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 or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
How We Use Cookies
Starlight Films uses cookies for a variety of reasons, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages they visit most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. We use this information to improve how our website works.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your language or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
- 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.
Specifically, we use cookies to:
- Personalize your experience on our website
- Analyze our website traffic
- Provide social media features
- Help us with marketing and advertising
Types of Cookies We Use
The following categories of cookies are used on our website:
First-Party Cookies
These are cookies that are set by Starlight Films. We use first-party cookies to:
- Manage user sessions
- Remember user preferences
- Improve website security
Third-Party Cookies
These are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website you are visiting. We use third-party cookies for:
- Analytics (e.g., Google Analytics to track website traffic)
- Advertising (e.g., Google AdSense to display targeted ads)
- Social media integrations (e.g., Facebook Like button)
Here's a more detailed list of the cookies we use:
| Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users | Performance | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users | Performance | 24 hours |
| CONSENT | YouTube | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is needed for GDPR-compliance of the website. | Functionality | Persistent |
| PHPSESSID | Starlight Films | Used to maintain user session | Essential | Session |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver, measure and improve the relevance of advertising | Advertising | 3 months |
Your Choices Regarding Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by:
- Browser Settings: You can set or amend 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.
- Cookie Consent Tool: We may provide a cookie consent tool on our website that allows you to manage your cookie preferences.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Managing Cookies
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.
Here's how to manage cookies in some popular browsers:
- Google Chrome: Clear, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox: Enable and disable cookies that websites use to track your preferences
- Safari: Manage cookies and website data in Safari
- Microsoft Edge: Delete cookies in Microsoft Edge
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. The use of cookies by third parties is not covered by our Privacy Policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies.
These third parties have their own privacy policies and may use their cookies to track your activity across different websites.
Some of the third-party cookies we use include:
- Google Analytics: For website analytics. See Google's Privacy Policy.
- Facebook Pixel: For advertising and tracking. See Facebook's Data Policy.
- YouTube: For embedding videos and collecting viewing statistics. See Google's Privacy Policy.
Changes to Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this page periodically to stay aware of any changes. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last revised.
Any changes to this Cookie Policy will become effective when we post the revised Cookie Policy on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
Starlight Films
Attn: Data Protection Officer
555 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Phone: (323) 555-1212
Email: dataprotection@starlightfilms.com
Or visit our Contact Page for more options.