Cookies Policy
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites. 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.
Cookies can be "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 expire when you close your browser.
Cookies can also be categorized based on who creates and uses them: "first-party" cookies are set by the website you are visiting, while "third-party" cookies are set by a domain other than the one you are visiting.
How We Use Cookies
At Luminous Lens Studio, we use cookies to improve your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, personalize content, and serve targeted advertisements. Cookies help us understand how you use our site, which allows us to make improvements and provide a better user experience. Specifically, we use cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the basic functionality of our website. They enable you to navigate the site and use essential features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, certain services you have asked for cannot be provided.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as 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.
- 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. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements 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.
- Analytics Cookies: We use analytics cookies, such as Google Analytics, to collect information about how visitors use our website. This information is used to compile reports and help us improve our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited.
By continuing to use our website, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this policy.
Types of Cookies We Use
Here is a detailed overview of the types of cookies we use on the Luminous Lens Studio website:
| Cookie Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | 2 years |
| _gid | Analytics | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Analytics | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | 1 minute |
| PHPSESSID | Essential | Maintains user session across pages. | Session |
| cookieconsent_status | Functionality | Remembers the user's cookie consent preferences. | 1 year |
| ad_user_data | Advertising | Used for targeted advertising and tracking user behavior across the web. | 90 days |
Please note that this table is not exhaustive and may be updated from time to time.
Our Cookies Policy is reviewed annually by Head of IT, Alistair McGregor. You can contact him for clarification at [email protected]
Managing Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by adjusting your web browser settings. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. Here are instructions on how to manage cookies in popular web 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-63947406-0d4a-17ee-477c-a1d9fa896ca6
In addition, you may also be able to manage certain advertising cookies by visiting the following resources:
Please note that disabling cookies may affect your experience on our website.
Luminous Lens Studio may modify this Cookies Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on our website, so please check back periodically to ensure that you are aware of our current policy.