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 website.
How does Elysian Aperture use cookies?
We use cookies for several reasons, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies help us to improve the way our website works.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) 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 campaign.
Types of Cookies We Use
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Provider | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | Google Analytics | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. | Google Analytics | 1 minute |
| PHPSESSID | Maintains user session. | Elysian Aperture | Session |
| cookieconsent_status | Remembers user's cookie consent preferences. | Elysian Aperture | 1 year |
Essential Cookies
These cookies are essential for the basic functionality of our website. Disabling these cookies may impact your experience using our site.
Performance Cookies
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how users interact with our website. This data helps us understand user behavior and improve our site's performance.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies enhance your experience by remembering your preferences and providing personalized features.
Advertising Cookies
We may use advertising cookies to show you relevant ads based on your browsing behavior and interests. These cookies are often placed by third-party advertising networks.
How can you control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by:
- Browser Settings: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to refuse cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. The means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
- Cookie Consent Tool: We may provide a cookie consent tool on our website that allows you to manage your cookie preferences.
Third-party cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This website uses Google Analytics, one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
- From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
More Information
Hopefully, that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not, it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However, if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
- Email: privacy@elysianaperture.com
- Phone: +61 148 694 045
- Address: Level 10, 123 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Updates to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie 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 therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
This Cookie Policy was written by Sarah Thompson, Data Protection Officer.