Cookie policy
Last updated: February 4, 2025
Introduction
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies such as scripts, fonts and images. These technologies enable you to personalize your experience on our sites, tell us which parts of our websites people have visited, help us measure the effectiveness of ads and web searches, and give us insights into user behavior so we can improve our communications and products, among other things. We also use these technologies to market our products and services online. This cookie policy applies to the use of cookies and similar technologies on all websites operated by Photoncycle (collectively referred to as ‘cookies’).
What are cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies are small files containing specific information relating to your use of our
website. Cookies are set by our web server and the web servers of the third parties we deploy on our website. Each time you visit our website, those same servers can read, update or delete information stored in the cookies. Cookies do a number of important things, including, enabling smooth browsing experience, facilitating secure browsing, and helping businesses understand how visitors interact with their website.
Similar technologies include pixels, local storage objects, web-fonts, scripts, and other related technologies. These technologies are used for different purposes such as to provide you with certain functionality, display fonts or to personalized marketing.
Cookies can be first-party or third-party cookies. First-party cookies are the ones set by the website you’re visiting. Third-party cookies are the ones set by a domain other than the one you’re visiting. Cookies can be either session or persistent. Session cookies are intended to last only for the duration of your browser session, or slightly longer. These cookies often expire once your website session ends. Persistent cookies have a longer lifespan, lasting up to 12 months.
Which cookies is Photoncycle using?
Cookies serve many purposes, and can be separated into two categories: essential and non-essential. Essential cookies, often called strictly necessary, are essential for the website to work properly and cannot be switched off. For example, an essential cookie is one that enables the ‘use existing data’ feature and keeps language preferences memorized. Non-essential cookies are divided into performance and marketing. Turning off non-essential cookies won’t affect the website’s general performance.
We distinguish the following categories of cookies and other technologies:
- Necessary: Some cookies (and other technologies) are necessary for the functioning of the website or for certain features. For example, they ensure that you can move between pages without losing information that was entered in a form. They also ensure that you stay logged in. These cookies exist temporarily only («session cookies»). If you block them, the website may not work properly. Other cookies are necessary for the server to store options or information (which you have entered) beyond a session (i.e. a visit to the website) if you use this function (for example language settings, consents, automatic login functionality, etc.).
- Performance: In order to optimize our website and related offers and to better adapt them to the needs of the users, we use cookies to record and analyze the use of our website, potentially beyond one session. We use third-party analytics services for this purpose. Details can be found on the websites of the third-party providers.
- Marketing: We and our advertising partners have an interest in targeting advertising as precisely as possible, i.e. only showing it to those we wish to address. Marketing cookies help us personalize advertising campaigns and measure their effectiveness, so we can provide you with the most relevant offers and information. Cookies used for remarketing, or interest-based advertising, fall into this category.
Cookies used on photoncycle.com
We use cookies from Photoncycle, Google Analytics, Google Adwords, ActiveCampaign, Cloudflare, Sentry, YouTube, and Meta.
How do I change my cookie settings?
You can change your cookie settings by clicking on ‘cookie settings’ in the website footer. You can then adjust the available sliders for each cookie category to ‘On’ or ‘Off’ to reflect your preferences, then clicking ‘Save settings’ or ‘Accept all’.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings. This lets you inspect and remove cookies used by websites. Please visit the documentation of your browser provider to learn more about cookie-related browser controls. can be disabled in the settings of your internet browser (e.g. Chrome, Safari, Firefox). Consult your browser’s help page to disable cookies.
Please note that completely disabling cookies may lead to less functionality of the websites you visit.