Cookies Policy
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, tablet, or mobile device by websites that you visit. 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 allow websites to remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. This can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer or device after you close your browser, while session cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser.
How We Use Cookies at Luminosity Film Academy
At Luminosity Film Academy, located in the heart of Los Angeles' film district, we use cookies for a variety of purposes to enhance your experience on our website and to provide you with relevant information about our film production courses, instructors, and academy events. Our use of cookies includes:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like course registration or accessing your student portal, cannot be provided.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and if they get error messages from web pages. This data helps us to improve the performance and design of our website. For example, we use Google Analytics to track website traffic and usage patterns.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. 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.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are 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.
- Third-Party Cookies: We may also use third-party cookies from providers like social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, YouTube) to enable social sharing features and to understand how users interact with our content on those platforms. These cookies are subject to the respective privacy policies of the third-party providers.
Here’s a more detailed list of the specific types of cookies we use:
- Session Cookies: Used to maintain your session while you browse our website. These cookies are essential for the functionality of certain features, such as logging into your account or filling out forms.
- Persistent Cookies: Used to remember your preferences and settings for future visits. This includes remembering your preferred language, font size, and other customization options.
- Google Analytics Cookies: Used to track website traffic, user behavior, and other metrics. This data helps us improve the performance and user experience of our website. Examples include _ga, _gid, and _gat cookies.
- Facebook Pixel Cookies: Used to track conversions from Facebook ads and to optimize advertising campaigns. This allows us to show you more relevant ads on Facebook and other platforms.
- YouTube Cookies: Used to track video views, engagement, and other metrics. These cookies are placed by YouTube when you watch a video embedded on our website.
Managing Cookies
You have the right to control whether or not you accept 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 you can manage cookies in different browsers:
- Google Chrome: Go to Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data.
- Mozilla Firefox: Go to Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
- Safari: Go to Preferences > Privacy > Cookies and Website Data.
- Microsoft Edge: Go to Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Clear browsing data > Cookies and other site data.
You can also use third-party browser add-ons or plugins to manage cookies. Additionally, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org for comprehensive information on how to manage cookies in a wide variety of browsers.
Disabling cookies will not disable any advertisements you see, but it may make the ads less relevant to you.
Changes to this Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or to comply with legal requirements. We will post any changes on this page and update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Cookies Policy, please contact us at:
Luminosity Film Academy
6300 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 900
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Phone: (310) 555-0100
Email: [email protected]
This Cookies Policy is effective as of October 26, 2025.