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 enable the website 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 personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
How We Use Cookies
At Luminary Lens Productions, we use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. We use them for the following purposes:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Types of Cookies We Use
Here is a more detailed breakdown of the types of cookies we use on our website:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Maintains user session | Essential | Session |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Performance | 2 years |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Performance | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | Performance | 1 minute |
| cookie_consent | Remembers user's cookie consent preference | Functionality | 1 year |
| marketing_cookie | Tracks user browsing behavior for targeted advertising | Targeting | 3 months |
These cookies help us to understand user behavior, improve our services, and provide more relevant content and advertisements.
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 settings provided in your web browser. Here's how you can control cookies:
- Browser Settings: You can set your web browser to refuse all or some cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
- Cookie Consent Tools: We may provide cookie consent tools on our website that allow you to manage your cookie preferences.
- Third-Party Tools: You can also use third-party tools to manage cookies, such as browser extensions or privacy-focused browsers.
For more information about how to manage and delete cookies, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the service, deliver advertisements on and through the service, and so on. These cookies are set by a domain other than that of the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies are subject to the respective third-party's privacy policies.
Examples of third-party cookies we may use include:
- Google Analytics: Used to track website traffic and user behavior. You can opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
- Social Media Plugins: Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram may use cookies to track your browsing activity if you are logged into their services while visiting our website.
- Advertising Networks: Advertising networks may use cookies to serve targeted advertisements based on your browsing history.
Changes to This Policy
We may update our Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. We will post the updated policy on our website and update the "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
By continuing to use our website after we post any changes to this Cookies Policy, you acknowledge and agree to the updated policy.
This Cookies Policy was last updated on October 26, 2025.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about our Cookies Policy, please contact us at:
Luminary Lens Productions
2300 Willow Creek Drive, Suite 100
Austin, TX 78741
Email: privacy@luminarylens.com
Phone: (512) 555-1234
Our Privacy Officer, Eleanor Vance, can also be reached at the email and phone number provided.