Cookies Policy

Introduction

Welcome to the Cookies Policy of Luminous Lens Studio. At Luminous Lens Studio, located at 12 Oak Street, Suite 200, Willow Creek, CA 95400, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a transparent experience when you visit our website. This policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your browsing experience, personalize content, and improve our services. We encourage you to read this policy carefully to understand how cookies work and how you can manage them. Our Data Protection Officer, Amelia Rodriguez, can be reached at amelia.rodriguez@luminouslensstudio.com for any questions regarding this policy or your data protection rights. We value your trust and aim to provide you with clear and accessible information about our data practices.

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 allow websites to recognize your device and remember information about your visit, such as your preferences and settings. They can also be used to track your browsing activity across different websites. Cookies serve various purposes, from enabling basic website functionality to providing personalized experiences and targeted advertising. Understanding what cookies are and how they work is essential for managing your online privacy and controlling the data that websites collect about you. The use of cookies is a standard practice on the internet, and most browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences.

Types of Cookies We Use

Luminous Lens Studio uses various types of cookies to improve your experience on our website. These include:

• Strictly Necessary 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. For example, we use strictly necessary cookies to remember your login details and ensure the website functions correctly.
• Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and if they receive 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. For instance, we use performance cookies to track page load times and identify areas for improvement.
• 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. 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. Functionality cookies can also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. We use functionality cookies to remember your preferred language settings and provide personalized content based on your location.
• 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 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. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization. We may use targeting cookies to show you advertisements for our photography services that are tailored to your interests.
• First-Party Cookies: These are cookies set by the website you are visiting directly. For Luminous Lens Studio, these are cookies set by our own domain.
• Third-Party Cookies: These are cookies set by a domain other than that of the website you are visiting. For example, if you visit our website and a separate company sets a cookie through our site, this would be a third-party cookie. We may use third-party cookies for analytics and advertising purposes.

Purpose of Cookies

The cookies we use serve several key purposes:

• Enhancing Website Functionality: Cookies enable essential features of our website, such as navigation, form submission, and user authentication. They ensure that our website functions smoothly and efficiently.
• Personalizing User Experience: Cookies allow us to remember your preferences, such as language settings and location, to provide a more personalized and relevant browsing experience.
• Analyzing Website Traffic: We use cookies to collect data about how visitors use our website, including which pages are visited most often and how long visitors stay on each page. This information helps us understand user behavior and improve our website's performance.
• Targeting Advertising: Cookies enable us to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to your interests and demographics. This ensures that you see advertisements that are tailored to your needs and preferences.
• Improving Website Performance: By analyzing data collected through cookies, we can identify areas for improvement and optimize our website to provide a better user experience. This includes improving page load times, fixing errors, and enhancing overall usability.
• Measuring Advertising Effectiveness: Cookies help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns by tracking how many users click on our advertisements and visit our website. This information allows us to optimize our advertising strategies and ensure that we are reaching the right audience.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

How to Control Cookies

You have the right to control whether or not to accept cookies. You can exercise this right by amending the settings in your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, please note that if you choose to disable cookies, some parts of our website may not function properly.

Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through their settings. Here are some general steps for controlling cookies in popular browsers:

• Google Chrome: Go to Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data.
• Mozilla Firefox: Go to Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
• Safari: Go to Preferences > Privacy > Cookies and website data.
• Microsoft Edge: Go to Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Clear browsing data.

You can also use third-party tools to manage cookies, such as browser extensions and privacy software. These tools can help you block cookies, delete existing cookies, and control which websites can set cookies on your device. Please be aware that disabling cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our website and other websites.

For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about our Cookies Policy, please contact us:

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies. Any changes to this policy will be posted on our website, and we will notify you of any material changes as required by law. Your continued use of our website after any changes to this policy constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.