What Can Girls Do in Smart Cookies? Girls must read and accept the Girl Scout Smart Cookies Digital Cookie Pledge before they can participate in online cookie sales. Girls should also read and accept the GSUSA Internet Safety Pledge. Once a girl completes the Smart Cookies registration, a personal URL will be created that she can use to promote her sale via email or age appropriate friend- and family-facing social media pages for Smart Cookies Direct Ship sales. The Smart Cookies URL puts cookie selling right in the girl’s pocket! All of the capabilities of Smart Cookies on a computer are available using the Smart Cookies URL on a phone or tablet.
Online Cookie Policies The only Girl Scout-approved online venue for girls to sell Girl Scout Cookies is the Smart Cookies platform. Girls cannot sell cookies on other online platforms. However, GSEMA encourages girls and adults to use ageappropriate online tools (such as: social media, email, or blog posts) to market and promote their cookie sales to friends and family. Remember girls, not families, sell Girl Scout Cookies. Please be sure to stress this important policy with girls and their families. IMPORTANT POLICY CHANGE: Girls and families still cannot post cookie sale links on online re-sale sites, such as Craigslist, eBay, or Facebook Marketplace. Failure to comply could result in the deactivation of the girl’s Smart Cookies account. GSEMA encourages girls to post on a family- and friend-facing webpages such as a private Facebook page. New this season, on a trial basis, girls may also post their sales links on public-facing social media webpages. If girls are engaging in digital marketing and sales activity beyond friends and family, be sure they are adhering to all Safety Activity Checkpoints for Computer and Internet Use, the Computer Internet Safety Pledge, and Cookie and Product Sales Safety Activity Checkpoints. In addition, the following Supplemental Safety Tips for online marketing apply. -
To protect personal identity, NEVER allow girls to direct message with people they do not know. Always use the Smart Cookies online sales link for customer orders.
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If a Girl Scout’s sales link is posted on a public-facing site, be aware that the link is now searchable by anyone and could potentially appear anywhere on the internet.
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Never share personal information (last name, phone number, email, street address, etc.).
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Never share personal location information or arrange in-person meetings with online customers.
Please note: The option for customers to purchase cookies online for Girl Delivery is only available via an email invitation sent by a girl. Sales links for social media sales promotion from Smart Cookies are only for Direct Ship orders.