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.
Similar technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, and local storage, can also be used for similar purposes. In this policy, we use the term "cookies" to refer to all such technologies.
How We Use Cookies
At Starlight Studios, we use cookies for a variety of purposes to enhance your experience on our website and to improve our services. These purposes include:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They enable you to navigate our 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. For example, we use Google Analytics to track website usage and traffic.
- 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. 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 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. We might use these cookies to show you ads for our video production services on other websites you visit.
Specifically, we may use the following cookies:
- Session Cookies: These cookies are temporary and expire when you close your browser. We use session cookies to remember your preferences during a single browsing session, such as remembering items you've added to a form or remembering your language settings.
- Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a longer period of time, as specified in the cookie. We use persistent cookies to remember your preferences across multiple browsing sessions, such as remembering your login details or remembering that you've already seen a certain pop-up message.
- First-Party Cookies: These cookies are set by our website directly. We use first-party cookies for essential website functions, such as remembering your login details and tracking your website usage.
- Third-Party Cookies: These cookies are set by a domain other than the one you are visiting. We use third-party cookies for advertising and analytics purposes, such as tracking website traffic and displaying relevant ads on other websites.
Your Choices
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through their settings preferences. You can usually find these settings in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser. Here are some links to the documentation of popular web browsers that explain how to manage cookies:
You can also opt-out of certain third-party cookies used for advertising purposes. Several online resources offer information about opting out of targeted advertising, such as the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). Visit their respective websites for more information:
Please note that opting out of targeted advertising does not mean you will no longer see advertisements online. It simply means that the advertisements you see will not be tailored to your specific interests.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use third-party cookies on our website. These cookies are set by other companies, such as advertising networks and analytics providers. We use third-party cookies to:
- Track website traffic and usage using Google Analytics.
- Display relevant advertisements on other websites.
- Enable social media sharing.
We have carefully selected our third-party partners and ensure that they comply with applicable data protection laws. However, we do not have direct control over the cookies that these third parties set. For more information about their cookies and privacy practices, please refer to their respective privacy policies.
By continuing to use our website, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this Cookies Policy. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, please disable cookies in your browser settings or refrain from using our website. For further information, please read our Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please contact us through our Contact page.