Cookie Policy

Learn about how Shutter Up Studios uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience.

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 enable the website 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.

Cookies can be either "persistent" cookies 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 and are deleted once you close your browser.

Think of cookies as a website's memory. They allow a website to remember you and your preferences, making your next visit smoother and more personalized. Without cookies, a website would treat you like a new visitor every time you navigate to a new page.

For instance, if you add items to a shopping cart on an e-commerce site, cookies help remember those items even as you browse other pages. Similarly, if you log in to a website, cookies keep you logged in so you don't have to re-enter your credentials on every page.

How We Use Cookies

At Shutter Up Studios, we use cookies to improve your experience on our website. This 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.
  • 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. 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 campaigns.

We analyze the data collected through cookies to understand user behavior and trends, allowing us to optimize our website's design, content, and functionality. This ensures that our website remains user-friendly and provides the information and services you need in the most efficient way possible.

For example, by tracking which pages are most visited, we can identify popular services or galleries that our users find valuable. We can then prioritize these sections and make them even more accessible. Similarly, if we notice that users are encountering errors on a particular page, we can investigate the issue and implement fixes to improve the user experience.

Types of Cookies We Use

Here's a detailed breakdown of the types of cookies we utilize:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential for the operation of our website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
  • Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Examples include Google Analytics cookies.
  • Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

We also may use third-party cookies, which are cookies set by a domain other than our website. These cookies may be used for advertising or tracking purposes. We carefully select our third-party partners to ensure that their cookie usage aligns with our privacy standards.

For example, we use Google Analytics to collect anonymous data about website traffic and usage patterns. This data helps us understand how users interact with our website, identify areas for improvement, and measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. Google Analytics uses cookies to track user sessions, traffic sources, and page views.

Managing Cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site, and some services and functionalities may not work.

Here's how you can manage cookies in different browsers:

You can also opt-out of targeted advertising by visiting the following websites:

Please note that blocking or deleting cookies may affect your browsing experience and prevent you from accessing certain features of our website.

Updates to this Cookie Policy

We may update this 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 informed about our use of cookies.

We will post any changes to this Cookie Policy on our website. If we make material changes to this Cookie Policy, we will provide notice of such changes on our website and, where appropriate, through other means, such as email.

Your continued use of our website after any changes to this Cookie Policy constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at:

Shutter Up Studios
123 Main Street
Oakville, Ontario, L6J 2Z2
Phone: (905) 555-1212
Email: info@shutterupstudios.com