What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other 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 websites 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.
How Apex Video Studio Uses Cookies
At Apex Video Studio, we use cookies to improve your experience on our website. This includes:
- Analyzing Website Traffic: We use cookies to understand how visitors use our site, which pages are most popular, and how long visitors stay on each page. This helps us improve our website's design and content.
- Personalizing Content: Cookies allow us to remember your preferences, such as language settings or display preferences, so we can provide you with a more personalized experience.
- Improving Website Performance: Cookies help us to optimize the performance of our website, ensuring that it loads quickly and efficiently.
- Enabling Essential Functionality: Some cookies are essential for the basic functioning of our website, such as remembering items in your shopping cart or allowing you to log in securely.
Types of Cookies We Use
We use the following types of cookies on our website:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website 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 a 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 a website works.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, 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 remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
- 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.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use third-party cookies on our website. These cookies are placed by third-party service providers, such as analytics providers or advertising networks. We use these cookies to:
- Analyze Website Traffic: We use third-party analytics tools to track and analyze website traffic.
- Serve Advertisements: We may use third-party advertising networks to serve targeted advertisements on our website.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have the right to control whether or not to accept cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences in several ways:
- Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can configure your browser to block all cookies, accept only certain types of cookies, or prompt you each time a website tries to set a cookie. Please note that blocking all cookies may affect your ability to access certain features of our website.
- Cookie Consent Tools: We may use cookie consent tools that allow you to manage your cookie preferences directly on our website. These tools provide you with more granular control over the types of cookies that are used.
- Opt-Out Tools: Some third-party service providers offer opt-out tools that allow you to prevent them from tracking your online activity. You can use these tools to opt-out of targeted advertising and other forms of online tracking.
For detailed instructions on how to manage cookies in your web browser, please refer to the browser's help documentation or visit the browser developer's website.
Specific Cookies Used on Our Website
Below is a detailed list of the cookies we utilize on our website, categorized by their function and purpose. This information is provided to give you complete transparency regarding our cookie usage.
- Google Analytics Cookies: These cookies (e.g., _ga, _gid) are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited. This data is essential for understanding our audience and optimizing our content.
- Session Cookies: These cookies (e.g., PHPSESSID) are temporary and expire when you close your browser. They are essential for the basic functionality of the website, such as maintaining your session as you navigate through different pages. Without session cookies, you would need to log in every time you visit a new page.
- Preference Cookies: These cookies store information about your preferences, such as language selection and display settings. They help us provide a more personalized experience by remembering your choices and applying them automatically on your next visit.
- Marketing Cookies: These cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. We use these cookies to understand the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and to provide you with more relevant content.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our cookie practices or legal requirements. We will post any changes to this policy on our website, and we encourage you to review this policy periodically.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us through the Contact page.