Sonic Canvas Studios - Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Sonic Canvas Studios ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at soniccanvasstudios.com ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Sonic Canvas Studios) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. For example, we use cookies to:
- Help us remember your preferences.
- Understand how you use our website.
- Personalize content and advertising.
- Improve website performance.
- Analyze website traffic.
What types of cookies do we use?
The specific types of first and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in more detail below:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to browse our 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 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.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our 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. 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 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.
- Analytics Cookies: These cookies help us to understand how users interact with our website, providing information about areas visited, time spent on the website, and any issues encountered, such as error messages. This helps us improve the performance of our website.
Detailed Cookie Table
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Provider | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users | Google Analytics | 2 years | Performance/Analytics |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users | Google Analytics | 24 hours | Performance/Analytics |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate | Google Analytics | 1 minute | Performance/Analytics |
| cookieConsent | Remembers user's cookie consent preferences | Sonic Canvas Studios | 1 year | Functionality |
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by adjusting the settings in your web browser. Because 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.
Please note that 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. For instance, you may not be able to automatically log in or use certain personalized features.
You can also opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on .
Do we use other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns.
In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Updates to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Where can I get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at [email protected] or write to us at:
Sonic Canvas StudiosPrivacy Department
121 Demonbreun Street
Nashville, TN 37203
USA
This Cookie Policy was last updated on October 26, 2023.