What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, tablet, 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 can do a number of things, such as remembering your preferences, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, and generally improving your experience. The information stored in a cookie can relate to your browsing habits on the website, or a unique identification number so that the website can remember you on your return visit.
How We Use Cookies at Lumiere Studios
At Lumiere Studios, we use cookies to enhance your experience on our website, lumierestudiosseattle.com. We use them to understand how our site is being used, to improve our services, and to personalize content for you. Specifically, we use cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
Types of Cookies We Use
We use both first-party and third-party cookies on our website:
- First-Party Cookies: These cookies are set by Lumiere Studios directly. We use these cookies to understand user behavior on our site and to personalize your experience.
- Third-Party Cookies: These cookies are set by a domain other than our website. We use third-party cookies for advertising and marketing purposes, and to understand the performance of our advertising campaigns. Specifically, we may use cookies from Google Analytics and other similar services to analyze website traffic and user behavior.
Here is a more detailed list of cookies we might use:
- _ga, _gid: These are Google Analytics cookies used to distinguish users and throttle request rate.
- PHPSESSID: This cookie is essential for maintaining your session while you browse the site.
- cookieconsent_status: This cookie remembers your cookie consent preferences.
Managing Cookies
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. You can exercise this right by amending the settings in your browser to refuse all cookies. However, please note that if you choose to disable cookies, some parts of our website may not function properly, and your experience may be less efficient.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Here's how you can manage cookies in some popular browsers:
- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
- Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
- Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09
Contact Information for Cookie Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns about our Cookies Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are always happy to help!
You can reach us through the following channels:
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: (206) 555-2323
- Address: Lumiere Studios, Legal Department, 1200 5th Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101
Updates to This Policy
We may update our 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 to stay informed about how we are using cookies. The date of the latest revision will be indicated at the top of this policy.