What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies enable the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How We Use Cookies
Studio Lumina uses cookies for a variety of purposes, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the operation of our Website. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, such as which pages are visited most often and if they get error messages from web pages. We use this information to improve the performance of our Website.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your language or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns.
- Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behavior on our website. This helps us understand how users interact with our site and allows us to make improvements to the user experience. Google Analytics uses cookies to track metrics such as time spent on the site, pages visited, and bounce rate.
Types of Cookies We Use
The following table outlines the types of cookies we use on our Website:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| session_id | Maintains user session state. | Essential | Session |
| analytics_id | Tracks website traffic and user behavior. | Performance | 2 years |
| language_pref | Remembers user's language preference. | Functionality | 1 year |
| advertising_cookie | Delivers targeted advertisements. | Advertising | 3 months |
| ga | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | Analytics | 2 years |
| gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | Analytics | 1 minute |
| gid | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | Analytics | 24 hours |
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.
- Google Analytics: As mentioned above, we use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: Google Privacy Policy.
How to Control Cookies
You can control and manage cookies in several ways. Please note that removing or blocking cookies can impact your user experience and some parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.
Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can configure your browser to:
- Accept all cookies
- Reject all cookies
- Notify you when a cookie is set
To find out how to control cookies using your browser settings, please refer to your browser's help documentation. Here are links to the help pages for some of the most popular browsers:
Opt-out Tools
You can also opt out of certain types of cookies using opt-out tools provided by third-party providers. For example, to prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on:
Cookie Consent Management Platforms
Some websites use cookie consent management platforms that allow you to manage your cookie preferences directly on the site.
More Information
To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, you can visit the following resources:
Changes to this Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this policy periodically for any updates. The date of the last revision will be indicated at the top of this policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy, please contact us:
Studio Lumina
Attn: Data Protection Officer
123 Design Avenue
Innovation City, IC 12345
Email: privacy@studiolumina.com
For further information about our data privacy practices, please review our Privacy Policy.