Sterling Acting Academy - Cookies Policy
At Sterling Acting Academy, located in the heart of Los Angeles at 5600 Sunset Boulevard, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience on our website. This Cookies Policy explains how we use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing behavior on our website, sterlingactingacademy.com. This policy is managed by our Data Protection Officer, Ms. Anya Sharma, who can be contacted at [email protected].
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 can be either "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser and will be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the website. Session cookies are temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of purposes, including:
- 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 account login, 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. These cookies help us to improve the performance of our website. We use tools like Google Analytics to collect and analyze this information. The information is aggregated and anonymized, so we cannot identify individual users.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your language preference 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 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.
Types of Cookies We Use
The following table details the specific types of cookies we use on our website, along with their purpose and expiration:
Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
---|---|---|---|
PHPSESSID | Maintains user session | Essential | Session |
_ga | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users | Performance | 2 years |
_gid | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users | Performance | 24 hours |
cookieConsent | Records user's cookie consent preferences | Functionality | 1 year |
advertisingCookie | Delivers targeted advertising content | Advertising | 30 days |
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use third-party cookies, which are cookies set by a domain other than our website. These cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including advertising, analytics, and social media integration. We carefully select our third-party partners to ensure they comply with our privacy standards. Some of the third-party services we utilize include Google Analytics for website traffic analysis and various advertising platforms for marketing purposes.
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 preferences. You can set your browser to block all cookies, accept only first-party cookies, or prompt you each time a cookie is offered. Please note that blocking all cookies may affect your ability to access certain features of our website.
- Cookie Consent Tool: We provide a cookie consent tool on our website that allows you to manage your cookie preferences. You can use this tool to enable or disable different categories of cookies, such as performance and advertising cookies. You can access the cookie consent tool at any time by clicking on the "Cookie Preferences" link in the footer of our website.
- Opt-Out Tools: Some third-party advertising networks offer opt-out tools that allow you to prevent them from tracking your online activities. You can find more information about these tools on the websites of the advertising networks themselves.
To manage cookies in your browser, please refer to the following resources:
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We will post any changes to this policy on our website and update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us at:
Sterling Acting Academy
5600 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Phone: (323) 469-1200
Email: [email protected]
Data Protection Officer: Ms. Anya Sharma
Email: [email protected]
For more information about our privacy practices, please visit our Privacy Policy.