit card, debit card, or banking credentials. When you choose to purchase an item featured on our platform, you are redirected to the official website of the participating merchant (e.g., Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart) where your transaction is completed securely under their independent privacy policies and terms of service.

2. Information We Collect & Complete Cookie / LocalStorage Inventory

We collect minimal technical information necessary to deliver, monitor, and optimize our services:

• Anonymized Log Data & 90-Day Auto-Expiring Telemetry: When you access our website or vanity redirection routes (/d/{deal_id}), we truncate the final octet of IPv4 addresses (e.g., 1.2.3.0) and honor browser Sec-GPC: 1 (Global Privacy Control) and DNT: 1 signals automatically. Ephemeral click logs include a strict 90-day TTL (expire_at) for automatic pruning.
• Communications & Social Messaging: When you interact with our public social media posts (such as commenting on an Instagram Reel or Facebook post to request a deal link), our automated webhook systems receive your public username and comment text to deliver the requested direct product checkout link. We do not harvest or sell your social media contact information.
• Strictly Functional First-Party Cookies & Local Storage (Zero Ad Trackers): Because we only set functional first-party storage when you actively use a feature (like hearting a deal, picking BrandPass brands, or switching languages), no intrusive cookie wall blocks your browsing:
  • sld_user_uuid (1-year functional cookie, HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=Lax): Created only when you save/bookmark deals so your Saved Deals list persists across visits.
  • sld_brands (30-day functional cookie, SameSite=Lax): Created only when you select favorite brands on /brandpass or /my-deals.
  • googtrans (Session cookie): Created only if you click the language translation selector.
  • localStorage keys (sld_saved_deals, sld_theme, sld_subscribed, sld_privacy_ack): Stored locally in your browser to remember dark/light theme and saved deals.

3. Affiliate Marketing & Retailer Referral Networks

SmartLife Deals participates in affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to participating retailers, including but not limited to:

• Amazon Services LLC Associates Program: As an Amazon Associate, SmartLife Deals earns from qualifying purchases (Associate tags: smartlifedeals-20 / smartlifestea-20). Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Amazon sets its own referral cookies only after you click an outbound checkout link to Amazon.com.
• Impact Radius Affiliate Network & Best Buy Developer Program: When clicking links to merchant partners on the Impact network (including Best Buy Developer Campaign 10014, Media Partner SID: IRRUweQ2qMzC7722338yN8Q2K2Ly6u2Hu1), referral cookies may be placed on your device by the destination retailer to record referral origin and sales attribution.
• Other National Retailers: We participate in verified referral relationships with Walmart, Target, Woot, and brand-direct merchants.
• AI Virtual Deal Hosts & Synthetic Media Transparency: Select short-form video reels and visual studio demonstrations feature our proprietary AI-generated Virtual Deal Hosts (C01–C24 studio personas) presenting real, verified product photography and live Amazon price drops.

4. How We Use Information & Cryptographic Email Verification

We utilize the limited technical data we collect solely to:

• Operate, maintain, and optimize the smartlifedeals.net storefront and vanity redirect service.
• Verify email ownership when you subscribe or unsubscribe via cryptographic tokens (/verify-subscription and /unsubscribe) and RFC 8058 1-Click Unsubscribe headers so no third party can alter your email preferences without inbox verification.
• Defend against malicious bots, scraper reconnaissance, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

5. Data Retention & Cloud Security

Server access logs and ephemeral click telemetry are stored securely in Google Cloud Platform (us-central1) with enterprise-grade encryption at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3). Technical logs are automatically pruned after 90 days. We implement high-entropy authentication gates, VPC-internal service peering, and principle-of-least-privilege IAM access across all our services.

6. Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) & California (CCPA / CPRA) Rights

As a Texas-headquartered company (Georgetown, TX), we extend full consumer privacy rights under both the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA / CPRA) to all visitors nationwide:

• Zero Sale or Targeted Advertising Sharing: SmartLife Deals does NOT sell your personal data or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
• Universal Opt-Out Signals (GPC): Our servers automatically detect and honor the Sec-GPC: 1 (Global Privacy Control) browser header.
• Right to Access, Correct, Delete & Appeal: You may erase your device data immediately using the 1-Click Erasure button at the top of this page, or email [email protected]. If we ever decline to take action on a privacy request, you have the right under the TDPSA to appeal within 45 days, and if unsatisfied, to contact the Texas Attorney General at texasattorneygeneral.gov.

7. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

Our website and services are not directed to children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in the European Economic Area). We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us immediately at [email protected] for prompt deletion.

8. European Economic Area & UK Privacy Rights (GDPR)

For visitors from the EEA and UK, our processing of transient server log data and click telemetry is grounded in our Legitimate Interests under Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to maintain website security, prevent fraud, optimize app deep linking, and authenticate affiliate referral commissions.

9. DMCA Copyright Notice & Takedown Procedure

In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512), if you believe that any material on our site infringes upon your copyright, please email a written notice to our Designated Agent at [email protected] containing: (a) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, (b) Identification of the infringing URL or material, (c) Your contact details (address, telephone, email), (d) A statement of good faith belief, and (e) A statement under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

10. Contact Information & Data Officer

If you have any questions or feedback regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

SmartLife Deals LLC — Privacy Compliance (Georgetown, TX)
Email: [email protected] • General Support: [email protected]
Website: https://smartlifedeals.net