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 allow websites 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.
Types of Cookies We Use at Luminance Studio
At Luminance Studio, located in the vibrant SoMa district of San Francisco, we use several types of cookies to enhance your website experience and provide you with the best possible service. These cookies can be categorized as follows:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use tools like Google Analytics to collect and analyze this information.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Purpose of Cookies
The primary purposes for which Luminance Studio uses cookies include:
- Improving Website Functionality: Cookies help our website function properly and efficiently, ensuring you have a seamless browsing experience.
- Personalizing Your Experience: By remembering your preferences, cookies allow us to tailor the website to your individual needs and interests.
- Analyzing Website Traffic: We use cookies to understand how visitors use our website, which helps us to identify areas for improvement and optimize the user experience.
- Marketing and Advertising: Cookies enable us to deliver relevant advertisements to you based on your browsing behavior and interests. This helps us to reach potential clients and promote our photography services effectively.
How to Manage Cookies
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences through your web browser settings. Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences.
Here are some resources that may be helpful:
Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our website and you may not be able to access certain features or services.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to the cookies we set, third parties may also set cookies on your device when you visit our website. These third-party cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including:
- Analytics: Tools like Google Analytics may use cookies to track your behavior on our website and provide us with insights into website traffic and user engagement.
- Advertising: Third-party advertising networks may use cookies to deliver targeted advertisements to you based on your browsing behavior across different websites.
- Social Media: Social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook may use cookies to track your interactions with our website and personalize your social media experience.
Luminance Studio is not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties to understand how they collect, use, and share your information.
Updates to this Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or to comply with legal requirements. We will post any changes to this Cookies Policy on our website and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Cookies Policy, please contact us at:
Luminance Studio
555 Bryant Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94107
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (415) 555-0100
Our Data Protection Officer is Amelia Rodriguez, and she can be contacted via the information listed above.