Cookie Policy for Starlight Studios

This Cookie Policy explains how Starlight Studios, located at 123 Aurora Lane, Brightville, CA 91234, uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at www.starlightstudios.com. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies help websites remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. This can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.

Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our online properties. For example, we use cookies to:

Types of Cookies We Use

The specific types of first and third-party cookies served through our website and the purposes they perform are described in more detail below:

  1. Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
  2. 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.
  3. Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, 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.
  4. 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.

Examples of Cookies We Use

Below is a table describing the types of cookies that Starlight Studios uses on its website:

Detailed Cookie Information
Cookie Name Purpose Type Duration
_ga Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. Performance 2 years
_gid Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. Performance 24 hours
_gat Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. Performance 1 minute
cookieconsent_status Records the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. Functionality 1 year
PHPSESSID A unique identifier for a user's specific session. Essential End of Session

How Can You Control Cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.

The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner and on our website. 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. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

You can usually find these settings in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser. Here are some links to the help pages for the most popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

More Information

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at privacy@starlightstudios.com or contact us by mail at:

Starlight Studios
Attn: Data Protection Officer
123 Aurora Lane
Brightville, CA 91234

Updates to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

This Cookie Policy was last updated on October 26, 2024.

Our Data Protection Officer is Amelia Hernandez, and she can be reached at the above email or postal address.

At Starlight Studios, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a transparent and secure online experience. We appreciate your trust and strive to provide the best possible service. If you have any further concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us. We value your feedback and are always looking for ways to improve.

Remember to also review our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions for a complete understanding of your rights and obligations when using our website.

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