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Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 11, 2026
Welcome to SmurfsWiki.com. This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, and shared when you visit and use our website.
SmurfsWiki.com is a fan-made website dedicated to The Smurfs, including character information, facts, coloring pages, activities, and related content.
By using SmurfsWiki.com, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
SmurfsWiki.com is primarily an informational website. We do not require visitors to create an account or provide personal information simply to browse the website.
Depending on how you use the website, certain information may nevertheless be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics services, advertising partners, or other third-party services.
This may include:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Approximate geographic location
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
- Referring website
- Date and time of visits
- General information about how visitors interact with the website
This information is generally used for website operation, security, analytics, improving our content, and advertising.
2. Cookies
SmurfsWiki.com may use cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They can be used for necessary website functionality, remembering preferences, measuring website usage, and delivering or measuring advertising.
Cookies may be:
- First-party cookies โ cookies set by SmurfsWiki.com or services operating on our behalf.
- Third-party cookies โ cookies set by external companies such as advertising, analytics, or other service providers.
Some cookies may be necessary for the website to function, while others may require your consent depending on applicable law.
Where required, SmurfsWiki.com will provide users with a cookie consent mechanism allowing them to manage their preferences.
3. Google Advertising
SmurfsWiki.com may use Google AdSense and/or other Google advertising services to display advertisements.
Google and its advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure advertisements.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to SmurfsWiki.com or other websites.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve advertisements to users based on their visit to our website and/or other websites on the Internet.
Depending on the user's settings and applicable consent requirements, advertisements may be personalized based on information such as previous browsing activity, interests, or interactions with advertising.
Google also supports non-personalized advertising, which is not based on a user's previous behavior. However, cookies or similar technologies may still be used for purposes such as frequency capping and aggregated advertising reporting.
For more information about how Google uses cookies for advertising, please visit:
4. Managing Personalized Advertising
Users can control or disable personalized advertising through Google's advertising settings.
You can manage your Google advertising preferences here:
You may also visit:
AboutAds โ Opt Out of Personalized Advertising
If you opt out of personalized advertising, you may still see advertisements, but those advertisements may be less relevant to your interests.
Please note that opting out of personalized advertising does not necessarily mean that all advertising cookies or other technologies are disabled.
5. Other Third-Party Advertising Vendors
In addition to Google, other third-party advertising vendors or advertising networks may potentially serve advertisements on SmurfsWiki.com.
These companies may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about visits to websites and may use that information to provide personalized advertising, measure advertising performance, prevent fraud, or limit the number of times an advertisement is shown.
The specific advertising providers that are active on the website may change over time depending on the advertising services used by SmurfsWiki.com.
Where required, users will be provided with appropriate information and consent choices regarding participating advertising technology providers.
For information about opting out of personalized advertising from participating companies, users may visit:
6. Analytics
SmurfsWiki.com may use analytics services to understand how visitors use the website.
Analytics information may include pages visited, approximate location, device information, browser information, referring pages, and interactions with the website.
Analytics helps us understand which content is useful to visitors and improve the website.
Where an analytics service uses cookies or similar technologies that require consent under applicable law, those technologies will only be used after the appropriate consent has been obtained.
7. Amazon Affiliate Links
SmurfsWiki.com may participate in the Amazon Associates affiliate program.
Some pages may contain links to products on Amazon. If you click an Amazon affiliate link and make a qualifying purchase, SmurfsWiki.com may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
Amazon and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to recognize affiliate referrals and attribute qualifying purchases.
Amazon's own privacy policy and cookie practices apply when you interact with Amazon's services.
For more information, please visit:
8. External Websites and Links
SmurfsWiki.com may contain links to external websites, including Amazon, Google, social media websites, and other third-party websites.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of external websites.
When you leave SmurfsWiki.com and visit another website, that website's own privacy policy applies.
We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of any third-party website before providing personal information.
9. Children's Privacy
SmurfsWiki.com contains content that may be interesting or suitable for children, including coloring pages, activities, and information about The Smurfs.
However, SmurfsWiki.com is not intended to knowingly collect personal information directly from children.
We do not require children to create accounts or submit personal information in order to access our publicly available content.
Third-party advertising and analytics providers may nevertheless process information through cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own policies and applicable laws.
Parents and guardians who believe that a child has provided personal information to us are encouraged to contact us so that we can investigate and take appropriate action.
10. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to help protect information processed through SmurfsWiki.com.
However, no website, server, or transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
We cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted through or collected by third-party services.
11. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including website operation, security, analytics, legal obligations, and advertising measurement.
Third-party services may retain information according to their own privacy policies and retention practices.
12. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning your personal information.
These may include rights to:
- Request access to personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of personal information
- Object to certain processing
- Restrict certain processing
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Request information about how your data is processed
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may provide additional rights.
You may also have additional rights under privacy laws applicable in your country, state, or region.
13. Withdrawing Cookie Consent
Where SmurfsWiki.com uses a cookie consent mechanism, you can change or withdraw your cookie preferences through the available privacy or cookie settings on the website.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
Where applicable, users can also control advertising personalization through:
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the website, advertising partners, analytics services, applicable laws, or our privacy practices.
The Last updated date at the top of this page indicates when the policy was most recently revised.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
15. Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or privacy practices on SmurfsWiki.com, please contact us through the contact information provided on the website.
16. About SmurfsWiki.com
SmurfsWiki.com is an independent, fan-created website.
This website is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or officially connected with IMPS or the owners of The Smurfs.
The Smurfs were created by Peyo. All rights and copyrights relating to The Smurfs belong to their respective rights holders.
