Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy explains how Golden Lens Studios ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website, goldenlensstudios.com (the "Website"). 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 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 website.
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 are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of purposes, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of our Website. They enable you to navigate the Website 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 use Google Analytics for this purpose.
- 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. 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. 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 or 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. We do not currently use targeting or advertising cookies.
Specific Cookies We Use
The following table lists the specific cookies we use on our website, along with their purpose and expiration:
- gls_session: Essential cookie for maintaining user sessions. Expires after 30 minutes of inactivity.
- gls_analytics: Performance cookie used by Google Analytics to track website usage. Expires after 2 years.
- gls_language: Functionality cookie that remembers the user's language preference. Expires after 1 year.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Website, deliver advertisements on and through the Website, and so on. We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Website, compiling reports on website activity for us, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
How to Control Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using the cookie consent tool provided on our Website, or by setting or amending your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. 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. 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.
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information.
You can also prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Other Tracking Technologies
In addition to cookies, we may use other tracking technologies, such as web beacons (also known as pixel tags or clear gifs), to collect information about your activity on our Website. Web beacons are small electronic images that are embedded in web pages or emails. We use web beacons to track how many users have visited particular pages, to track how many emails have been opened, and to verify system and server integrity.
Updates to this Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies 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 Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookies Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other tracking technologies, please contact us at:
Golden Lens Studios
555 California Street, Suite 100
San Francisco, CA 94104
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (415) 555-0100
This Cookies Policy is effective as of November 8, 2024.
Reviewd by Amelia Hernandez, Data Protection Officer at Golden Lens Studios.