Cookies Policy
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 can be either "persistent" cookies 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 once you close your browser.
At Aurora Studios, we understand the importance of transparency and user privacy. This Cookies Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies on our website, aurorastudios.com, and how you can manage them. By using our website, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this policy.
Cookies help us to provide, protect, and improve our services. For example, we use them to personalize content, tailor and measure ads, provide a safer experience, and understand user behavior. This understanding helps us to make our website more user-friendly and effective.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of purposes, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They enable you to navigate the site 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.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your 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.
- 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 campaigns. 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.
- Analytics Cookies: We use analytics cookies to help us understand how users engage with our website. This helps us to improve the user experience and to optimize our content. We use Google Analytics for this purpose, which uses cookies to collect data about website usage.
Here’s a detailed breakdown of the specific cookies we use:
Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
---|---|---|---|
_ga | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | Analytics | 2 years |
_gid | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | Analytics | 24 hours |
_gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | Analytics | 1 minute |
PHPSESSID | Used to maintain user session. | Essential | Session |
cookie_consent | Used to remember user's cookie consent preferences. | Functionality | 1 year |
Your Choices
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. Here are several ways you can manage your cookie preferences:
- Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can configure your browser to block all cookies, to accept only certain cookies, or to notify you each time a cookie is offered. Please refer to your browser's help documentation for instructions on how to manage your cookie settings.
- Cookie Consent Tool: Our website may offer a cookie consent tool that allows you to customize your cookie preferences directly. This tool provides detailed information about the cookies we use and allows you to opt-in or opt-out of different categories of cookies.
- Third-Party Opt-Out: For advertising cookies, you can often opt-out directly through the advertising networks. The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) offer tools that allow you to opt-out of targeted advertising from participating companies.
- Google Analytics Opt-Out: If you do not want Google Analytics to collect data about your website visits, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. This add-on is available for most major browsers and prevents Google Analytics from collecting information about your visits to websites.
Please note that blocking or deleting cookies may affect your experience on our website and may prevent you from accessing certain features or services. For example, if you block essential cookies, you may not be able to log in to your account or make purchases.
By continuing to use our website without changing your cookie settings, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this policy. If you have any questions about our Cookies Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us at privacy@aurorastudios.com or call us at +1 555-345-6789.
Updates to this Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will post the updated policy on our website and indicate the date of the latest revision. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please contact our Data Protection Officer, Eleanor Vance, at privacy@aurorastudios.com, or by mail at:
Aurora StudiosData Protection Office
42 Innovation Drive
Techville, CA 91234
United States
Thank you for taking the time to understand our Cookies Policy. We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing you with a transparent and user-friendly online experience.