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, not a confirmed inventory of every active cookie. Availability and consent controls may differ between the website and app. Provider names, exact durations, and active technologies must be confirmed by the operator.
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 keep your session active as you move from your account page to another section, or remember your language selection.
Similar technologies include local storage, pixels, tags, software development kits (SDKs), and device identifiers, if used. Local storage saves information in your browser; pixels and tags can record page visits or interactions; SDKs can support functions within an app. References to “cookies” in this policy include these technologies where relevant.
Cookies do not replace identity verification, prove eligibility, or guarantee account security. Some contain identifiers that can be linked to an account or device.
Why Shamo Bet Uses Cookies
Some cookies are necessary for the platform to work. Others support optional features or measurement and may depend on user consent, applicable requirements, or browser settings. Practical purposes include:
- Keeping users signed in while they navigate and protecting accounts from suspicious activity.
- Remembering cookie choices and language preferences.
- Improving loading speed, navigation, and reliability on mobile and desktop devices.
- Understanding which pages are useful and identifying errors.
- Measuring campaigns without including sensitive account or payment details in advertising events.
- Supporting security, eligibility checks, and responsible gaming obligations where applicable.
Cookies are only one part of these controls. Age checks, customer due diligence, self-exclusion, and account restrictions should not rely solely on information stored in a browser.
Types of Cookies We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies support basic functionality, including registration, secure account access, session continuity, payment-flow protection, age-gate checks, and storage of cookie choices. They may allow the platform to recognize an authenticated session when you move between pages.
Blocking them may interrupt Shamo Bet login or Shamo Bet registration. Remembering an age-gate response does not establish eligibility; see the Age Restriction Policy. A cookie also does not authorize a deposit or withdrawal or replace required identity checks.
Security and Fraud Prevention Cookies
Security cookies may help identify suspicious patterns, reduce automated abuse, and protect the integrity of betting, keno, live betting, and gaming areas. They can support safer sessions without guaranteeing that every threat will be detected.
A security cookie may be necessary where it is essential to protect a requested service; not every technology described as “security” is automatically essential. Detailed detection rules are not published because disclosure could weaken protections. Cookies may also support Responsible Gaming controls, but clearing them does not cancel account-level limits or self-exclusion.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies may help assess page usage, loading problems, device types, navigation paths, and content quality. For example, measurement can identify a page that loads slowly or a broken navigation route to Shamo Bet games.
Analytics should improve the service, not publicly expose private betting activity. Data may be aggregated or pseudonymized where applicable. Pseudonymized information can still be personal data; it should not be described as anonymous unless that has been verified. Optional analytics controls should distinguish measurement from essential operational monitoring.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may remember language, region, odds format, device preferences, or a login preference. Saving these settings can reduce repeated selections. Rejecting optional functional cookies may leave core services available but require you to enter preferences again.
Cookie consent storage may be classified as necessary rather than optional functionality. Browser choices may not automatically apply to the Shamo Bet app, which may use separate device storage or privacy controls. A saved login preference should not be treated as permission to leave an account accessible on a shared device.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Marketing cookies may measure campaigns, identify referral sources, limit repetitive advertising, or help display more relevant offers. They do not establish entitlement to a bonus, alter eligibility requirements, or promise winnings.
Where supported, users can manage these cookies through website settings, browser controls, or third-party advertising settings. Rejecting optional marketing cookies should not require surrendering access to essential account functions. It may not remove all advertising, including advertising that does not depend on cookies.
First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are set by Shamo Bet. Third-party cookies may be set by providers supporting analytics, security, payment verification, advertising, hosting, fraud prevention, or customer support. Depending on the integration, a provider may receive device identifiers or information about interactions.
The table below gives category-level examples, not a verified vendor list. It may be updated after the operator confirms active providers, purposes, and retention settings.
| Cookie category | Purpose | Example use | Duration | Required or optional | Possible provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary | Core operation | Login session | To be confirmed | Required for relevant functions | Operator or platform provider |
| Security | Account protection | Suspicious-session checks | To be confirmed | Depends on purpose | Operator or security provider |
| Analytics | Service improvement | Loading-error measurement | To be confirmed | Optional where applicable | Operator or analytics provider |
| Functional | Remember settings | Language selection | To be confirmed | Usually optional | Operator or service provider |
| Marketing | Campaign measurement | Referral attribution | To be confirmed | Optional | Operator or 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 may retain them. Persistent cookies remain for a defined period unless deleted earlier. Their expiry depends on the purpose and configuration.
Exact durations are not confirmed here. Deleting a cookie does not necessarily delete associated records already held by the operator or a provider; those records are subject to separate retention rules.
How Users Can Manage Cookies
- Step 1: Open the website cookie banner or preference center, if available. Review each category and reject optional analytics or marketing cookies where supported.
- Step 2: Check browser settings to block cookies, restrict third-party cookies, or clear stored browsing data. Blocking future cookies and deleting existing cookies are separate actions.
- Step 3: Check device privacy settings and app controls. Repeat your choices on other browsers or devices, and revisit settings if clearing data removes your saved preferences.
Where consent is used, available controls should allow you to withdraw it. Withdrawal affects future consent-based activity, not processing already lawfully completed.
Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect login, account protection, deposits, withdrawals, or gaming features. If a payment flow is interrupted, check the transaction record before retrying to reduce the risk of duplicate requests.
When comparing website and app controls, check whether categories are explained, choices can be changed easily, and saved settings persist. Before registration or an app/APK download, verify the official domain and source. Review identity-verification requirements, fees, transaction limits, processing times, and the withdrawal procedure in the Terms and Conditions; cookie consent is not acceptance of those terms.
Cookies and Personal Data
Some cookies involve personal data, including online identifiers, device information, or information linked to account-holder details. The Privacy Policy explains relevant collection, storage, processing, disclosure, user rights, and contact options.
Cookie practices must reflect the operator’s actual processing and applicable Ethiopian laws and regulations. This policy does not establish regulatory approval. Users should verify the current regulatory status through the Legal Status in Ethiopia information and the competent authority’s latest records.
Updates to This Cookie Policy
Shamo Bet may update this policy when technologies, providers, legal requirements, or website features change. Material changes should be reflected in the relevant notices and consent controls where required.
Last updated: [Operator to confirm publication date]
Contact Us
For questions about cookies, missing preference controls, or privacy choices, use Contact Us. Describe the affected page, browser or app, and approximate time of the issue. Do not send passwords, one-time codes, or full payment credentials. Use a verified official communication channel for any further verification request.
Author: Elshaday Kassa
Elshaday covers casino, virtual sports, keno, slots, live games, and crash products only when they are confirmed for the relevant Ethiopian platform. She documents availability dates and avoids inventing providers or titles. Her reviews balance usability observations with responsible-gambling context.