Cookies Policy for Shutterbug Central
This Cookies Policy explains how Shutterbug Central ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at https://www.shutterbugcentral.com ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
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 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, Shutterbug Central) 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 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. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
Types of Cookies We Use
- 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. Examples include cookies that remember your log-in details and language preferences.
- 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. They are only used to improve how our website works. We use Google Analytics for this purpose, which may use cookies to anonymously track website usage.
- 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 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. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
- Social Media Cookies: To enhance the website experience, we sometimes embed content from other social media websites, such as YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from social media, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. Shutterbug Central does not control these cookies. Please refer to the privacy and cookie policies of the relevant social media websites for information about their cookies and how to manage them.
Updates to this Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies 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 re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at:
Shutterbug Central
Attn: Data Privacy Officer
456 Elm Avenue, Suite 200
Springfield, IL 62704
Email: privacy@shutterbugcentral.com
Phone: (217) 555-9876
Our Data Privacy Officer, Dr. Eleanor Vance, is available to answer any questions you might have regarding our data practices.
Last updated: October 26, 2023