What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other 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.
Cookies can be either "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser and will be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the website. Session cookies are temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser.
How We Use Cookies at Lumina Studios
At Lumina Studios, located at 123 Chelsea Avenue in the heart of New York City, we use cookies to enhance your experience on our website and to provide you with a more personalized service. Our website, managed by our IT Director, Ethan Davies, utilizes cookies for several important purposes:
- To improve website functionality: Cookies help us understand how our website is being used, allowing us to optimize its performance and design.
- To personalize your experience: By remembering your preferences and settings, cookies enable us to provide you with content and offers that are relevant to your interests.
- To analyze website traffic: We use cookies to gather data about website traffic and user behavior, which helps us to improve our marketing efforts and to better understand our audience.
- To provide relevant advertising: Cookies may be used to display ads that are tailored to your interests based on your browsing history.
- To maintain security: Cookies help us to protect our website and your information by detecting and preventing fraudulent activity.
Types of Cookies We Use
We utilize several types of cookies on the Lumina Studios website, each serving a specific function to improve your browsing experience. These cookies are categorized as follows:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our website and enable you to browse and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works. We primarily use Google Analytics for this purpose.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. Functionality cookies can also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Targeting or Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver adverts 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 campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations, such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
Your Choices Regarding Cookies
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This can be done through your browser settings. Keep in mind that disabling cookies may affect your experience on our website, and some features may not function properly.
To manage your cookie preferences, please refer to your browser's help documentation. Here are some links to instructions for common browsers:
You can also opt-out of targeted advertising by visiting the following websites:
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about our Cookies Policy, please don't hesitate to contact us. You can reach our Data Protection Officer, Eleanor Vance, at the following:
Lumina Studios
123 Chelsea Avenue
New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 555-7878
Email: [email protected]
We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing you with a transparent explanation of how we use cookies. We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time, so please check back periodically for any changes.