This page explains how Shamo Bet uses cookies and similar technologies on its Ethiopian website, mobile site, and app-related services where applicable. These technologies may support secure login sessions, account protection, fraud and abuse prevention, website performance, analytics, marketing measurement, language and user preferences, and responsible gaming and age-restriction controls. The categories below describe possible uses; the published cookie settings and inventory should identify which technologies are active.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small file stored by your browser that helps a website remember information about your visit or device. For example, it can help the website recognize that you have signed in as you move between pages, rather than asking you to log in again on every page.
Similar technologies include local storage, pixels, tags, software development kits (SDKs), and device identifiers. Where used, these can store preferences, record interactions, or support app functions. This policy uses “cookies” as a general term for these technologies, although browser cookie controls may not manage all of them.
Why Shamo Bet Uses Cookies
Cookies can help maintain a secure account session, detect suspicious activity, remember cookie choices and language preferences, improve loading speed, and identify navigation problems. They may also help assess which pages are useful and measure campaigns without sharing sensitive account details for advertising purposes.
Some cookies are necessary for the service to work. Others support optional analytics, personalization, or marketing and may depend on consent or available privacy controls. Classification should follow the technology’s actual purpose, not simply its name. Cookies may support legal, security, and responsible gaming obligations, but do not replace identity verification, customer due diligence, or account-level restrictions.
Types of Cookies We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies support basic functions such as registration, login, secure account access, session continuity, payment-flow protection, age-gate checks, and storage of cookie choices. During Shamo Bet registration, they may preserve progress between steps; during Shamo Bet login, they may help maintain an authenticated session.
Necessary cookies are generally not controlled by optional-cookie consent settings. They do not establish eligibility by themselves: users must still meet the requirements explained in the Age Restriction Policy.
Security and Fraud Prevention Cookies
Security technologies may help identify suspicious access patterns, reduce automated abuse, protect accounts, and maintain the integrity of sports betting, keno, live betting, and gaming areas. Technical detection rules are not disclosed here because that could undermine those protections.
Only technologies genuinely needed for security should be classified as necessary. Cookies may also support reminders or access controls associated with Responsible Gaming. Clearing browser data should not be treated as cancelling self-exclusion, deposit limits, or other account-level safeguards.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies may help measure page usage, loading errors, device types, navigation paths, and content quality. For example, they can help identify whether mobile users encounter repeated loading problems when opening a page or returning to an account area.
These insights should be used to improve the service, not to expose private betting activity publicly. Data may be aggregated or pseudonymized where applicable; pseudonymized information is not necessarily anonymous. Optional analytics should follow the applicable consent settings.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may remember language, region, odds format, device preferences, or a selected login preference. Some preference storage, such as remembering a consent decision, may instead be strictly necessary. Choosing a region does not establish permission to use a service.
For the Shamo Bet app, preferences may also rely on app storage or device settings. Website choices may not automatically carry over to an app or another browser. On a shared device, avoid persistent login options and sign out after use.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Marketing cookies may measure campaign results, identify referral sources, limit repeated advertisements, and help display more relevant offers. They do not change bonus eligibility, offer terms, or betting outcomes, and do not guarantee rewards or winnings.
Users may manage these technologies through website cookie settings, browser controls, or third-party advertising settings where available. Refusing optional marketing cookies should not prevent access to essential account functions. Marketing settings should not override applicable responsible betting measures.
First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are set by Shamo Bet. Third-party cookies may be set by service providers supporting analytics, security, payment verification, advertising, hosting, fraud prevention, or customer support. A provider’s role does not automatically make all of its cookies necessary.
The summary below uses provider categories because vendor names have not been supplied for this policy. The operator should confirm the active technologies, providers, and expiry periods before publication and update the list as services change.
| Cookie category | Purpose | Example use | Duration | Required or optional | Possible provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Core functionality | Maintaining login | [Confirm expiry] | Required | Operator or platform provider |
| Security | Account protection | Detecting suspicious sessions | [Confirm expiry] | Required where essential | Security or fraud-prevention provider |
| Analytics | Service improvement | Measuring loading errors | [Confirm expiry] | Optional where applicable | Analytics provider |
| Functional | Remembering settings | Language selection | [Confirm expiry] | Depends on purpose | Operator or functionality provider |
| Marketing | Campaign measurement | Recording referrals | [Confirm expiry] | Optional | Advertising provider |
How Long Cookies Stay on Your Device
Session cookies usually expire when the browser closes or the session ends, although browser session-restoration features can affect this. Persistent cookies remain for a defined period unless deleted earlier. Each active cookie’s expiry should be shown in the confirmed inventory or preference center.
Cookie expiry is separate from the retention of associated server-side records. Deleting a cookie does not necessarily delete account information, transaction records, or data already collected.
How Users Can Manage Cookies
- Step 1: Open the website’s cookie banner or preference center, if available. Review each category and accept or reject optional analytics and marketing cookies.
- Step 2: Save your choices. To change them later, reopen the preference center where supported. Withdrawing consent does not undo processing already carried out.
- Step 3: Use browser settings to block cookies or clear site data. For app-related technologies, review device privacy settings, app permissions, and available in-app controls.
A preference center offers category-level control; browser blocking is broader and may disrupt essential features. Clearing site data can sign you out and remove saved choices. Disabling necessary cookies may affect login, account protection, deposits, withdrawals, or betting and gaming features. Choices may need to be repeated on each device or browser.
Before registration or a payment, verify the official domain through an established communication channel and review the Terms and Conditions. Compare verification requirements, transaction limits, fees, processing times, withdrawal procedures, and support availability—not whether a page merely remembers your settings. Download any app or APK only through a verified operator channel. Cookies are not proof of authenticity or licensing; users should verify the current legal status in Ethiopia and the competent authority’s latest information.
Cookies and Personal Data
Some cookies involve personal data, including online identifiers, IP addresses, device information, or identifiers linked to an account. Read the Privacy Policy for details about collection, processing, storage, recipients, applicable user rights, and privacy contact options.
Cookie practices must reflect actual processing and applicable Ethiopian laws and regulations. This policy does not establish regulatory approval or replace the operator’s privacy disclosures. Cookie deletion is not the same as requesting account closure or exercising a data protection right.
Updates to This Cookie Policy
Shamo Bet may update this policy when technologies, providers, legal requirements, or website features change. Material changes should be communicated through an appropriate website notice and, where required, renewed consent.
Last updated: [Insert confirmed publication or revision date].
Contact Us
For questions about cookies, privacy choices, or unavailable settings, use Contact Us. Describe your browser or app, device type, and the issue encountered. Do not send passwords, one-time codes, or full payment credentials. Use the published complaint-handling procedure if a concern remains unresolved.
Author: Segenet Kassa
Segenet edits Ethiopia-focused betting reviews for accuracy, balance, and usefulness. She verifies that recommendations match the evidence, limitations remain visible, affiliate relationships are disclosed, and sources are correctly attributed. She rejects cosmetic freshness updates and unsupported claims of personal testing.